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purity and beauty OF the famous Lake
school OF England.
liayne. though brave soldier OF
the confederacy, was not at MS best
in war poetry. Nature was the theme
that mJst appealed to him. and as q
sopnetcer lie has no superior in Amer
lea literature. frequently closely ap-
preaching Wordsworth in this form
Of expression
TO these names Of high rank, South
Carolina can proudly add long list
Of lesser poets, whose songs gushed
from their hearts" anu like strains
of minor music" reach the inmost
souls recesses.
This States Historic Literature.
In historic literature. especially in
chronicling the story of the life OF the
state itself. South Carolina takes pre-
cedcnce OF all others. From the time
when Oldmixfon and Archdale wrote
Of this turbulent realm OF the lords
prOprietors there has never been
lacking "a chicl among them takin'
notes. The list is long. and only a
few OF the many names may be given,
ramsey Drayton, Moultric, Johnson,
| Rivers. Carroll. Logan Landrum
O'Ncail. MacCrady. Chapman. Mrs.
Ravonel. Mrs. Means. Mr.. Salley. Mr..
Snowden. DR.. White, are few of the
South Carolinians who have preserved
i'll lasting form the fascinating history
OF their State. While Davidson and
Wauchopc have made valuable collec-
tiOns OF her literature.
Her cssayists include such writer's
as Calhoun. Haync. Pettigru. Middle
ton. Lowndes. Preston. McDuffie, Ham,
Eond, Rutlcdge and Trescott
Some of her scientists are Elliott
botanist; Holmes. geologist; Mott,
ethnologist: Porcher and Ravenel,
botonists; Wells OF Charleston. who
preceded Darwin in formulating the
theory Of natural se1ection, and who
was the first to announce the present
accepted theory of dew.
Also she boasts series of interst-
ing works on travel and foreign coun-
trier, from Henry Laurens' account
of his captivity in the Tower OF Lon
don during the Revolution. to DR..
Schcrer's two delightful books on ia
pan, which have appeared in recent
years, and Col. James T. Bacon's inim-
liable letters written during a tour
of Europe shortly before his death.
In the realm of fiction Simms is
king, tut the world. at least that
part OF the world composed of the
Southern States Of America, would
not willingly let die Longstreet' s
Georgia Scenes" Judge Longstreet
spent many years OF his life in Geor-
gia. but he claimed South Carolina as
his natal State. and it was for a
long time his home. he having been
president of the South Carolifia col
lege. His wonderful Georgia Scenes
was first published in Charleston
magazine. S,
Mrs. King, Henry Junius Mott! Mrs.
Gilman. Mrs. Schoolcraft are other
famous novelists of the Palmetto
State. eiA
Among the present day authors OF
fiction, Stanhope Sans takes high
rank. as does Elliott Crayt2H Nc
Cants. who especially as a. short story
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heritage Of English letters was theirs.
They read books from home" and
thought as Englslimcn. though they
may have been born in the Ameri-
can Wilderness. and have seen Eng
land only in their dreams.
From the earliest sediments there
were two distinct types IN the West
crn continent: their thought. and la
ter their literature. developed along
very different lines. The New Eng
lander was ethical. speculative. in
tcnsely religious. and even the hum
blcat workman, from frequent listen
ing to discussions on serious topics.
formed the habit OF thinking for him
SELF. and the ground was we'll pre-
pared for rcformcrs and for cults.
Milton and Bacon appealed strongly
To this type of mind. and ESSAYS. ser
mons end stories bearing moral were
gradually produced by New England
CrS.
In the South the foX-huntIng squire
troubled himself little about ethical
questions. He felt what IL required
Browning TO express.
Gods in Ills heaven.
Alls right with the world"
The Southern sportsman was n man
of education. but It was strictly a
classical education. He read with
pleasure Virgil and Horace. The pull
sing humanity of Shakespeare. appeal
ed more to him than the ethereal spir-
ituality of Milton. Addition and Steele
pleased his taste more than the phil
OSOphical Bacon
These two people grew apace. each
in its own direction. It was in the
years after the Revolutionary war. and
before the outbreak OF the War Be
tween the Sections. that American
literature was born. The thinkers OF
New 'nnd were producing books
that 1, .nanded attention and their
large pi oduction so overwhelmed the
small output Of tho South that there
grew n notion that the South had
none. II is surprise to Southern
people Themselves. when they learn
how much that may be fairly ,olassed
as literature, WAS produced in ante
bellum times In the Southern. States
South -CarOliDn's Part q
Before proceeding 10 Southern liter
ature In general, let tho State of
South Carolina be examined as to. her
share in the STORY Of. the. glory of
the South. u"
In the formative. period of. Ameri-
can literature, South Carolina gave to
the, world of letters Washington Al!
