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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-03
WOMAN, POET, PROPHECIES. =
A Brilliant Lecture By DR.. Thomas
Hume at St. MarY's.

DIR. Thomas Hume Professor of Eng
lish literature at the State University,
lectured at St. Mary's School yesterday
evening on Mrs. Browning, Woman
Poet, Prophecies
In his deep knowledge of English lit
erature, keen appreciation of all that
Is best in it and in his ability to eX-
press both in English that is as limpid
as water and as sparkling as wine,
DR. Hume has few equals in the Uni
ted States. A lecture by nim is al
WAYS an event. Yesterday evening was
no exception, and for IN hour and a
quarter he delighted all who were fortu-
nate enough to hear him.
DIR. Hume began by declaring that
in these days woman contests with
man for intellectual mastery in science,
in literature, in Journalism, while i'll
imagination, insight, delicacy and spirit
ual ferYOr she moves man to the highest
achievement. She translates Epictetus
with the same skill as she makes pud-
ding
Mrs, Browning he declared, was
noble woman, perfectly planned, wheth-
er she be considered as daughter, wife,
mother, poetess, patriot or advocate or
the prerogatiyes of her sex.
DIR. Hume then referred to the court
ship and marriage of Robert and Eliza
beth Barrett Browning, the influence OF
each on the genius of the other. He
declared that in Byron we have an IL
lustFatiom of the power and majesty of
mere human passion: while i'm Mrs.
Browning we see the purest feeling
writ in star-fre and immortal tears"
He referred to the charming assoc
Citations of Mrs. Browning with men OF
letters, declaring that ''all male minds
swayed to her from their orbits and
girdled her with music" Thackery sat
at her feet and rugged old Thomas Car
lyle showed her Difference he gave
no other woman, not even his wife
whom he prosecuted because Of the sort
of bread She made.
No synopsis can give any idea of DR..
Hume's lecture. To omit sentence is
to mar it.
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]. J. THOMAS. Pres.
b. S. JERMAN, Cash. and Sec.
MINSTRELs MONDAY NIGHT.

Richard & Pringle's Ruscoe & Hol-
lands Big Minstrel Festival will APP
pear at the Academy of Music Mon
day, December 4th. The comedians,
singers, dancers, acrobats, in fact ali
that goes to make minstrel show COM
plete, have been selected with more
than ordinary care, and the re-
suit is one of the biggest shows
Of the kind ever produced The scenery
and the costumes used are yertable tri-
umphs of the scenic artists and costum-
ers' skill, and form a brilliant, dazzling
setting. The big street parade at 2:30
p. M, every particle of which, in
Guiding stock and vehicles is carried
by the company, is one of the features,
including as ii does, two brass bands, the
Piekaninny drum corps and the entire
company. Reserve seats now on sale.
Performance will begin at SID sharp.
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SOME FIGURES THAT TELL
TIE GAIN HAS BEEN $4,000 N
ONE MONTH.
GAIN ON WHOLE CROP QUARTER MILLION
The Cotton Brought Raleigh November, 1898,
Brought $4,000, While That Of No
yember, 1899, Brought
Si24,OO0.

