The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17

I'm the straate clanin' department.
"Roight ye are" said Mr.. Cassidy.
Right yez are, fr vance. He lanes
upon his hoe an gazes at the ground, the
dust Of ages on his hands and face, but
divvle a bit in tn ca'art.' How thrue
it is. OI1ara, how thrue it is"
MIR. DOOLEY ON THE MAN WITH The
HOE"
1From Molly Donahue, by Mr.. DooIey.)
Mr.. Donohue discovered the philosophy
of The Man With the Hoe as worthless
when it was laboriously explained to
him.
TIL man is a walking %billygote,' he
sid. Dye think if I had felt thot way
Id iver be assistant foreman at tn roll
lin mills? l would not. They don't give
responsible jobs to tn likes iv thin
But this is not about rolling Mills
Molly explained.
1T makes no diff'rence," her father re-
torted. THE Nan With the Hoe" or TIL
Man With the Shovel, It's all alike.
Dhrink and idleneSs are at the bottom OF
this pome."
why Should grown men write pothry?"
MI. Donohue demanded, with great show
OF spirit.
In SureneSS and variety of attraction,
it would be hard to surpass McClure,s
Magazine for April. The account Of the
interior of China, especially with refer
ence to it's rich promises as a market
for America, written by Mr.. W. B. Par
sons, Chief Engineer Of the American
China Development Company. from OBJ
servations made on his own journeys, and
illustrated very fully from photographs
taken hV him he 1cp0Int of Professor
Huxley's life in London between his twen-
ty-sixth and thirtieth year, when he was
having a terrific struggle to maintain
himself by purely scientific work, with its
self-revealing passages from his unpub-
lished correspondence and it's new por-
trait Of him: and the account Of the Rus
sian ship "Ermack,' the marvellous new
ice-breaker that gives promise of being
able TO cut a passage for herself to the
Pole,-these are all, in their several
ways, articles of the strongest interest
and the highest value. And just as much
may be said fer Mr.. Walter Wellman's
A Arctic Day and Night'-a chapter
from his own experience in house-build;ng
housekeeping. and daily work and sport.
including some thrilling b~ear-nuntins, UP
near the North Pole.
In his new book ''The Reixn of Law
MI. James Lane Allen is the literary dis
cOverer of the Hemp Fields of Ken
lucky. 1t is fortunate that a corner OF
our country SO full Of beauty should fall
to the writer who above others in Amer
lean letters can describe Kentucky seem
cry with such loving skill. The hemp
industry is in itself full of an old world
interest. No modern invention has sue
ceeded in supplanting the almost prim-
eval Methods of extracting the fibre from
the hemp plant. AS a consequence one
might easily imagine oneself in Brittany,
where the wooden hackles. the fail and
the hand sowing have given Millet and
his followers so many subjects for fam
Gus pictures.
Referring to the Sketches Of North
CAROLINA in the Confederate Army" now
in the hands of the printer. the Whining
ten Messenger says: Judge Clark is q
man OF remarkable ability and industry.
He deserves richly the thanks Of every
veteran, and the families of all veterans,
and all North CarClinians who love the
old mother and take pride in the rec
ords of her heroic and patriotic deeds.
Now let the Legislature next year take
proper steps to have a thorough history
Of the battle Of Gettysburg prepared and
published. North Carolina soldiers have
been lied upon long enough. Let the liars
be confronted and exposed"
EN-President CIeveland's two adj
dresses on the Independence Of the
Executive" at Princeton. April 9th
and 10th. will be notable contributions
to political literature. They WI. APP
pear in authoritative form only in the
JJInp and .Juiy issues Of the Atlantic
Monthly. fully copyrighted by Hough-
top, Miftiin 4 Company.
Both the January and February st.
Nicholas are out of print, the large sale
of the two numbers heinn attrihrtad to