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WHO WAS COMTOSER OF
"THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW
Pronounced by the London Spectat
to be the Finest American Poem
Ever Written.
"The Beautiful Snow," which n:
with such universal favor and h
been so eagerly sought for, at t
special request of many friends,
republish. "The Beautiful Snow" w
bear reading every month in the ye,
It has been pronounced by th-e Loud
Spectator to be the finest Americ
poem ever written. This opinion
think is not far out of the way. E
here is the history of "The Beauti
Snow," taken from the Omaha Rept
lican:
How many thousands have let tho
tears fall over these lines, as ti
touching pathos call into recollecti
the sad story of other and simil
victims to man's wanton cruelty!
point of smooth versification, ea
flowing rhythm, through which is ,
most heard the plaintive wail of R,
man's ruined honor, our knowled
of English literature brings to mi
no single poem of such thrilling sen
ment as this.
We have lately seen an article flo;
Ing the rounds of the press, purpo
ing to give the authorship of this i
markable effort; but the writer of t
statement, who indulged his inspi:
tion "amid the cool breezes of La
Erie," seems really to know son
thing of its real history. The wrii
gives Miss Dora Shaw, an actre
and author of "Out in the Rain," t
credit as author of this poem. TI
is a mistake. Dora Shaw has writt
some pleasant lines, but her br,
never flashed that sparkling gem, "T
Beautiful Snow."
In the early part of the war, o
dark Saturday night in the dead
-winter, there died in the Commere
hospital in Cincinnati, a young v
man, over whose head only two a
twenty summers had passed: S
had been once possessed of an env
ble share of beauty, and had been,
she herself says, "flattered and 'soul
for the charms of the face," but alh
upon her fair brow had long been wT
ten that terrible wcord-prostitui
Once the pride of respectable parn
tage, her first wrong step was t
small beginning of the "same old st<
over again," which has been the 01
life-history of thousands. Highly ec
cated and accomplished in manne
she might have shone- in the best
'society. But the evil hour that pr<
ed her ruin was thle door from chi:
hood, and having spent a young life
disgrace and shame, the poor frier
less one died the melancholy death
a broken-hearted outcast.
Among her personal effects a
found in manuscript "The Beauti:
Snow," which was immediately ci
ried to Enos B. Reed, a gentlemen
culture and literary tastes, who a
at that time editor of the Natioi
U inion. In the columns of that pap
on the morning of the day followi
rthe girl's death, the poem appeared
print for the first time. When 1
paper containing the poem came<
on Sunday morning, the body of I
victim had not yet received buri
"Ihe attention of Thomas Buchan
Read, one of the first of Americ
poets, Nas soon directed to the new
publish-ed lines, who was so tak
~with their stirring pathos that he i
mediately followed, the corpse to
final resting place.
Subh are the plain facts concerni
her whose "Beautiful Snow" sh
long be remembered as one of 1
brightest gems in American literatu
"The Beautial Snow."
Oh! the snt'ow! the beautiful snow,
rilling the sky and the earth belo
'Over -the house tops, over the stree
Orer the heads of the people you me
Dancing,
Flirting,
Skimming along;
Beautiful snow! It can do nothi
wrong;
Flying to kiss a fair lady's cheek,
ClInging to lips in frolicsome freak
Beautiful snow from the heav4
above,
Pure as an angel, gentle as love!
Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow,
flow the flakes gather and laugh
they go
WhirlItrg about in their zaaddening f
it plays in its glee with every onl4
Chasing,
Laughing,
Hurrytag by;
it lights on the face and it spark
the eye,
And the dogs 'with a bark and a bou
snap at the crystals that eddy arou:
The town is aliie and its heart ir
glow,
T o welcome the seminag of beauti
Uwildly the sew4 goes swayi
I along,
" Hailing each other with humor and
song!
or How the gay sledges like meteors
flash by,
Bright for the moment; then lost to
the eye
.et Ringing,
as Swinging,
Lie Dancing they go,
ve Over the crust of the beautiful snow;
ill Snow so pure. when it fal, from the
r. sky,
: To be trampled in mud by the crowd
in 1 rushing by,
ye To be trampled and tracked by the
ut thousands of feet,
fu Til it blends with the filth in the
b- horrible street.
sir Once I was pure as the snow-but I
Lis fell!