Eight cent cotton means much to the
farmer of the South
OF course everybody acknowledges the
truth of this as u general proposition,
at once.
But have you ever stopped to calculate
how much it means
In November, 1893, for instance, the
highest price paid here for cotton was
81 cents. During the November just
passed 1880 cotton sold for ~ cents.
This means that during one month
November, the farmers of Wake
county made a gain on their cotton over
last year of $4,000.
Or mt the same rate Of increase this
years crop viii bring the farmer a
quarter million more than last year.
The receipts of cotton on this market
during the month of November this
year was 4,012 bales. For the CORE
spending month last year the receipts
We're 1901 bales. A difference of only
s bales in favor of this year.
The price this year is 73l cents a
pound. Last year it was 51l cents. a
difference this year Of 20 cents.
In other words, the 1000 bales of cot
ton sold in Raleigh during November
1898, brought ION an estimate of 400
pound bales), SS4 600 The 1000 bales
sold during November of this year
brought $124,000. A gain this year Of
$4,000 for the same amount IF cotton.
And it looks as if cotton is going still
higher, for it is now known beyond all
question that the crop is short.
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term in this city. Ills first service here
was at Central church.
He went then to Louisburg, where he
remained four years. From there he
was sent to Edent0n Street church, and
during this term he built their present
beautiful church edifce-at cost of
about $4,000, completing and dedicating
it without any debt upon it.
Leaving Raleigh, he was stationed at
Winston four years, then at Whining
ton the same length of time, and was
then sent again to Edenton Street
church, in this city, to the great delight
Of our people. He has now completed
the full term of four years, allowed by
the laws of his church. No pastor in
Raleigh was ever more generally loved.
The church has been greatly blessed
during his pastorate, in all its depart
ments. The membership has largely in
creased, numbering now about 500, and
are united in all their work. The Sun
day school is larger than ever before,
and all the organizations Of the church
are live and active in their lines.
Its financial matters have been well
managed, and are in excellent shape
ItuA fdyHielts ~ Ill Tie dSStssHltllS
having been made each year. During
the conference year just closing, the
church has raised and paid, in addition to
the pastors salary. about $4,000, and
during the four years of DIR. Norman's
term they have raised an aggregate Of
500 2S0.12-or more than $4,000 an
nually.
The condition of the church evidences
the faithfulness and the ability of its
pastor, but the gracious influences of his
life have extended far beyond the con-
fines Of his own church, and have been a
benediction to the entire city.
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ANNA NJ. COVE, NJ. D.,
w. p. BEALL. NJ. D.,
w. j. RICHARDSON. NJ. d.
CIIAS. Il. SCOTT, NJ. ID.
RELATIVES EXPRESS GRAFT
TUDE

Greensboro. n c., Nov. 20, 1899.
We, the undersigned, relatives aud
friends of the patients who have been
and are now sick AT the State Normal
and Industrial College. desire to OK
press our gratitude to the college au-
thorities for the manner in which our
loved ones have been cared for
Having been here, some OF us since
before the college suspended, and others
for a shorter period Of time, We wish to
say that it seems to us that all that
could be expected has been done by the
college authorities faculty, physicians,
and the nurses, and We are also deeply
grateful to those ladies of Greensboro
who have rendered and given their SER
vices as nurses Of the sick:
w. II. HAYWOOD. Wake Forest,
]. d. DAVIS. Grissom.
MRS. G. II. WILEY, Winston
MRS. C. NJ. BABBITT, Newbern.
MISS ETA STAFFORD, Burling-
ton.
MRS. T. b. BAILEY, Mocksville.
y. B. DANIEL, Satterwhite.
T. 3. BAILEY, Mocksville.
H. A. ELLER, Berlin.
JOHN G. BLOUNT, NJ. d., Wash
ington.
G. L. MARDISON, Thurman.
JENNIE NJ. SHAW, Rockingham.
J. 4. MOORE.
JONAS c. WILLIAMS, Inez, Warren
County.
E. f. B0UCHELLE, Wilkesboro.
SETH BRIDGMAN, Washington.
MRS. A. e. SIDES, Mt. Airy.
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MR.. WYNNE TO MARRY.
Cards Announcing the Marriage of Mr..
Geo. w. Wynne, Formerly of this City

Friends of Mr. George w. Wynne
long popular citizen of Raleigh au6
well known throughout the State have
received the following invitation to his
approaching marriage to fair daughter
of Greene county:
Miss Clara Cornelia Dixon
announces the marriage of her sister
Mrs. Mary Frances Sutton,
to
Mr.. George Washington Wynne,
Tuesday, December twelfth,
eighteen hundred and ninetY-nine,
La Grange, North Carolina.
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Kind to st. Luke's Home.

st. Luke's Home had caBsc TO be
thankful on hast Thursday, not only for
past blessings, but for the kind and
thoughtful ones who eont eihnted To
their comfort on That dae. Turiley.
birds, cake, fruits and other nice things
were donated. Thank you, kind friends
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-03
TWO DISTINCT EprpEM1cs.
Relatives of Young Ladies Say That
Authorities Did All They Could.

