The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04
I fill this cup to one made -,
OF loveliness alone. Up

To whom the better e~Ia,,s
And kindly stars have g:-
A form SO fair, that. like III.
IT'S less OF earth than H,.,
He yet awaits a token of w.
And John Pendleton Kennel
Baltimore-how much he ~ on
writer's Of the South. If that M .9r
not recognized the ability NJ Ga'
had not encouraged him. t,s rue,
found for him a c~ongartaI -o'
America probably would not h.A'
heard of its truest literary gar.,
Yet what bronze words decra~a ~.
fact? And for that matter. What s
probation has Baltimore ever SHAM.
for tbs honor o. possess.ug paas
dust? He lies in a neglected.
in the old Westminster e-rav[s..
and doubtless not one person
thousand Of those who daflr mas. ".
cemetery knows that the most ar-s
tic Of all American poets s...rs
nearby.
The bitterest shame Of aI h.o.
ever, is the fact that Ge0re.a has
done practically nothing for rr.
memory Of the greatest genius .I.
ever produced-Sidney Larfer w.-
day the Georgia city best known ~,
the intellectual circles Of Great Bril-
ain is not the capital, hut Macon
the birthplace OF the most musical
Of American poets. There stands
a hall OF Johns Hopkins AN lmD~as-
isVe bust of Lanier, but whore has
Macon a shrine to his mcmorya
few years ago a Georgia governor
and a famous Georgia preacher stood
on the capitol grounds mt Atlanta.
Said the governor, - want ta SIRE
over in that corner q stain. of - .r-
gresham SO and SO, and ~ st.t.a
here to Governor This. and ii statue
there to Governor That. Then we
shall have honored our dead" "bal
where will you put Sidney Ian a~.'
quietly asked the preacher. "Aa'
said the governor, sOmeWhat ahashaI,
Il had forgotten him PERHAPS
| that is the only trouble with all Geor-
| gians; not neglectful, simply forget
ful. There stands in an Atlanta
street a strong. brave statue Of Henry
Grady; would it not be em.nontIT fit
ting to place within sight of the great
orators yes the figure of Sidney La
nier, and farther on another of Joel
Chandler Harris?
Sad Neglect OF Dead Singers.
Look where we will throughout The
! Southland, we find sad neglect of oar
dead singers. William Gilmore Simm3
author of more than one hundred vol
umes, and genial inspirer Of Tmr0d'
Hayne and other literary lights, made
his home, Woodlands, near Charles
ton. a true literary center in ante-hei-
lum days; and Charleston has forgot
ten to honor either him or that ia
nous home. Davy Crockett and Sam
Houston, the most famous pioneers in
southwestern life-the one born 1t
Limestone, Greene county, Tennessee,
and the other in ROckbrfdge county,
Virginia-have received no token NJ
respect from their mother states,
Alexander Beaufort Meek wrote .
poem, "~BaIaklaVa," which queen We
toria deemed SO worthy that she haI
it published at her kingdoms expense
and spread far and wide over n+'
country, and this man, turning as "e
from his poetry, created by uhhfiH7
efforts the school system Of his hau'7
State, Alabama. And what mas A'"-
bama done to give him hoh@t oTI'''
p~osterity? Nothing.
Father Abram Ryan lived at Nor
folk, Knoxville, ClarksyfIle ana MO,
bile, and died near Louisville, 2ut you
will search long for signs OF appI'..l3
ton. CIarksville has lately dis0o|fI7'
that he wrote the "~Conqucrad JAM
ner" there-the old lady in "n'Ss
home he resided at the time stlh nv
and a small club is honor'HS .@-l
and the city by erecting a ot'.11o
tablet proclaiming this tact % ."1
world.
Margaret Preston. Of LeX'A2.'r
Va, was undoubtedly the best ".',.,
poet of America. Lexington e.''''
ly is not aware Of this. conn .'e'.
Thompson, born at RiChmoi" a..
educated at the University o..
GINA, the author Of our most 49,.
brief verse narrative of wa. @..l
in Camp is just as much he-. IN
Mississippi's poet, Irwin i,a7$
his "Christian Night in the Q-"'.--o
as truly wrote h epic OF 9o'.'
life as Whittier, in his Sno Ill.,
wrote the epic of New EHs--'o ..s
Both poems grow more tanl'-5 .,.- il
years pass; but what q ON. rib
the donors to their authors '. .na
son was Russelrs birthplace @. n
hut of a poor Irish W2sn-N'. rrs
New Orleans his ~death-p|a.. .-..l.
stone marking either is not Ef. -ra
Can We eyDpct the res