Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-07-06
STORIES OF OUR SOUTHLAND.
ard Payne, Author Of "Home,
Sweet Home"


News.)
1t has been universally conceded
that the sweetest words in the Eng
lish tongue are Home" Love"
Mother" and the unanimous ver-
dict of the music-loving world is that
the sweetest and most heart-appeal-
ing song ever composed Is "Home,
Sweet Home" The music and words
Of this old song chime anl blend SO
harmoniously and the song is so
pathetically true that 1t appeals to
and penetrates the nobler and higher
instincts in every human heart.
While other songs, some written
by worldfamous poets, have been
cast aside for newer creations,
"Home, Sweet Home" is to-day as
popular melody as when first given
by it's author to an enraptured world.
Nothing has ever been, or ever will
be, produced to take it's place. 1t is
the Alpha and Omega of melodies on
that one subject, and will endure so
long as the human race has hab-
tation and place Of abode.
Home, Sweet Home" has been
translated into every tongue, and has
even invaded the desert and the
darkest wilderness. Travellers have
heard it sung by Arabs in the Sa~
hara Desert-those migratory peo-
pie, whose homes and horse hair
tents are shifted from oasis to oasis
as their needs demand. And yet
these descendants Of lshmael love
even their tents as a home. Stanley,
in one Of his letters to the New York
Herald, wrote that he heard in dark
est Africa Il band of naked savages,
! in their gutteral voices. chanting the
strains Of "Home, Sweet Home" that
was introduced by a burden-b bearer
OF their tribe for party of home
| sick American explorers. These black
sayages live in huts constructed Of
brush or grass, and yet these hoveis
maux, it was said, has long intro
duced this song in his winter ice
burrow, for that foul cave Is to him
a ''Fiome, Sweet Home" It would
appear that the Turk, with his ha-
rem, would be one race that would
have surfeit Of home, but this
! American song is one of the most
popular airs in Turkey.
| Josh Billings wrote that the most
arrant coward would fight to protect
his home, but he never heard Of a
fellow shouldering a musket in de-
Tense Of boarding house. This wit
ticlsm carries with 1t mine Of wis-
dom and truth. To abide in a pal
ace belonging to another, and from
which you can be elected at the
whim of the owner, is not like hav-
ing home Of your own. 1t matters
not how humble that habitation may
be. there is no, place like home"
From the smallest insect to the wild
beast, instinct teaches it to first con-
struct home to which it can retire
to rest and safety. 1t is the one
| small part on earth over which the
| occupant has sole ownership. The
| ant burrows home in the earth and
the tiger. lion and all other wild
beasts have their lair or cave. But
that den is home
The first written laws ever framed
| were by English barons, beneath the
| wide-spreading shade of giant oak;
and the first declaration was made
that mans home was his castle,
and that 1T was ever sacred from in
yasion except by consent of the own
er. And with the first settlement in
America this declaration was import
cd with the colonists, and no law is
more firmly implanted in the minds
of our people to-day. A plutocrat,
with gilded chambers In a palace
hotel is an object Of commisera ton
when compared with an humble man
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