Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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More over, can you say that those early dreams have not helped you to reach a higher womanhood than you could have attained without them? - It ia sometimes said that Poe, though ot Southern parentage and upbringing, and claiming to be Strictly Virginian, showed in his writing no national nor sectional traits. But Page cays that bis poems are as distinctly Southern In their coloring tone and temper ea those of Wordsworth are English. The wild landscape, the flower-laden atmosphere, the delicious richness are their setting, end a moro than tropical passion Interfuses them as unmistak ably aa the air of English lawns and meadows breathea through Tennyson's masterpieces." There Ls no realism in either his poetry or his stories, but idealism carried over to the fantastic, sometimes to the grotesque. Inmortal Pea People, Among the immortals sprung from the brain of genius. Southern writers bave added figures worthy of the company of Sam Weller, Ur. Pickwick. Col. Newcomb and Becky Sharpe. Judge Longstreet has given to this shadow world the Inimitable Ned Brace; James O. Baldwin haa added Ovid Bolus, Esq.; Hooper created Si mon Suggs, Jr.; William T. Thompson save the world the gallant Ma}. Jones. These are characters from books be loved and laughed over from the Po tomac to the Rio Grande. They show what the idealistic touch of genius can make of the rough backwoodsman, or Uie eccentric villager. The school of stern, bald realism which has been popular in recent years, has found few followers in the South. Rather than solve the painful problems of real life, the Southern writer has shown a wish to forget the world and Us griefs, and the Southern reader prefers to live in his dream world, with and among either the high, the beautiful, the brave, /ho noble and the ideal or to enjoy /the peculiarities and harmless foibles of the backwoodsman, the mountaineer or the negro. But by no means is idealist! in American literature confined te the South, nor realism found alone tn the North; they overlap and Intertwist The general trend of Southern litera ture, however, is in the direction of the valley of the lotus-eater, ?while through the literature of the North rings the stirring cry of life ont en deavor. \ But in imaginative literature, dowe want always the echo of the battle adi the strife? May the problem novel, and the SOT] mo? ?u verse never penetrate the fairy world of Southern literature. Literature Interprets History. Though something worthy of tai name of literature has been produc? in the South, lt has been well said by a commentator on Southern lett ters: "The art value is in no way to be compared with the life value." There was from earliest times ts appreciation of education and provis ion made for it. Massachusetts lud ?B Harvard. Virginia its William and Mary, and there waa little to choose between them In point of excellence. Harvard produced more ethical think er? and reformers, William and Mary more classical scholars and greater orators. Other colleges followed both North and South, and education be came increasingly accessible. But here New England had the advantage. Her States were thickly populated, town or city life waa the rule, though the town might be the merest hamlet, the people lived close together, schools were possible and wera attended by all. The son of the blacksmith sod the son of the judge sat side by aide and recited in the same class. The son of the blacksmith was often the better student and rose to high po sition by force of superior Intellect Manhood ! attained, these former schoolmates met on a common level and any one who had brains had the opportunity to reach whatsoever posi* tior ne pleased. In the South people lived for apart on huge plantations; children ot the great planters were taught at home until they reached an age to be sent, the boya to college, very often an English university, the girls to the yoang ladies' seminaries of "finishing school"- to be found in every city. In the South there were three class es-the slave owning aristocrat, a man of classical learning and fine lit Il III I "I I jilli I'.??. erary taite, saflsned with nothing leas than Addison/ Steele, Swift or Wal pole; the pow whites who usually could not reid, but who lived and were stupidl* content tn the baldest, barest po ve my and ignorance, having neither hopi nor ambition; and the negro, who Jthamolion like, took the color of MM surroundings, the field hand belngftften little better than a savage, wljft the greatest aristocrat, most courjK gentleman, and greatest tyrant thaAver has trodden Southern soil was jp stately old bouse servant, neverthejB a perpetual child, depend ent u panta master. Littl* literature of value could arise under such conditions. The aristocrat