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tain the man operating the diving
engine turns the wheel until the
horizontal rudders are in position
to carry the craft below the surface.
She is kept on "even keel" through a
system of trimming tanks Ht rj>
by use of the rudders. While sub
merged the vessel is kept on the de-
sired course by means of a compass
which is fitted in the coming tower,
from which place the movements are
controlled by the captain. A system
Of telephones and telegraphs to the
several sections is also installed in the
coming tower. In all, five men oper-
ate the vessel, being stationed, respec-
lively, at the engine, at the diving ap-
paratus, at the tanks, at the torpedo
tube and in the coming tower.
When "in service" the vessels of
the Holland type, carry five of the
smaller type of whitehead torpedoes
When ready for action, word is passed
from the captain to the men forward
to place the torpedo. The cap over
the forward end of the tube is closed
and the breech opened. The torpedo
is then placed in the tube, and the
breech is closed. The gauge is then
set and at the word of command the
missile is sent on it's mission of de-
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A PHENOMENA PITCHER.

Wyatt A. Lee, the phenomenal
pitcher of the Kansas City club, was
born at Lynchburg, Va, on Aug. u,
1879, and learned to play ball on the
lots of his native city. He made a
great reputation as an amateur in
Kansas. He was discovered by Man
ager Manning while at Coffeyville,
Kan. His record for the season Of
1900 was % victories and % defeats,
a percentage of .511, decidedly credit
able showing when the Blues low posi-
tion in the race is remembered. His
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Opening of French Hunting Season.

In France, one has to get an official
permit to hunt, and the hunting sea-
son now having been opened by Presi-
dent Loubet at Rambouillet, nearly
half million permits have been
granted. Times have changed since
the French farmers, toward the end of
the last century, were forbidden to
kill a rabbit under pain of death. The
right OF chase belonged to the priv
ileged and those were so few that
the country was overrun and the
farmers were obliged to sit up at night
to keep their crops from being de-
voured.
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several classes of vessels employed
Night attacks on the forts and run
ming the blockade were the favored
maneuvers. Then came a night attack
by the torpedo boat fleet upon the
blockading squadron. Most OF these
little vessels We're picked up" by the
powerful rays from the searchlights of
the battleships and quickly put out of
action. One after another these frail
craft fell victims to the guns of the
larger vessels. With the Holland it
was a different story. With less than
half the speed and equipment of the
surface torpedo boats, this submarine
wonder moved from her position in
the inner harbor and, while running
on the surface, passed near enough to
three Of the hostile fleet to have ended
their careers. and returned to her sta
ton without having been seen.
The methods employed in operating
che Holland are entirely different from
those used in any other fighting vessel.
She lies so low in the water while run
ming on the surface that little is ex-
posed to the searchlights, and when
the vessel is completely submerged
there is not even a ripple on the sur
face to indicate her whereabouts. She
is less than half the length and dis
placement of the surface torpedo boats
and. while her equipment is less, she
lis better able to send her torpedoes
to their destination without fear of be-
ing destroy'l, as there is no way for
the attacked vessel to locate her.
While on the surface the motive
power used to operate the Holland is
generated by gas engine, and when
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st. Petersburg Loses Able Journalist.

st. Petersburg has lost an intluen-
tial journalist in the death of Camille
Cavos. He served in the war of 1866
as an officer in the Italian army, Re-
turning to his city he entered news
paper work, and from 1875 was edi-
tor of the Novoe Vremya, his speciality
being foreign politics.
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WYATT A. LEE.

best performances were one three-hit,
one four-hit and four five-hit games.
He batted at a .234 clip. A years eX-
perience in the fast American League
has done young Lee world of good
and those who played with and against
him expect him to be even more eff
City club in 1901 than he was in his
first season.
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A BRILLIANT SHORT STOP.

of tho champion Providence team OF
the eastern League for the season Of
1900, was born at Riddeford, Me-, on
November 25, 1876, and learned to play
baseball in Sanford, Me-, where he
now resides. He made his debut in
the Connecticut State League in 1898
and his good work for the New Haven
team in 1899 led to his getting a trial
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To Perpetuate Wilson's Memory.

It is proposed by the friends of the
late William l.. Wilson and the alumni
of Washington and Lee university, of
which he was president, to raise by
subscription fund of at least $1O0OO0
to maintain professorship In the
university, to be known as the Will
son endowment.
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Lady Colebrooke a Carpenter.

