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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Oct. 21, 1971 The Lapis Lazuli Cross is one of Salvador Dali’s most famous jewels. Dali refers to the work as a hypnogenic vision. Rays of diamonds represent the Light of Christ; the rubies, His Blood. The tree of engraved gold is moun ted on cubes of lapis lazuli, the whole signifying in color and form and matter, the Strength and the Power of Christ. Dali’s 36 jewels and 26 original paintings, owned by the Owen Cheatham Foundation, will be on display Oct. 10 through 30 at the Greenwood County Courthouse. (Photo courtesy of The Owen Cheatham Foundation) Timrod subject Calvin Crozier meet Tuesday The regular monthly meeting of Calvin Crozier Chapter Unit ed Daughters of the Confede racy was held Tuesday after noon, October 5th at the home of Mrs. S. D. Paysinger on Clarkson Ave. Co-hostesses were Mrs. P. D. Johnson, Mrs. W. 0. Miller, Mrs. W. H. Tedford and Mrs. A. H. Counts. Refreshments were served prior to the meeting. During the business program, the birthday of Mrs. R. D. Wright, a former President General of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy, was remembered. Plans were made for dele gates to attend the state con vention of the South Carolina Division of the Confederacy to be held at Greenwood, Octo ber 14th and 15th. Six veterans from the New berry area will receive Mili tary Service Crosses at this meeting. The recipient will be lineal descendants of Confede rate veterans. Mrs. Sadie Crooks, program leader, discussed the life of the poet Henry Timrod. Timrod was born in Charleston December 8, 1829 and died October 7, 1867 in Columbia. William Henry Trescott wrote of Henry Timrod: His life can be summed up in a sentence. He was bom, wrote poems, and died. But in spite of his short and comparatively uneventful Mr. anJ Mrs. {Paul PValLr (Wlilal request the honour oj your presence at the marriage oj their daughter Wary 9t\len to Wlr. {Robert Szell {Daiohins on {JnJay, the tiOenty-mnth of (Dctoh Ohneteen hunJreJ anJ seVenty-one at half after seikn ocloch Central tfJniteJ Ofleth oJist Gk urch dewberry, South Caro/ii Una {Reception immediately following ceremony Church Social 3tali life he was at once a fascinat ing and pathetic figure, deeply affected by the charm of con ventional antebellum Charleston with its literary element and by the upheaval of the Con federate War and its aftermath. Mr. Trescott spoke of Timrod as the South Carolina lyricist. Henry W. Longfellow was in spired by Timrod’s work and exclaimed “The day will surely come when the poems of Tim rod will have a place in every cultured home in the United States.” The story of Timrod’s last years is one of the saddest in our literary h i s t o r y,” Mrs. Crooks stated, “he suffered from povety, ill health, over work, personal bereavement, and repeated literary disappoint ment; and in the trying years of War and Reconstruction he came close to dying of starva tion.” Richard Henry Stoddard call ed him the greatest poet the South has yet produced. The earliest work of Timrod are pages of poetry from his scrapbook. Some of the pages are dated as early as 1844. One of Timrod’s early teachers des cribed him as a child as modest and different with a nervous utterance, with melody in his heart and on his lips.” According to Mr. A. S. Sal ley, Secretary of the Historical Commission of South Carolina, Mr. Ross, a Charleston mer chant who recognized Timrod’s ability made it financially pos sible for him to go to College; and in 1847 he matriculated at the University of Georgia. He remained there two years. He then returned to Charles ton and studied law under an eminent jurist, James Louis Pettigrew, as a student. He fi nally gave up the study of law. He became a private tutor, and for the decade before the war he was employed to teach on various plantations. On March 1, 1862 Timrod en listed in Company B, Thirtieth South Carolina Regiment, com manded by Colonel Lawrence M. Keitt. He was discharged from service December 15, 1862 due to ill health. He then joined the army of the West as War Correspondent for the “Mercury” a Charles ton newspaper. The first of his war poems, “Ethnogenesis” was written in 1861, during the meeting of the Confederate Congress at Mont gomery, Alabama. It was read in public for the first time at a dinner party of outstanding South Carolinians, who were so delighted with it that they got up a purse of gold to send to the poet. Part of the poem was read at the meeting of the first Southern Congress. His poem Carolina was adopt ed as tlie State song by the General Assembly February 11, 1911. Timrod moved to Columbia in January 1864, where he be came associate editor and part proprietor of the South Caro linian, a daily newspaper. On February 16th of the same year he married Miss Katie S. Good win, an English girl, who had come to America in 1858 with her father. They had one child, a son who lived only a few years. During the last years of his life, Timrod wrote many poems. He found it difficult to sell them. He wrote to a friend who had asked him to tell him the story of his last year. His reply was “I can embody it all in a few words: beggary, starva tion, death, bitter grief, utter want of hope. Let me see—we have eaten two silver pitchers, one or two dozen silver forks, ±airs and a huge bedstead.” Friends were not able to help him very much. They too were in difficult circumstances at that time. Ruff named to admissions staff John V. Ruff, Jr., of Colum bia, has been named as an Ad missions Counselor for New berry College, according to James C. Abrams, the school’, f Director of Admissions. BIG 8" x 10" LIVING COLOR PORTRAIT NO w OOc owr 7 7 PLUS SO HANDLING SATISFACTION GUARANTEED or your money refunded. FOR ALL AGES! Babies, children, adult*. Groups photographed at an additional W per subject LIMITED OFFER! One per subject, two per family. 11 x 14 Natural Color Portraitr Our best quality $4*95 50c Handling Charge SUNDAY AND MONDAY OCT. 24 & 25 1-7 P.M. NORGE VILLAGE 2407 FAIR STREET 276-9121 choose enter s Women’s Apparel Dry Goods, MilUnery Newberry, S. C.