We print elsewhere a statement from
Dir. Il. ii. Lewis, of the State Board of
Health, relative to the epidemic or
typhoid fever ut the Normal and Indus
trial college at Greensboro. In addi-
ton thereto, we give two statements
that appear in the Greensboro papers:
STATEMENT BY PHYSICIANS.
The following is a statement made by
the physicians that have been in attend
ance at the Normal:
November %, 1899
Gentlemen:
After a careful examination Of the
records, and patient review OF the his
tory Of the sickness at The State Nor
NAL and Industrial College since Octo.
Der 9th. we find that there have been
two distinct eridemics The first be-
ginmg about October 25th, purely ma
lafial in characters the second, begin.
ming in the second week Of November,
distinctly typhoid, though complicated
in one-third Of the cases with malaria.
There have been in all about one
hundred cases. or these seventy per
cent. were primarily maIarial and sixty
per cent malarial only, all recovering
in from four to ten days.
or the remaining forty per cent, ten
per cent, after having had malaria,
were infected by the typhoid poison,
while the remaining thirty per cent.
seem to have had primary typhoid in
lection. In view Of the severity of the
typhoid poison, it is surprising that SO
small percentage Of the students were
infected
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Capt. zeb. Vance Coming.

Capt. Zeb Vance has been detailed on
recruiting duty and assigned to tms
city, to relieve Lieut.. Douglass Settle,
who has been the recruiting officer here
for the past six months. Capt Vance's
regiment. the Eleventh infantry, is
now in Porto Rico and he was there
with it until ordered here. An olilcer
from every regiment is now being sent
off on recruiting service for term of
two years. Capt Vance is expected
TO arrive here this week.
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ShawIs Detective Agency.

investigations Of all kinds. Thefts,
frauds, black-mail, mysterious disap-
pearances, habits of employees, reports
on persons under bond, arson. murder.
etc. a large staff Of experienced opera
tors. Address either office: f. o. Box
q, Raleigh, or +. o. Box 90, Charlotte,
n. @.
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A CHECK HAS BEEN FOUND
made out to A. III. Alderman. Owner
can get it by calling ON r. W. Woods,
SIS East Cabarrus street.
A CHANCE OF A LIFE TIME, FOR

a CHANCE OF "A LIFE TIME. TDR
sale, a thoroughly established whole
sale and retail dry goods business aor
sixteen years, located in one Of the
most prosperous, growing Eastern
Carolina towns with a population of
about ten thousand. The building
has recently been renovated and eflr
Farged; it is situated in the best bust
ness portion of the city and is all that
could be desired for first class bust
ness. The stock consists Of well Sc
lected lines of dry goods, shoes, mo-
tons, millinery, gents furnishings,
etc. About twenty-five thousand dol
lars capital now invested in the bust
ness. The cause of selling is ill
health of the proprietor. The bust
ness since first established has never
failed TO pay the debts and make
money for the proprietor DON'T
DELAY, but address at once.
"FIDELITY,'
Cure News and Observer.
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POsTOFFICE RECEIPTS.
Government Reports Show Growth
in Raleigh.

It has already been stated in these
columns about seven times-but an
eighth repetition of it will do no harm
that nothing so unerringly shows the
growth of city as does an increase in
its postoffice receipts.
And in this connection the report Of
the Auditor Of the Postoftice Depart
mert, just issued, is interesting to Raj
eigh people.
For the year ending June Both. 1899,
the report from the Raleigh postoffce,
- 80, x-fsa,ts- XuoI.ir e1a
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Ladies hospital Aid ASSOCIATION.

