The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Easter bonnets and flowers and
the Easter eggs are good in themselves,
but they are better still of they can
give our thought useful impulse. Try
to be good eggs, dears, so that when
the good Lord cracks your shell he
may not be tempted to threw you
away.-Life.
Some of the English are puzzled by
the report of Ballington Booths in
aention to work among the middle
classes They had understood that
there were no classes in America ex-
cept the rich and the poor. The ques-
ton of social distinctions in a democ-
racy may well be puzzling evea at
shorter range than across the Atlantic.
Japan is buying her steel rails at the
Pennsylvania mills, finding them
cheaper there than in England, and OF
a better quality. At the same time our
furnaces are shipping pig iron to the
British market, underselling the home
product, to the amazement and con-
sternatdon of the producer there, who
would have smiled at such a prediction
a few years ago. The world really
Government receipts for March were
disappointingly small, and another
million or so has been added to the
fiscal wears deficit, which will now
certainly run considerably above $780,
600 900. Importations are declining
under the influence of the depression
and low-price tendencies in domestic
trade, and this is well for the gold prob
lem. but not for the revenue problem
Springfield Republican.
The Arkwrfght club. whose member
ship consists entirely OF the treasurers
of the great cotton and WOODEN mills
of New England and of the active bust
ness managers of manufacturing cor
porations. has unanimously adopted
the following: tResolved, That the
money Of the United States should be
solely, absolutely and unqualifedly
based upon a gold standard" There is
no ambiguity or webbing about that
declaration.--Low Courier.
The Newbern journal of yesterday
saws 1--WE mentioned last fall the
fact that cranberry culture was deyel-
eping in Hyde county-Mr- J. r. Pr
gott. merchant of this city, got his
regular supply from there. We notice
now q statement in the Elizabeth City
Econinnist that Dare county also has
been engaging in the business pretty
largely. and that the raising of the
cranberries has proven so profitable
that the truckers around Norfolk are
preparing to engage in it.. The Econ
omist speaks of the cranberry Dogs OF
Croatan, in Dare county, s'as the nat
ural home Of the rubicund esculent
turkey berry"
The following, from the pen of
James Whitcomb Riley, is certainly as
sweet as the famous song it para
phrases. And yet, it is not para
pnrase-for we forget all save the ten
derness and love it breathes in every
line:
"Kathleen Mayourneen, the song is
still ringing,
AS fresh and as clear as the tTill of
the bird.
in world-weary hearts it is sobbing
and singing,
In pathos too sweet for the tenderest
word.
30, have we forgotten the one who first
breathed it?
And have we forgotten his rapturous
art?
Our need to the master whose genius
bequeathed it:
0, why art thou silent, thou voice Of
my heart?
Kathleen Mayourneen, thy lover still
fingers,
The long night is waning the stars
pale and few.
Thy sad serenader, with tremulous
fingers,
Is bound with his tears as the lily
with dew.
"The old harpstrings quayer, the old
voice is shaking,
in signs and in sobs means the
yearning refrain.
The old vision dims and the old heart
is breaking
Kathleen Mavourneen, inspire US
again!"