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The Holly chieftain., 1919-09-04
Minor Troubles" of a County Agent

Minor Troubles" OF County Agent
A county agent in one OF the
eastern states believes in diversi-
fled activities. He reports as fol-
lows for one months work: Burnt
up 80 gallons of gasoline, 5 quarts
of oil, had s punctures and one
blowout. Trailer broke away and
upset load; pig fell out of the car
and was caught with difficulty, af-
ter wards jumped from sty and
was run over by an auto. Buried
three pigs with all the profits and
lost $2S besides. Tore best trousers
getting over pature fence; broke
watch CRYSTAL loading corn planter;
but outside of few minor troubles
had very satisfactory months
work"
The Holly chieftain., 1919-09-04
Barber Shop Closed.

}. Lester Graham last Saturday
night closed the barber shop at his
pool hall owing to lack of a suffi-
cient volume of business to make
operation profitable and the equip
ment is now for sale. j. W. Comp
ton. the barber who was operating
the shop under lease has accepted
position at Edmond Haberstroh's
shop where he began work Mon
day.
The Holly chieftain., 1919-09-04
Land Deal.

G. l.. Moffat this week sold his
farm north of Lamar to M. r. Bach
man for q consideration said to be
5000 per acre. He purchased it q
little over year ago for $lOO per
Sestment farming it the past sea
son. That sort of investment is
hard to beat.-Lamar Registe.
The Holly chieftain., 1919-09-04

Read The Chieftain Want Ads.
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humous story of his, "The Sense of the
Past" England had ripened in him that
"tone" which was family and vaguely the
atmo phere of the abandoned Tory dwelling |
where he was born a year after the pur-
chase and the official stay in England had
been but the fitting Of the piece into the
design of the English social and literary
fabric.
The elimination Of Lowells identity with
English life was his candidature for the
Lord Rectorship of the University of st.
Andrews which aroused much controversy
on the grounds that he was an alien. The
Inconsistencies Of the difference in allie
glance, it is significant to note, enveoped
him except for one little opening through
the official channel. He wrote to Professor
Child about the matter in letter that had
no news to give except that my official
extraterritorialty will, perhaps, prevent my
being rector of St. Andrews because it
puts me beyond the reach of the Scottish
courts in case of malversion in office. How
to rob a Scottish university suggests a
serious problem. | pleased with the
election and the pleasant way it was spoken
of here, though l did not want the place.
Had l known what I know now, l should
not have allowed myself to be put up, but
I was in Paris, and had forgotten among
the bookstalls that I was an Excelency."
He chad forgotten I was Ex-
cellency"-o otherwise the qualifications were
ample except for the accident of birth. But
punch" of the day in a bit Of verse swept
away the "accident" which in his case was
so palpable an abstraction:
An Alien? Go tol II fresh genial wit
sound Saxon speech be not genuine grit
II the wisdom and nrth he has put In for
Don't make him a native" why. 50 much the
for
Because he loved the mellower and older
civilization of England he was, in spite Of
the foregoing, no less a true and ardent
American. He had to "justify the America
that he loved in the sight of England"
What he recognized under the separateness
Of political institutions and social forms,
the essential unity of law and common
heritage of speech, the ties of blood and
faith in the same moral freedom, and it
was through his social instincts and his
literary ideals that he sought to bring the
kinship into harmonious and united ex-
preston 1t was in England that he de-
livered one of his greatest addresses on
Democracy" in which he told his audience
at Birmingham, on assuming the presi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

Of an ideaist temper, he ever COM
pletely in harmony with the mood of one
of the great American political factions. AS
Minister to Spain and to England he always
refused, he said to have any politics,
considering himself to represent the coun-
try, and no special party in it. After his
return from England his political mood
Saxon poets, who have not died young his
personal temper was increasingly conserva-
tive; yet clear sighted as he was and i'm
patient of foundations, it impossible
for him to rest, like most conservatives, in
an allegiance to party. Indeed, he had for
many years an earnest hope that through
the rise of large and fearless body of
Independent voters a permanent third party
might be established, so that the country
might divide upon rational and permanent
issues, like the tariff and the currency.
This alignment was not taking place in the
two great parties, and it easy to fore
tell where Lowells sympathy would lie
been that by the establishment of sound
civil service, politics might be made an
honorable and attractive professor for the
best minds. 1t naturally came about that
he was increasingly at odds with the lead
ers in his old party, that he had a growing
admiration and regard for Mr. Cleveland
and that in his speeches he expressed very
fully and forcibly the mood Of the more in
dependent wing of the Democrats"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
The SmuggIer
Pleads

