The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, July 14, 1920, PART II 8 PAGES, Image 15
On the Bank
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IN ONE of his most charming passages
Auntolc France evokes n
fleeting memory of ttie quays along
the Seine, "where one disturbs the
dust-covered books of the 5-ceut stall,
and a thousand shadows terrible and
charming." It Isn't our purpose to
revive these memories; to do so would
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we shall simply state the magic which
draws and which holds to the quays
of the Seine, writes L. A. Des Garets
in Ln France.
The quays! Along both sides of our
river they run! But when we speak
of quays, we mean, of cqursq, the quays
of the left hank. There is the heurt
of I'aris. Who would deny it?
The action of those workers who
live in the neighborhood of the quays
?artists, thinkers, poets or simple
workmen?when they seek their river,
is one of happy indolence. They do
^ not pause before the windows of the
antiquaries' shops; they go toward the
rampart which courageous and determined
booksellers have raised, before
the river of forgetfulness, the dike
which will protect their books. It is
there that, in the summer sun, as well
no jn winter fo"s 2.rc ^'19 lust
places of the production of man's
thought. It Is there that a book, after
good or bad fortune, comes to take
'Its last chance; it Is there that they
!are viewed by the savants, in search
of Information, or with sentimental
curiosity by Mimi Pinson . . . yes,
_ the last refuge and the tranquil resting
place over whfeli watch the high
* profile.of the Louvre and the towers
of Notre Dame!
Where Point of Interest Begins.
The quays start a little above the
Palais Bourbon, at the palace of the
Legion of Honor, once the famous Hotel
Salm. During the revolution, since
the prince of Salm-Kriburg had been
given command of a battalion of the
T.nfnunHn Kl- ' ' -
^^iujvuv; buaiu, xiia |iUJUCe UCCUIDe Uie
meeting place of the Reformist club.
Later the same building received the
member's of the Cercle Constltutlon11
el, until the day when Napoleon made
It the seat of the grand chancellor of
the Legion of Honor. It is n pity
that this charming Greek temple
should be eclipsed by the surrounding
buildings.
Next there Is the Qual Voltaire,
where Mnie. Ceclle Sorel makes her
home, near the house in which Voltaire
died. When one enters this building
the ghost of the mighty century appears;
you are received with the graclousness
of Celimene. Everything in
this house bears the Imprint of Louis
XIV, and nothing could be more a part
of It than the character of the great
artist who lives there. Here died In'gres;
there'was the convent of the
Theatins, brought to France from
Italy by Mazarln. Further along, at
th corner of the Rue de Beaune, used
to stand the barracks of the gray
musketeers.
The Famous "Bridge of Teare."
Let us stop at the Institute. From
here all the Paris of yesterday is seen;
the towers of Notre Dame, the Louvre,
the Saint-Chapelle, St. Germain I'Auxerrols,
the conciergerie, the pnlals de
justice and the I'ont-Neuf, still looking
very solid. Since it wns opened
to trailic by Henry III, the same day
he lost his favorite. Quel us, the Parisians
called it "the bridge of tears."
That did not prevent it. however, from,
becoming the center of animation of
the city where all Paris gathered to
l?e amused by the news of the gazetteers
and the sallies of Tahnrin.
auu nit-- I'iiiiitt; HI uiu |M IIILI;
<?f Cnnti, today one of the treasury
buildings. To save ourselves both remorse
and regret let us put aside the
snd memories of St. Germain PAuxerrois
and of the conciergorie. Let us
instend follow along the Quni Contl, in
the footsteps of Lamnrtine, of Victor
Ilugo, of Salnte Itenuve, of Alfred de
Musset and of all those others who
have been familiars of the quays.
Alas! Where are the glories of the
past? Under the dome of the institute?
, Quays Are Charming.
Our quays are Indeed charming, with
the movement of tramways, wagons
and carriages, with the whistling of
the boats and those thousand small
*.' noises which are multiplied by the
waters of the river. 1 love to watch
the loungers who come to loaf there,
rood fathers of families milling their
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youngsters along, by the hand, and
teaching them history, retrospectively.
I love to see these youngsters, with
respectful eyes lifted toward these
great relics of the past, pointed out j
by the pnternal hand, while their
thoughts. I know, are wandering townrd
the Jardln des Plantes and the
greater attractions of the monkey cage.
Resting his elbows on his boxes, the
bookseller watches the crowd; he exchanges
greetings with Maurice Barres,
Loon Bourgeois, Raoul Ponclion. . . . |
A young servant girl comes timidly
to ask for the "Clef des Songes;" a
collegian inquires for n dictionary. ,
Liked by the American Soldier,
flic American soldiers liked our j
quays very much. More than one, un- ;
der the intluence of these skies, caught i
the disease and became bibliophiles or j
numismatists or philatelists. All of |
them have kept an exquisite memory
of this corner of Paris. There, in fact, j
men am] things exchange a plensant
smile, as though the people of the ,
twentieth century had found them
the good fellowship of other days.
