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MONDAY. JULY 17. 1911.
large degree by the fact that so many
marrlaKes are not begun with the
proper investiture of flowers, music*[
and tnoouliiflit and suoh. elenienis of |
beauty as awal\e the tender seulinientsj
at\(l impulses which at last uuist iorni
tlie basis of an endurini; love.
“(if course, we have no such trouble
In Houston. Even when officious po
licemen shake their clubs ominously
nt couples who reveal the spooning
syn)i)tom. or wheu the manipulator of
tile nocturnal park soarchlight turns
the slare of that devlisb device upon
two faces, the i)roxmity of whose
noses in»iicateg all the imminence of
an oscillatory paroxysm, all hope is
not lost.
"We have many moonlit groves with
in walkiiiK distance of the city. Many
of (Mir streets are archetl aliove by
leafy boughs through whose rustling
iieauty the moonbeams filter. And
there ia always the calm solitude of
the cemeteries.
■Hut in the t>reat cities of the north,
the park is above all other.s the place
for the courtships of the poor, and the
oiilv pla-e where the mudsills of love’s
blissful fabric may be properly laid.
Miss Libl)ev is a philanthropist as well
as a phiIosoi>her. \\V wish her well.”
Kive steam shovels, two luindred
teams and three or four hundred men
are doing all in their power to rush to
completion ihe interurban line which
will connect Charlotte and Gastonia,
presently we will spin out to the Ca
tawba foi' a pre-bed tinu' airint?.
Figs and thistles flourish in Charles
ton.
FROM OTHER
SANCTUMS
welcome rain at last.
The Atlanta Journal says, "Do not
judge a town by its ball team.” Amen.
The Smith.'! are taking possession of
the Tnited Slates senate.
LOVE-MAKINK IN THE PARKS.
Some time ago a ruthless effort was
n?ide !>> New Hern authorities to bar
'ove-niakers from the local cemetery,
Just Cui'i'l should lead his spell-
50und victims to the '^olier atmosphere
if fhe cenieter> we Ti;tve never fully
jnderstood. .'•till the little wizzard of
leart beats shoiiltl be eiven carte
'ilancne in the matter of stage setting
lifl pprforinanf and curses uii(*n the
’.ead of mere man who would check
ais operarions.
Like li8:htn!ng. love is likely to
trike in many platx?, and un(U-r
itranee fircumstancos. 'I'he callous
.ouih of moroe temperament is mitre
;usreptii-!e to the pul«!ingp of the finer
‘entiments when surrounded by tonib-
ironeB and in clof«e proximity to
ieati’s workings. While tlie silly
flippy-’over feels fh^> divine siiell fhe
juirker when the liaiid plays some
ievili'h air. There are niHiiy things
wh’.^’h conMiuute to the ideal court-
Ihip. The purling lunok is said to
tiie power to pill ihe soul in the
proper umi’-er to tall victim (piickest
;o the blaiuii^hrnents of a maiden s
«'i!es Shaded itrreats are sought
^fter b\ the more hashful suitor, while
-oinetimes the infection takes such
'’•m Imld upon the heart to make
;he \if'rini ahsobit^'jy oidivious to his
^':rroundins:s. Perhaps you have seen
'.itn in co'ir.'f- of love’s unbosoming.
The passer_'t i f”iach wa:? crowded and
'.e and she occnpi.-il ihe front seat, but
l-.prn WHS ”(i to conceal love’s
mptoins 'I’lifre wi-re only two per>-
In the world and time was short.
So opportimlty was lost. They went
the limit nnd the last mile stone was
n the foini of a marriage contract.
The nuioii ha-; a byjmotic influence
apon fotirtins: •■oui b'S. and it is claim-
?d that fasrer ];roj;rc.ss can be made
under Its rffulgent rays than under
in'" oth^r conditions.
The wi'Jt' fifficial therefore, reali/.ins;
all of tliPr^e things is indeed foolish
*heii he a*!riopts to lay any restric-
vl-'ii- a/uut the liberties of spooners.
