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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

genius 1t is this which made the work
they did in the world SO exceptional in
quality, so phenomenal in quantity They
had a feeling that was richly advanced
beyond their day. They were so i'm
perfectly confined within the frontier of
present times that they broke forward
into all the times, lived in the presence
of ages that were to come. and therefore
pushed events in the direction Of the ages
to come. They felt the future believed
in the future. leaned forward upon it,
rested in it and were saved by hope and
by their hope helped to save all that
come after them, and us among the rest.
Hopelessness of spirit is not only g
feature that is gracefully attractive hut
it is as well form of energy or at snv
rate it opens wide the door through which
energy may escape into forms of strong
and assured action Whatever immanont
power of effect there may be in mar,
hOpelessness slams TO the dor througl,
which such power would 9th larise find
egress, and bars it TO the ability to do
hope adds the courage e. 10 In the
earlier years OF life it creates the nerve
at whose impulse We lay that preparatory.
foundation, and secure that qualifying
equipment that shall save our adult YEAR;
from being either meaningless or fruit
less. 1t so puts us in touch with 4 lonc
forward area of opportunity that all that
vide reach of years tells back upon us H.
sustaining and compelling incentive
It is this same ability to nave pleasant
and confident sense Of still broader ranges
of time that gives us the heart to labor
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

This which we call hope is one of the
features of our nature 1t is apparently
not so with the dog The dog has no such
immediate not anticipativ To-day is
large enough to contain all that a dog has
to put into It. He enjoys what he has, not
what he is going to have. His thoughts,
if he has them. are not dong enough to
reach past midnight Owe into the next
day Each day by itself has enough hours
in it to satisfy him. Perhaps we do not
realize how unlike the do we most of us
are in this respect.
This trait of character which st. Paul
thus specially emphasizes is peculiar
sort of thing and serves us in a very
kindly way. We can hardly realize how
different life would be with most of us
had this hope-tendency been omitted from
our constitution, and had we been so con
structed as TO have our thoughts and in
terests crcumscribed by the limits of each
passing day. or had we been so organized
as TO have a predominantly backward in
clination given To our affections aud medi
tations.
/ have a friend who is constructed eX.
clusiyely on Just that principle of reverse
action. He reyels IN obituaries Funerals
are his particular diversion. Anything
later in the calendar than to-day or this
week he rarely makes reference TO. ex-
cept it be a reference to the probable near
approach of his own decease His very
presence is a perpetual twilight with all
that accompaniment of chill that an
sutumna twilight regularly brings with
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

Copyright. 1915 by the Star Company.
it. He has to live in the present enough
of the time to earn his daily bread, but
when he is freed from that necessity and
has leisure TO give his nominations a
vacation, he falls back into the years that
are gone, brings out and pathetically in
spects the relics he has accumulated of
the days when he was a boy. communes
with the daguerreotype that was taken of
him when he for the first time was ar
rayedin boys clothes, and INDUCES in all
that variety of lugubrious performance
which is so satisfactory to a temperament
that is devoid of the hope-instinct, and
that finds its chief amusement in the De-
ciousness of being pathetically unhappy.
Such one is really a back number even
before he dies.
1t is only by inspecting with some con
siderable care instances of that kind
that one is able really to appreciate how
much the presence in our nature of the
hope impulse actually denotes, and to
what extent the operation of that I'M
pulse in men generally accounts for the
movement forward which on the whole
the world OF people and of events is mani
testify making.
II is hope that is very largely the
motive power impelling to action. II is
not sense of the present merely that
makes men work. Too much sense of
the present prevents men from working
That is why we rarely expect a great
deal from people whose circumstances are
sch and whose daily convenience are SO
abundant as 20 leave them in a state of
undisturbed satishedness. person who
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

ireat Britain Rights deserved
is more than about so comfortable, can
not as a rule, be counted upon to fulfil
his destiny. What lies within the horizon
of the day is so sufficient that he is not
stimulated to look beyond the horizon of
the day The atmosphere is so full of
sunshine that he forgets all about there
being any stars. He has no need of them,
and so never looks for them. The world
under his feet is so beautiful that it does
not occur to him to search for the firma-
ment that is over his head
1t is by wise and gracious Providence
then that to men generally enough that is
pleasant is Given into their life as it
passes day by day to make them reason
ably comfortable, but not so much of
pleasantness given as to be quite equal
to what they want so leaving the residuum
that has to be hoped for. In that way,
We are kept on the track OF a forward
movement Our present mercies are to
such degree economical that we need the
'uture, and so are kept moving toward
the future. Hope has given it a chance
ito operate. The door is kept open be-
tween to-day and tomorrow. between this
year and next year and all the years To
day is made rOomy. A sense of coming
days and of coming events is made
morrow will not be to-day over again. but
eternal ending of things
This is the grand stimulus to endeavor
This was one of the marked character
istics of the Hebrew people. 1t was
principal element of their prophetic
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