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langOurous dreams of the opium eater.
and paralyZed his faculties. He awoke
only at the call of statecraft, which In
his case seemed to be self-preBerva-
tion. II required the fierce fires OF war
fully to arouse the drugged giant. TO
burn away the dross OF slavery and TO
set the white man free.
Southern poetry and romance are
perhaps unsatisfactory to the Grad
grimes of literary criticism. There are
no facts. hard, cold and real The
bare things OF life are clothed in Il
mantle OF idealism, and there results
in America two totally different phases
of literature. The idiosyncrasies OF
the North may be represented by the
immortal names OF Emerson, Hawth
orne and Whittier. Those OF the South
by the brilliant writer's. Lafacadio
Hearn, James Lane Allen and Edgar
Allen Poe. The first have the clear.
beautiful. perfect but cold glitter Of
the diamond; the latter the rich warm
glow of the ruby. The essays, the nov
els. the poems of the Northland are
cool. perfect. delicate as the mountain
laurel, while those of the Southland
breathe the langourous odor of the
magnolia.
In the days when you were ung
and hung over q book like bee
hangs over a flower. you remember.
especially IL you were a little girl.
how you read Little Women" and
"An Old-fashioned Girl"-eagerly.
gladly, over and over. Those were
real live girls. just like yourself, they
were your companions, and you liked
them. In short you were impressed
by the realism of the books, though
you didn't know realism from pate
de-fois-gras.
Then you read and reread and read
again "St. Elmo" and "Bculah." We're
you in the same world? Those were
not real people, they were nothing
like you, nor any Of the prosaic peo-
pie that you knew. but those charm
ing. wonderful learned ladies were
just what you meant to be when you
should grow up and could spread
those hidden wings that the grown.
ups did not know you possessed. You
were going to find somewhere on
that glittering road before you called
"the future" though you did not know
that it had name, just exactly such
fascinating, stern. delightfully."- wick
ed hero, who should discover your un-
suspected charms and love you just
as romantically as those gloomy
roues did the poor but proud maidens
Of their choice, and you were going
to develop such a perfect charac-
ter that your lovely virtues should
lead the black sinner from his infancy
to the light Of perfect day.
There Is the difference between real
istic and idealistic literature. And
while wise critics may chant the
praises of the realistic type and
preachers and teachers may warn the
unwary against false pictures of life
presented in some of "the popular
fiction OF the day., the girls and boys
and the people who used to be girls
and boys are going to pour over their
st. Elmos and their Gold Bugs with
thrills that never come from asso-
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writer has no superior. His are del
icate expressive sketches of Southern
life caught in some OF its most ef-
fective anu sensitive phases. and re-
dolent OF the red hills Of his native
State
Even with this very partial and
meagrc summing up Of the writer's OF
South Carolina. it is not too much
to claim for her Il place In the fore
most ranks OF Southern literature.
But the other y that may fairly
claim to he Southern States. have
each contributed a noble part to the
literature of the nation. Each began
where the Southerner naturally be-
gins-in oratory. II is just TO in
ciude oratory in the literature OF a
people. for there il anywhere, the
author seeks to please. to awaken
thought, feeling and imagination +;
and more quickly and more surely
than by the written word does he sue.
ceed.
The thought and the course of the
worlds destiny have been more influ-
enced by the spoken word of two
teachers than by all the literature
ever penned. Neither Socrates nor
Christ ever wrote one line. but their
words have been thundcred through
the ages and shaken empires. How
ever, I'll honor to the work of quill
and stylus. The present century would
have but garbled fragments of those
burning words had not Plato and the
evangclists set them down for fu-
turc ages.