The r-ilitor of The Hfiuston Post
hf.ivs that In r«-rtain backward cities
I ii!ioi if i. s pre wont to close the tales
•f if t'H'ks tf> ’overs, and in a fever
■*' ;:^;i»f-ous indii-nation he joins with
l a-ira .I#an Lilib> in sounding a warn-
’t.LT ro the desecraiera of ancient cus-
if-’m":
Mi.'- I,a lira .Teat) I-ibbey, whose spe-
i ia!t> in Ih’m is tliat of analyst of tiie
hf-ari !■!i>;.b-tr..-i of the s»-rvant girls in
our iHtf^pr cities, come.'^ out emphati-
ralh in fav*ir of lovemaking in public
pa'k«, and a^' this seems to conform
8tiif ?l> to the ti'liu'honnr«‘(l princioles
ot detiiu«iac\ to which we yield im-
flazcing lo\ali' it |v om’ purpose to
lomnu-iifl the l;;ave SI and she lias tuk-
?n at^ainst tiu-'l'lh sonie policemen who
.nave generalh ainied themselves
against ('uiiid’s nctiviiy in the niiinicj-
jtal itreaihliiR siitiis.
■'Miss Lihht" pdiiiis »)Mt the un
wholesome truth that countless thou-
fands ii! worUiii;' liirln havi' no viiie-
r'ad vernanda iiiion which to direct
their artlesH att:uks ujion the inascii
The Groensiioro News thinks the
war on Simmons w^as a frame-up from
the start.
One of the chief claims Hoke Smith
has to distinction is the fact that he
was iHjrn in Nortli Carolina.
It’s the little things that count, but
that is no reason why you should let
the big things get away from you.
The Senate Stands by Jefferson Davis’
Servant.
“Jim” Jones, the faithful old negro
who was the body servant of Jefferson
Davis and who remained f^iithful to his
master in the dark days when the
president of the Confederacy was a
prisoner, will retain his job In the sta
tionery room of the senate. It was
not a northerner, nor a republican, nor
any politician who considers his friend
ship for the colored race an asset who
saved him, but a southerner and a
democrat. Senator I^odge’s report
"abolishing" “Jim” and four other em
ployes was defeated by Senator Sharp
Williams, of Mississippi, who made a
touching plea for the old colored man.
Our northern friends can hardly under
stand the real affection the southern
white man feels for tlie negro of the
old school: they cannot reconcile it
with the instant rejection of social
equality or the insistence that the ig
norant negro shall not be allowed to
vote and govern. But all of us in the
south know that Mr. Williams voiced
our sentiments in demanding that
‘Mim” Jones be not deprived of his
support in his old age.
Senator Ileybnrn’s itnpertinent in
jection of his venom against the Con
federacy and the southern people met
with a rebuke that was stinging and
complete. “IjONalty and courage and
honor, ” as Mr. Williams said, “are
things that are precious to honorable
men ” They are honored in the black
as in the white, in the Confedrate and
in the I’nion man, and when a man
like Heyburu denounces the Confeder
acy as an "infamous cause” he only
succeeds in disclosing his own infa
mous prejudices.
"Jim” Jones showed his loyalty to
Mr. Davis and even after he was legal
ly freed served him with the same un
questioning devotion he did when he
was a loyal servant of the senate as
long as he was able to work, and now
that he has reached the age of 80 and
Is no longer able to reuder as eflBcient
service as a younger man Senator
Williams holds that he should not be
discharged and left to suffering and
want. He was loyal to others; the
Mississippi senator insisted that the
senate be loyal to him, and this was
the view taken by a large majority of
the senators.—Baltimore Sun.
16th Anniversary
Will Begin Thursday Morning the 20th
AT NINE O’CLOCK
To continue through Saturday the 29th inst, making nine oi
the greatest value giving days this country has ever wit
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in the Carolinas. Don’t miss this the greatest
saving opportunity ever announced in the
daily papers of this city. Watch out you’ll
see the double page ad. giving prices,
etc., in Tomorrow’s News.
Read Every Line.
pVittiam Makepiece Thackeray^
July 18th 1811.
