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; : r v? SECTION: TWO.; RM) ffi$Q 'M) UIJiBillt i t ' - ' " , ; , , ' , ... ... . , , . i, r I I; I t- 1 I . . l W . rr W Jm . . . I W SECTION TWO ...x 'J'!'; VJ'. ),".- '" v y-' IS ? Amcr can wen or Leuers ti 1 ..... . .V-Y..v--.. XATHAMEL-j MAWTIIORXE.. i ' JSmeVson arid Hawthorns -wm . v neiebbora In Conoord,- but,.M far m liny toflnenc that either' had n th STlii ilUm u.tl hat. IUii.i1 )n different worlds. Emereon waa a prophet, whoa viaton awept . (he. fu ture; Hawthorns waa a omancer Whoa Imagination found 1U horn In the paat That wu a happy eoncen Hon; of Dr. . Monoure -D. Con- ' Conway'a, . : that " U. Michael An v w aelo had Mved : In Concord i ' v '. he might have taken ' the two men ? ; a modela for hla (mpreaslv flgurea, ; v Morn and Twilight. . Emereon'a family ? - wa on of the original Puritan fam- ' : Hies, but there had been a conatant growth la liberalism and cMltur. ;Y." ' Hawthornoi family there waa an arrested development. If not actual f v decline: the wltch-burnlng pride of ,' Balem had Vanamltted , Ita gloom ' ahd . aeverlty auccesalve ,-genera- r ;. tlona curee not unlike Uvat. of y, ;.'' the Pyncheana In "The . Houae , of . . a, BeVea Gablee." Emerson In his buoy- ' ant idea of the nnfathomed might of , ;r man paid little enough heed to what v " waa he burden of Hawthorne's ar . tlstlo work the awful shadow of sin in the human heart, the struggles of :, an ' outraged . conscience. Haw v thorn waa prepared for ; the 'l role of expressing and Interpreting ' , . thesPurltanlem of New England. The Vt . ''ancestral Influence has Just been al ; , luded to. Bcarcely less slgnlflcant V waa that of Salem :a sea-coast town ithat retained the characteristics of he ancient times a place full of l.v traditions and legends, charged with the spirit of the past. If the reader : would see the full force of this point, . lt him read the introduction of the v- ' ' Scarlet Letter" chapter which) has kept many from reading the story, . w but which Is essential to the under ; standing of the author. - Here In " -Balem be spent hla lonely, boyhood, '.' here for twelve years after graduation at Bowden College he lived In the '? haunted chamber where he "writ and i- burnt and writ again," and whence - he took his solitary atrools through the antiquated streets and along the ' aeaahore from Salem to Marblebead. And here, after a few years of .varied life In Boston and Concord, he re turned to write his greatest work. The speQ was on him the "strange. Indolent, unjoyous attachment' for tils native town. ' more Important consldera.tlon, however, waa hla own natural tem perament . Hawthorn was a de- ;' ached ngur.e In the New England re v' tflassanc. He had but little sympathy (with the transcendentalism of Emer- ,v, son, the passionate anti-slavery propa ganda of - Whlttler. the Intense na '.. .tlonalism of LowelL - He had few (points of contact with -the- cultured - rommanitiea of Cambridge and Bos- ' I ton. He Joined the "Brook Farm ' community andl est nethouaandflohce ,. community and lost $1,000 in the ex . perlmnt, but his lack -of .sympathy ' .- ' With ita Ideals is set forth, artlstlc any in "BUthedale -Romance,'.' He ' lived -for a number of years 4a-Coa- ., .'.cerdj bat the endeavor to -bring blm inta th ninha and Aocletfaa 'Of the Mrtlla emltA 7s sanyj eudlorou in I"' A : ' rf?: ' 7V' j A Communica From Li f ' ... n ZZ3 , - - . u Southern Warerooms, 5; West Trade Street ; V '-'. ; i,'. cldenta.' At any meeting h attended h generally et apart, "abnormally thy, sensitive and dreamy." Hla aloof neat fro mi contemporary life from all but his pwn family Is symbolized, in his liking for. the haunted chamber In his Salem home, the garret of the Old , Manse, the towers of ? "Way side," and the fin Sid villa near Flor ence.' He tried hard at tlmta to live on terms of. Intimacy with his broth ers, the sons of toll, but failed In the main.' - No man in . the country was more bewildered as to the meaning of the civil war than to. . v-1 -:' And wher' should his fmaglnatfon turn rather than " to the ahadowy re glon of early New: England tradi tion, and, hUtoryT "No author,' he says in the preface to "Marble Fawn." "without a trial canconcelve of the without a trial -can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romanoe about a 'country wher there la no shadow, no antiquity, -no " mystery, ' no pict uresque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity, in broad" and .simple daylight.-; Ro mance and -poetry.