lookid? to England for his light read ing and turned his own attention to pol.tics and law. All of the prominent 1 mwof the South were lawyers, some ry.'them lawyers of international fame. fe few in their hours of recreation Jjrrote poetry, stories or essays, many ?of which show talent, but which are the work of amateurs. Their achieve ments in State papers and oratory proves that there was among them no lack of Intelligence nor of learn ing. They simply turned for the real business of life to other things rather than to literature. John Randolph of Roanoke boasted that he would go down to his grave guiltless cf rhyme. Yet his speeches, wtticlsmB and let ters portray a man fully capable of sparkling verse, had he turned his genius Into that channel. What might not Clay, Calhoun and other famous statesmen and speakers have achieved in literature had they chosen that form ot expression? Though little was accomplished In the South as compared with the world, yet much was actually done and its literature is an exponent of its history. The first real American literature waa produced after the Revolutionary War and, if not actual history cr biography, was more or less historical in its nature. John Mar shall's "Life ot Washington" has been called the fin sst biographical work that has appeared in America. Wirts' ''Life of Patrick Henry" is a classic, and his "Letters of a British Spy" present a vivid picture of his times. John P. Kennedy's "Swallow Barns" gives a series of American sketches similar to the pictures of English life in Bracebridge Hall. "Horseshoe Robinson" portrays the backwood.! pdtriot, the type that was largely in strumental In turning the tide of war In the Southern States and in making possible the battle ot King's Moun tain. It also describes just as ac curately the life of the manor. Revolutionary Terse. The verse called forth by the Revo lution, though breathing sincere and ardent patriotism, can not claim the name of poetry. That' written in the South was fully equal to any pro duced In the country; it waa all crude, showing loyalty and enthusiasm for the American cause, but scarcely in stigated by the poetic .muse. The first Southerner to Tin lasting renown in that line was Francis Scott Key of Maryland with his stirring ."Star. aTtHg1^* Banner" aa dear to all American hearts as the national anthea. ni Letters, journals and essays of the early years of the republic pulse with the life and problems of Ute people. Some of those early letters have been published only tn recent tittles aa Ute interesting ones ot Mrs. Elisa Wilkin son of Charleston and the delightful ones of Eliza Lucas Plncknoy, mother of Char?<aa C?Sesworth' au? Thosa?s Pinckney. They cover the long period ot her life from girlhood to old age, giving the homely, everyday existence of a prosperous, educated family in 1 irvtjr Of A KIND ?ND QUALITY THAT SECURES Prompt Delivery Satisfactory Service Reasonable Prices CATALOGS BOOKLETS STATIONERY FOLDERS RULING BINDING BLANK BOOKS CALL US TELEPHONES: 693-L and 321 Wg aril! cheerfully submit ^designs and estimates The Anderson Intelligencer Advertising and Printing Anderson, S. C. South Carolina during tba 18th cen tury. Following the literature of the Rev olution came what la known aa the ante-bellum period. StlU the South bad not come into her rich heritage. Hampered by the great incubus of slavery she could not yet claim her o'.* 3 A culture baaed on class dis tinction and into which could flow no strength of new brood could pro duce but a feeble prototype of whnt coming years would bring. " The sonorous sentences and rolling periods in which the Southerner delighted show bis isolation from the majestic river of modern and imitating Pope and Johnson, while the rest of the world swept by on the tide of Words worth and Macaulay. His feudal life clogged his progress. A resentfulness ot criticism, a dis position to overpraise, also long de layed the Southerner's coming abreast of the times and catching step in the grand march of progress. This Btate of mind was the result of two forces acting on bis nature-first. the chival rous politeness that could but praise any achievement of a friend and the attitude of master and autocrat, which brooks no criticism. The Southerner is intensely local, his attitude toward the whole world is as to outer barbarians, and it has bred a deep seated partiality of nature which expresses itself in everything he does. But the ante-bellum writer, though advancing very little original thought, is full of historical and local quality, though an amateur always. He would not serve an apprentice ship to letters. If he could not, Miner va like, spring into being a god, fully armed, then he would not come at all ; he was a god on his plantation, there he would remain. Moreover, there was small incentive to literary activity. Simms and Poe almost