In Roundabout Papers, published
in 18*i0, Thackeray said: We all want
to know details concerning men who
have achieved famous feats, whether
of war or wit or eloquence or knowl
edge. Yet, while reading a biography
of delicious reading of novels, maga
zines, and saunterings in many studi
os, a land where men call each other
by their Christian names; where most
are old, where almost all are young,
and where, if a few' oldsters enter,
it is because they have preserved
more tenderly and carefully than oth-
of his period, he turned to his daiigh-' i j
t.v wl,h ••l.ct there be none of this youthful spirits and the de-
when I so." The tendency he noted,,
however, i, inrnlnR the attention of: the iniverslty days,
that Iiart of the educated world that Dresden, Rome
Pans, and Weimar, and many ot
knows the works of William Make-
l>»ace 'I'hackeray, to the man him
self, iji a particular sense, as the hun
dredth anniversary of his birth draws
near.
To be remembered at at the end of
one humired years bespeaks the pos
session of either wit or elotpieiice or
knowledge, and Thackeray had a large
share of these three gifts of the gods.
He was born in C'alcutta, the only
child of Richmond and Annie Thack
eray, belonging to the upper stratum
of Ihe middle class, and he mas En
glish to the core on the paternal side.
The Makepeace ancestor for whom
he was named was a martyr in the iin-
hai»py Queen Anne days.
His fatlier died in 181G. and the large
headed boy was sent at once to Eng
land to enter school. Kn route, the
steamer stopped at St. Helena, and
he had a never forgotten glimpse of
Napoleon.
C)mfortin,g it is to mediocre stude
nts students to know that his school
work eviden«-ed none of the mental
power developed in later years. He
had no ability in mathematics and lit
tle tasks for the classics. A school
mate at Charterhouse school, which
lie entered when eleven years old,
wrote of him: "He has no school in
dustry. No one could believe there w’as
much work in him, or that he couid
ever rise to the lop of any tree by
climbing, h'or a non-playing boy he
WHS wonderfully social. Never was a
lad at once so joval, so healthy, and
so sedentary.” He had no skill in
games and won his way into i)opular-
ity by.the sheer force of good humor.
Abouiit this time he wrote his well-
known parody. Cabbages, bright green
Cabbages, which the boys thought
wonderfully clever. His dislike for
(Miarterhouse is shown by his frecjuent-
ly referring to it in bis novels, calling
it SlaughteilKMise. Heie, lu^wever, he
placed the children of his brain.
Rowdan Crawley, George Osborne.
I'hilij) Ringwood, Fendennis, Clive
Newcoine, for development. As he grew
older, only the best of it must have
lingered in his memory, for regularly
he wt nt to its Founders’ Day ceremon
ies, and to it he brought (’ol. New-
coiue to answer Adsiiin. At this time
he called it (Ireyfriars. The bed upon
,, , , 1.1., . j wiiich 'I'hackeray died was givc^n to
ine hear and hat tlb> only opportuni-. ,),e school and the privilege of n^in;;
ty the> have to invest the hours ofij, awarded to the head gown-boy.
court>^hii) with ihe love-hiceding in-i
tluences of fountains, flowers, nioon
light and music is to seek the embower
sd and umbrageous lieauty of the parks.
"It Is true, and to our way of think
ing. public policy becomes brutal,
■hortsighted and inn.itely viri(ni« when
it Imparts to the stuien kiss or the
ather incilents of unfolding love the
sdiuni of criminal distemper, kijiht-
thinking people must agree that thc.se
jirls have the right to matry. how'ev-
#r, tenaciously the opulent dames of
fashion hold to the -ontrary and Hie
right to marry carries with it the ri^ht
to those intoxicating preliminaries
without which the mutton-heailel idiot.
Whose tender heart and protecting arm
the artleFH maiden seeks, would never
he nerved to the point of popping the
question.