The first century Of national life
: was Il period of statescraft; men un-
accustomed to the task were building
j nation, and politics was the strong
est force in life. save in New Eng
land. where it shared its domain with
religion. There was religion in the
South. too, real and true piety, but
the difference was that the people did
not take ii quite so painfully, not
even after Whitef'elds marvellous elo-
quence and burning ardor had estab-
lishcd the great Methodist church in
every corner of the backwoods from
Maine to Florida
Whitfield himself may Justly be
claimed by the South. Georgia was
his home and the field of his most
earnest work, and people Of his name
and blood are still living there, and
in South Carolina.
Even before the brewing of the
Revolution, orntory flourished. There
were for Il long time no newspapers
and theE but few; the only way to
reach the populace was by speech. In
the thickly settled North 1t was large
ly the preachers who formed the
thought. and swaycd the minds of
men. Tie names OF John Cotton, Cot
ton Matthews, Edward Everett, John
Harvard. Edward Everett Hale, Will
liam Ellcry Charming, Phillips Brooks,
are still names to conjure with III
Massachusetts-all orators, all preach
ers.
In the South. Patrick Henry, John
Rutledge. the Pinckneys. william c.
Preston. the fuckers. John Randolph.
John c. Calhoun. Henry Clay, Robert
Y. Hayne, the Taylors. the Bonhams,
the Orrs, are magic names. and with
one accord are they lawyars. South
erners were born with n prediction
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StOn poet az Wei as painter: Hugh
). Legare. brilliant cssayist. orator and
| statesman; James Matthew Lcgarc
poet; Stephan Elicit. botan!st; JOHN
Drayton historian. essayist and biog
| rapher. and Il number of other writer's
| on similar topics. which. though in
tended primarily In instruct. were
al lie same time SO interesting in
treatment. az well as matter, that
th"y may well be classod on Pan
coast 4 definition OF the aims of litcra-
tmre TO please. to awaken feeling
| thought and Imagination" and GER
tainly they come under Carlyslc's def
milton: Literature is the thought of
thinking souls"
For novels and poetry. South Caro-
lima looked 10 England. and Caro-
linians read Pope. SmOllett and
Stcrnc; loved Tri5tam Shandy and his
! charming tncle Toby. Joseph Andrews
and Tom Jones, ar their children loved
IyanhOc, Amy Robsart and Jcanie
| Deans; and their grandchildren adorctl
Little Nell, Oliver Twist and Paul
Do lIbcy.
To South Carolina belongs the
giant among statesmen and orators.
1 .
Iiaync. George McDufiic and others.
In lighter literature William Gil
more Simms, Henry Timrod and Paul
Hamilton liaync are but Il few OF the
long list of anic-bollum writers who
enriched the literature OF this State
and of the nation, and vino had the
ability to become famous in letters,
had they given TO them their time.
talents and first allegiance.
Literature is an eXacting mistress
| she brooks no divided heart, and eX-
ccpt for tho last three these South
Carolinians. like their great English
prototypes. Sydney and Raleigh. made
literature but the elegant pastime of
an idle hour"
Simms ranks as one Of America S
most distinguished noveliStS, though
he also wrote poetry. essays and his
tory. His ambition was to be known
and remembered as a Ilet, but his
verse is too rugged to be pleasing: he
was at his best in romance. The first
South Carolinian TO make literature a
profession, lie set an example of in
dustry. study and application that has
feen equaled by none of his success
sors. Simms is often called the South
ern Cooper, and it is with the author
Of Leather Stocking Tales that he
is usually compared by critics. and
compilers of American literature. But
in truth he should be compared with
Sir Walter Scott. whom he closely
resembles. Like Scott's his novels are
a little overloaded with digressions
and descriptions. wearing perhaps to
impatient readers, but like Scott he
fully repays in charm and interest one
who continues with him until the
deliberate author has fairly conducted
him into the heart of his story, and
makes him fully acquainted with the
people of his imagination.
The trials and exigencies of war
! brought tn perfection the genius of
Timrod. His war lyrics breathe not
only the highest patriotism. but are
, full OF fervor and poetic conceptions,
while his nature poems recall the
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This Essay Was
The Best Of All
Paper by Mrs Vandver Sou Place in Literature of Nation Not
Only Won State Prize in General Contest But Place of
Honor Over All Submitted

Last spring the Martin IIoyt Pub
fishing company Of Atlanta offered
3 in an essay contest open to all Daugh-
ters OF the Confederacy. 800 as IL
capital prize and 10 copies, or rather
sets, OF their excellent work THE
Z Library OF Southern Literature" in
l6 volumes, as State prizes. The sub
Ject OF the essay was THE Place OF
!. the South In the Literature of the Ma
lion" and the subheads therein were
* to be: The States Place in South
z ern Literature" or in case Of the
writer's living in u Northern State.
