The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 02, 1909, Page SIX, Image 6
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* WILL SEABROOK'S TRAVELS *
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(By W. B. Seabrook.)
Special to The Herald and News.
Naples, Italy.-Little more than a
month has passed since the destrue
tion of Messina. and here at Naples
the eatzstrophe is still uppermost in
the public mind, is still the one reati
concern of the day, to the exclusion
of all ordinary interests and occupa
tions. It is impossible to escape the
obsession of such a horror, impossible
to drive away the tragie visions evok
ed by the pictures and dispatches
which appear every morning in the
journals, and which are made so ter
riblv real by the constant arrival of
wounded vietims and refugees. All
this was of course to be expected in
an Italian seaport only a few hours
distant from the scene of the disas
ter. but the feature of the situation,
which has filled me with surprise, is
the rapidity with which preparations
are going forward for the reconstrue
tion of the ruined cities.
To counterbalance every column of
reading matter conseerated to the dis
aster proper. the newspapers are
printing two devoted t, the plans for
restoration. and on the streets lead
ing to and from the harbor, the am
bulances and stretehers, moving in
their sad procession toward the hospi
tabs. are passed by wagon-loads of
building material destined for the
earthquake districts, not planking for
temporary shelters, (that work has
been .finished) but brick, cement and
heavy timber.
Before the cataclysm, Sicily, with
her emerald hills and glistening, snow
white cities. was a veritable queen of
islands. Today the queen is dead;
her beauty is. ashes; and already the
people ery. "Long live the queen!"
New foundations are actually being
laid while the earth' still trembles,
and thus history again repeats itself,
for this same succession of events has
been going on in Italy from time im
memorial. Ever s'nee the island of
Sicily has been known to man, it has
trembled beneath his feet, and with
it has trembled the whole Calabrian
coast; cie might imagine that this
southern extremity of Europe, this
peninsula is so often likened to a
boot, is in reality a gigantic foot,
resting on tip-toe, unstable in its
equiibrium, poised as if preparing to
begin otihar journeys. Time after
time. cities in this volcanie zone have
been devastated by seismic shocks,
and as often have been promptly re
built upon their old foundations: to
cite one of the best known instances.
Pompeii. at the moment she was bur
had by the lava and cinder of Vesuvius
hdjust recovered from the ravages
of a preceding earthquake, had bare
ly finished the rebuilding of her pal
aos and temples. From Naples to
Palermo, everywhere along the coast.
are scattered vestiges of former eatas
trophes. some of them well known to
history. some of them long forgotten.
This is particularly ,true in Sicily
where the very railway lines are laid
on lava road-beds, where the orange
trees scatter their fragrant blossoms
u~pon boalders that were once molten
fire. and twine their roots among
crevices that once opened straight in
to the sulphurous bowels of the earth.
The traveler, who ascends Aetna or
Vesuvius is confronted at every pace
by crater-mouths. perhaps extinct.
perhaps only dormant, by fissures
cold and silent today, but hot and
rumbling yesterday, by frightful ex
coriations marking the path ways of
former lava streams.
Every where the same spect acie:
Ruin. Everywhere the same warning:
Death. In the a.etual presence of these
terrors, the foolhardy daring of the
.little human beings who persist in
building their ant-like habitations up
on the slopes, becomes incomprehensi
ble. The enormous mountains domi
nate the landscape, powerful and
ominous: down below, toward the
plain, man rears his p)alaces and eit
ies, raises his monuments of brass and
marble, and justly marvels at his
ow;n prodigious genius, but how tiny
his work all seems. how 'like a Lili
puti-an kingdom. compared with these
great stone monsters, whose heads are
lost among the clouds! How helpless
when these sleeping giants awake!
But if nature here is terrible. she, at
least, is not treacherous; she does not
pretend to be in complete repose. does
not appear, as in other climes. mnan's
humbIe and obedient servant. Beneath
these mountains, the devil who dwells
in all inanimate things is forever
crouching, but never hiding. He shows
his eloven hoof. The people of Mes
sina and Reggie were warned, con
stantly warned, as were the Pompe
iians of old. Up tihere above the snowy
summit of Aetna. a thin column of
smoke rose ceaselessly night and day:
further north, above St romholi, more
sm.oke, and these two gray whisps
floating in the serene azure of the
Mediterranean sky advertised the Sie
ilians that just below the earth 's thin
crus were lurking forces before
which, when once aroused, all human
resources would count for naught. The
menace was visible. It is still visible.
True, the blow has again fallen, but
the survivors have received no divine
assurance of even temporary safety.
and have no means of knowing wheth
er the next shoek will occur in a year
or in a century-yet they are alr,eady
beginning to rebuild their fallen dwel
fings. The terror lias just passed ov
er their heads: "It will not soon re
turn'': they cry, and set cheerfully
to work.