“A city stands In the way of Its own
locial and moral advancement when it
discourages park courtships, as if only
the rich wero entitled to opportunities
for lovemaklng. No wonder sociolog
ists in the cities are alarmed at the
growth of splnterlsm, the decline in
the marriage rate and the alarming- in-
Creaij^ of divorce. Spinsterism reBwlts
largi^y from a lack of opportunity^^
At 19, (one year later than Tennv-
soii,) Thackeray entered Trinity col
lege, Cambridge. 'I'wo years were
spent there, but no degree was won.
In this particular he followed in tho
foot steps of the three Cambridge;
poets, 'rennyson, Uryon. and Wads
worth. Kooks and friends filled his life
with Interest; perhaps fiction, poetry,
and history interfered with the degree,
bui there he bagan to love the ll^th
century writers that so wonderfully
iutliienced his style.
He contributed to and w'as probab
ly one of the Instigators of a college
publication called The Snob, and in
IX2!> he was a losing competitor with
Alfred Tennyson for the Chancellor’s
Prixe Poem. "Cambridge,” says Mrs.
Ritchie, "fixed his slciai status.” That
he knew Bohemia and walked in its
ways is evident frorp a paragraph in
Adventures of Fhilip. "It is a land over
which hangs an endless fog, occasion
ed by much tobacco; a land of cham
bers, billiard rooms, supper rooms,
oysters; a land of song; a land where
soda w'ater flews freely in the morn
ing; a land of tin dish covers from
eaverns, and frothing porter; a Jiiftci
these continental experiences were
told in The Newcomes, Philip, and
Vanity Fair. At Weimar he met Goe
the, then a feeble man, with his work
- his poems, his dramas, his romances
—all behind him.
In l?:il Thackeray began tthe study
of law in Ix)ndon; his diaries would
indicate no more self-denying labor
than had marked the university days,
and On his 21st birthday he celebrat
ed by quitting the whole dry business
and returning his face toward the
Continent. As Paris correspondent of a
daily newspai^ers, he wandered among
picture galleries and studios, study
ing too the political, social, literary,
and artistic customs of the country,
as well as dawdling in art himself.
Into the wreck of a newspaper venture
went most of bis step-father's as well
as of his own money. “Talk about
riches having wings,’’ he said. “My
fortune had pinions like a condor and
tlew like a carrier pigeon.” And it was
during those troublous time, when he
W'as but twenty-five years of age, that
he married Isabella Gethen Showe, an
Irish girl from County Cork, on the
20th of August, in 1836.
Three girls came to this home
founded first in Paris and then remov
ed to London, the eldest of whom, Mrs.
Ritchie, is still living, and has written
for numerous magazines. The second
died in Infancy, and the third became
Mrs. Leslie Stephens. At her birth the
light of the home went out in the
Insanity of the mother. The young hus
band gave up all business engagements
and for a time devoted himself to her
restoration. W'hen this was seen to be
impossible, she was placed in a safe
asylum where every care was given.
So long had she been buried to the
world that the announcement of her
death so late as In 1894 came as a
shock of stirprise to most people.
It was a softened and humbled
Thackeray that took up his duties
anew, living in I.ondon clubs. Some
time, early in the 1S30s, he began a
regular w’ork with Frazer's Magazine,
and 1841 sa^ the beginning of his
long, connection with Punch. The
davs were filled w'lth writing, but the
income from it went on cards, gener
ous gifts to friends and needy ones,
poor investments, and luxuries. He
knew' his ability to make money and
considered nothing further than the
wherewithal for the day.
Much iincertalnt.v as to his early
writings was occasioned by the large
number of an fantastic pseudonyms
used. “The History of Samuel Tlt-
marsh” appeared in 1837, and Mich
ael Angelo Titmarsh wrote the re
views for Fraser’s and a host of short
Mr. W’^agstaff and Fitzboodle wrote
others, while William Makepeace
Thackeray was also producing. In on«
Continued on page 9.
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The sultry days of July make it ad
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shady spot and while away the time
by reading that diverts the mind. It
Would be difRcult to find more refresh
ing articles, with illustrations in col
ors, etc., than the great galaxy of sto
ries which are featured In the Maga
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York World. There will be stories
of mystery, love, science, art, society,
etc., and the words and music of a
new song hit. Order next Sunday’s
World from your newsdealer in ad
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