:n Fell like the snow-flakes from heaven
ar to hell;
In Fell to be trampled as filth in the
sy street;
1- Fell to- be scoffed, to be spit on and
o-1 beat,
ge Pleading,
ad Cursing,
ti- Dreading to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for a morsel of
r bread;
.Hating the living and fearing the
heI dead;
a Merciful God! have I fallen so low?
ke And yet I was once like the beautiful
snow.
:er
Once I was fair as the snow,
he 1 With an eye like its crystal, a heart
. like its glow;
LlS
en Once I was loved for my innocent
. grace
he Flattered and sought for the charms
of my face!
Father,
ne Mother,
of Sister, all,
ial God and myself, I've lost by my fall;
o- The veriest wretch. that goes shiver
nd ing by,
he Will make a wide swoop lest I wander
ia- too nigh;
as For all that is on or above me, I know,
,ht There's nothing that's pure as the
'! beautiful snow.
it
.e! How strange it should be that the
n-beautiful snow
he Should fall on a sinner with nowhere
Iry to go!
Lly How strange should it be, when night
u-comes again,
rs, If the snow and the ice strike my
ofdesperate brain,
>-Fainting,
-Freezing,
in Dying alone,
dToo wicked for prayer, too weak for
of! a moan
To be heard in the, streets of .the
as crazy town,
ul Gone mad in the joy of the snow com
- ing down;I
of To be and to die in my terrible woe,
as With a bed and a shroud of the beau
l tiful snow.
nTo the Author of Beautiful Snow.
mn Sorrowing victim of terrible wrong,
he Wihy do the srrains of thy beautiful
he 1Strike with such poweronteey
a!. of the soul, onteky
anAs over the spirit its harmonies roll,
an Ringing,
ly- Thrilling,
en Lingering there,
mFilling the heart with a wail of .de
its! spair?
Down from the judgment seat haste
ng 'we away,
all All we can do is to pity and pray;
he All we can see is thy form at our feet,I
re. Frozen to ice -with the snow in the
street.
y; And where is the hand that betrayed
t,thy young breath
et, And pushed thee from beauty and
gladness to death?
Courted by fashion, by wealth, and
the gay,
g Only again to deceive and betray.
Smiting,
Flirting,
Charming his spell,
nsOnly to drag down our loved ones toI
hell.
Father and mother and brothers and
all
Joining to fiatter the cause of the fall.
asHow long-0, ye heaven of heavens- T
bow long,
un Must we stagger and faint 'neathi this A
burden of wrong?
TI
"'Snow so pure when it falls from thef
les fTramped in the mud by thecrw
iTrample'd and tracked by the chous-dB
d anda of feet,T
a Blends with the 111th in the horrible
street.''
Nllling,
~Whirling, Is
Binking away,
ng Crmit& at at4thtness besotted wi&
CALDWELL
Great X
On Tuesday Morning
Goods Sale ever known
of White Goods, Laces, I
etc. Every yard special
Table No. 1
Contains hundreds of yards
beautifully embroidered at 5c.
Table No. 2
Hundreds of yards fine em
broidery up to 25c. values at 10c.
Table No. 3
About 1000 yards embroidery
some on the big pile worth 50c
yard, buy all you want at 15c.
Table No. 4
500 pieces beautiful long cloth
worth 12-2c yd. sale price 9c.
Table No. 5
300 pieces long cloth up to 20c
values at 14c yd.
Table No. 6
500 towels all bargains at 8c
each.
Table No. 7
300 Large Turkish Towels bar
gain sale price, each 1 6c.
Table No. 8
500 pieces muslin underwear at
special'sale price.
Table No. 9.
500 yards beautiful allover em
broidery up to $1.50 valud at 89c
yard.