There will be meeting of the La
dies Hospital Association held Monday
afternoon, December 18th, at 4 O'clock.
in the Supreme Court building. 1t is
one of much moment and all ladies who
hold tickets will please attend without
fail, as AN immediate settlement is
necessary.
MRS. w. A. MONTGOMERY.
President.
MRS. II. A. OLDS, Secretary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-03
MISCELLANEOUS

DID YOU EVER End your sweetheart
cold as Snows
Did You feel ike thirty cents at such
a blow?
Did Yen everg
No. you never:
Or you'd freeze on Registers Candy,
don't you know
DID YOU EVER try to fool your trust
ing wife?
Did you ever go TO lodge" and stir up
strife?
Did you ever?
No. yen never:
Or you'd take home Registers Candy.
bet your life
DID YOU EVER warm the baby's
midnight tea?
Did you ever feel it wriggle like flea?
Did you ever?
No. You never:
Or you'd feed it Royster's Candy, don't
you see.
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One Cent a Word.

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-03

Shaw University foot ball team played
against the colored team from Chapel
Hill Yesterday at the Fair Grounds and
defeated them by a score Of 9 to Q.
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FEMALE aEEI.p WeANrlGn- NO
aaea 10 ~ s,lain sewing at hosay. Si,a0
per say> -Four nlantssS work
gs9av&aseSNa. Seaa stamped adj.
sltNSSsSa envelope for particulars, H.
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COUOiIsiED

FOR RENT FURNISHED FRONT
room, second story, use of bath room.
One block from capital. References
required. Address w." this office. 1t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-03

A GOOD BOY WANTED IN EVERY
city and town to distribute samples
and circulars; good pay; state age.
Royal Gum Co., Chicago. 1t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-03

FOR SALE OVER FIFTEEN HUN
dred barrels of best seed Irish pota-
toes, second crop, Clark's Early Rose,
Red Bliss, Triumph, and White Bliss
varieties. Now is the time to place
your orders for the spring planting. I
also have large quantity Of the best
varieties Of lettuce and cabbage plants
for sale. n. B. Dawson, Conetoe, N.
G. 1-1-1900.
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FOR SALE OR RENT.-A DESIRA-
BILE house, with eight rooms, on Avent
Ferry Road, near Hillsboro Road. APP.
ply to DR.. T. d. Martin.
thur and sun.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-02

There seems 10 be a marked change
going on in Cuba as to the reception to
be accorded by the soldiers toward the
governments offer OF seventy-five dol
lars per soldier fog every man that Will
turn in his arms. At first, il looked as
though the cuban soldiery proposed to
their dignity and refuse 10 surrender
their equipment. but now that the color
of the money has lsen seen there ap-
pears 10 be scramble among the
whole Cuban male population to beg,
borrow or steal gun I'm order to swap
the same for the good Yankee gold.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-02
Niagara's Voices.