In the face of thees constant men
aces for the future and these multi
plied relics of former disasters, I can
searce believe my own ears when I
hear survivors of this latest and worst
catastrophe talking about a new Mes
sina. I am told that for two or three
days immediately after the shock,
while the inhabitants who had not
been buried ben-eath the ruins were
huddled together on the water-front,
half-naked and half-crazed with fear,
they declared.
"Messina is no more! Never will
we return to these accursed shores!"
But now, since they have been
clothed and fed and rendered com
fortable, they begin straightway to
long for Sicily.
I am commencing to wonder wheth
er the peculiar religious beliefs, or,
more properly speaking, the supersti
tutions of the Calabrians and Sicil
ians do not partially explain their
presumptuous .confidence. These peo
ple have never come to realize that
the terrible forces, which from time to
time overwhehn ithem, are blind, in
animate phenomena of nature, which
prayers and incense are powerless to
affect. Forces guided by reason can
be reasoned with; calamities specifi
eally willed by a rational divinity can
be averted by supplications and burnt
offerings; in this ea.tegory the Sicil
ians have always placed earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions; -in ancient
times, they prayed to Jove, while to
day they pray to Jehovah, but the un
derlying principle is still the same.
Indeed it is not surprising that feeble
humanity is filled with a holy super
stitious terror in the presence of such
forces, and attributes them to super
natural origin. In classic ages it was
believed that the Titans, vanquish-ed
by Jupiter, were buried beneath the
volcans of the island; when the Ti
tans breathed, smoke and flames is
sued from the crevies .among the
rocks, and when they struggled to
throw off the immense weigh-ts which
had been piled upon them, the earth
trembled . The simple, primitive in
habitants of the region builded temn
ples to the Olympian conqueror and
sometim'es consecrated offeririgs of
sheep or goats to the fallen 'giants,
hoping 'thereby to render the former
propitious and to moderate the fury
of the latter, then prayed to them
and fearfully adored them, as if sup
plications could soften the brutal
power of 'the elements or change the
inflexible laws of nature, or placate
forces which leave humanity only two
alternatives--flight or destruction.
Such was the attitude of the ancient
Sicilians, and is the attitude of their
descendants today. Th'e popular imag
ination has not ceased to at tribute
these .natural phenomena to a divine
wilL T'he revelations of science -have
here left untouched the mentality of
the masses. The modern Sicilian is
just as superstititious as tne antique
he has changed the names of his gods,
and vila tout: For him, it is still
the sky that causes the earth to trem
ble, still the sky that crushes man or
permits him 'to go his way anharmed.
Images of the Madonna and the s'ainLs
have repl'aced the ancient statates,
and in stimne of danger are adored or
paraded through the streets by the
hildish. frirhtened people, who rush
to shrines with candles and offerings
as did their classic forebears. -They
have always 'believed and always will
believe that pious devotion is a sort
of lightning-rod capable of protecting
them against thunder-bolts from on
high., and it is surely possible that
this blind faith, by no means confined
to the lower classes, explains at this
moment the readiness of the Italian
people to underta:ke so cheerfully the
reconstruction of Messina. But
whether such an explanationL be 'true
or merelv fanciful, the fact remains
that a new eity' is 'destined to arise
from the ashes of the old.
And then the years will pass, little
by little the scars will disappear be
neath new grass and flowers, the for
retful survivors wvill return to begin
their lives anew. they- will address
new prayers to their protecting saints,
will laugh and live and love and
dream-until the giants again awake.
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* ORIGIN OF THE RED SHIRTS. *
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Editor Daily Mail: I have read wXi
interest the many good notices of the
late Capt. A. J. Sitt-on. He deserves
all the good t.hings that have been
written. about him, and very much
more could be said with perfect proi
priety of his excellent qualities of
heart and mi-nd. When a man like
Capt. Sitton passes away the whole
State is loser, for a life sueh as his
was is far reaching in its influence,
and we all mourn when it comes to
an end.
Among other things the papers
have noticed was his connection with
the origin of the red shirts uniform
in the famous ca.mpaign of 1876.
There seems to be some doubt in the
minds of some of the writers as to
whether he was the ori!inat or of the
red1 shh t. T have no hesit atin in
saxingt that he was. He was the cap
tain of t.he Pendleton Red Shirt club,
and there is no doubt that that was
the first club in the State to adopt
the red shirts as a campaign unifor mn.
The first campaign meeting in 18i'6
was in Anderson, as was also the first
meeting in 1878. And I well remen'
er the Pendleton club as it appearert
in the long column of mounted De
mo'rats on that historie day. T,iri
was a geat tlhrong in Anderson, alld
the mounted column reached from the
public square to the Univ -rait.s
grounds, where the speaking occar
red. The route of march was through
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