alone strove to make literature a profession and they failed. To others it waa au amusement;, a recreation, to be shared ? with hunting, horse racing and danc ing. Sometimes a volume containing a few poems was published by a lover ol the muse, rather than a poet and ! distributed among bis friends who over praiaed, but received it in much I the same spirit that they listened to his daughter play pretty plano compo sitions in her father's parlor. Thc few read, the many did not, and liter ature to flourish must have a pub lic and be untrammeled by class. Mind must polish Itself by contact with mind, a condition to which plantation life was not conductive. Yet there were nature lovers who sometimes ex pressed themselves in verses pure and limpid aa a mountain stream. What other conditions of life would hav made of them can only be conjectured "My life 1B Like a Summer Rose,' has been translated into several for elga tongues and holds an undisputed place in American literature. Ye Richard Henry Wilde, a busy lawyer seemed half ashamed to acknowl edge lt Warnen Ante-bellum Writers. Th? period immediately precedlnj thej War Between the Sections pro dueed a number of novelists, especial ly 4ro?>en. who became very popula throughout the country. Mrs. South worth. Constance Cary Harrison, Ma rion Harland, Amelia E. Barr, Au gusta Evans Wilson, Caroline Le Heats are a very few of these author? While their books are ir. no sense his torlcal, yet through them flows an un dertone ot Southern music. The; depict ih? life of their rime and la cality, juat as certainly aa Fanny Bur ney and Jane Austen depict Engllal life and manners of the 18th centurj And while they never attain th heights reached by the English novel isis; they have nevertheless made great and worthy contribution t American letters. The War Between the Section called out the finest poetry the Bout baa. created, with the exception c Po and Lanier. One can fancy whs ringing linea might have fallen fror Poe's burning pen had his "feve called living" not. "ended at last" few more years and that fiery genia would have immortalised such dr* matic incidents at Pickett's wonderfi charge at Gettysburg, an eplsod which deserves to be told In poetr like "The Charge of the Light Br gad e." But Poe's fires had burne out and Lanler'a genins spoke i other terms. No braver soldier to lowed Lee and Jackson than that glf ed son of Georgia, but like Hayue hi war poems are not his best He 'stand preeminent, however, among Amer can sonneteers and narrative poets, was left for Ti m rod, Randall. Path? Ryah. Pike, Tichnor and others to au the war songs of the South and 1 tell the story of its trag?dien. Are there in any language war sonf more inspiring than Pike's "Dixie "Maryland, My Maryland," "The Boi nie Blue Flag." "Carolina?" C poems that stir the blood like Tt Sword of Robert Lee,'* "The Conque: ed Banner," "All's Quiet Along tl Potomac Tonight," "Little ' Glffln < Tennessee," "Somebody's Darling "The Jacket of Gray." Ob, how tl list grows of the dear poems of tt Southland, that whatever technic! faults they ray have, go straight 1 the heart and hold lt with a mlgft! (rip. What more ought poetry to dc Hui nineo the t?nt im over ana ti intense feelings then generated wei expressed la verse the lyric fires hai almost died out Tba new Soul spca ku In novels, romances and abo stories. The picturesque "slave timet and the many romances attend*] upon the footsteps ot the war God hi furnished rich material and there hai not been lacking heirs to claim tl heritage. Thomas Nelson Page is perhaps get orally recognised aa the leading nove lat of tas South. He looks back upc the days \>f his childhood as upon golden age; a time of* regret colo! bia pages, hut lt ls only the undylt regret of middle age for a vanish? youth. He touch OJ with tender har the Ufa of a bygone time, and depic with sympathy both tne master au the slave. Joel Chandler Karris presents a di feront aspect ot the old Southern tu In his portrayal there ia no regvetrg nea, hot a Keen sense of the pi tarasque and a hopeful view of ti tatar* He. better thea any ot? writer, has embalmed the quaint nagi lore, bequest from topic Africa to enlightened America, Thomas Dixon gives yet another phase of the dual life. He ls one of the few Southern writers who is pure rcaliHt. and the very Btrength, power and truth of his books make them dis agreeable reading, though a valuable exposition of actual conditions and portrayal of Southern life history. Among romance writers who pre sent true and charming pictures of life snd ideals in Dixie are: Henry Still well Edwards, Grace King, Virginia Frayzer Boyle, Alice Hegan Rice, Frances Boyd Calhoun, Will N. Har ben, Ellen Glasgow, Henry Sydnor Harrison, O. Henry, and indeed a list that includes almost all the popular novels of recent years. South's Part Today. With the triumphant emergence of the South from the tempest of war and the cyclone of reconstruction, the great weight of slavery removed and tlic isolation of plantation life a thing of the past, the Southerner, who re tains his optimism, hia love of rose hued romance and flower laden atmos phere, his warmth of feeling and ex presi?n, his passionate patriotism and loca* tendencies, combined "/Ith a broader view of life, and a greater catholicity of culture is reaching to a purer literature, a nobler self and sectional expression. Mr. Mable says, -in the widening activity the South has borne a very notable part; indeed it may be said, it has borne the chief part." Also. 