Southern Authors Who Made That
State Their Home" Southern Ora
:. tory" "Idealism in Southern Litera
ture,' and Southern Literature as an
Interpretation of Southern History"
Later the major prize was with
. drawn, to be offered next spring. but
the State prizes were awarded at the
general convention in Savannah and
Mrs. Vandiver won that for South
Carolina, her essay also having been
adiudged the best of all submitted
and given the place of honor.
Mrs. Vandiyer In 1913 held the sill
+, YER cup offered annually by Mrs. Rose
Of Mississippi for the best essay on
The Women of the Confederncy,"
cpen to every u. ID. c. in the whole
organization.
81 The prize paper on Southern Liter
: ature follows.
IL
The literature of the American ma
tion has not yet come into the full
: ness OF its growth; but steadily 1t is
advancing, and will surely stand one
I day fair and great and beautiful; true
daughter OF a lovely English mother,
with an added strain drawn from all
1.-THE peoples OF the earth beating with
the brain and blood of the composite
American.
81 AS yet America has literature OF
It's, Northern, Its Eastern. its West
! eFu and its Southern States. One day
the great American shall arise who
will blend them all. and produce the
master literature Of all the world. AS
the path of every great writer has
. been prepared yb those who preceded
Z MIN the trail blaZed that the supreme
kRenius might gather the fruit of all
4 endeavor and bring It TO perfection.
so Is the way being prepared for
3 this future American.
- For years after the settlement of
the new country, the pioneers were
too busy making the wild land hahi-
Z, table to have either leisure or incli-
nation for producing literature More
over they were Englishmen. the great
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-20
Short Snatches From Everywhere

War fans are still waiting 70 see what those Ger
mans can their home grounds-Fhiladelphia
North American
In the matter Of total abstinence the British people
seem to be inclined to let George do NEW York
Morning Telegraph
Some PhiIadeIphians who go to san Francisco VIII
get their first glimpse Of the Liberty Bell-Phtla-
delphia North American
wonder whether those IS German war-vessels seen
in the North sea are bound for Newport News
Philadelphia North American
At any rate. the shocked American public would
hate to think Messrs- Barnes and Roosevelt
both right.-Chicago Daily News
Turkey is going to hang the who failed TO
kill the sultan Who says there is justice in
Turkey9-Phnadelnhia North American
Who can blame those Pennsylvania miners for
striking when ordered to carry dynamite past the
hind legs Of mules2-F1Orida Times-UniOn-
If the belIigerents are bent on an exchange OF
asphyxiating gas why not arrange set-tO between
In confessine that tried to make Mr.. Barnes
good and failed Roosevelt admits that there
limit to even his nOwers-New York Evening Post
The colonel says he advised with Boss Plat 70
obtain results That probably, also was the reason
why Plat advised with the cOlonelNew York World
Mr.. Perkins says he is mistaken a Progressive,
which assumed that the call for campaign
contributions has not yet been sounded-Washington
Post
The newspapers Of this country, almost without
exception. remained calm, judicous and wise in
counsel They have given a fine example Of patriot
Albuquerque IN NJ Herald
A Church of England clergyman says tried
be total abstainer and it affected his health When
gets the point where he's afraid to quit
what he needs is prohibition, but the gold cure
New York Morning Telegraph
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-20
From The Herald TAI. Dat. 1901

! complaints regarding the poisoning OF
dogs
G. P. Dodge left last night on BUSH
ness trip TO Del Rio.
H ". Connolly left last night on a
business trip 10 Beaumont
Frank Wester is about again, after
having been i'll for a month
n. ". Wambaugh left today on a
business trip to New Mexico
Miss Nancy Little has gone to New
Orleans 10 visit with friends
Mrs Charles Detroit left this morn
ing for Tucson 10 visit friends.
H. ". Peacock left this morning for
TorreOn, Mex on a business trip.
Fred J. Pope left this morning for
Durango, Mex, to inspect mining prop
critics.