Where is the American periodical that
would publish an epic poem serially? In
England Blackwood's published the whole
of Drake" which ran, month by month, for
nearly two years. | mention this as one of
the indicatons-of which there are many
that poetry is coming into it's own, The
people want poetry. If the poets will do
their part it need not be long before the
poet and his art will have the reputation
and support enjoyed by the painter and
to know about it.
The material rewards of the established
poet are surer than those of the novelist
A novel may. and often does enjoy large
sale during the first year or two after pub
lication After that the sale and the
authors receipts nearly always dwindle or
come to\an abrupt finish. With poetry the
contrary is the case The sale will be small
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

All these forms are useful to the poet
who takes his art seriously. From the
practical standpoint, at least. it is not well
for him TO specialize too much. BY making
use Of all the established forms a greater
variety Of subjects are available If he
feels the lyrical impulse he can keen the
pot boiling with his songs while his epic IL
incubating
Again, let me emphasize the importance
of form and style. If is perfectly true as
some one has said. that style is the great
preservative." 1t keeps people buying your
volumes of poems ong after your novels
are forgotten and out of print
1t is characteristic of some critics to D.
continually warning some poet that he is
too prolific" They have been telling III.
that 1t is a convenient word with which
TO convey the impression that the poet
overWorking his muse-producing quantity
at the expense Of quality, which is niue
simpler than pointing out specific example,
to that effect in the text. Speaking Pc.
sonally, | have never felt any we8jines>
due to productiveness in my line have
lots of time to loaf about and enjoy myse
My forthcoming epic Tales ot the Me
maid Inn" is well along toward completion
but instead of hurrying it | have spent
much time and care in perleGting what
some of the highest authorities declare 70
be q new metlical form. This have lu
vented and am using in certain iyrica per
tons of the work to produce an effect which
l was unable to get by purely conventions
means Certainly | would not be devotin3
all this time to what is purely matter II
style if the charge of being too prolii'
were justly brought against me
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

poetic forms, the most condensed and Coz.
plete; also the most rigid. A bad CONN.,,
is unspeakable. The poet who writes ano!
ones is an artist, Viewed from every ne 9Oyu
angle, But sonnets are lot popularEtb,alIc
please the poet himself and connoissens.
and cause the mass of poetry readers
turn quickly to the easier-fiowing lyric ~,
ballad. However, the production Of goa5
sonnets does help establish poets rennto
ton. In the long run it is the security q.
his reputation that insures his income "
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08
Sonnet-For the Eightieth Birth.
day of George Meredith

CUihct-A Va Ihc IASHlIeIn Birth.
day of George Meredith.
An example of Alfred Noyess uqo
of this short poetic form, which he
and most other poets esteem more
highly for its artistic perfection
than for it's general availability
A health, ringing health, unto
the king
Of all our hearts to-day! But
what proud song
Should follow on the thought nor
do him wrong?
Except the sea were harp, each
mirthful string
The lovely lightnings Of the nights
of Spring,
And dawn the lonely listener
glad and grave
With colors of the sea-shel and
the wave
In Frightening eye and cheek
there's none to sing!
Drink to him as men upon an Alpine
peak,
Brim one immortal cup of GRIN.
son wine,
And into it drop one pure cold
crust of snow,
Then hold it up, too rapturously to
speak
And drink-to the mountains, line
on glittering line,
Surging away into the sunset.
glow.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08
MIR. Alfred Noyes, the Leading Eng
lish Poet, Who Has Made Poetry
Pay

at first. but it grows steadily. if the work
possess real value 1t lives indefinitely
furnishing a certain income to its author
throughout the life of his copyright You
see. the novel is modern invention. Novel,
writing is not an art in the big funda-
mental sense that poetry and painting are
arts; therefore novels have an evanescent
character, while poems root themselves IN
the heart.
have already referred to the large
motto forms as usually necessary in estab-
fishing a poets reputation and in main
tanning his art on it's rightful plane. But
the epic poem which fills an entire vol
ume does not need to be ponderous,
monotonous affair The form lends itself
gracefully to the introduction of lyrics.
The song is held in universal estimation.
one might say truthfully that lyrical
poems are the mainstay of the poet for
their inherent artistic value as well as
for their popularity, on which the poets
income depends.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08
By Alfred Moves,
The most celebrated Of living English poets
I'm az mterUietc