Table No. 10
About 10,000 yards beautiful
Val Lace and Insertings up to
15c value, sale price the yard 5c.
Table No. 11.
300 pieces all Linen Laces up
to 20e value at 5c yard.
Table No. 12
150 pieces Baby Match Set em
broidery up to 25c value at 12-2c
the yard.
Come meet your fri
kown in Newberry, 'Ti
CALOWEL
"The I
day. Raisi
Light, and the cold, and the Lif
darkness come down, In vapor thle si
tdcill the soft mass to a pavement the dead.
of stone. The clywt
i orning pedestrian looks down belIow,
at his feet, While upward
Ldses the wild havoc of ruin comn- the snow
plete. And pure as t'
they wer4
,! what a vision1 prophetic I see, Ascends writh t
iesn has arlsea in splendor and ness to I
glee,
a arm rays descendinlg with joy 0, joy! weary
i. or feet, thine.
lting the tce in the "horrible The earth stai2
street" spirit div
Warmine Sa mt m
& HALTII
Vhite Goo
January 24th, we will bei
in Newberry. The entire
:mbroidery, Bed Spreads,'
ly priced for this mighty .
Table No. 12
300 Ladies' Waist slightly
soiled Mendels $1.50 waist etc.,
to clean the lot we say 59c each. t
of
sh
10
to
Gi
Table No. 13 tb
Coiitains about 3000 yds. odds {
and ends in Laces odd lengths up
to 15c Lace in lot at 2c yard.
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L]
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ends every daI t hI
& HLT
'7m o Th
ig, tain, frm th 9o
.endsevhter uofiGda satde thee a
ecyt hio e is Worifo Thewh
eam. sais from the
mortag thisio s, And whendoe aend ne
Lowflaes wak fr m ayonteog.
a tha~t bte pur God dwell redee theeto
hebam s ....n glad- ShaW lit he frm Cy
WANGER'S
ds Sale
gin the greatest White
econd floor is a pillow
I'owels, Sheets, Linens,
ale of white.
Table No. 14
Up to 35c Val Laces at 12-2c
e yard.
Table No.. 15
Contains the grandest display
beautiful Embroideries ever
own in Newberry, Bands, Gol
)ms, etc. to see these you. will |
ipreciate their beauty.
Table No. 16
Contains 200 full pieces Bebe
ish 45 inch Flouncing worth
.75 and $2.00, sale price $1.24
e yard.
Great Sales
Great Sale Skirts, Sheets, Pil
w Cases, $2.00 Bed Spreads at
..47, Great Sale Table Linen,
vat Sale 10-4 Sheeting at 23c
?yard.
3reat Sale Ginghamns
500 pieces beautiful Ginghams
i sale at 10c yard. |
Great 32 inch Zephyr Ginghams
le 25c value at 15c.- I
Great Sale -Linen.|
50c Brown Linens as long as |
ey last at 25c the yard.
White Linen Sale
300 yards beautiful 50e
nen Snow white and a
irgain at 29c yd.
Linen Sheeting Sale
500 yards all Linen 90 inches
ide no cotton mixture. at 79c.
reat Sale Bleeching
Poe Mills Bleeching 5c the yd.
Great Sale checked Muslins.
Yard wide Sea Island 5c yard.
)iggest white sale ever
WANER'S
Best"
XIECUTOB's NOTICE OF FINAL
alone bear sETTLEMENT.
Notlee is hereby given that on Morn
day, January 15, 1912, .t. 11 o'clock a.
mn., we will make a. settlement of the
e' estate of the late Mrs. M.A. E.Werts,
gain to the in office of Probate Judge at Newberry,
S. C. Aland sngular the creditore
fall by the are hereby notified to present theds
claims duly attested to Clarence I.
W, as mist Werta, executor, and all parties fa
debted are required to make paymn -
d our task to the undersigned on or before said
Df Beautiful Susan M. Werts. Executrix.
Clarence F. Werts, Executgr.
.1. Doty. O M ). K. A. E. Werts, Deceed.

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