The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1916 Page: 8 of 14
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LIFE STORY OF THE REAL EVANGELI
This In tho f«>r "■' primeval. Th< murmuring plne« and
the hemhn kt+
Beard«,i in mn ..I in KHrrnentH green, Indistinct In th«
twilight.
Stand lik< I ruid* of eld, with voice «ad and prophetic;
Stand like harpers hoar, with lieardn that rent on their
bosoms.
Loud from itn rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbor-
ing ocean
Speaks, and In acrvnti disconsolate. anawem the wall of
the forest.
|UT it is not Acadia, but down in the
southern portion of Louisiana, in the
midst of a network of waterways that
form routes of transportation for the
eajnn trappers and French farmers, that
the land of Kvan^eline is to Ik- found today.
It is a country of charm. Where navigation
< nds well up toward the head of the Bayou Teche
the littfe village of St. Martinsville slumbers
I'cacefully amid the restful rustle of its china-
berry trees. The} are a simple people, these vil-
lagers, proud in their ancestry, holding inviolate
the traditions of their Acadian forbears, speaking
ITonch of purest tongue. Shy they are when first
you meet them ; but, as you t;row better acquaint-
ed, they open up their hearts in friendly hospi-
tality, and welcome you .is one of them.
The parish of St. Martin was the last resi-
dence of mail) of the \i adians who fled finm
Canada undei domineering t'.iiti-li rule, and
f* und a home in more welcome land' There
tl ey thrived and prospered, lived out their simple
lives and were buried in the little village church
yard; and their descendants today
"Men whose liven glldn on like the 11\ * i • that v. atei
the woodlands,
Purkoned by nhxdoun of enrlli Mi! i.fl'.tlriK the linxRe
of heaven."
are of the type their fathers were.
There, on the quiet banks of the Teche, stands
a century-old church with clustering graves about
it. Not far away, a huge oak casts its shade on
the peaceful waters that flow by. About these
two spots centers the real historic interest of
Longfellow's epic poem.
For the bones of her who was Kvangeline
crumble to dust in that church) ai d. The I van
geline oak marks the spot where, in real litV, he
met the lover from whom -die parted \nd St
Martinsville boasts that it was the hoin« tin
two men who furnished the great \inctican poet
with the material for his work.
Judge Kdouard Simon, a student of I.oiil-iYI
low's during his professorship at 11.m at I. and
a lifelong friend in after veais. was diicctlv re
sponsible for the IiMoiic fa. ts coiict-min the
Acadians in Louisiana uln h the poem contains
Judge Felix \ oorhics, a man of highest standing
in the community, wa- rt sponsible for the facts
of the theme as Simon knew them; for it wa an
adopted daughter of In grandmother, who, in
real life, was the ill fated heroine
Simon is dead, lie pa-scd twa two v. it
ago after a pnd nged illnc- , bed ridden I
palsied. Voorhie till lives, bi' t am! . . ■ !• II
ing anew to his grandchildren the fat i' I . • 1
be cherishes \nd \isitors to th. little towi t>
the oak, and the sp. t whei I \ r ■< lit < 'n . I
hear from the lip of th. Id man tin ' ty
grandmother told to bun
It is a tragic tale more trifle than the poem,
for it is the st >r\ ..f > v >n m' etidu •
nd the faithlc-siie - , i her i .-r I l •
dcrstand it, turn back to l.oti. tell w ..wn
count of his inspir iti< n.
The fragment. itv > 1: ■ 11 \ which tie . ,t p rt
kept show s that about |X.j lie et Nathan-il
Hawthorne \ friend had suggested i" that
writer the possibility of a story dealing with ihe
Acadians and their wanderings II wti■ ne
himself found it unavailable; he offered it • ■ t!.e
Harvard professor for a p< • in
At that time, I dotiai inioii w.i a r*:deiit
at Harvard. Law was hi* chosen course, but,
in addition, be was specializing in litei iturt
I ongfellow reniembcred him, for voting Sim. n
bore the traits of his \ tdi.m parentage, an w is
prottd in proclaiming it So it wai t his stu
dent friend that I inuiellow turned t r a theme
And Simon, tenieinbeiiiig the t idi'.i i 1 e
Voorliies familv, told t • hint tin tab w h
proved a skeleton for one of the be t known
poems in tin I n^lish latignagi
And here is the storv .ts it fell ft -'r the h: s
of Judge V. rhies as lie - it in the bttb r
of his home and repcati 1 it as hi gt n ther
had told it to him :
"Kvangeline'* real name w;. !'• "alin
hiche. She wa- an adopted da .;htet of
Hnstarciche, n-\ gran !
