Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-04

wbatever conntry they might be found, and
It will last as long as human affections cluster
i about the household hearth The song OF BOD
sart rnsthet is oftenest sung BY his country
4 men is Auld spess,aps neSe1
$ y .it.s and stri y aHeA seI s2s ~ y
g JONI sa sz1t WE "
should be scfibed an li tomb BE at9i
the Song OF the Shirt. y English song VIE
ters have long been recognized as the best az
the world Hunting songs, sea songs, senti-
mental songs, conyiyial songs, and songs OF
the affections abound yet in the whole cor
lection, admirable as it is and OF high poetic
excellence, there if not one that strikes with
so sure a hand the keynote to which all hearts
respond as the 'Home, Sweet Home" OF the
wandering Americen-with his genius and his
Bohemianism, his yicissitudes Of fortune and
his attractive conversational powers--John
Howard Payne AS the young American
Roscus who crowded our theatres three-fourths
of a century ago, as the author, translator or
adapter of number plays, comedies and trag-
edies very few of which are known to the
present generation, his fame would have been
as feeting as that of the young English Kos
cius, Master Betty, or the thousand and one
playWrghts whose names are III dramatic DID,
Biographies, but whose works, more or less
successful in their day, the present generation
of play-goers rarely ever hear OF. The memo
~ of John Howard Payne would have soon be-
come thing of the past but for the one SIM
ple song which outweighs all he has written.
Out of the poverty that had driven him for
refuge to Paris garret, came the song thaC
has immortalized hisname
1t is the expression Of sadness and yearnlng
which. in his hunger and wretchedness, he
felt for the home in which he was born,
three thousand miles away. AS a literary
production it may not bear the severer tests
of criticism but the very essence OF nome
longing pervades it-a longing for old faml!z
liar scenes, old familiar faces, the motner's
love, the fathers care, the friends we once
knew, all clothed in the soft and gracious
light which lends itself Io FOND reeoleC..Ut' taut
r. is little n,arvgT Chat such & song when
first ~,.sniig should have taken an England
py Storm or that it should touch the popular
feeling as deeply to-day as it did half centu-
ry ago.
For the good which this song has done John
| Howard Payne deserves to be honored by his
countrymen. His life, like that of Poe, was
broken one. After twenty years of exile ne re-
turned home, poorer than he was when ne
went. abroad. His immediate needs were
|
eft, and he was thrown once more upon MS
own resources until friendly solicitation obtain
ed for him the poor position of the remote
consulate of TuniS. There he died there his
remains were buried, far from the home to
which he turned so sadly years before IN his
Paris garret. There he would still have been
left in his obscure and uDhOnored grave but
for the generous act of Mr.. Corcoran, who has
undertaken to have the remains brought pack
to the United States and inferred with fitting
ceremonies in Oak Hill Cemetery, near George
town. Over his remains Mr.. Corcoran pro-
poses to raise, at his own cost, monument
which shall mark, for many years to come, the
last resting place OF the autlior ol r'o"e'
Sweet Home"
In connection with the authorship of this
favorite song, II. w. Grady writes: "What
precious possession is that of the elderly lady
in Athens, Ga, who owns the original manu-
script of Home, Sweet Home as written by
John Howard Payne The words Of the poem
as first written are all interlined, with mere
and there an endearing expression from the
writer to the lady who now holds it. In the
old days Payne was devotedly attached to her,
and she has many of his letters that no eye
save hers will ever see. She IS noDle ana
high-minded woman, and tit legatee OF the
memories of true poet, and the manuscript OF
the best known American poem. She mas Deen
offered large sum for the manuscript, but OF
course no money could buy it,
GENIUS AND ITS APES.-In all this world
there is nothing more beautiful, and, IN the
long rulr more practical, self-centered ana
worthy of respect, than true genius. Whether
it inventS a pin a match, steamboat, elec-
trio lights writes such prose or poems as cap
tivate mems souls, or, rising still higher, ut
| rp1ipi0nS
comes the centres of new revolutions and sys-
TENS of thought, or dies Of martyrdom that
such truths may not die, it is everywhere and
in all ages the divnest thing this world knows
ANYTHING about; has for the basis OF its own
life a profound and simple sincerity in all
things. and at the right timeis sure to be hon
ored for what it is really worth, perhaps wor-
shiped but never eventually desplsed: AND
of all things known to mankind Luthlng IS
quite so despicable and uncomfortable as are the
apes of genius cranks in knee-breecheS ana
long hair or what not, that have only thelr
silly external idoSyncracieS to make them no.
ticeable among their tellow-men
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DREA,Is,-The British Medical Journal de-
scribes some interesting experiments on this
subject that have been made by NJ. u. Delau-
nay. According to psychologists, dreams are
generally illogical and absurd. NJ. Deiaunay,
however, Dy covering lllo loiohoau WIN '"J
er of cotton wool, rendered at will his dreams
healthy and intelligent. According to his ex-
perience, the dreams which people have when
living on their back, are sensuous, agltated and
cratic Those which occur when the dreamer IS
lying on his right side are changeable full of
exaggeration, absurd, and relate to old recoec-
tions. Those which occur when lying on the
left side are intelligent, reasonable and relate
to recent occurrences. People often talk dur
ing the last mentioned dreams. The author
considers that dreams intelligent or otherwise,
cratic or sober, can be induced by causing va
riations in the cerebral circulation, and by
the nutrition of the various regions of the
brain, either by the elevation of the cranlal
temperature or by decubtus. They, therefore
form an interesting field for psychological re-
search.
a. 1t is stated that there is an old gentleman
living in Georgia, who has been married nine
times and has had fifty-three children. His
descendants, to the number of two hundred,
were recently present at areunion of the family.
BsH A man weighing 124 pounds started out
to whip a man named Cabin, at Athens, Ga,
but after seeing Mr. Cabin lift barrel OF whls-
ky and drink from the bung, concluded to let
him escape.