'The South of today has no explana tions to make, her quota of writers of original gift and genuine art ls perhaps more important than that fur nished by any other section of our country. These writers exhibit cer tain qualities of the Southern tempera ment from which much may be ex pected in the literature of the future. Their work comes from the heart I rather than from analytical faculties. It ia made of flesh and blood and ls j therefore simple, tender, humorous and altogether human, and these quat- i Rles give assurance thst lt hss long life before it. The contributions of the South today to American letters ls so significant and so characteristic that lt nhould be studied more care fully as a whole." In a short sketch of Southern lit erature mention can not be made of a boat of brilliant names, but enough can be said to refute utterly the un warranted assertion made in the 20th century edition of the Encyclo paedia Britannica, "Since the Revolu tionary days, when Virginia was the nurse of statesmen, the few thinkers of America south of mason and Dixon's line outnumbered by those belonging to the single State of Massa chusetts, have commonly migrated to New York or Boston in search of uni versity training., in the world of let ters, at least, this South has shone by reflection light, nor is it too much to say the', mainly by their connection with the North have the Carolinas been saved from sinking to the level ot Mexico or the Antilles." Shades of Calhoun, of Timrod, of Simms, ot Sass I Can ye aleep on In your honored graves when the land of your love and your allegiance lr. BO ? maligned? But peace to your aahes! There are j In the Carolinas anula still clothed In flesh that are writing their names on the scrolls of tame and who point with pride to your shining like guid ing stars before them. Not yet, however, baa the South at tained the height to which nhe ?va?l ascend. With the coming of prosper ity and universal education this won. derful Southerner, whom nothing daunts, who rises above adversity, not with a sad or puritanical face, as one \ sternly pursuing duty through unut terable woe, but with a rollicking j laugh and a happy expression that I finds the world good In spite ot hard ship-this bright color-loving nature shall mix the blue skies, the brilliant flowers, the odorladen atmosphere of I his native land into poetry, and shall find sparkling romance in all the hills j and valleys, the -swamps and forests of the beautiful South, and the great j American public shall recognise the \ worth and beauty of the Southern contribution to "Ute literature of the nation." GREAT UPWARD WHIRL IN WHEAT May Option Goes to New High! Record, $1.62, on the Chicago Market. (By AwocUted Pren.) CHICAGO, Jau. SO.-Threatened en largement of the war zone caused the I greatest upward whirl yet In wheat, j tho MSy option going to n new high record, 91.52. Excited buying lifted the market 4 cents a bushel above yesterday's level at which many ner vous traders were selling on vague peace rumors. The close waa strong at 2 1-2 to 31-2 above last night Other net gains were: Corn 15-8 fol 15-8013-4; oats 1-2 to 1, provl-?ons 21-2 to 10. Grain ?nd provisions closing: Wfceef: May.$1.517-8 July.1.34 7-8 'Cent May. 82 July. 83 3-4 Oates May. 603-8 July.'.. .. 58 1-8 Cash gram: Wheat, No. 2 red, 11481-201621-2; No. 2 hard, ?1.49 1-2 01.58 1-2. - DONT ABUSE YOUR EYES. Dont read facing the light. Hold the book on a level with tba ayes, Dont read on a moving tra?a. Dont read while yon rock. Dont tax your eyes when yon ere tired or hungry. Dont try to read just ons miaute more in th? dark.-New Tetra Toads. Classified Want Advert? Twenty-fire words or Ieee, One Tl Six Times U.00. All advertisement ever twenty-flv word. Rates on 1,000 words to taos. No advertisement taken for lesa If your name appears In the tels: your want ad to 321 and a bill will prompt payment. WANTS WANTED-Clean cotton rags. The In telligencer Job Printing Depart ment WANTED-To correspond, confi dentially, with anyone de?!vious of becoming permanently cured of the morphine or whiskey habit. Tho KEELBY INSTITUTE, COLUM BIA, S. C. Box 75. WANTED-The privilege to cure tobacco users at home. $6.G? buys the cure. Information if desired. THE KEELEY IN8TITUTE, CO LUMBIA, S. C., Box 75. WANTED-You to buy your "Sunday Goodies" from the Anderson Pure Food CO.