-ivey lichens,-, and Wellflowers need ruia - to make them grow.". - This dlfflcuty felt by all American writers from Irving to Henry James, Hawthorne happilyasur mounted .by calling to Ufa a past that-waa becoming remote to the generation Intent upon the glories of a new age he became the spokes man of vanished" generations. I do not mean to say tfiat ha himself was a Puritan: h realised how far removed he was from "the sober garb, the gen eral severity of mien, the gloomy but undismayed expression, the scriptural forms of speech. . , He represents his Puritan ancestors aa saying reproach fully to him: "What Is he? A writer of story-books! What kind f business In life, what mode of glori fying Qod, or being serviceable to mankind In hla day and generation, may that me 7 Why the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fid dler!" "And yet," he adds, "strong traits of hetr nature have lnter wined themselves in mine." As an artist he lived In that past, he under stood the Puritan point of view. "Pu ritanism was - to him a dreadful memory. says Professor Woodberry, "which so fastened on his mind aa to obtain new life. . . . His world of Imagination was the old Puritan cauntryslde. ' seen "In spectral uncanny, antesque waya" Even -when he made Rom the background of his most am bitious, though not most successful, romance, there is still the bleak air of the New England coast blowing shril ly through the pages: the splendid ruins and cathedrals and master pieces of art cannot detach him from his ancestral New England. What, it may be aaked, is the cen tra, not of . Puritanism.. that la Bound ed - .throughout' Hawthorn's tales . no less than. In hla romances? In "A Virtuoso's Collection" he tells bow he came upon a. hoge bundle, like a peddler's pack, don up In sackcloth, and very securely strapped and corded, " 'It la Christlaa'a ' burden of sin,' Said - the, .virtuoso. 'O. N pray let us open It! cried.' t. .'For ' many a year f have longed to. know ita . eon QtsvVf 'xok', into. your, own con The great Southern Piano manufacturer advises that no order for the Artistic Stieff Piano can be filled before Jan 1st 1907, from the factory We have a very small stock of the more expensive styles in Stieff Pianos in our Gharlcrtte warerooms we will offer Christmas buyers at the price of our least expensive style as long as they last The advantage is entirely with the Piano buyer it's a great Piano value to each purchaser Call or write to-day We may not have a Stieff " . ' . .. . ' ; " ' : l'-:f-' .''V'1' ' 1 '; ' Piano in Stock by Christmas ;-v,:'V,.( ('',. '' i.i sciousness and memory.' replied - thai Virtuoso. - 'You ,wlll tnera find a list of whatever It contalna.' Nearly all of Hawthone' characters are strug gling along on the way to the Celes tial, City with this burden of seoret sin, and many of them realise that they can- never' arrive there because of sin. v They are never at eas in Zlon: conscience Is strongly almost abnormally -developed . in -: . them. J-Hawthorne is the master in depicting secret sin, and - "those sad mysteries which w hid, from our nearest and dearest, and would fain conceal from our own consciousness even forgetting that the . Omnipotent can ., de tect ' them. - , ' There is an hour' f to com a when all f us shall cast . aside our -vellsJ' Was there ever a better commentary oft Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he and all his posterity' also reap than the -"House of 8even Gables?" Hester Prlyme's guilt era blaaoned on her bosom Is bad enough, but Arthur Dummeadale's long agony f remorse is far more terrible. He says: .. -, ''People ; of i New Eng land, . ye that " have loved me! behold k. me -n her the one sin ner of the world. At Jaatl .At last! I stand upon the -spot, where seven years sines I should have stood, more with this; woman whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have ' crept hltherward, sustains me, at this dreadful moment. Vol the scarlet letter which Hester wears! Te hav all shuddered at It! Wher Te hav all ahuddered at Hi Wher ever her walk hath been it hath cast a lurid gleam of aw and horrible re pugnance round about her. But there stood one In the midst of you, at whose brand of aln and Infamy ye have not shuddered! It was on him! Ood'a eye beheld it! The angels were forever .pointing at It) The devil knew it well and petted It oontlnually with the touch of his burning finger! but he hid It cunningly from men and walked among you with the mien of a spirit, mournful, because so pur In a sinful world! Now at the death hour, he stands up before you! He bids you look again at Heater's scar let letter. He tells you that with all Its mysterious horror It Is hut the shadow