81 of the crew, you understand?
Everybody in town knows it; but if | tell it
to you, it's because are alone and you're
not going to inform against me. The deuce!
It's no dishonor to have sailed in the Socar
rao. All this business of customs houses
and coast guards and government boats was
never created by God; it's an invention of
the government to harm US poor folks, and
smuggling is sin, but rather a very hon
orabe way of earning ones bread by expos
ing your body on the and your liberty
on land. As fine life for sturdy ano
brave men as God ordains.
81 remember the good old days. Every
month we made two trips, and it was a
pleasure to see how the money circulated
through the village. There plenty for
all; even for the officials-poor fellows who
can't support their family on two pesetas-
and for folks Of the sea
"But the business kept growing worse and
worse, aud the Socarrao made only occa-
sional journeys very carefully for the cap
tain knew that we were being watched and
that they were anxious to catch US.
ION the last expedition we sailed with a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Tooth Birthday Of James Russell Lowell

which belongs to the man and the occa-
SION For hour after hour the patient
stream of considerate commonplace flowed
on, till at two in the morning the
President of the United States made the
closing speech. The expectation of this
address, and that alone, had held the great
audience together
Lowell spoke for the art of which he
at the time, perhaps, the broadest repre-
sentative, and in the character of thor
ough American. His theme was "Our Lit
erature." The blare and dulness of the
occasion led DR.. Hale to miss the sound
and all too little needed doctrine in Lowell's
address And it is particularly of note for
US to remind ourselves to-day that the doc
trine Lowell expressed to come more
and more in the Immediately succeeding
years to be recognized and practised in New
York rather than in the community which
had hitherto given America the conscious
of possessing a literature and to which
by birth and associations he belonged.
Forty-fve years earlier, in his Introductory
editorial to the Philadelphia anti-slavery
paper, THE Freeman Lowell had de-
manded, as Mr.. Greenslet says, "a natural,
rather than a provincially national, liter
ature,' and on the occasion of this New
York address in his old age he prophe-
sying that the future would witness the
growth of such literature.
"The literature Of a people" Lowell told
the distinguished gathering at the Metro
politan Opera House, "should be the record
of its joys and SORROWS its aspirations and
its shortcomings, Its wisdom and its folly,
the confidant Of it's soul. We cannot say
that our own yet suffices US, but | be-
lieve that he who stands a hundred years
hence where / am standing now, conscious
that he speaks to the most powerful and
prosperous community ever devised or de-
veoped by man, will speak of our literature
with the assurance Of one who beholds what
we hope for and aspire after become
reality and q possession forever" x
With such a consciousness of what
America needed in her literary men to pro-
duce great natural literature, it is of
singular Importance to question Lowel's
own contribution to the stock of American
literature. AS far both his naturalsm
and Americanism concerned the answer
is given in the humorous Yankee dialect of
the "Biglow Papers," which we're the most
native and original literary production of
their time, something like an oasis in the
desert of provincialism which the work Of
his New England contemporaries turned out
to be. We can hardly conceive, also Of any
of his contemporaries having written the
great "Commemoraton Ode" 50 thoroughly
American in substance and qualit.'. Who'll
was, perhaps, the first verse to take solid
root in the native soil until Walt Whitman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Lowell in
New York

BY this it will be seen that his political
idealism was intellectual rather than social
or moral, grounds upon which the large
class of Independent voters in this coun-
try have grown since his day.
The notable occasion of Lowel's address
ing New York audience was at the cele-
braton of the Tooth anniversary Of Wash
ington's inaugural on April 3d. 1899. DR..
Hale in describing Lowell's connection with
the event, gives an interesting sketch Of
the occasion. "In the evening"" he writes,
"a banquet was served at the Metropolitan
Opera House, and many Of the most dis
tinguished speakers in the country had
gladly accepted the invitation to be present.
Among them Lowell naturally was one. But
to those who listened it seemed If all
these great men were in sort awed by the
greatness of the occasion. His address,
perhaps because carefully prepared, was
no better than any Of the others. They
could not help it. Every man who spoke
was asking himself how his speech would
read in the year 1899. There was no spon-
taneity instead of it there was decorum
and consideration, the determination to
think wisely, and none of the eloquence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
The
Revolution

Boys says he, this is nothing. Take
out the new sail. If you're lively they
won't catch u.s.
"He wasn't talking 20 deaf ears, and as
for being lively he only had to ask. Our
poor shipmate was stretched out forward,
writing like lizard, clutching his broken
leg, bowling with pain and begging by all
the saints for a drink of water. But there
no time for that now! We pretended
not to hear him, given over entirely to our
task, unravelling the ropes and attaching
the spare sail to the yardarm, which we
hoisted back into place within ten minutes.
"The captain changed courses. 1t was
useless to resist at sea that enemy which
went by steam and spat shots. The land
for us, and let happen what might!
eve were just outside Of Torresalinas.
We all came from that place and we
counted on our friends. The gunboat, see
ing us make for the shore, ceased firing
They had nabbed, and certain of their
victory they no longer pursued us at full
speed. The beach folk caught sight of US
almost Immediately and the news spread
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
His Place
AS a Critic