of Antoine Itonla vl .
in lX<o at the age of cm
stitry well, for < t
a lad, and • ivid
terdav I 1a-t be.m| it
"You nut I kll. then
try grandui'
St' i uibriel.
re111«<\ cd it
a biautifiil
lite, and til
• •t ,i |ai\'e fa
v| i ; i [ .ptf'd
ler,
litt
Kill
II.
r t
t .a*
\ mie
tlier, w ho die a widow
ib. ! in sit Martinsville
I remember the
• I • • me w hen ! was
• • i ems but \ <••>
l' ' \ tl tie Has' ti i lie,
tit
■ i I otil) moderately well t
dine
i I'trecht was sign• I in
the llritish and the
"The treaty
Tt tilde betv
started in i~c I In 17 a <• tin out
orders were given t.. dm. out the st
villages, and when lint: I - 'diet v
f rt e their order*
"1 mntaline I 1! t he had bio
.tine
fit
adt ins
w hen
of the
to en-
1 f to summers. I
t t tieau.v the
s! e was bi t 1 'In I
bten set, when the
" '1 \ ; r it.the
iv ing in St '
I'heir wt d
■ liriti h in\
r aw kt • • 1
1 ace fled ft tn the land Tin
' ' d int. 1 .1 till
il.t el was I,1 'iiis
■ .et to w hotn
d t v eil had
t 11 1 .fiie
-11 i 11n to find
British vver" at
• irand
I was rum. 1 id that thc\ we
t
nurch further inland I'lu-
gathered together, prep.it
homes as be*: they might
patriarch 1 ■ • ■ <!' t.:e, d-
"♦Come,' said In
\V
•Hie.
are ft
ie, w e w
en of
•. t , .
J
ll.t tc«I
II bide
the
ill
• * • t •'e tow n
ft ml their
Mane, tin
the fiel 's
the
"Tin sh- t that uiuht In nc.itli
early
glare
I ebl.
dawn, th
\\ hen they aw e at
w as tinged with a ret
their buriiitit, I .■ ies
t.isheartetieil (• II. wet
" 'Wf had bi -t stu rem
t Hill's will'"
"And (tl 1 they did
"Ihe little band matched back
t rnitt Women and ehilib.n wen
lumbering wains The men w ere f
So they made their way t. the sea.
•en sky.
distance
the la-t flames of
gazed
llllst
•tl his
led.
it t«
. the
1 ..-.It
d to wall.
There they
cue
into
Sadder Than L.ngfellow's Heroine
were soot to the waiting vessels, wholt families
being separated, and shipped far away. Hut
Lmnialitie and Louis plighted their trotii anew,
and promised t^i be faithful each to the other.
I hen Louis sailed. My graiidniother and I m-
maline were given passage the next n;> ruing.
Thev landed, finally, somewhere on the c .1 st of
Mar'vland
"To Charles Smith and llenrv I'.rent, the cliil
dren of that little group of Acadians pav thanks
to this day. I hey were owners of large property,
and they gave homes and employment to the
refugees. Jiut for them, the newcomers .could
not have survived. For three years mv people
lived there. Then came word of a land of prom-
ise- Louisiana , and hither thev determined to go
"They knew that other Acadians had gone
there. They knew that the French people made
that state their home. So the little band, -'50 in
all, started on their journey through the wilder
iiess with two friendly Indian guides Fifty of
the men carried arms
"They traversed down through Virginia and
Carolina, and, when they hit the Tennessee river,
followed that waterway to the Meschacebee, the
Mississippi oi today, lust before the father of
waters was reached, l.eblanc died Thev buried
II iill in the wilderness, and pressed on without a
leader.
"It was a slow, laborious journev \\ In 11 thev
reached the llayou 1'laquemiin , thes tin t with
other from Acadia The bands joined, and made
tl.eii way through the stretch oi lakes to the Por-
tage sausage at Fatisse I'ointe. And so they
1 aine t . the I'oste des Attakapas, the St Mai lins-
\illc of today.
ste consisted of three bouse-, a store,
building was altered to cruciform, and the arm
to the south covers the s]iot w here she lies.