-Cakes. Pies, Cream Puffs, Buns, Rolla, and "Aunt Mary's Cream Bread. Store at Anderson, Bakery's old stand on Benson BL WANTED-To sell cotton seed hulls and meal. Prices right. B. N. Wyatt, the |6 Coal Man. Phone 182.-dtf. DEATH AT WALHALLA Mr. Benjamin O'Kelly. Prominent Coe. federate Veteran, Passes Away. SpMtal to 'itu InulUcrnc*r. WALHALLA, Jan. 30.-Last night at his home three miles east of Walhalla, Mr. Benjamin P. O'Kelly died after a protracted illness of many months. "Uncle Ben O'Kelly" aa he waa familiarly called was well known and liked by everybody. He waa a Con federate veteran and was 91 yeera of age. He leaves a wife, one son and three daughters. His body will be lsid to rest in the family burying ground near hla home. The Presbyterhin church ls nearly completed, and vrhen finished will be one of the most modern buildings in tho county. It is well equipped with Sunday school rooms, pastors study and all conveniences. Rev. Marvin B. Stokes and family ot Korea are again In Walhalla and will spend sevnrai weeks with Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Stokes. Mr. McAullffe of New York ls visit ing his grandmother, Mrs. L. T. Sim mons. The "42 Club" met on Friday after noon with Mrs. George Bloomner at the home ot her daughter, Mrs. John Ansel. Miss Leda Poore, who has been visiting her cousin. Miss Gertrude Smith has returned to her home in Bolton. Miss Jennie Shorer of Anderson was a recent visitor at the home of Mrs. W. D. Moss. ENLARGEMENT. Pray huger prayers; Alono for thine and theo God does not keep His treasure-troves ot good. For others ask, And let the whole world be ? Thy Father's house, Home of thy brotherhood. Give larger gifts; However poor thou art. Thou hast some wealth To keep or give away. Thou canst at least Some good or Joy impart, And cheer thy fellow pilgrims On their way. .?<{?..? Hope larger hopea Thy heart life to expand; The Father's heart ls large, ' And takes all In; And he can save bis own In every land. Love thou and hap? that all The Christ may win. Lire larger life, Stay not in narrow places; Take a broad outlook Over men and days. O little seal, be great. Show, sweeter graces; Live, labor, love Ia God's largest ways. -Selected. Columns ising Rates Une 26 cents, Three Tiznes BO cents, a words prorate for each additional be med in a month made on appli L*xan SS cents, cash In tdvance. phone directory yon can telephone be malled after Ita Insertion tor MISCELLANEOUS ? o POLE YOKES Neck or Polo Yokes, with strong center pieces-Fifty Cents. PAUL E. STEPHENS. CAKE SALE The Junior Pbilathea Class ot the First Presbyterian Church will have a Cake Sale at Owl Drug Company Sat urday afternoon. l-27-3t I HAVE FOR SALE several dosen cans prime tomatoes at $1.00 per dosen, string beans at $1.10 per dozen, dessert peaches without sugar at $1.16 per dozen, desert peaches heavily sugared U-4 oound sugar to can) $2.26 per doten, B. C. McCanta. WHEN UNEXPECTLY detained down town tor luncheon, yo A cannot do better than drop Ut hore. A light lunch or a substantial meal. Cuisine and service O. K. and prices just ss attractive aa our food. The Lunch eonette-dtL PIKS FRUITS-We carry the largest and most complete assortment ta the city-keep 'em moving. Fr nh Florida orange?, grape trait, ap ples, banana?, wholesale and re tail. J. K. Manoa. Phone 823.-dtf. WE BUT PEAS and pay th? cask. Forman Smith-Sesdman. Phone 464. Dtf FOR SALE FOR SALE-Garden seed from best bulk stock at prices which are at tractive. We make a specialty ot the Seed business. You can nuke a Home Garden cut your necessary living expenses in half. Phone 494. ruimtm 5m?h, Secu??i??. FOB SALE-Two brood sews, on? young pig; now registered, Berk shire Bore. Price $46.00. T. B. Mar tin, Lowndcsville, S. C., R. F. D. No. 2. FOUND ' . ? DO TOU ?TEAB Rosenberg's Clothes, or just olothes? Spring styles have arrived. Rosenberg, 'Tailor and Cleaner. Phone 414.-1-28-tf, LOST --o LOST-Rear wagon gate ot wagon bed and two 10 pound boxea of Red J. Tobacco. Return or . notify^ T. Ni Cromer, Iva R. 2.-l-30-2tp. WELL PLACED. Hotel Clerk-I found that 'Not to be used except In case of fire,' placard which those college noys stolo out of the corridor. Manager-Where did you find it? Clerk-They'd nailed lt up over the coal bin.-Penn State Froth. Could You-? Use a Bula extra stoney to good advantage just now? Haven't yo? ?ornottifng te sell 7 Do yo? own ?omaUiing yon no longer use, but which if offered at a bargain price would np* peal at once to ?orne one who doa* need it 7 An INTELLIGENCER Want Ad will turn the triefe. PHONE 321 PIEDMONT INSURANCE AGENCY I See Me Fer | Any and AU INSURANCE. I j C. E. TR1BBLE, Manager ? j Brown Building.