Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1899-11-29
A CRITICAL SKETCH OF THE Wiz
y NN'N GINIANS.
THE Southern Collegian ]

For o. Connecticut Yankee, small lean,
u,tlc underweight, who lives o. chocolate
eclaires. olives and Irish potot &, 70 come
down here and dine on your cake ana
ont vour hot bread and enjoy the hospitalityo OF
vonr sumptuous tables, and then tell you
What no thinks about you is not only pre-
nosterous and monstrous but decidedly ap
palling. ou,
cred Inv impressions and observations 10,
oether and now | shall not be happy uhtl
| faye pictured you as others sec you. am
Going TO tell you everything Just as nave
scen it nd II yon come across statement
that YOU resent just keep your seat ana re,
main cool. 1t is a difference OF opinion 'haI
makes horse-races profitable. Remember
am the critic for few moments ana InaU II
| is not proper and genteel for you TO TO naNe
formed opinions about youisen' ms Is d
question about which you are supposed 10 De
non compos mentis. at.
| There was time when to assume TINS
responsibility would be to commit q terrible
crime Tom Moore, Longfellow, bryant,
Whittier and our long list Of literary gen,
eaIoov we're forced to smuggle then honest
ltbonShts and opinions, into pretty, ripping
musical rhythm. To day, thank the 1ates'
zye are in the beginning of civilization. lion
estv and originality and audacity are becom.
mo virtues. We are holding wake over
he bloated body of the dead Mr. Bigot,
He did not die natural DEATH we are
nroud to cav eve murdered himl Ills
mineral will be one grand heyday; one grand
gala week; and every patriotic, broad mlnGeo
lcollego man will cut Rotations ana nunk LIE
vans in n wild celebration II the grand oc'
casjon conflicts with the college curriculum
The Virginianl
Jefferson. Monroe, Washington, jackson
Lee-they were Virginians!
| Mountains. blue skies, golden sunsets
long velvet stretches Of messy green grass
that is VirginiaH .,,
Ouaintness, quietude, sedateness, statelines
I-tbis is old, historic Lexington
Generosity, hospitality, sincerity, honest!
these are the people have met. >,
Arlstocracy, genealogy, honor and dignit!
these are their ideals ana society' .
Sympathetic, pathetic, humorous yet a
times repulsive-these are 1.-THE Vlrglni'
negroes.
The Virginian A.
We NAV meet the mar from Florida, tn
man from California, and the man iron
Maine We may meet them all together AM
we can hardly distinguish one from the other
Int when the man from Virginia steps In W,
oil axcIaim al once: Hes a Virginian
The Vireinian is distinct type. k1gh
here in The Blue Ridge and the hlleghane
are a people American thirty-six inches I
the ward. vet peculiarly distinct from a.
other Americans. ,.,.
Literature is clamoring for an American
novel. We have our George Cable ana hi
Florida stories; our Joel Chandler Harris an
bie Georgia tales cur Charles Francis Lumml
and his Western adventures; or MISS WI
, kins and her New England characters. an
Rollin Lynde HART is now writing OF IN
; Obioans' Thomas Nelson Page has, wit
many others. given us the Virginian, but
ATTEMPT TO portray type to be known as IN
American with the New Yorker and tn
Vireinian in the same stoIy would De Oh
long faithful failure.
The Virginian is Virginian
: "a It's perplexing to conceive how a man 90
he In New York this evening and in Lexlne
ton. Virginia, to morrow morning, ana
far as thought, people, modes manneil
, ideols. ambitions, even voice and pronuhci'
tio1 are concerned, almost in a dllerei
country. -, o,oot
New York. D., W;
Here is themodest, quiet, peaceful VI
| Qinia tOWn-anu can say ~
wears behind the times, and yet only tWehV.
| three hours away. ,,,.,
This is one golden section OF our countl
nestled safely and serenity away from q rue
and jostling and mpudent North where PR
press and the march ola century have NJ
'degenerated" the people, and like ros
from grandmother flower garden, we NAY
that q and old type, the early American =.
81 love to be alone. To feel that a
alone and that the world does not know wnel
. am and could not come to me IL II dlu.
AS nv friend Alboin Tourgee has said'
like TO battle in solitude as in sea, al
know that am king Of realm no .oth
, lives to dispute with me. neither conten
the world. nor have any desire to escaI
9 iife's burdens; only when they grow t(
| heavy like to throw them off fora While al al
stretch myself on the earth" That's VI
3 giniai After time, when the WEAKNESS hi
! 1assed away, long to grid up my loins al
90 forth into the battle OF life again, to re
4 the thrill Of its mad rush, to listen TO u
shoutings, share its.sweat and dust, and gi'
and take blows with the lustiest. Ihal
New York.
Man is an animal; but an animal III Whi'
nerve and brain are Of more moment Una
muscle. The great enemy OF man Is ma
n 1.-The human face divine is q battery Whl'