The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-21
WEDNESDAY,

WEDNESDAY, April q, 1897.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
.Mamma, don't you think hens ought
to despise Eastern
'sWhy, little daughter?
because they lay all the eggs, and
the rabbits get all the credit. Chicago
Record.
At Norfolk, Va. a plant has been
established with capacity of FIVE tons of
peanuts daily, for the manufacture of
peanut oil, peanut -four and stock feed,
tbe estimated combined yield represent
ing more than $500 day.
Mr.. Kipling is quoted as having said
recently that he counts the long novel
the essential thing for writer of fiction.
independent firing by marksmen in
pretty good thing, but it is the volley-
6ring Of q dull battalion that clears the
'front.'" he says in support Of his claim.
1t is to be hoped that the Raleigh hotel
farce, entitled: 1.-The Closed Yarbo-
cough, or the Parks Revenge will not
be enacted in Greensboro. The title at
the latter place might be changed to:
Zone More Door Shut, or the Bust of a
Hotel Trust" Charlotte News.
When the Roman Catholic Church in
Portsmouth, Va, burned down, the other
day the Baptist and Methodist churches
Of the city offered the homeless congre-
Estion the free use of their chapels until
It could provide itself with another edi-
Gee, and three Methodist and three Epis-
copal clergymen called personally on the
priest to express their sympathy with
him and his people.
~Ifs gittin' so nowadays" exclaimed
the Oldest inhabitant, 'that nothin'
haint onposserble no longer; this paper
tells erbOut place up in Shackermack
Kyounty 'at's got a nat'ral water shed.
Ef ye'd hearn ten years ago erbout
maxim a shed outer nat'ral water, ye'd
said it warn't so, but ter-day mericles
Is thick as hornets in par o garrett
sWintered trousers"
The drzmatization OF the novel grows
apace. Thackeray's "Esmond" has been
arranged for the stage within the last
eew weeks and Eliot's "Romola" was
seen in America during the last winter.
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett confessed long
ago to being engaged in dramatization
u her "A Lady Of Quality" Mr.. Hardy's
Tess of the D. Ubervilles" is before the
Eootlights and there are rumors OF the
se4ting Of Mr.. Meredith's Even Har-
A 10Th %
and Stanley Weyman's novels on the
stage has been phenomenal.
9Bpery well conducted newspaper has .
lwaste-basket. It is as necessary as the
office cat. or devil, although it may not,
unfortunately, be brought into use as
often. The waste-basket ought to be
sery capacious and very vOracious. 1t
should have large mouth and 1T should
be kept well filled. If the waste-basket
we're we'll filled the columns would be bet
Ter filed. To enrich the waste-basket IL
Dot to impoverish the newspaper; making
friends for the former is to make better
friends for the .latter.-Rev. A. ]. 8.
Thomas, editor Baptist Courier.
In the change Of one word in law
there is much importance, especially
when that word is verb or part OF
one. The change Of shall to may in the
new Revenue Act may mean much for
good to North Carolina. Hereafter the
the county commissioners may-nOt shall
grant licenses to salOt keepers who APP
ply. That is, if for any reason the board
VI commissioners Of any county sees tit
not to issue licenses to saloons, they can
refuse to do it. Now this offers
an opportunity for Christian people to
elect Christian commissioners, or for
Christian commissioners that are now in
Office to show their colors.-Biblical
Recorder.
Writing at moment when we have
I'm hand no communication relating to
uaypicipal pol;tics, and when no one can
.feel that he is being struck at, We beg
IN Announce that from this date to the
.end of the campaign, any one, III order TO
cot q communication bearing upon local
nolitics into this paper, will have to sign
his name to it, for publication. Bad
Dersonal and political feeling has been en-
rendered by too free and too irresponsible
writing. and Charlotte has suffered by 1t
in the ewes of the Observers readers out
side the city.-Charlotte Observer.-This
il a very good rule to adopt. Long ago
this paper was forced to adopt it. There
are plenty of men who Will say ugly and
MN inst things < they can sign their arti-
..,es X. Y. r.. who would not have the
cr,rage to sign their names to their at
taeks. They ought to be forced to as
sume responsibility or he denied access e
the newspapers. i.