I'm dR mterUte,c)
~ INCE you have asked me, ! see no
reason TO apologize because the
~ practise of my art enables me to live
in comfort and pay my bills. Painters live
by their art; so do scuptors composers
and novelists Why not poets?
There seems to be quite general i'm
preston that the only good poets are the
dead ones People who are not quite up
with the times appear to think of the living
poet as an impecuniOus, Outat-elbows, long
haired. irresponsible human specimen who
spends his time heaving signs and gazing
at the moon. While he lives they treat him
with plying condescension-if they happen
TO meet him, but it Is only after he has
been long time dead that they are
prepared to believe that his scribblings
are worth reading.
There is something | want to say about
this, and / appreciate this opportunity.
Perhaps if | confess to your readers that
for something ike eleven years | have been
able TO live in "A sef-respecting manner on
the proceeds of the sale of my poems the
American public will be willing to give
their own poets more respectful hearing
in fact give them the enCoura cement which
they need and deserve. The probable fact
that--aS has bee. declared am the only
poet whose livelihood has ever depended
solely on the practise of that art ought 10
make my argument all the more con
yinCing.
He has done it. Well. how does he
do it?'
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

iltah among noveists, turns to poetry to
satisfy desires which he could not wholly
satisfy In prose. | have heard him say
that rhythm is everywhere, in all things
In the seas, in the stars in all nature; not
only is there rhythm in our dancing and
our singing, but in our walking.
So YOU see that poets share with all hui
manity the fundamental property of poetry
And ii has never been that when the true
poet had been dead long enough humanity
has failed TO accept him in all the elements
which constitute his art Why is this re-
ward denied to the true poet while he yet
lives?
1t is accepted as matter of course that
the other arts must be# self supporting.
Nobody is surprised when painter enjoys
the income of a successful business man
and dies rich Nobody expects the paint
ing of portraits, landscapes or historical
scenes to be the side line" of a stock
broker, a steel manufactures or an editor
Everybody knows that he gives up his
whole life to his art, and If worthy and
Industrious, probably will prosper at it.
But poetry, alone among the arts, 1t
seems, must either be practised as lux
ury or assist its fat-headed disciple to-
ward slow starvation.
The fault first of all Is with the disciple
He must esteem his art at its true value.
Let him do as his brother artist, the
painter does Let him persistently show
by his practise of il, that poetry is not in
feror to It's sister arts. The painter spends
years acquiring his technique, without
which his inspiration is futile. He does
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08
French Cartoon of Poet Maurice Rostand Son of Poe
Edmond Rostand, Who Wrote "Chantcler,"
Illustrating the Mistaken Idea That
Glory Is All Poet Needs.

his status as a poet must rest. That is
particular disadvantage suffered by poets
in this country. Your magazines do not
seem to care for long poems, and most OF
your volumes of poetry are made up, ap-
parently. of poems previously published in
periodicals and npWSDaDe
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08
First Lines of the Introduction to
Drake"

From Alfred Noyes's most i'm
portant notwithstanding his re-
mark that it is The Epic, or long
poem, usually exploiting the deeds
of some hero of history is the final
test of a poet status.
When on the highest ridge of that
strange land,
Under the cloudless binding tropic
blue,
Drake and his band of swarthy sea
men. stood
With dazed eyes gazing round
them, emerald fans
OF palm that fell like fountains
over cliffs
OF gorgeous red anana bloom OBJ
scured
Their sight on every side.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

AS you have asked me 10 specify poetic
forms with respect to their bread winning
power, you have probably thought of the
hold which ballads have on the people
always have had. Probably that is the best
way in which a poet can tell his short
stories, simply and effectively. whether the
subject is tragic, emotional, humorous, or
even comic. The ballad form is elastic
enough for almost anything in the narrative
line
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

From: Dacchus and the Pirates.
This ballad form for short stories
in verse is a bread-Winner for poets.
Half hundred terrible pig-tails,
pirates famous in song and
story,
Hosting the old black flag once
more, in a palmy harbor of
Caribbee,
farewell we wave to our negro
lasses. and chorusing out to
the pillows of glory,
Billows a-glitter with rum and gold,
we followed the sunset over
the sea.
While earth goes round. let rum go
round,
Our capstan song we sung:
Half a hundred broad-sheet pirates
When the world was young!
A good many poets run to sOnnets. II
onnet has been called the most perfect
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08
From: A Japanese Love Song.

