Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-12-10
About Books and Writers.

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Longfellow was of the people;
he aud Martin Topper addressed
the same large audience, but
Longfellow was a poet and Tup-
per only a dog -erel>mo1ger.
The poets face was the mirror
OF his harmonious and lovely
mind. Emerson's works are like
a soap bubble, they mirror and
enhance all beauty, aud delight
and educate the esthetic sense.
but they can be applied to no
coneretely useful purpose AS q
p0et, his strength is at its maxi
mum and his weakness seldom
appears. The reading of some
of his poems produces a sensa>
ton almost painful-that of
spiritual pleasure carried to the
farthest point. His true fame is
likely to increase, James Russell
Lowell has a masculine mind but
not original, he could not see
anything in nature or in his own
mind that did not remind him of
something in a book. He was
TOO literary, but his critical writ
ings have a great and enduring
value. Oliver Wendell Holmes
was mercurial, and his ne1tal
quickness gave him wit, pathos
aud humor. He refreshes COM
monplaces more often than he
creates or discovers, but he gives
abundance of amusement and in
formation. Whittier's bitter Sec
tional feelings injured him as a
poet. Uneducated, arrow and
preiudiced, his headlong zeal
made him see in every slave-
holder an enemy of civilization.
But in his other poetic work he
is simple. charming and original,
almost exclusively American ia
his theme, he reaches the heart
Of the people, strengthens US for
our daily trials, retines and ele>
Yates our pleasures. Wendell
Phillips also falls under Mr.,
Hawthorne's lash for excessive
humanitarian zeal.
Lloyd Garrison had charac>
teristic New England energy and
courage, but was radical and &c
centric. Nothing less tran ALSO.
lutte and uncompromising right
would satisfy him, no gradual
measures were to be tolerated,
slavery was to be abolished at
once. Daniel Webster rebuked
the hare>brained premature zeal
of the dbolishionists, and his
deathbed was made serene by
the reflection that he had delay
ed for a decads Southern seces-
sion. William Cullen Bryant had
grandeur but he could not deal
with the pathos, the humor of
mortal creatures. He beholds
but ore vision and chants but
one song. HIS life was pure and
he won esteem and honor, but
there was ice in his veins.
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Charlotte Observer: A one
armed negro from Cincinnati was
going around yesterday begging.
Later in the day he was found
lying in a snow drift uncons-
cious. He was carried in the
patrol wagon to the city hall and
DR.. Wilder was summoned to at
tend him. He was almost frozen,
and it required hard work to re-
vive him. He was in an emaci-
ated condition and had fallen in a
faint. When discovered he was
very nearly dead. Oh More
head street yesterday afternoon,
shortly after the graded school
had been dismissed. Mr.. B. l..
Weddenfeller, who was blowing
his way through the storm, saw
two little boys in a snow heap.
One was down and the other ap
pealed to be trying to help him.
Mr.. Wedenfeller found that the
smaller of the two boys was be-
Lumbed and helpless. He was
not more than seven years old.
The older boy SAID that the little
fellow lived on Stonewail street.
The little one was speechless.
Nr. Wedenfeller took off his
overcoat and wrapped it around
the little fellow and carried him
to his home. There for an hour
afterwards, he remained in a
speechless and semi>conscious
condition. He had started from
the graded school for his home.
but lad struggled behind his
companions, and at last was alone
and bewildered in the snow
storm. It was a narrow escape
for the boy.
Raleigh News and Observer:
Senator Pritchard has never said
that he had enough Populists
pledged for him to make certain
of his recollection. It was his
man Friday, Maj. Grant, who>
made that claim. But his sup
porters who are travelling the
State over and calling On Popu
list members at their homes, and