Lady Colebrooke is a clever car
penter. Besides a perfect pillar box
which stood in the hall at Abingdon
she has made many beautiful pieces of
furniture. She has a large class of
women and girls each week from the
district surrounding Abingdon to
whom she teaches needlework and car
pentering
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with the st. Louis club toward the
close of that season. Manager Murray
secured his services for the Providence
team for 1900 and his advancement to
the National League is considered GER
tain. He took part in 1877 games, bat
ted .284, fielded 1915 and stole "a
bases. Many of his errors were made
on chances that less ambitious player
would not have tried for
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-12-21

Within the past six months several
additions which have been made to the
fighting strength Of Uncle Sans sea
forces have brought it up to high
place among the navics Of the world.
Among these are some Of the largest
and most powerful vessels in the world
and the submarine torpedo boat Hol-
land. which, according to the naval ex-
perts, is one of the most formidable
weapons yet added to the naval list,
and which is said by them to be the
beginning Of the end of the construc-
tion OF heavily armored vessels for
coast and harbor defense and the
means of revolutioniZing the methods
now employed in blockading harbors
and other close to shore work.
While the Holland is new SO far as
her number on the naval list is con-
cerned. she is old enough to have
proved beyond any doubt her ability
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Old Story In New Form.

A story has been given out by one
of the promoters of the new American
Baseball League which would seem
to sound the death knell of the Ma
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- GOING ?

are opened and the
water allowed to
rush in until the
dial indicates that
sufficient has been
taken. The vessel
is then ready to
dive. At a COM
n1and from tho cnn-
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to keep out OF the way of the
rays of the searchlights and the
heavy gun fire of the large
ships, which in time OF war
have made a reputation for
Uncle Sans navy which will
be remembered for years to
come by the nations of the
world. Besides being capable
OF -aeping away from these
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II you have happy home keep it
so; if not, make it -,
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the last named being carefully tended
and preserved SO far as possible from
violation.
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SGOgNG

dangers the Holland has shown
her ability to crawl up to the
larger ships, deliver her missile
OF destruction and then move
away to a place Of safety to
watch the result of her work.
During the maneuvers Of the
heets Off Newport recently
many attacks of different sorts
were tried for the purpose of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
DEPARTURE OF THE HAPPY COUPLE BY MOONLIGHT.
Scene from more BUNNY Stories.

els that succeed, but, unfortunately, this
has seemed impracticable, owing to the
widely varying character of the stories
in question. Some of them. like Miss
Johnston's ITO Have and To Hold An
almost worthless novel, in my opinion
have treated historical theme and are
full of sensational incidents and fantas-
tic characters; others, like David Ha-
rum" have described familiar scenes
and people of the day in homely terms,
and still others have been otherwise. OF
late a new novel, which might be said
to belong to the David Harum' class,
has been having tremendous vogue, but
| ii is really much better than David Ha-
rum" and seems likely to be perma-
nent addition to our home literature. This
| is "Eben Holden" written by Irving
| Batcheller, who is known to countless Wri-
| tiers as the Batcheller syndicate man. in
which capacity during many years he
made hosts of friends and lots of reputa-
| ton. He has now made reputation for
| himself which leaves most of the Gus
| toners of the past quite in the shade
| The book is of such quality as to lead
| TO the belief that there must be others
as good or better where it came from
and we shall hope to read them before
the first year of the new century is
over
| But the fact that a book is good has
never hitherto been a proof that it viii
be popular; these vast sales are new
| thing in the trade What is the explana
/ ton OF them? So far as critic may
| Judge, the book that slums is often SUI
| perior IN all respects to the one tina
scars OF course we are to draw dis
! sincticn between popularity which II
! great but momentary and one that re
tains its hold on the public affection indie
! Iinitely. But, conceding that, why is thu
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
THE CHRISTMAS "sMART SET"

THE CHRISTMAS SMART Sci
The chief feature of the holiday num-
Der of The Smart Set is the novelette, that
won the $4,000 prize in the magazine S
recent story competition. There has not
been a literary contest in recent years
that has attracted so much attention as
The Smart Sets $4,000 offer for stories,
and the outcome has been awaited with
impatience by the reading public Man
uscripts by the thousand were submitted
from all parts of the world. many of them
by famous writer's. Though large num-
Der of readers have been busy on these
contributions since the contest closed, DC
tober 1. the committee OF award is even
vet not ready to announce all the prize
winners. Their names. however. will be
published i'll the February number, which
will be issued January 15
The story winning the first prize, and
now published, is entitled THE Congress
mans Wife" and is by John d. Barry
It is a realistic and fascinating story oil
political and social life in New York and
Washington. and narrates the career Of
brilliant young member of Congress an6
his beautiful wife. who become involved
in political scandals and themselves are
cstranged. The "other side of moderr
craftsmanship is revealed with startling
fidelity to truth. From first to last The
story is one Of great power, and is GER
tain to be the literary sensation of the
new year.
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even son of temperance I'd fire these
questions broadside at the public and
never rest until they were answered.
But you were speezing of the historical
novel Well, it seems to me that every
successful novel is, in a sense, historical
1t must deal with a certain period of time
and must give us veracious reports of
the character and habits of people who
live in that period. Looking at the mat
ter from this side, it may be said that
MIR. Howells' "Silas Lapham" is as histOr-
zeal as Janice Meredith" War is not the
only material that goes to the making Of
history. In this sense, ''The Scarlet Let
ter" is our greatest historical novel and
mkt to it we must place ''Huckleberry
Finn though one is a romance and the
other report of character and manners.
Today is as much a part of history as
yesterday, and the writer who embodies
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
THE BEST THINGS IN THE YEARS
BOOKS.
By Julian Hawthorne.