"There her ashes crumble today. I here she
sleeps in her last long rest little Lmmalinc Fa-
biche she who was the real Evangeline.
There is further evidence to prove that it was
from this source that Longfellow secured his
material for Evangeline. The vaults of the S'-
ii' 11 offices contain letter-, written after the re
tin n oi the voting lawyer, while the poem was
still in eiubi)unit form l.ongiellow, himseli.
never v isited Louisiana I ' is is impressed 111 his
verse, where lie emplov s Natchitoches to scan as
written, when it is pronounced "Natchtii1 k, and
In refei s again to "the v illage • if St. Maur, vvliit h
was St Mark, a little estate near the I'oste des
Attakapas founded by St Mark Darby, of Span-
ish English descent.
"My father was a lifelong friend of the poet,
said his sun, the young Itidgc Simon, "lie often
told of how he furnished the story of Enimalinc
I ,abii lie, and how lie wrote descriptions of St.
lartin palish, lis scenery and geographv, that
the poem might bear authenticity. It you follow
the wandcrm.' .. 1 Evangeline, you will find they
10111 pond with th. e of Anne Hastarcichc and
Iter adopted daughter 1 if course, in the poem,
• ■ a 1111 el dies in a hospital, and Evangeline, a
1.in 1 1- at In bed nI' Hut that, as Longfellow
1 .te in In diaiv. w a purely imaginary, altered
ti ' et the requirement- of his story, as was the
final paiting oi h.mmaline and Lollis."
. In sleep- ihcre in St. Martinsville, <|uietlv,
pia cfullv ; the Evangeline oak that saw the en-
.1 tin. of hoi tia; oilv' buds and . tin's to the full,
and In d its have each year; and the Ha) on
Teche, murmuring the secret* it has seen, wan-
yj&f-
V> <
■ w-Vii
T>
w
I
1
5^
"It's Louis,'' the girl cried, H<- Is Waiting for Me."
ii'ti, mam
it< r of
i i w i'i v
a little
.t t w a -
1 as peat efully as if there wa
•I suffering in the little live
tl ' t 11 t 'I, !t ! " 111 \
the bustle and tifu
" .1, ther.' I'ti.t .
I 1 i>' 1 here ' I iv
" 'What i- it, Et
1; 1 *1 d nil it hot
'"It's Louis, the gul 1 lie.. ib .s waiting
for tne!'
' \n i she hastened 1 where a sunburnt 1 an
lav • tretched beneath vvliat vv. u \\ c; ill the I * •. a li-
feline oak.
"'I uis' s|(. cued, 'llo t \ 11 kt tv me!
I' n't v i remember m< I t.iahne! I
ha 1 wait. 1 ■ 1 von, I 11 'II e 1 ti true to
Vi .1 all these \(.tr«' I have , nie ! k to ion!'
I hen Art t neatix did a It m...
"'I kn w you, I mtiialiiie.' | < answcii I, t. •! I
1 'but I da I - 1 1. ... 1 11 I aim I v t v. .1
i. 'tv, I am 111.11 it. 1 to an ' In 1
"En aline Labicli. • ie . tul in a
v01 u M% grandnii 1; t I 1 mis
disappeared.
\tl I. s.nlilest oi all 1 m d Coll-
I..it tit s., ber mind was shatli I /rand
r • 111 toi k hi r to the litt; e tl t etti'l.
.0 there she pitu ! aw . v < iften, ie would
f 1 ne that si 1 w 1' , I u t at1 I
v.ould sing little crooni- 4 love s -igs -lie had
It arte d in I apt'ier tlav . w. iild atblress bet
gli istlv li v er with londe-' terms of ende.irment
"Hut tin timnier want I \\ lien autumn > aim
I tnmaline waned, too . tin i in tl ait,. ■ f
iiiv graiidniother, and vva* buried m tbi cliurch-
yartl. You can not see her grave tod.t , • t tnc
tilt's 111 to till
nought of ■ t
Eurcp 's War Toll in Lives
atti • t t i audit or itn'v/p the niatlte
: t • wat t 1. 111 I ' ■ . f,it lie and
'
'
pilati mis w ill
ippioM . | 1 , second atuti-
v,,sar. .-it:'. - giniiiii, ' 1 t !i vvai tails forth
-'I ■ ' <""e M re ,h.t„ „„ ,,
be be • u killed ami 111 re than 1.
