The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-05-05
A TRIP TO RATILESNAKE FALLS.
The Man Who Wrote Dixie ia Writing the
Lite of Daniel Boone.

FRIBRsoN, May IA party from Zion
spent the day Saturday very pleasantly
at Rattlesnake Falls A good many
say they have seen 1.-THE wonder" once
ana don't care to see it any more .;
therefore our party was a very "se-
lect" one; however, judging from quail
ty rather than quantity, 1t was "np to
snuff" The persons who say this must
forget the increase and decrease of the
stream, and probably have never seen
it in the power anu grandeur 1t pre-
scented Saturday. These also do not
consider the drive to and from, through
lovely valleys, where tue air is freight
cd with the perfume Of flowers, up
majestic hills, (some might call them
rugged) covered with continual forest,
in toe land of the chigger; certainly the
person who does not enjoy such a
drive, fails to make the trip tell" and
fails to grasp an opportunity" also.
The woods appeared to be one vast
flower bed with choicest flowers
thereon; hoOey-suckle, laurel and for
get-me-not blOssoms; where the modest
violet lifts its lovely head, and the
| fern shows iis graceful form.
We drove to SummertOwn to eat
dinner; aud such a dinner, oh! it should
be called by sOme better name; for
an empty name. Truly the half will
not be told when say it was as good
as ever placed before a king.
SummerLown is i'll a thriving condi-
ton; "A fence has been placed around
! the spring, and a street lamp in the
enclosure. Some of the naughty boys
will make that a thing of the past, next
summer, | am afraid.
| After 50 long time | have some
definite news from "Uncle Dan Emmett
| rhis is a clipping sent nae by friend
therefore Know not from what paper II
was taken. 1t shows that the actors FUND
of New York have taken the very steI
suggested to us, as corresp rndent, by
our Editor; also that they have taker
the star which it was our duty to place
in our crown and placed it in theirs
where il will shine with a double bril-
liaucy, since they did it when it wat
not duty. 1t also shows that he has
made II life work, from which he car
hope to derive very little persona
benefit, since he is now seventy-eight
and unto man is allowed but three
score Years and ten"
I Like Dixie" his life of "Daniel Boone
Will doubtless be "a 20 from the very
START but he will never see it reacl
the zenith of its fame. He truly is {
magnanimous SOutherner and al
unseltiSh man, who deserves much
praise and esteem at least.
The clipping reads as follows:
"Uncle Dan Emmett, widely know
throughout the United States as tn,
composer of the celebrated and sou
stirring song Dixie is again likely Il
come before the public in vastly diff
terent light from that during his palmJ
days; this time in manner again illus
trating the magnauimOus nature o
the SOutherner. 1t is acknowledged bl
all who are authority that it was h,
who christentd the South Dixie
Land This fact, coupled with de
sire to assist their esteemed benetacto
in his now declining years, has moved
the South to reveal, through the col
umnS of the press, a plan by which
Uncle Dan might be lifted from penurI
aud want. The Actors Fund OF New
York has been in communication viii
him, aud has forwarded a sum o
money from time to time with which
to supply his wants.
"Seventy-eight years old he is, ant
since he began as boy OF 10 TO worl
for living, his life has been one Ions
series of ups and downs, adventures
and triumphs. And now, suffering
from hardships and poverty, aged anC
forsaken, he is at work on life o
Daniel Boone in poetry, which he ha
almost completed. He has received
word to 90 to New York that his friends
may demonstrate their kind remem
brance of him in manner lifting thu
character OF the big and generous
hearted thea.-ical people.
HOW HE WROTE HIS FAMOUS SONG.
"When asked about the composition
of Dixie Mr.. Emmett said:
ain 1859 l was connected with Bryan
Brothers. minstrels, of New York. Ont
Saturday night Jerry Bryant came Il
me and said: uncle Dan, can't yOI
make a hurrah walk-arOund, some
thing to make noise with, and brnl
it here for rehearsal Monday morn
ingp ] told him 1 thought l could. H'
said, DO so, aud bring IT. Going home
Sunday being rainy day, l composed
him Dixie Monday came. | brOugh
it and submitted it To him; he was 5,
delighted with it he made us rehears'
it ali that day for the evening perform
ance. 1t was go right from the star
aud for mauy years afterwaro
When the war broke out in 1861, TIVE
wears later, Bryant Brothers MINSTREL
were forbidden to sing it. 1t became
so unpopular in the North that wheI
the band played it in the streets Of New
York they were hoOted and jeered at.
\ Rev. r. M. Kennedy has been re
quested to preach at Zion SUNDAY