The vitality of literature is again dem
and prosperity of the book trade this. sea-,
son, aft all the historical and political
and social vicissitudes of the past twelve
month No matter who may get murdered
or married; no matter what wars or cleo
lions or reforms or corruptions we may
have. people want all the more to read
books and the publishers go on making
| do not know what the statistics show,
but / venture to assert that there are
more readers in proportion to the popula-
ton than there have yet been, and this
should be true of England no less than
this country. AS for the European con-
tinent. / read a wall from Germany the
other day saying that all their chief nov
starvation from lack of popular support
| presume the less popular writer's are
moribund or dead, and that editors OF the
leading papers get salaries which would
make our second-rate reporters look dis
consulate, and though France is probably
better off in these respects, still | imagine
that the Anglo-SaXons are far in the lead
of all other nations as absorbers of books.
One of the striking phenomena of the
year has been the immense sale of certain
books almost always works of fiction.
One might expect that novelists would
study the secret of the success of these
works, and having mastered it, would
proceed to produce only the kind of nov
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
NOTICE !. NOTICE .

My wife, Lydia McRae, and our three
children. JOSIE Mary Jane and Banny,
left my home October, the 10Th, with John
McRae and his three children, all boys.
They are all probably in the same town.
My wife has warts on ends of her fingers,
is thin and tall with scar on face. One
of the children, Mary Jane, has one hand
burnt McRae, with whom my wife and
children left. is about six feet high, grey
spots on top of head. Any information
about my wife and children will be re-
warded and thankfully received. Address,
FRANK McRAE,
Raleigh, N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS ON HIsTORI
CAL NOVELS.

Now, if you had asked me something
about the different brands of pot-liquor,
whether that made from collards has a
finer flavor than that made from cab
bages, or whether the addition of dump
lings is calculated to take away all de-
grees of comparison, you would have found
me at home, as the saying is. Why, l can
sit and discourse with you by the hour
on such matters as pot liquor and dump
lings, and likewise fatty bread. And
there are other important questions sucn
as must occur to every liberal minded
and progressive person. For instance: Is
the corn pone better form than the hoe
cake? To what extent has the frying
pan contributed to our civilization? If
l were a daughter of the revolution. or
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23

it's atmosphere and action in story of
character will produce historical novel.
The technically historical novel has
been much talked about, but the truth
is that novelist who undertakes to re-
produce history is certain to have fall,
unless he belongs to the class Of Scott
and Dumas-men who were able to twist
history about to suit their purposes.
Really. 1 should like to say something
interesting on a subject that seems to
be interesting to the newspapers. But
you know how these things go. In week
from noy you aud the Journal will have
forgotten that the historical novel is
matter of any Importance at ALL But it
is as unimportant now as it will be then.
l think I'll have the advantage of you.
You'll be worrying about some other mat
ter equally insignificant, and I'll be enjoy
ing my pot-liQuor and dumplings.
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-.----....;=:.-..-..A

any other animal. Joel Chandler Harris
'Brer Rabbit" stories and then Bunnie
stories by Hannah Warner have given the
rabbit in popular estimation most Chris
tian virtues. 1t might not be correct 10
saw that in these stories (''More Bunnie
Stories"0 there has been Improvement,
for those that appeared in st. Nicholas
years ago were as near perfect as any
stories get to be, but these are in the
same vein, and are Just as good. The II
Illustrations are the perfection OF art and
will delight not only the children old
enough to enjoy the stories, but the young
est children of the household.
ARCHBISHOP AND THE LADY by
Mrs. Schuyler Crowingsheild. publish
ers: Mcclure, Phillips and Co., New
York. Price $3.50
The scene of the story is laid in France
in an old abbey, the original of which
is said to be the property of Mile, Adam.
The general expectation that this novel,
which it has been known Mrs. Growing
shield, wife of Admiral Growing
shield, of the Navy, was preparing. was
intended 10 portray so;ial liz IN WASH
ington, goes to pieces because the scene
of the story is in another country. 1t is
a charming story, charmingly told
THE CHILDREN OF THE REVOLT
TON, with numerous full page color
plates after paintings in water colors,
by Maud Humphrey and with illustra-
tions in black and white together with
new stories and verses by Mabel Hum
phrey. Publishers: Frederick A. Stokes
New York. Price $500.
A more suitable book for children
could not be imagined. The story, as is
the fashion of the year, deals with his
torical characters and the illustrations
are in colors and very beautiful. All the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23

