Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-10-18

WIZ a AAyA q AouAsvtA0, ~, M
nadea small fowsuse ~ writiag ssass.
AMONG his popular compositions are
Noble Darling. NHah O'XsAl'' and
"Evaugeline." But tho got - money
rom the latter. hoagh Il gsvs him .
start in is;s buiness. "Ja,t bef.xe the
war;" he says, II WA with sosne young
Ssitnss up in Oldham county, Ky.
,m'ng them was 8 i,eantiful Gifi Who
,,s-mble.l the IDEAL pictures Of L ngfel-
o~'s 'Evamge:ine 70 closely that I called
',r by the name. W. dAuoed vt an out
.sx frolic one evening", AND soon dis.
:overed thlt four IT % could sing to-
,etLer. We tried ppa!ax quArtett.,s,
and got along so wAi thst We became
enthusiastic. About 2 o'clock in the
morning ~e started to walk home. The
night was a. bright ~ day, with the full
noon h,ngiug in the ky, and - We
" liked We sang. We Aat down il . not,k
to rest, and Evangeliae bcgAa to s.,g-
,e,~t other s,ngs to sing. I'm write .
song esid I. II yos'n promise 10 sing
It before We go home This WAS agreed
10. On the opposite side Of the road
WAS . white plank fence. Where We
we're sitting . party Of negroes had been
roasting ears OF corn. and the charrsd
sticks lay al around. With them I
wrote the 6rst verse u tho song on the
top plank al the fence, and the notes for
four vuices on the four planks beneath.
Then We stroll OF and sang 1t. The
gr's were delighted. aud insisted On hAv.
ing . chorus, 40 wrute the chorus on
the plsaks. Well, We sang it over and
ever. aud went home singing it. Next
morning Evaageliae came down stairs
huu,lning the air. and s4k-l me to write
it ont Asl aaish it i f4sld her I eoudu't
do it, bat sh, might 60 down and copy
it OF tAa fence. She to X In umbrella
and sheet OF paper, and soon cAAe back
with words aud music. Theu she in.
sisted ON having another verse, 20 I
wrote another verso. on condition that
was to have kiss for il, and she to have
the mnsic..'
Hays sent the composition TO various
music publishers, but couldn't sell il,
and 1t was 1t length made public ty the
voice OF Campbell, the negro minstrel.
Three hun red Thousand copies have
been sold, but the kiss was the Only pay
the author has received.
VINO WE'RE rHE rRss
DIR. ". De Haas, after . careful tx
animation Il tie supposed connection
between the "m.mnd builders" aud tho
ancient races If NJ. xico, has CRIME to the
conc ;usiou that it does not exist. He
considers that the former people were
hut little advanced IN. ond the modern
Indars, but that they were different.
In the discussion that followed the read.
ing Of Dr.. De Haas paper in the Amer.
;., u association, Judge Henderson oh.
.c,,,,' to the term " mound builder" -
,u.. that conveyed q falls idea There
is no .vi.,en> V, he said. which will justi-
fy MS in separating the ancient aud more
mol m races, not single feature pecul'
i.r to the X, called MT und builders. The
speaker had start,d out in the study Of
An.e.i~n archaeology with the impreb-
sion That these people were dir ''ncs ana
separate from the Indians, but h. had
been compelled by the force OF facts "a
relinquish the theory. It was improper
to talk about these people ~ mysterious,
for they we're mo- more ynysterious than
the Shawne.,r, the Nstchez, the Tensas
and other tribes. The cloth found in
their works was like that made by every
tribe from the lakes II the guilt, even
le.s fine than some, and their pottery
was NO better. In short, the speakef
said, in his opinion the mound builder
were the ancestors Of the lndisns. =
P,ys1iav Scie,sce MONTHLY.