•' ' ' ""'h d it. ! 1111- -tug These
> '11; lit art m-i I ■ ii offit ial returns, news djs-
11 a11 • its ret entl v ma .■ bv
11 oi the I nitc.i >t.1'.
• set f. tth in the table h
.1 at 1 011 >
i (.eneral Hi
1 he iiguit
v 1*11 in Hue
T iUim
M . In ti f t a
rial, e
•. . • Ht ti
W niiriili'.l T.ii ,1
I oil lilt I'if. I •
1
t , ,
11
1
1. ■ .It toipclo b- .at and auxihaiv war vt -
1,1 1 •■miniig ■ th. War foot „p ,,
total tonnage o( tons for the alius ami
" 1 • "j' 'cn,ra' powwt, These ftipiret
! Iv * .'in|dele. „ the total number
f ,,|'1 V' "i.y is given as oiilv
w bile t i l.riti li . Ian to have dest,. v 1 ,|
11 ire than H«>. '
Ihe cost of the war to date in money i> fiK.
gered at a round sum of $50,000,00
oi which the belligerents have borru
nearly $40,0 k i.tx * v k *>, in addition to
proximately $io,<kk\(xk>,ooo expended
their own exchequers or from their ■
tii.us of paper money The magnitude of
sum 111a v be appreciated when it is recalled I
the four years of 1 iv il war cost this eountryl
.000,000,000. 'Ihe governmental debts of'
belligerent- in two vears have increased f|q
S.'7,"7?.ct>0,01 to to S'lii.'i^K.txm.ooo. In addition!
the huge expenditures by the belligerent#,
11 a 1 nations, mi account of enforced mobilize
and other war necessities, have borrowed nc
half a billion dollar- Ihe following table v,
piled by the Wall Street Journal represent
careful estimate of the cost of the war for
fit st two years :
i use Kin two 1 i:\11s nn in this day.
' 'ohi to Auk, 1. I'allf
* 11.100,000,(100 $211
17,
^.7.0.000,000 ii,
'•0,000,000 |
I, v 0,000,000 4'
* M to.iMHt.4Hl0 |7| 0
11 1 "<1,1100,000 ~2'oii
tIrritt Brltnhi
l-'ranC® •
)(u. Nia
11 I y
othn til''
Total iilli'-f
(>«•r 111.111
\UHtti.i II '.iiL.it • . "lO.OMO.OOO
•1 nk. > t mi llulfct. I I "0,000,000
T.dal 1 ' 111 r;i I |.u«i - I '• ih.h.ooo,000 $ia,||
(it im! 11 d o I f • •• Vhi.ilOO.OUO $107,1
Dehfs In 101 I mill 101II,
i "on nihil lt'«l. *
IT. War Debt. Pim;
4; i * .«( |:i Hail) $ iv,.Mid) lift,If
I I i ii • • '."7,ooo *14,91
I,". 17,oo0 10 ||
'.•oii.oOO if
|{in hia
Italy
'I uf a I fur 11111'i'
I jpl'lll.i ! ' ' ' 111 | 0 11 i) ."I
\ uh it a II ' ! 'I y
Turk. \
■1
« idilral i".
(Irrtiid total
* I IH III'!'
?I.M«;; ,000 $44,7
I'.llhS.OOO '
. ' I 0,000
• 11",o oo 804
? !•, Ml S, O00
1
92 MM,
frc ;n Hank of I ratit'it.
JAMES WHITCOMB H1LEY.
The (hath of lame- Whit comb Kilcy, kno
a- the "lloosier I'oet," removes a command
figure ft', 'tn \inerican literature. Uliss Cir_
tin author, ami Kili\ wa re intimate friends.
w i it ti in the rhihulclphia Inquirer asked
i i men t" -iv oinethiiiK about Uilcy's
in poetr)
I think," hi ,iid, "that he was the gr
A..a 11' an poet . f our time When the acad
av ir■ I< 11 Iiiiii it> u Id ineilal as the greatest I
iii; \ti ' tit an poet, I voted for the award.
oi l\ othct wh- ' i,.nut tame up as a candid
I- ■ •: i .av ai d v I . iiiiii I iller, and I thou
■ .1 the pri/t -h.'iihl o i,, kilev rather than"
I iller.
lam admin- oi Ivi!. think highly of
ii. ai-dialc. t poem I tul it was the dialect poei
t it hroiiKht hr . la; • oinl money, that real
• • •<t—titn11 hi- i hi- • inribiiiion to literature. In
1.1'' t ; 'I ' .ill I d ill the West afl
most like >ch"..| book
I iIn iH. • ■ li.,I.'t p i t Kih-v ranks wid
I', .licit I: 11 I 1', : i,ib t vv a-- native to hill
a I '.ii ri i - v a t i 'i In vv.i at In iltie with it*
"I lid he talk it I asked
A, , vei v ft( i lib- ( ainian replied. "Oil
coin-e, h. had .i bit . "I iiiliuied vocabulary,!
but he III.. I t • talk in dial. 1
Winn did \..'i la t ■ i'e Wiley, Mr. Carmanl
J a^ked.