Niagara has many voices and some
of them are thus described by Mrs.
van Rensselaer, in the June Century:
And the noise of Niagara? Alarm
ing things have been said about IL, but
they are not true. IL is great and
mighty noise. but Il is not. as Eennepin
thought, an outrageous noise" Ii Is
not a roar. IT does not drown the
voice or stun the ear. Even at the ac-
tual foot OF the falls 1t is not oppres-
sive. 1t Is much less rough than the
sound of heavy surf-steadier. more
homogeneous, less metallic. very deep
and strong. yet mellow and soft: soft.
I mean, I'm its quality. AS To the nose
of the rapids. there is none more musi-
cal. Ii is neither rumbling nor sharp
II is clear. plangent. silvery IL is so
like the voice of a steep brook-much
magnified but not made coarser or
more harsh--that, after We have known
Il. each LIQUID call from forest hillside
will seem. like the odor of grape vines.
a greeting from Niagara. II is an in
spiritlng. an exhilarating sound. like
freshness. GOODNESS, vitality itself made
audible And yet it II n lulling sound.
When we have looked out upon the
American rapids for many days. II Is
hard TO remember contented slife am q
motionless surroundings; and SO when
we have slept beside them FOR many
nights. II is hard to think OF happy
sleep Nm an empty silence.
Still another kind Of music is aud bic
az Niagara. It must be listened for on
quiet nights. but then IL will be heard.
Ii IN like the voice OF an orchestra 81
very far ava that its notes are attenu-
ated tn an incredible delicacy and are
internationally perceived. as though
waited upon variable zephyrs. IL is the
most subtle. the most mysterious music
In the world What Is it's origin? Why
should We ask9 Such fairy-like sounds
ought not TO he explained. Their np-
peal Is TO the imagination only They
arc 80 faint. so Tar away. that they al
most escape the ear. as the lunar bow
and the nuted tints OF the American
Fall almost escape the eye And yet
NC need not fear to lose them. FOR thpy
are as real ss the deep bass OF tho
CntaraCtE.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-02
Mr.. SPENCER RETIRES.


G. C. Burnett. since 1894 assistant SUI
perintendent OF the Worcester division
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company, has been
appointed superintendent OF the /divis-
ion. vice f. G. Spencer. who retires,
owing to poor health, after a continu-
Gus service of "a years.
Mr.. Burnett, who is 80 years of age,
Is a graduate of Harvard college, re-
ceived his first training as a railroad
man in the operating department OF the
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy for
five years. Returning to New England
he was appointed local trainmaster for
the Old Colony at Fox Point In 1891.
When the Old Colony secured the Prov
idence Warren and Bristol road he was
made agent. and held the position after
the Old Colony was leased by the New
York, New Haven and Hartford. In
1894 the Warren and Bristol road was
transferred from the Providence TO the
Worcester division, and Mr.. Burnett
was promoted to the position of assist
ant to Supt. Spencer. He had special
charge OF the Warren and Bristol road.
Mr. Spencer. who retires, Is 80 years
old, and ne began his railway work in
October. 1865, in the freight office. un-
der william ID. Hilton. Later he was
made an assistant To Supt. Hilton and
had charge of the settlement of joint
freight accounts. and later had super
vision OF the purchasing OF supplies. lie
was continued i'm the office under Su-
perintendents William T.. Chamberlain
and Charles Howard, and when the
Worcester road was leased in 1883 by
the New York, Providence and Boston,
he was retained as assistant to Supt.
j. r. Gardiner He was in effect SUI
perintendent OF the Worcester road,
and i'm 1892 when the property became
part of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford system. the Worcester div-
sion was created and Mr.. Spencer was
appointed superintendent.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-02

II poor Dreyfus. back from his lonely
isle, had turned up In Paris yesterday
he probably would not have been mo-
ticed. The gay town was devoting it.
self to Major Marchand. the African eX-
plorer and the new IDOL OF the crowd
will have the center of the stage for
some few days. that is until the novelty
of having him around wears off when
the Parisians will demand someone or
something else.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS

