The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-12
Views and Interviews,

The small boy desires the News and
Observer to enter a protest in his be
half. The school committee has deci-
ded that the public schools of the city
shall open ON September 25th. Now
the 25th is the day for the circus to be
here-and that day of all days is the
day the small boy doesn't want to,be at
school. And to open the public schools
lust on that day, it's really too bad!
Make it one day later, MIR. Committee
men.
Think of the boys and girls too you'll
deprive of the pleasure of going to the
show, and the still greater number from
whom you'll take away the opportunity
of so much as seeing even the parade
all that many of them can afford to see
Think also of the many anxious parents
you will deprive of an excuse to go to
the circus. How can they plead the ne
cessity of taking Johnnie to see the
animals when he has to be at school :?
Thinkfof this, my dear committee, and
you'll surely change the date.
81 used to be sorry that France lost
Alsace and Lorraine and | had been hon
ing all along that the time would come
when she would be able to get them
back said Mr.. r. 0. Burton. "Rut
now / don't care. I'm so disguised with
the outcome of the Dreyfus trial and
the sorry spectacle the French people
present to the world that / don't be-
lieve I'd be sorry to see Germany and
Prussia swoop down on her again and
take and divide up everything she's get.
The Dreyfus trial and the verdict in it
is a disgrace to civilization"
You might make an interesting item
about the climate of Havana, Cuba, for
August, 1899" said Mr.. Won Hermann,
the weather forecaster. Though it is
IL tropical country you will be surprised
to know that the monthly mean tenn
perature WAS only 81 degrees. The
highest was 81 on the 29th, and the low
est 73 on the 18th. The greatest daily
range in temperature was IS degrees on
the Both. Prevailing wind direction
East, total wind movement, 6,521 miles
highest velocity 33 miles from north
east on the 4th. Total precipitation,
Ola inches Just think of it! Number
of rainy days, ). Number of clear days,
81; partly cloudy, s; cloudy, 2. That's
not bad weather when you consider the
proximity of the equator"
1t is not surprising that the dreadful
outrage perpetrated against Captain
Dreyfus should have evoked the voice
of song or aroused the passionate pro-
tests of metrical writer's. Such intense
ly impressive tragedies always lend an
inspiration to say that which has the
stamp of Immortality upon it perhaps,
moving mankind and interpreting for it
their feelings and beliefs. Great poets
have done this from age to age. In the
London Daily Chronicle, Stephen Phil
lips, a young English writer, publishes
a poem. 1t opens in this wise;
not shake,
shake,
That ever breaking heart thou couldst
not brake;
That dying body that refused the dust
That solitary brain that would not rust;
With suicide an opiate put by,
And Madness a rejected luxury;
And by that woman sleepless for a sail,
That widow with no grave wherein to
wall;
BY all the flaming injury and sense
Of most intolerable innocence;
Arise! Arise; o be thou swift and fell!
OF burning liars be thyself the help
Replying to some criticisms that have
been made touching the painting of GER
tain native wood finishings in the gov
building here Collector Dun
can, who is the custodian of the build
ing, said yesterday:
The work on this building, painting
and all, is being done according to plans
and specifications made out by the super
wishing architect at Washington. The
work has been inspected by Inspector
Holmes and the paint and all other ma
terials have been ordered by him ac-
cording to these plans and specifca
tions''
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