of what he bears on his own breast. Stand any here that question Ood's Judgment on a sinner? Behold! Behold a dreadful witness of It." Thla, then, la the everlasting truth In the old Puritanism. With all its defects there la a certain given en ergy In it that makea It mighty to save. Hawthorne haa put into art the spirit of the old Journals of the early settlers. He has seen the meaning of Cotton Mather's "Mag nolia," or Samuel SeweH'a diary, or Wiggleworth'a "Day of Gloom." He romances are another version of the grim earnestness of "Pilgrim's Prog ress" and "Paradise Lost." Good and evil are as far apart as the poles; the day of judgment la here and now In every human heart; the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth there are the fundamental and ele mental principles set forth Vln vary ing forma of art Perhaps the most characteristic of Hawthorne's shorter sketches Is "The 'Colesti&l Railroad," In which he satir izes the modern tendency to dispense with the rigid ideas of Bunyan'a "Pil grims Progress." Mr. Smooth-lt-away Is the Interpreter of the new-method of reaching th Celestial vdty and the Incidents along the way "parties of the first gentry' and"' most respectable people In the neighborhood setting forth toward the- Celestial city (ft 1-T u" cheerfully as If ' this ' pilgrimage war merely a summer tour;v "enormous burdens, instead1 of being carried on our ahoulders as had been the custom of old, all snugly deposited In th baggage-car;" Apollyon now no longer the enemy, of th soul, but th chief engineer of th lightning express to Heaven; t instead of former guides, such guides as Mr. Uve-for-thd-world, Mr, Htde-sln-ln-the-heart, Mr. Scaly conscience, Mr. Take-lt-easy, Mrs. Flimsy-faith, ; who 1 combine to make th -Journey 1 a 5 delightful ' excursion. The train Is detained for such a long time In Vanity Fair that the place begins; to seem like home; the two pilgrims with cockle shell and staff, their mystic roll of parchment in their .hands, and their Intolerable burdens on their backs have time to catch, up-with th fashionable passen gers and are derided . even more than when they started. At the end of the Journey, however,' It la found that the .Celestial Road does no,t have access to th Celestial City on ac count of th River of Death, while th pilgrims ar welcomed by a host of shining angels with exulting strain and hallelyjah chorus. Thus in allegorical form, aa In nearly all hla; stories and romances, does Hawthorn represent the Purl tan conception of life the sense of evil, sin and suffering. Of what avail are wealth and luxury, culture and reason. If sin still haa Ita hold upon the hearts of men? He would have the men of the new light realise tiat "unless they hit upon some method of purifying that foul cavern (the heart), forth from It will re-Issue all the shapes of wrong and misery the same old shapes or worse ones." "In the depths of every heart." he says, "Is a tomb and dungeon, though the lights, the muslo and revelry may cause us to forget their existence and the burled onea or prisoners whom they hide." It must always be remembered, however, that Hawthorne was an ar tist. His "Artist of the Beautiful,'' Is one efj the finest Commentaries on his own work and also on Poe'n. Poe, by the way, who bad but little sym pathy with the "heresy of the didac tic" was one of the first to prainse Hawthorne, whose "Twice Told Tales" he said belonged to the highest reg ions of art," and-'-were characterized by Inventive, creative Imagination and originality." "H haa tile purest style," continues Poe, "the finest taste, the most available schorarshlp, the most delicate humor, the most touch ing ;pathos, the most radiant Imagi nation, the most consummate Ingenu ity." There could be no higher praise than that. The criticism calls atten tion to characteristics of Hawthorne that cannot be developed for lack of space. The variety of Hawthorne's work has scarcely been emphasized enough. Especially would 1 call at tention to the charm of his personal essays, where th light touch Ih every where in evidence. If you would know a Hawthorne different from the one set forth In this sketch, read such delightful autobiographical essays as "The Old Manse," 'The New Adam and Eve," and "Buds and Bird Voices," or such simple and charming sketches as "Th Threefold Destiny," "A Select Party." andl "The Great Stone Face." on' of the strange paradoxes of his elusive personal ity Is that, while he is often felt to be morbid and gloomy, ha hu . writ tan' th .' Wonder Book." which Is the delight of a band of hlldren who -"mak a kind of halo ' 1 u " LOIiVALE 