Illustrating MI Noyes's state
ment of the constant demand for
simple songs.
Though the great skies are dark,
And your small feet are white,
Though your wide eyes are blue
And the closed peoples red.
Tho the kisses are many
That color the night,
They are linked like pearls
On one golden thread.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

The immensely improved situation re-
sarding poetry in England is bound II
seems to me, to extend to America in the
near future Your poets have always been
cordially welcomed in England. There Is
no reason why they should not avail them
selves of two markets for the same produe'
tions. From our side simultaneous pun
cation in England and the United States Is
an accomplished fact, with respect to poetry
as well as stories and novels. There IS no
possible argument against it, and here Is d
final hint to Engish-writing poets who ara
them.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

You do 1t by understanding in the first
place that poetry is not only The equal Of
her sisters in the fine arts family, but that
at least one of her attributes -rhy thm-
gives her the precedence due to antiquity.
In his declining years Thomas Hardy,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08


OH Joy and peace IN bcliepin0, that PC
may abound IN hope through the
poiCor Of the Holy Ghost
Romans Is. 10
X TO human life that is thoroughly vital
M can contract itself within the limits
\ of the passing day or hour Per
sonality expresses itself through the body,
bu, we should not like to say that per
sonality is imprisoned in the body. In
like manner the soul uses the instant as
theatre for its disclosure, but il is not just
= the soul to think OF it as prisoner of the
instant
In our best moments the ticking of our
watch is an intrusion. The tendency is in
stinctive with us to extend ourselves be-
yond moments that hav. not yet been
registered by any timeple This is a
delicate intimation that the soul lives a
life that transcends the instant, and that
IL is made impatient by whatever operates
to narrow down TO to-day or To any day
the field OF its thought interest and eN.
perieHce.
Ii is as though the momeut that We are
just now passing through We're too small
thing TO contain all that live soul
would empty into IT, and so the cup brms
TO the full and the SOU runs over in all
kinds of presentiments. expectations and
hopes We live in the Low but the now
is not cspacous enough to hold all that
we try TO put into it. and so II spills out.
SO TO speak, into noWs that have not yet
arrived.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08
From a Song in Drake

IUIH q JUIIB III DI UNI
This fragment is an example OF
MIR. Noyes's use of lyrics to break
the monotony of the long epic
form
1t is the Spring-tid now
Under the hawthorn bough
The milkmaid goes:
Her eyes are violets blue
Washed with the morning dew,
Her mouth a rose.
1t is the Spring-tide now,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

Lift to my western sweetheart
One full cup of English mead
breathing of the May!
Pledge the May-Aower in her face
that you and ali. none Glher,
Sent her from the lnother-land
Across the dashing spray.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

The poet who
writes simply to
read his verses in a
boudoir is a fool"
thinks MIR. Noyes.
Even troubadours
were paid we'll"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08
Beginning of the
American Pro-
lOgu e t o
"Drake."

Showing how
Alfre d Noyes
, writes a special
introduction to an
epic poem.
En- g | a nd, my
mother,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

Nolc the God Of hope I'LL yoW NTH
OH joy and peace IN bclieriH0 that ye
may abound in hope through the
potcor Of the Holy Ghost
Ip,,,,uats
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-08

A good many poets run to sonnets The
sonnet has been called the most perfect Of
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-03-03
HEAVY PENALTY
travelling Man Gets the Limi
for Misusing the Mails

Sioux Falls, March 3.-Informaiioi
has reached the United States authori
ties in Sioux Falls that the Unitet
States supreme court has affirmed tn,
sentence imposed by Judge Elliott,
Of the federal court in this city, il
the case OF the United States VS.. Les
ter Z. Bsrtell. Bartell was convicted
At term of federal court held in Sioux
Falls last April of sending objection
able matter through the mails. Judgt
Elliott imposed upon Bartell the
maximum penalty prescribed by Jaw
a fine of S., 900 and imprisonment for q
period of five years in the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan
rne case resulted from a letter mailed
By him to Miss celia Derelee. a school
teacher. who livd with her mother in
Sioux Falls. the letter by mistake
reaching the mother. who turned i
over to the federal authorities. The
case was an unusually fragrant one.
and it was because of this that the
penalty was made so severe.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-03-03
TRADE CONDITIONS
Weekly Review of Bradstreet's
Commercial Agency

New York, March 3.-Following il
the busineFs report for the past week
by Bradstreet's commercial agency
Events of the week have been mainly
favorable. Prominent among these
have been a widespread visitation OF
moisture, especially beneficial in tie
grain growing areas hitherto reported
deficient; further expansion in spring
jobbing trade and the appearance of q
more cheerful feeling in the market Sc.
cuIlties, both at home and abroad, the
result of more settled conditions in iu.
ternational political affairs.
The latter manifestation has revealed
that the situation temporarily at least
has been oversold and some earlier de.
preston has been ~unreasonably accen
tuated. Industry has been fully as &C
tive as heretofore noted.
In the lower Mississippi valley the
smaller probability of foods has
helped sentiment, surgar planters are
reported to have generally made a.
engagements to finance the new croI
and the area in cotton will be large
Even in the southeast the feeling il
more confident.
Among the industries the lull in de
mand for iron and steel noted some
weeks ago has not been unwelcome.
Mil operations are active and there
is a fair quantity of new business offer
ings.
Business failures for the week ending
February % were 272, which compares
with 269 in the like week of 1919
There were thirty failures in Canada.