The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-11-27

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that have lasted the longest and still
live in our hearts are not the stately
measures of Byron and Shakespeare
and Pope, but they are from Leig h
Hunt and Coleridge and Goldsmith
and Tom Hood and Burns and Jean
Ingelow. I was reading "The Fisher
mans Prayer" aloud the other night
and had to stop before I got through,
for the little six-year-old grandchild
filled up and began to sob like her
heart would break. I learned the
Hermit when I was young and love
to repeat itnow. Halleck and Bryant
are grand, Longfellow is beautiful and
Holmes is delightful, but they don t
touch deep down like those I have
named. Geneieve and the Hermit
and The Song of the Shirt and the
Caters Saturday Night will live as
long as our language. A good heart
loves to weep sometimes. Aman who
can't shed o tear over poor Rip Van
Winkle as acted by Joe Jefferson is in
a bad way for heaven. Walter Scott
says that the only time he ever saw
Burns was in room where there was
a painting of young mother with a
babe in her arms who had just found
her husband dead on battlefield, and
and underneath the picture we're these
lines:
"Bent DER her babe, her eye dissolved in
The big drops mingling with the milk he
drew,
Gave the sad story of hia future years
The child of misery baptized in tears"
Scott says that Burns could not con-
ceal his emotion, but wept like achild.
And yet there are folks who fancy the
painting of a great battle with all its
blood and carnage and miseryl A. 7.
Stewart paid $60,O69 for one. It is
now in the Central park gallery in
New York. The one that Burns wept
over ought to be right under it as a
contrast-an object lesson.
But we are calm and serene In these
parts now. There is no war nor pesti.
lence nor any great calamity. The
land is filled with plenty and [ reckon
our people are thankful. The good
book says: " When a mans ways
please the Lord, He maketh even his
enemies to be at peace with him"
It does look like our enemies are har-
monizing Of late more than at any
time since the war. There is nobody
breathing out threatenings and slaugh-
ter against us now except old man
Hoar and he is almost dead. There
was comfort in what Mr.. Loomis, OF
Wilkesbarre, Pa, said when he got
back home: "The South has never
had chance since the war. Stripped
bare as bone-no money, no annuity,
no pensions-it is past reason how she
come to the front. Think Of It'll The
government has since the war paid
out in pensions alone 81 800, 900, 900
that staid in the North. Of this vast
sum the South had to pay her part in
taxes and got nothing. Just give her
$10O,0O0,00O as starter and in ten
years the North would nOWl at ner
progress. And we are COM
PEELED to look to the South for true
American patriotism. They are all
Americans down there with their blood
pure through century Of American
parentage. It is refreshing to run up
against a whole community of pure
Americans.
How is that for manly confession
from leading business man in
Northern republican city. Lwish that
he and all such would come down here.
and domicile with us. They can bring
their pensions with them and scatter
the money around. Soft circulates in
our naborhood it is all right. May
the Lord keep US humble and happy.
BILL ARP.