Lowell's position as critic has had its
devils advocate in DR.. Joseph J. Reilly, who
discounts the principle of intuition upon
which he supposes Lowell to lean in the
matters of taste and judgment. While in
tuition did play large part in his critical
attitude, he had as we'll developed faculty
of reason which gave stability to the fabr.
cations Of his intuition. But he was net
scientific, and it may be added that he had
very little training in psychological per-
ception, though criticism has never actually
depended on either in a trustworthy anal
ysis of literature, which is so wholly Gre
ated out of the substance of the magma
ton and the influence of taste. If he was
largely an impressionist he was on the side
of endurance in literary criticism and as
one of the acutest of contemporary English
critics, himself an exponent of the scientific,
remarks, at is not quite inconceivable that,
even as we still go back past the science
of Kames and Hume to Dryden's impress
sionism, our children may go back past our
science to Lowell"
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began to sow the seeds of his 'Ieav..
Grass all up and down the acreage of b;s
deMoc vistas.
Because of the "Biglow Papers" ws
apt to think of Lowell as primarily, -.
poet of native Yankee wit and nhioso.,
one will not dispute the claim, in sn;,o :,
its vernacular, of The Courtin'n q. :.
purest in all elements of his poetry D..
there WAS quite another side to his No..
power and gifts, and it expressed or rs.hss
WAS the substance of, a peculiarly ina.
gruous side of the mans nature. Ee had >.
one time bean genuinely swayed bv tho l.
fuence of psychic phenomena and gave or;
dence of belief in second sight" hut 49,.
it aside as irrational in the broad exna,;
ence Of later years. This fact, neyertho
less, not that it always follows, was the nr;.
ciple upon which that wonder and mvs,s,.
took shape in his visionary poetic facu,v
Like Coleridge, his eyes made picture,
when they were shut" and the rapture that
attended such spiritual INSTALLATION gava
him the "mystic's sense of being pnrs
enabling him to paint those apparent met.
ures of unapparent realities, which. a.
Zoroaster said long ago, are the essence Of
poetry" THE Vision of Sir Iaunfals u
the most popular if not quite perfect ex.
preston of this faculty in Lowelps poetic
nature. Mr.. Greenslet quite aptly sums nm
this type of his poetry when he says "there
is wan sufusion of mystical light, but no
single bright stanza like a star. Too often
there is some word or phrase that lets in
a shaft of intellectual day. or of gasght,
that dispells the illusion of the whole
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

had succeeded to the Presidency after the
death of President Garfield, as Mr.. Howells
had had the pleasure Of notifying him Of
his first diplomatic appointment to Spain.
Two notable addresses Lowell delivered
in New York, one before private organi-
cation and the other on the occasion Of a
great public event. Both of these addresses
are very important, because they sum up, as
it were, Lowell's position and his views in
the two fields in which his eminence
attained Before the Reform Club, Of New
York, on April 13, 1888, he delivered an
address on "The Independent in Politics."
in which he voiced the political ideaism
embodied in such poems as "The Present
Crisis" and the "Commemoration Ode"
"Onlv during the years Of the war; writes
Mr.. Ferris Greenslet, in his study Of Lowell,
when the young Republican party was still
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
On the
Beach

The light boats, with their white and blue
sides and their masts gracefully inclined
formed an advance line at the edge of the
beach, where the waves broke in delicate
film Of water that FURNISHED the ground. as
II II were glass; behind. with their bitumen-
covered bellies upon the sand, lay the black
ox-boats, in pairs, waiting for the winter
until they took to sea, raking it with their
train Of nets; and in the rear, the cat
boats under repair, the grandfathers, at the
sides Of which the calkers were busy smear
ing them with tar, 80 that they might re-
sumo their dificult, monotonous voyages
over the Mediterranaan-som TO the
BaleaYic isles with salt, on other occasions
TO the coast Of Algiers with the products
Of the eastern gardens, and often with
muskmelons and potatoes for the red COL
dicrs Of Gibraltar.
In the course Of year the beach would
changs neighbors; the catboats, already re-
paired, would take 70 sea and the fishing
boats would be fitted out and launched; one
boat alone, abandoned and without rigging,
remained rooted to the sand, sad and soil
tary, without other company than that Of
tho coast guard seated In its shade.
The sun had melted away It's paint: the
planks we're cracked ard ereaked from dry
ness, and the sand, blown by the wind, had
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crew Of eight. At dawn we had left Oran,
and by noon, having reached as far north
as Cartagena, spied on the horizon a
little black cloud and not much later a
steamer that we all knew. We'd rather
have seen tempest arise. 1t was the gun
boat from Alicante.
There was stiff breeze We scudded be-
fore the wind with mainsai and jib spread.
But against these inventions of man sails
don't count, at all, and a good sailor counts
even less.
"Not that they overlook us; no, sir. The
Socarrao could never be caught with the
wind in its favor! We sped along like n
dolphin, our hull inclined and the waves
licking the deck; but the fellows in the gun
boat put on more speed and every moment
our pursuer grew in size, although they
didn't gain much on US. All if it had only
been late in the afternoon Night would
have fallen before they reached us, and
then let them hunt for US in the darkness
But there was plenty of daylight ahead, and
sailing along the coast were they'd
catch US before nightfall.
"The captain handled the tiler with all
the care Of one whose whole fortune do
Ponds on "a bad turn. A little cloud of
white rose from the vessel and we heard
the boom Of cannon
"As we did not see the ball, we COM
menced to laugh, happy and even proud
that they had warned us 80 noisily
"Another shot, but this time wicked
one. 1t seemed to us that big bird went
scroeching over the boat, and the yardarm
came down with the ropes broken and the
sail torn. They had split our mast, and. in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Recognition as
A Poet

