Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-13

Z or upon the general respect il
!, which the writer is held by hi
: readers. He writes as it strikes
him, and it strikes him by the light
!. of his previous experience and not
} by the conditions producing the
very thing he sees, because he does
!. not, and cannot understand these
conditions on pop call, Archibald
i Forbes is a conspicuous example
of this lot. The other class con.
sist of men who nave made liter
ary name by industry and study
in the sphere of their lifelong la
bors; have unbounded faith in
their own opinions; have impress
ed the public with their power ;
receive their own Impressions as
a11oms, give them out as such,
and look for them to be accepted
uIquestioned. They are a sort of
ipse disit crowd thatwrite with the
fever and daring of q Divine in
spiration. j. A. Froude, the emf
fnent English historian, is an illus
trious example of this class. He
spent years writing the great his
tory on which his name and fame
rest, then he rushed off to Aus
stralasia for the first time in his
life, catching literary feathers as
he went on a flying tour of three
months, then dashed off with
equal authority but greater speed,
his work aOceana," which is a
laughing stock for every swagman
in the country and every one else
who knows anything about that
country. So I was amused when
Froude asked me what do The peo-
pie down there think of my
0ceana?' They think that if you
had written Fraud across it in
stead of 'Froude' under it, the
book would have been accurate
The answer didn't amuse him.
The man believed hia own dictums
so implicitly that he couldn't see
how they could ever be questioned
by others"
81 suppose you do meet a bt. of
queer people and get strange
glimpses of the human. family?"
Gas a matter Of course. The
most annoying man in the, world,
perhaps, is the man who has made
r sh2Et BEE tElRe FFfamaa e #1snss to I'M
press you with the fact and insists
on telling you all about it. | was
once in Mauritius. This you
know. is an island in the Indian
ocean and belongs to England now,
though it once belonged to the
French. They tradedi it for some
treaty concession. The Mauritias
really consists of one large and a
group of small islands. The capi-
tai is Port Louis, which, you know,
was nearly wrecked by that fearful
storm that tore up the Indian
ocean SO recently down there"
"What do they grow there?"
"sugar, spices, deer, and rum.
They have a deer park with over
100000 deer in it. The meat is
exported; also the skins. The
population consists of 100000 peo--
pie, mostly Creole French and
whites. The government is Eng
lish, with English and French or
native laws in force in two sets of
courts. The laws are in English,
the newspapers are in both, and
the language of the people a pat0is
French. But 1 am drifting. While
steaming from the English possess
sion of Mauritius, then under the
governorship of Sir. John Pope
Hennessey, (whom I had the pleas
ure of meeting) to the. French
possession of Remnion, Bourbon
we'll educated Mauritian thus
accosted me on the steamers deck:
understand from Capt. Baner
that you are great traveller
Il have travelled Bit
SO have I, and I thought we
might be mutually entertaining to
each other
sYes. There is nothing pleas
anter than comparing old diaries
to see the impression each received
from the samo thing I remarked,
then proceeded to find the lands of
his wanderings: you've been to
Australia, l presume. I've just
come from there
4 No. ne hadn't been there.
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