NOW IS THE SEASON when the small
boy fills himself with green fruit, which
invariably leads to cramps, diarrhoea or
dysentery. II parents are prudent, they
will have a bottle of Pain Killer, ready
for such summer emergencies. Avoid sub
stitutes, there is but one Pain-Killer,
Perry Davis Price, Csc. and SOC.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23

Messrs. Houghton, Miffin & Co., of Bos-
ton. New York and Chicago, announce for
immediate issue the first three volumes
of their New Riverside Biographical Sc
ries, short. attractively written lives OF
Andrew Jackson, by William Garrett
Brown, James B. Eads. by Louis How,
and BENJAMIN Franklin by Paul Elmer
More. These books are of size which
can easily be put into the pocket, of
about 100 pages, printed from plain type
with attractive title-pages and headings,
and issued in two styles, Library Edi-
ton with photogravure portrait at 70
cents each. with a school edition with a
half-tone portrait at so cents, net each.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
THE HOUSE BEHIND THE cEDARs b,

THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS by
Charles w. Chestnut. Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.
The author of this book. if we mistake
not, is a native of Fayetteville. N. c.,
and is a colored man. He has written a
number of excellent stories, the two best
being ''The Wife OF His Youth" and
"The Coniure Woman The last named
gave the best notion of the superstition
of the old time negro that has been pub
lished anywhere and is Accordingly inter-
esting In 1.-The House Behind the
Cedars. the author has combined the old
and new life in the South, the scene being
laid partly in North Carolina and partly
in South Carolina. From his standpoint
the author has graphically told the story
of the efforts of a girl to escape condi-
tions she could not control and for which
she is not held responsible. The publish
ers say of the book that it contains "a
careful study of the picturesque old
Southern town, where the author spent
his youth and studied the types which
he has faithfully and symDathetically
reproduced" Such critics as Lyman Alb
bott have given high and hearty praise to
the former novels and they pronounce
this even better than 1.-THE Consure Wo-
man"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
I'M THE LITERARY WORLD.

"THE CHRISTMAS STORY" from David
Harum, illustrated with pictures from
the plate. The William H. Crane edi-
ton. Publishers: D. Appleton and Co.,
New York. Price $1.00.
Nowhere in modern literature is there
to be found a more delightful Christmas
story than the quaint account of the
Christmas dinner which Aunt Polly
prepared for David Harum and John. In
a book full Of opposite scenes and homely
aphorisms, The Christmas scene does not
stand out so complete and perfect as when
printed in an elegant separate volume as
d. Appleton and Company have printed
for the many admirers of David Harum.
No more ideal Christmas present could
be found than this elegant Christmas
book The illustrations in this book are
from original drawings, which Mr.. B. West
Clinedinest prepared for reproduction in
the book. are put on exhibition by Fred
erick Kepple. The introduction by
Forbs Herman is concerned largely with
the facts of Mr.. Westcot's life and the cir
cumstances under which he wrote the
book. Writing about a matter that is so
much talked about since the publication
OF David Harum, he says:
Many people. hitherto unknown, nave
unblushingly set forth their claims to be
the Originals of one or another charac-
ter of the book: and while these foolish
attempts to acquire a little unearned
Importance are more absurd than serious.
yet it may not be out of place here to
state that all such claims are absolutely
without foundation. The characters are
all drawn from life, it is true, in the sense
that they are lifelike. but not from indi
viduals Each one is entirely the creation
of the authors imagination, and this fact
he asserted with much earnestness over
and over again. II should not dare put
real people, Just as I see them, into my
book" he once Enthusiastically said;
they'd spoil it,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23

MORE BUNNIE STORIES by John Ho-
ward Jewett (Hannah WARNER, Win IL
Illustrations by Culman Barnes. Puollsh-
ers: Frederick A. Stokes. New fork'
Price $50.
Ten years ago, in series OF Bunnle
Stories, in ST. Nicholas Magazine thls
author delighted thousands OF Young peo-
pie in America. There is something ABOUT
the rabbit that has delighted chlloren III
literature in this generation more imam
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
THE WAKE OF WAR by Verne S.

THE WAKE OF WAR by Verne S. Peace,
IL mo-, cloth, 440 pages. Price $1.25.
Publishers: George M. Hill Company,
Chicago.
The success of Red Rock has given
deeper interest in this year of his
torical novels. to stories of the
times in the South following the war.
THE Wake of War" IS one of the best
of these stories that has appeared and
ought to have wide reading. Nowhere
not even in Red Rock-has the role OF
the carpet Dagger been so graphically and
so truly drawn or the side of the South
depicted in such realistic and convincing
manner. And the love story is as sweet
and absorbing as if there was no history
about the novel at all.