8THECTS; round r h!s flgure.V'An4 finally 6 suggest a -UU greater- surprise to those who know Hawthorn only as a . reserved, morbid man, his life by Julian Hawthorne tells on , of th finest love stories before and alter marriage that can be found In the literature of the worW. K ' V A 'YOWQ ARTIST'S SUCCESS. alias Evelyn B. Longrman, of Ohio, to ' . lake the ' Bronae Doors for ttie ' United States Naval Academy He v Design Won First Prise Offered by CoL 11. M. Thompson, of the Naval Academy, It Is perhaps not generally kn6wn that the bronze doors for the new chapel of " th United States Naval Academy, of Annapolis, are to be the work of a young woman Evelyn B. Longman, of Ohio, haa won the con test and secured the contract. CoL R. M. Thompson, of the Nav al Academy class of 18(8, donated $1S, 000 for a memorial bronse door. In order to secure the most appro- f rlate design and also to encourage he younger sculptors the competi tion waa placed In the hand of the National Sculpture Society. The award of first prise to Miss Longman's design was unanimous. The com petitors names were placed In sealed envelope and not opened until the awarda were announced. The Jury waa composed of Capt. Colvecoresses, of the United States Naval Academy; Erneat Flagg, architect of the Naval Academy; Walter B. Chambers, ar chitect; Charles Qrafley, sculptor, and Daniel C. French, sculptor and secretary of the Jury. The second prise was given to A. A. Weinman, the third to Paul Noc quet, "the fourth to Bruno Louis Zlmm. The model offered by Miss Long man, while breathing the spirit of, war tells subtly of peace and Its blessings. Miss Longman was born In Win chester. Onto, in a log cabin, about thirty years ago. After studying for three yearn with Loredo Taft in Chicago, she came to New York, where she haa been a pupil of Daniel C. French. For the St. Louis fair she made a figure of Victory, which ornamented the dome of Festival Hall and sho has Just completed a memorial for the Lowell Cemetery. The Wells Memo rial It Is called to Louisa Marlon wells, and It represents the peaceful ending of labor. The money was left In the will of Miss Wells, who was a wsaver In the cotton mills of Lowell to be used for a monument to her memory. It Is of a line grade of Tennessee marble and stands twelve and a half feet high with two figures somewhat larger than life. The .angel of Death Is bending over a strong female figure clothed In Amplest garments, the broken atranejTof cotton lies across her lap; one hand still holds the bobbin. The inscription reads: "Out of the fibre of her daily tasks she wove tho fabric of a useful life." Miss Longman was In Europe last summer and is now ready to begin the doors. Miss Longman's studio Is Nq. 11 East 14th street. New York city. - LONG TENNESSEE FIGHT. For twenty years W. I.. Rawls. of Tenn., fought nai! catarrh. He writes: "The swelling and soreness inside my nose was tearful, till I began applying Bucklen's Arnica Salve lo the sore sur fers: this caused the soreness and swell ing to disappear, never to return." Beet solve In existence. 25c. at R. H. Jordan 4 Co.. Druggists. rf BJSJ tBJSJBI SMSJBBSJI $ y 1 1 Bl- y ai IS SHAW FAOTOttY, 211, '213 y''-'r' '''---''U: Veterinary Science ":--r BTMIKBDABX, ' " .V:.. -"V', , ,'. Happy Dale, Deo. 1 Country cows suffer much at the hands of quack doctors. Several week . ago, when I returned from th city, I found that "Jo Dunn, a local, cow doctor, had treated my good cow,'. Flora, fer the loss of a cud, th hollow tall and the hollow horn. I hardly recognised Flora, she was so gaunt and her tall so bedecked with rags and her horns so besmear ed with blood. My heart went out to the old creature, for Robert and Ann. In doing what they deemed a kindness, had had her operated on for the trio of diseases that ar wont to set upon rural kine, literally de stroying her with attention; ah waa pitiful to behold, as she lay tiler, helpless upon the ground, In th mid dle of the barn lot, moaning. Th old darkeys were as sad as It they had lost a dear kinsman. "O, Marse Mike, I'se gut sad news fur you." said Robert, when he met me at the station. "Is Shaggy dead?" I Inquired, fear ing that our famous little Georgia foxhound had met with some mis hap. "No, but ,ole Flora's powful sick. She's got her rud an' got de holler horn an' de holler tall all. Me an' Ann sont fur Uncle Joe Dunn, de cow doctor, an' he done all he know how fur her but she ain't dotn' no good. She's in great mlsory." "When did she become III, Robert?" I a.HkVd. "Do very day dat you lef, sir. She quit drinkin', an' eatln', an' 'gin to fall off in her milk. Me an' Ann