Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-07-25

You can get notion of the differ
ence between the compensations of
literature in Hawthorne's day and
the present time when you remember
that he was 80 hard up in 1849, when
let out of his 1920 year job in the
Salem Custom. house, that his
friends, headed by one George Hill
lard, were moved to gather con-
siderable sum of money and present
it to him.
Hawthorne accepted it, and a
sympathetic biographer says that it
"was probably the hardest sacrifice"
of sentiment he ever made. His
letter replying to the letter accom-
panying the gift is masterpiece in
its way, written, one cannot but
fancy, with the most careful atten-
tion to its literary style. In it be
says:
"It is sweet to be remembered and
cared for by ones friends, sweet to
think that they deem me worth up
holding in my poor work through
life. And it is bitter, nevertheless,
to need their support. My success
in life is really and justly matter
of shame. / am ashamed of it and
ought to be. The fault of failure
is attributable to the man who fails.
Nobody has right to live in the
world unless he be strong and able
and applies his ability to good pur-
pose."
-Four days later, on February 3,
1850, he wrote the closing words of
his finest romance, "The Scarlet
Letter." Later President Pierce
made him Consul to Liverpool, the
best paying Office then in the gift of
the Federal government, and his
emoluments as Consul and the re-
turns from "The Scarlet Letter"
gave prosperity to him for the re.
mainder of his life.
The writer of to-day who could
produce such tales and romances as
Hawthorne's would not need to wait
till be was nearing fifty, as he did,
before securing recognition. He
was forty-nine when, in 1853, he was
able to repay Hilliard and his
friends, with interest, the sum which
they had given him in 1S49.
GARIBALDI, APOSTLE OF FREEDOM.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, not an Ameri-
can born, but for time an Ameri-
can citizen, and as truly devotee of
political liberty as any of those who
signed the Declaration of Independ-
ence, was born on July 4, 1907.
The story of his life as fighting
Italian patriot is one of the worlds
greatest romances. He was first ex.
lied from Italy in 1884, then choos-
ing South America for an asylum.
He served the now forgotten repub-
lie of Rio Grande do Sui, and later
the republic of Uruguay. In 1910
he returned to Italy and entered the
service of the Roman republic. De-
feated, he was exiled again. This
time he came to the United States.
This was in 1850, the year that Haw-
thorne completed "The Scarlet Let
ter"
Garibaldi was then as hard pressed
for money as Hawthorne ever was,
but entirely without the supersensi-
tiveness which was Hawthorne's
curse through life. Confronted with
ga plentiful lack of cash." the great
Italian established candle factory
on Staten Island, in the harbor of
New York, and apparently decided
to live the rest of his life as citizen
of the United States, for he took out
naturalization papers and manifested
a good deal of interest in the politics
of his adopted country.
However, he remained here only
four years; then he dreamed anew
his dream of the freedom and unity
of his beloved tally, and returned to
its shores, settling as farmer on the
island of Caprera. Five wears later