The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
LITERARY ONrRs.

Az With
you, brothers
LITERARY ONTES.
self Culture" is true to it's nam,
from cover to cover. The March mn,
Der is a splendid me-. To Say that.
is as good as ever, is to say a great daoT
as every one knows. It is always poo1
The old saying that nothing is eve,
lost" is Unexpectedly verified BY III.
recent finding in a tomb at Luxor
Egypt, where it had lain concealed Fl,
eighteen hundred years, of a papyrus
containing twenty poems by Baccbv.
lides, a great Greek poet whose writ,
ings had wholly disappeared.
Scribner's for March contains anotho,
installment of ''The Workers" WHARF.
in Mr.. Walter A. Wyckof, a gradual.
of Princeton, tells of his experience in
Chicago where, penniless, he sought
work rs a common laborer but found
it not. He gives a graphic description
of the poverty and degradation that
exists in the "White City" In describ.
ing his hunger and fruitless search for
work, and the utter degradation of his
companions, he says that then be ex.
perienced a feeling beyond fear
"'when the nerves prick and tinge
and the heart is SICK and the soul in
ineffable agony of doubt and fear cries
through a black and Goddess void 70,
some nswer to the mystery of lite.n
Henry Cabot Lodge, who is U. 8
Senator from Massachusetts, gives an,
other chapter of his STORY of the Re.
volution."
The most inspiring publication that
comes to ur table is Success, published
at Cooper Union, N. Y, 81 a year.
The March number is up to the usual
high standard and opens with an ex.
cellent story, by Mary Lowe Dickin.
son, 1.-THE Hero of Break neck HiIln
Anthony Hope Tells a Secret" will
interest all literary workers and all
who expect to become such. The fol.
lowing clipping from "Dr. Push andDr.
Easy" is a fair sample of the many in.
spring articles found in Success:
1.-Two rival doctors in town, equal in
learning and skill, r about to begin
their professional careers. DR.. Easy
puts his card on his door and in the
newspapers, and then sits down in his
office and waits for patients. If, Tor.
tunately, somebody breaks q leg or is
seized with cholera at his very door, be
secures a customer; otherwise he may
spend years putting knowledge into bis
head by study before he will put any
money into his purse by practice.
''It is not so with DR.. Push. He has
a mean opinion Of the passive system,
and not only puts up a stunning brass
plate on his door, but gets himself
pulled in the newspapers, salsams to
all the big wigs" of the town, dresses
in the height of fashion, talks l~earnedly
of borborygmus and asphyxia, looks
wise as an owl, and keeps a splendid
turnout, or 1.-TWO forty" horse and car
riage, before he has q visit to make
He hires persons to startle his neigh
bors at midnight with the peaIs of bis
bell is continually called out of church,
and, more than once, has had his anne
shouted, as being instantly wanted,
while attending a concert or lecture at
the Academy of Music. Instead OF sr
ting down in his Office and doing over
Brodie and Magendie, he scours the
streets and the whole adjoining Coul'
try with his carriage, driving from
morning till night at a killing pace, %
if life and death hung on his steps; and
~neglecting no form of advertisement
is probably charging two thousand DOL
lars a year before DR.. Easy has heard
the rap of his first patient. Now, o.
the two men, says DR.. Mathews in hs
splendid book, "Getting o. in the
World. DR.. Push may be the humOB
but he is certainly not the fool"
ANSWERS to Success Queries" VIII
interest all. One of the questions ID
the March issue is: "How much time
should a young man, DESTROYS Of cue.
cess, devote to social recreation aDa
amusement" The answers are vsFIe&
"Just enough to refresh" says onS
Zone evening each week, Zone fouf'n
of his time," are some of the answer"
Another says:
mot counting Sunday, which Sn0Ir
be a day of rest, four hours per W0'L
ought to be the outside expenditure"
time in social matters for a young m'I
pIoor,,uon -a,,ros ~ the ni)4