des didn't know whut to do." "What did Dr. Dunn say?" I In quired with the accent on the doc tor. "Well, he say right straight dat sho had de holler tall, causa he feel It an' see'd dero wus no bone In it." I feared the worst. "What did he do for her?" "He told me to call In de niggers an' throw her down, so dat he kin split her tall an' see ef he wus right; ho 'low dat he wusn't certain des by feelin' de tall. We done lak he say an' sho' nun she had It." "What did you do for It?" "Uncle Joe axed Ann to fetch him some salt and pepper an' when he gut It, ho mixed it up good an' poured It In de holler place an' den tied up her tail. Yes., sir, an' when we let her up she 'peared to be better 'cause she ui mighty peart like." If I had not been so fond of the old cow I should have laughed, for I had seen many a cow's tall split and filled with salt and pepper by cow doctors and knew Just what It meant. The poor old creatures have to bo peart, as Robert suggested, for sslt In a soro place is calculated to stir any sort of living thing. Robert proceeded and It is well enough to print his side of the story: "Den she drunk water- Sho went to de trough three or fo' times. "But when wo gut up ytstktdy mornin', she wux- wuaer dan she wus -de day befo'.. We sont fur d doctor ergln an' he said she mui have hol- Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff, Shaw- and Stieff Self Player Piano. : : AND 215 GOESU CH A VEinJE. . i' ';''.'f '!"', at Happy Dale .... ... , 1 ler horn, too, an aho' nuft she did. Uncle Jo ketcht her an felt her horn. When I seed him lay his ban' on d horn I knowed ah ' had it, fur he shuck his haid an' look sad. ' m " Tea, Robert, she sho' is gut & " holler horn,' 'lowed Uncle. Joe to. me, . 'her horns Is right col. Dey aln -nuthtn' lef to do but bo d horns.' "Ann gut d gimlet an' we bo'd de - horns." - - "Well, did that help her any?" . "Yes, sir, she wus pearter fur sorna tune. She drunk some mo' water but wouldn't eat nothln. Ann milk' ed her but didn't gut but er lltU : ' . bit. ..X la'- "Dls mornin' she wux wuseer. ,.W ; sont fur Uncle Joe ergln an' he sayi " dat ef we couldn't git her cud hack she would die. He 'low dat ef ;d V cud wux dere she woul' eat som an. ' . - -git strong." ,i. . J5 r. "Did you give her a eud, Robert?,'. : "We done de bee we cud'. Ann gut : er dish rag fur Uncle Joe an' he slip ( It up In her mouf an' hold It dere v to aee ef de cud wouldn't come --up," but It ain't come when I ler. Unci ; . ' Joe say dat's de way to fetch de icud C back." - - ..-":. . I listened to this recital with In- : terest. It had been many days sine f '', I had heard of a sick cow. In th '-. ,', rush of city affairs one forgets -th ?t , homely things of country life. That ;;" -la the reason that there Is so much v wickedness In the towns. If a maa ' ' 1 lives In the country, where he ran-see : . a mournful funeral procession go by 1 every now and then, he will he a better citizen. In the city, the aver age person goes for years without , being Impressed by a funeral. Death ' to the healthy man Is for the other . ' fellow. I had forgotten about hollow " -horns, hollow tails and cuds. Just u I had about the certainty of death. ';' .' The story of Dr. Joe Dunn and my ''' dear cow brought back the row doo- tors of my boyhood days. - ': " Flora died. She was In toils for1 ' several days. Robert end Ann wer ' ' as faithful and as kind to her aa ' they knew how to be and believed v - that they wer doing the right thing when they called In the famous cow doctor. . ,. When I drov Into the yard I saw the cow tying, stretched at full , length on th highest point In the lot, and heard her groaning pitiful ly. Her eyes were beginning to wall ' and other signs of death appear. I went and looked her over, but soon . saw that I could not relieve her suf- -U; fering In any way. She was doomed. , ' '. I did not say so to the negroes who -, -' had attended her In her sickness, but - '-.; I thought that she might have had a v' chance had Dr. Dunn been In Europe -or some other foreign land. I do . not think that the splitting of the tail, thn boring of the horns, and the : attempt to restore the lost cud-caus- ' ed Flora's death, but I think that . they helped to bring about dissolu tion i We waited until the body was cold'.S . and then hitched Sam and Bill, two.';V' big mules, to It and dragged It Into . the valley, between Big -and thee.' .", little Fork, and there left It for the . vultures, the dogs and the 'poasums , to feast upon. r ." .'. 3Ve have no milk at Happy Dal. - ft: vV.'W.VM VV 'Ml''.:
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