The softness of night descends like
n mantle over the old river. The sun
has set. "ced'.ess o^ imo fho tmrani*.
tal city falls asleep in the shadows of |
night, inviolate and splendid, peopled i
with glorious spirits, evoked from the |
past.
MUCH LIKE A FLOATING FIELD
? Sargasso"-Sea, With Its.* Wondrous
Vegetation, Has the Appearance
* dY a Praifle.
In nearing the Sargasso sea it presents
the appearance of a vast, undulating
prairie, clothed in bright yellow
vegetation. On coming on deck one
might imagine oneself and ship set I
down In the midst of a field. A^ far !
as the eye can reach is the yellow I
weed to be seen, in masses more or j
less compact, according to whether the J
winds are light or strong; sometimes j
in lines many miles in length and but I
20 feet wide witlf intervals of clear )
wttivr ueiween; sometimes in dense
cireulnr patches like floating islands.
In this moving continent life runs
high. Myriads of tiny crabs, some ;
of them no larger than peas, cluster i
about the tangled fronds. Weird-look- :
ing little shrimps with wondrous eyes 1
on long stems, each facet shedding a ;
brilliant greenish light, sparkling like !
a cut gem. Water fleas in n hundred !
varieties, colors and shapes. Little i
worralike annelids, black with brll- |
llnnt orange stripes, lead an active ;
life here, wiggling among the leathery i
leaves. Lovely corralines infest the i
branches, plumed feathers with myri- !
ads of polyps.
It is the ideal breeding place of all |
manner of marine life, for the heat of i
the sun is very great, so great, in- ;
deed, that in the noondny glare the ,
fish sink several feet to the cooler wa- I
ters below the algae.
Bobby Was Hungry.
The father of the family always re- j
peated a very long grace at the dinner
table. The children expected it and
had been taught by mother to be very !
reverent during that period. In fn- j
ther's absence she in turn said a very I
short one?perhaps partly as a reward
for their good behavior during father's
turns. * But recently when they came
to table very hungry indeed, there be- i
fore them was a plate of fried chick- j
en and a large lemon pie. Father took i
his place and looked around the table t
to see that all hands were folded and !
all heads bowed. TIipv w?>r? ???#> ???. !
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was just preparing to bow his when |
six-year-old Bobby said in an agoniz- j
lag tone: "(Jh, mother, don't you sup- j
pose you could say grace today even If j
father is home?"
A Paradoxical Fact.
"Did you see .where sugar Is go- !
Ing to soar in price and may lie ;
scarce this summer? What will the j
women do then for preserving?"
"I don't know, it looks,as though
preserves may lie in a pickle."
The Result.
"I suppose the war has Interfered !
very much with the international
marring*? market."
"Yes, in so many countries now 11
' Is nard to pet a good title to them." j
WAN SEA HAPPENINGS
OP THE PAST WEEK
peciul tu The Dispatch-Xews.
Swansea, July 12.?Pine rains have
illen hereabouts upd all crops are
toking fine. Stubble lands sown to
eas are coming up to a good stand,
nd prospects are fair for a splendid
>.'age crop. Everyihing from a June
ug to a doodle is being cussed for the
3ll weevil. A great many farmers are
'porting fallen squares from various
luses. We hope these will be burned,
id every precaution taken to prevent j
le spread of this awful pest.
Mr. H. L.. Derrick, the efficient
iokkeeper of the Bank of Swansea,
in the hospital at Columb'ia, where |
b is convalescing after an operation |
ir appendicitis.
Mr. A. P. Jackson and family' re- I
irned Wednesday after a fortnight !
easantly spent with relatives at var- |
ns points in Georgia.
The Rhoden si^terS. Ellen, Syble, X?ila ;
ae, and Eloise are spending the sum- j
er months with relatives here.
Miss Elrna Smith of Columbia spent
inday and Monday with her parents i
?ar town, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Smith. :
The Swansea Baseball team has
on 4 games within the past ten days, j
itli scores as follows: At Xorth, I
vansea 5 North 3; at Swansea, Swan- [
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In sandy or hilly cpuntry,
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For ordinary country
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For front wheels ?
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11, Gaston 10. Any non league team
interested, can secure a game, or a series,
by writing Mr. W. B. Courtney,
Mgr., or H. L>. Derrick, Sec.
The Swansea Ice Mfg. Co., has been '
chartered with $12,000 capital, 6 ton I
capacity. Messrs. L?. O., "W". C. and li. j
V. Rast are the promoters of this !
much needed enterprise.
The new Post Office luitldinc will I
soon be completed. It will be fitted I
with every modern convenience, and I (
will fill a long felt and needed im- |
proverruenl. It Is located on Railroad ,
Ave., adjoining the new Peoples Bank. !
Col. T. C. tpallison was on our
streets this week. He js always welcome.
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THE ORIGTX OF "YOU AL.L,."
^Manufacture^ Record.)
Would-be purists in language often
criticize the South for the expression
"you all," but the South has the
highest authority on earth for its use.
Paul, in his epistle to the Philippians
wrote "you all," and no higher authority
than the Bible need be looked
for. Paul knew full well the strength
and force of "you all."
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years and was established in this town 30 years
ago.
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