I he la-t tt , | s uv Ini ." he replied, "wail
t'carlv two va ai in I letober, 1014. I SpentBth
' eral weeks m Indianapolis I saw him everyIjj,
■ 1 niiif at In- holt e | did not rccoRtiize himl^
w licit I fi; t bitii on that vi^it, fur he hadl,
I ■ 1 1 \trao 11 11 \ v.'ittiL' lie hated ag<|
.11 < pt hi 1 d -1 .111 I never knew]
anv t>ne •1 te dappft
II iv did v u -i ie v, in i v i tiings with himt*
I asked.
Kll. ■ ' ■ 'i'i ,tb >ii' 1, ' 1'ilisi Car-
t. the house of an ;
■ 1 :. he v'i'iiet.111 v •iiinj' for tne withj
'titi' 11 i. 1 rail alotld."
W hat it",; .■■ preferV I asked.]
Ills ta-' . "1 ' allu'e," Hlisi
in answered I'w . t to whom he wll
1 ill) ti II w and SwiM
It • it t titlutsiasm he 1
" * a11 t ' id ballad t Longfel-1
w I ii In tn . Ii.is been liotrw j
s-o" 1 ■ 11 fs |v'ii, v ti' I ask me to read,
and he would -it b and just drink it in. But]
-t of tbc time I ' p:, fit red to read
11 ki I n^ii i vv - directness and sin#- j
The t li.i . il hi 111 in Swifrj
' 1 1 and the deft craft®-1
I 'Anactoria' and]
in I t III I pll "I I 1111 ■ • -Men
, , '. d ' I he Old Swiffl-!
.• I'. .ems ' lie pub* j
ti .!ti*hi|
11 -lit d it h 1111 -< It Its, hi
t Ken . v 11 bv a ptibli-l
1 iiiv «11 it i< t -
I bet 1 lias been lllll
1 'I 'It. Ut 'I, "1 i the 1
-et :■ t . tl . that Kill V
'"1 Walt Whitman
lietil. ■ t a. v , ie was 11..
Nv hitman b.i>> 11 pub
W bat W hitman t .u ! 1
ir cra> >
" lillt Hilt v jja\ e \ 1 ai e
pie thei • Ives He w .<•
was loved bv tin in. di
V ell that it was S00S
id passed through;
..it." 1 Hiss Car-.^
tlcinocrary.
i . i t of democ- -J
1 the poet ol
. 1 i 1 democracy.
an iik the people,
the ideal of de*
till (Is of the peo-
of the people and
lahii.r's ghavk marked.
•one has at last been
' tile hi idney I.atuer in GrWW
•t i Since his burial
11 t" ^ i t 1 1 I 1 been unmarked.
'I'lu tablet set the boulder of GeMfl
I.ti! t■ (jrave bears these
1 tn lit bv the sun. Thejf i
■'a • ct 1 -1. o: tl ' let and they sung**
tbi • c,d w 1 b l.a i s vv■ rks will vet makt
\nterica th.lugh he died in
and 1 urtt t p vver of his almost
11 I- by the Min an
i h .! 1 e.| a 1 t, |,v ' . 'id. has been paininjj
of the accepted
1of our literature
and lilt
rile loll- ne ,
lialtnnoii bin s ,t
';"M ' 1 ta • pt, 1 .! I .. tin ..re, thoiiRh called
'•mi ' ■ 'I i itv " ' , mi monuments to
' th' -tiKh i- Haiti be w as reared, and
th' .1 t., 1 I, ,1 Wither has Hoston.i
where be w.i-. I t ., 1t, , t bint. Our Amf
':m I""'1' in i 1'edit with our statue
iai-et-
11 e Hid bis grave i#
• t.n t, -a) s the
• TiP;.-*'-
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