B. Woods and wife returned yester-
day from a visit TO friends at Ala
mogordO.
F. Beavis has recovered from a recent
illness, which confined him TO his home
for a week.
A. L Rossen has gone to Torreon,
Mex. TO inspect some mining proper
ties west Of that city.
William Vesey and little son left yes
terday TO join Mrs. Vesey. who has been
visiting her parents N the east
r E. Forbes has arrived here from
Des Moines. Iowa. to fill a position in
the Rock Island commercial offices.
The boundary commission party,
which is going TO float down the Rio
Grande to the gulf, started on its long
trip this morning
Mayor Hammett has instructed the
chief OF police TO take steps TO see
that AL persons erecting buildings first
secure the proper permit
Miss Isabel Martin, daughter OF su-
perintendeut ". r. Martin. OF the C. H
left this morning for Fresno, where she
VIII visit her grandparents.
The FL PasO stock exchange was
closed yesterday. W. r. Logan. the
manager, going to Waco. 1t is believed
the FL Paso exchange viii soon be
again reopened.
T. VI. WingO has returned from Cliff
ton. AriZ-. where he completed the or
ganization Of the Clifton National bank.
". = Arnold. OF FL Paso. is assistant
cashier Of the new institution
Miss Katherine Eddy. the little daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs 7. A. Eddy. cele-
brated her fourth birthday anniversary
yesterday with a lawn party. Those
present We're Misses Virginia Stewart.
Alice Myles. Mary White, Dorothy
Lakeland. E.stelle Berrien, ClOrinda
Ramsey. Heather NcKinneu. Margaret
kindricl-. Barbara Meade, Clara Fink,
Helen O'Shea and masters Jack Happier.
Joe Glasgow, Arthur Richards Edward
Chilberg, Donald Sutherland. Ernest
Myles. Robert LoughbOrough and Hew-
lit Fearn-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-20

over 10 nurses through. the state
Of Texas took the state board examina-
tons this week." said Miss Katherine
Gertrude Kelly, the state board nurse
examiner THE examinations were
held in five Texas cities by state board
examiners, Dallas, Temple, San An
tonic and Galveston being the places
beside FL Paso. where the examinations
were held
THE trip to the White Sands in New
Mexico is well worth the making" said
Mrs. C. Wesley Webdel The sands
are simply wonderful looking like a
winter scene in summer weather. It is
difficult to form an adequate concep-
ton of it until one actually 5ehoIds
the sight"
ITO be captured by Mexican snug
glers and to be held captive for "a
hours is no pleasant experience said
John H Mooney, who is walking from
New York to san Francisco and re-
turn under the auspices Of the Daunt-
less League Of New York
1T happened this side of Del Rio.
A band Of smugglers were on this side
OF the river and being suspicious held
me up. Among my papers was a letter
frcm secrearty Of state Bryan and I
was at once taken for a spy. We
crossed up the river and I was con-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-20
The Danger Of Alliances

One thing that this demonstrates is the danger
Of alliances If Germany had been alliance with
Ausria-Hungary, and Russia practically allied with
Servia the original war would have been limited to
Hungary and Serva. Russia took up ServIa's
quarrel; then Germany took up Austria's quarrel By
an alliance France was drawn in to help Russia If
France had not in, Belgium would not have been
invaded. By an alliance England drawn IN to help
France and Belgium Japan was brought in by an
alliance So Portugal Turkey IN because
Russis had designs upon her Of all the II powers at
war only two Montenegro and Turkey acted independ-
emily of alliance, and Turkey would not have
been in except for Russias having been drawn In by an
alliance.
Probably the net effect on the American mind viii
be reinforce the conviction perfectly expressed
By George Washington, that this republic could only
endure If kept out of foreign alliances. Even
alliance with South American countries would be
wise This point Of view seems to be held by nearly
all thinking Americans, Yet where does It leave when
begin to dream of %The United States Of the
World"? Where does the philosophy Of national sOla
ton leave when begin TO talk Of @United States
Of Europe?
The mere statement Of the case indicates clearly
the great difficulty Of reaching permanent settle
ment Of the European troubles Probably the first
suit Of the VIII be to strengthen opposing alliances,
emphasize the antagonisms and solidarity of the
specve @armed camps" and increase ornaments rather
than to smooth the way toward abiding peace and
mutual understanding.