NARRAGANsETT-s 8. r. Fell cleve-
land; A. Foster. Jr. and wife. New
York; J. E. Riley New York; &c. E'
Buchanan. Boston: Mr.. and Mrs. II. b.
Fairfield. Brooklyn; j. nj. Carroll Bos-
ton; r. ID. Milstead, Tallassee, Ma;
Robert Knight. Providence; w. II. Dun
wordy, Minneapolis: John Foster Prov
idcnce; Jhfnes Dewey Pittsfeld; N. Nj.
crosby, New York: c. f.. Mcdonald,
Philadelphia; f. q. Draper, New York;
A. j. Switzer. Baltimore; w. +. wy
man, Kansas city; A. c. Pratt, Holy
oke; Fred G.. Dillon, Fitchberg; Il. Nor
gan Neal, New York: j. w. Reed,
Springfield; w. =. Boyce, Boston; Lewis
Cohen, New York; w. Il. Singer, New
York; II. Adams. New York; G. Open
heiner, New York: Arthur Pearse. New
York: L. A. Gregg. Brattleboro, VT;
=. III. Harrigan. New York; ~. Michaels,
Boston; Miss Chaplin. Pawtucket; j.
Is. Mcintyre, Central Falls; j. c. Don
nell. Boston; Geo. w. Dyer and wife,
Boston; III. j.. Adams. Boston; A. l..
Cohen, New York; "a. &. Parker. Prov
idence; Frank Andrews. New York; r..
IL Jung, New York; John II. Belcher,
Williamsburg. Pa: Geo l.. Green.
Springfield II. A. Warren, Naugatuck,
Conn. Manly &. Cain. Boston: a.
Thompson. Jr., Boston; r.. n. Peck,
New Britain; Robert :. Coleman,
Brooklyn. l.. w. Franklin. Boston: j.
w. klley. Chicago; Jas. R. Watt, ter
lin. Conn. j. =. Alexander. New York;
NJ. =. Ryder. Boston; ". @. Jacoby,
New York; Il. G.. North, New York;
r. A. Stephens. New York r. B. Reer,
Boston: J. A. Wolf, New York; c. Bis
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-02

Attention Is called 20 the fact that
the practice in most places of flying
ths nag at half mast on Memorial Day
docs not receive government sanction.
At government posts the flag Is raised
TO the full on this slay as on others.
a special order OF the War Department
prescribing fun mast. The idea is
that the day II not dedicated To nsourn-
ing the dead, but TO honorng their
memory.
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MRS. B0WDEN WINS.


Mrs. Leonetta Bowden OF East Prov
idence will not have TO give up her
three children TO her husband, John +.
Bowden of harrington, from whom she
is seeking divorce and who sought
to obtain possession Of them on
writ OF habeaus corpus Judge Rogers
heard the cases some time ago the di-
vorce matter being before him on the
wife's petition for an allowance. To-
day the petition for the writ was de-
MED and dismissed the mother Is TO
have the custody Of the children pend
the divorce hearing or until further or
der of the court was granted and Mrs.
Bowden gets IS FOR the support OF her
self and children and her counsel. Van
Slyck q Munnford, received a counsel
fee of $50. Mr.. Bowden is a man OF
considerable means.
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DIE D..

BURRINGTON--In harrington. II. l.,
3ist ult. Abby $. burlington. Wild
ow OF John G. Burlington. I'm the
S0th year OF her age.
BOYCE-In Riverside. on the Both ult..
waty NJ. wife of George n. Boyce,
in her 6sth year
CARPENTER-On June 1. Joseph Full
lcr. son of Sarah u. and the late
John w. Carpenter. aged "a years.
DAVIs-In this city. lst inst. Walter
G.. Davis. In the i2d year of his age.
FAxON-In New York suddenly at his
residence. No. III East Thirty
eighth street Wednesday morning.
May 81. Albert Eugene Faxon.
KEANE--In this city the 3ist ult., Jas.
X. Keane. aged ~ years.
LfPPITT-fn Middletown. Conn. May
81. suddenly, Albert u. Lippitt. I'm
the sist year OF his age. formerly OF
Providence.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-02

A correspondent Of The sun calls at
tention TO the abundance Of the first
person pronoun in the letter which Or.
Briggs wrote to the Bishop of Rhode
Island the other day TO explain himself
in free and personal way. II appears
that in this communication there were
twenty-eight pronouns in the first per-
son in thirty-one lines and the corre-
spondcnt suggests that this egotlstIc
symptom may be taken to Indicate the
malady from which Or. Briggs is chiefly
suffering.