Lowell's connections with New York were
slight enough, but what they were are sig
niicant. He wrote for the "Anti-Slavery
Standard" then edited by Sydney Howard
Gay, who was later Mr. Greeleys assistant
on The Tribune. 1t was The Tribune among
the papers of the country that gave Lowell
his first recognition as an accomplished
poet, greeting his first book, "a Years
Life" with the declaration that he
"well and widely known as ono Of the most
gifted and promising poets in America" In
1S43 he went to New York to consult DR..
Elliott, the foremost oculist of his time,
about some serious eye trouble, and became
acquainted with Nathaniel Parker Willis,
Charles f. Briggs, better known Harry
Franco aud William Page, the painter.
1t was in 1845 that he visited Poe at Ford
ham. with whom, it has been reported, he
had had "for some years fervid but some
what spasmodic correspondence" In later
years his closest and most sympathetic
literary friend in New York was the late
Richard Watson Glider, who had the pleas
ure of informing him officially that he was
to retain his post at St. James's under the
administration of President Arthur, who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

invaded its deck. But its fine outline, its
slender sides and the gracefulness of its
construction indicated light, audacous
craft, made for wild expeditions and scorn-
ing the perils of tho deep 1t had the sad
beauty of those old horses that were once
upon a time fiery chargers and have now
fallen, weak and forsaken, upon the sand
of the bull ring.
1t lacked even a name. The prov was I'M
marked and the sides there was not
sign of any number registered title--it
was an unknown being that would die
among the other boats proud of their POM
pous names, even as some persons die
earth without revealing the mystery Of
their lives.
But the incognito of the boat was only
apparent Everybody in Torresalinas knew
it very we'll, and never spoke of it without
winking, as if it recalled something that
provoked malicious JOY.
One morning in the shade of the aban-
doncd boat, as the sea was seething beneath
the sun, resembling a summer nights sky,
blue and spangled with dots of light, an
old fisherman told me the story.
"This. sailboat" he began caressing the
dry, sandy side with his palm, ais the
Socarrao, the bravest and best known ship
of all that ply the from Alicante
to Cartagena. Holy Virginl The money
that this condemned vessel has earned
The duros that have come out of i'll 1t
has made at least twenty trips from Oran
to these shores, and always with its holds
we'll stocked with bales"
M.
surprised me somewhat, and the fisherman
noticed this.
"Mere nickname, caballero; nicknames
that we men have here just the same as the
boats. It's useless for the priest to waste
his learning on US; the people are the
ones that really do the baptizing here.
Now Pm named Filipe, but il you hap
pen to be looking for me some day, ask for
CASTELAR,. for that's how Pm known, be-
cause ! like to talk to persons-and in the
tavern I'm the only one that can read the
paper to the crowd. That boy now going
by with the basket Of fish Is called Chispas
! cSparks) and his master Is dubbed El
Cano CWhte HairedD, and we're all bap-
tized in the same fashion. The owners Of
the beats wrack their brains to find pretty
name to paint on the PROV. One Of them
prints The Most Pure Conception another
Rose Of the Sea- still another THE Two
Friends but along come the people with
their mania for ncknames and the boats
are chrstened The Peacock THE Parrot,
The Half Roll and we ought to be thank
full that they don't distinguish them with
less decent names. A brother Of mine
owns the prcttiest craft in the registry; we
baptized it with the name Of my daughter
Camilla, but VIC painted it yellow and white
and on the day Of the christening it oc
Cured To one wag of the beach that il
looked like a fried egg. Can you believe
1t? That's the only name it's now known
byI"
II see" I interrupted. "But how apou
the Socarrao7"
ats real name WAS the Resolutc, but tn,
speed with which II responded and thu
fury with which it dcfcd the waves causet