The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-02-20

h. nerannjal youth. in the man Hes
sr.w n the Youth whe wrote that ie-
rar1 Or rather. / should say recosni<t
n. financial youth. IN the man 'Ae'
SAYS q writer In the National maya
zine. In a hotel lobby ~ Na>tAnG1oh
Glanced 70 meet Frank Stockton. the
rovenSt. who had just returned lron4
U.~t Virginia. where be has been reel
;,r our his imagination on paper 10 Keep
mn with publishers demands Mr. Stock
-rn : = delightful man. with s7applne
bIack eyes and muSrache touched WIFE
-rav. He i somewhat lame and mas j
vay Of squirting Il eye down MS cane
while talking that gives emphasis 70
his reflective moods III conVer>dtIoh
Few authors have 4 more loyal conslt
aencv and his The Hundretth Man i
one of the best studies Of American
life for this generation that mas been
Tubiished.'
The Critic has started an interesting
means OF gaueing popular taste by
winning lists Of those books most in de-
n.and nc The great libraries Of the Unit
ii States. In seven reports out Of
Twelve Ii this months list the popular
novel If the month Is Richard Car
vel III spite OF its extraordinary CIR
culatiou another edition OF 2o,usO cop
ias X announced. This puts Il IN It's
three hundred and thirtieth thousand. Ii
i a book which every American ought
10 read. Il is patriotic a. well as ao
Sorbing and thrilling.
The London Spectator has a long and
critical review Of Mr.. Dupley, who has
Won first place among Anglo-Saxons as
Il saririst. II j a very appreclatlve
article. showing that the writer has en-
! ioyed the mirth-compelling humor which
| 70 reader Of Mr.. Dooley' can resist.
We make room for the conclusion Of the
Spectators article:
But our chief debt 70 Mr.. Dooley is
that he Is one OF the very few writers
Of the day who have the priceless gift
Of compelling laughter-take. for exam
pie. Such phanta>las as The hay
Fleet the inimitable imaginary inter
view between Admiral Dewey and Lieu
tenant Hobson Of 'Merrimac' fame. or
the parody Of .Cyrano de Bergerac.' The
dramati>ed burleSque Of the Dreyfus
| case is a really wonderful piece Of sus-
tanned and deadly ridicule. When
.Matther Blamange' objects 70 certain
~ ti4A : WI IL a -. -AANC -
sworn, retorts the President. How the
divvle can they prejure themselves if
they aren't swornT" We are indebted
to him, again. for pillorying the effem-
macy Of the dude" and III general, for
adopting an attitude OF wholesome
| Philistinism toward the inopportune man
ifeStatiOn> of the artistic temperament
That he Will be universally popular Is
not to be expected; S~atiri>ts never can
be: but it * Of good augllry that he
has succeeded in evoking aversion much
IN the same quarter as Mr.. klpllng. OF
whom, By the way. he is anything but
a lenient critic. Lastly, we rave little
| doubt that Mr.. Dooley has come to
| stay" His second book is on the lines
Of his first but there IS not the slight
est sign that ne has come anywhere
near ~e1hausting the peculiar Vein OF
caustic d%rollery of which he is the
fortunate n~lonopoliSt."
Prof. Jerome Dowd. of Trinity Col
leee faculty, whose writings on socia
topics nave given him deserved repu
| tati0n. has a valuable article in the
February number Of Gunter's Magazine
on Cheap Labor il the South" il
which Prof. Dowd shows that, while Ia.
Wy III tAt AI-IiS - tLiI 1tN
money than in the Northern mills, they
really receive more Of the comforts Of
life than the Northern operatives. He
proves his statements by tables showing
| the relative costs Of food-stuff In Lowell
| Mass, and II Durham. and by Other
facts. The article Is not only one that
Will interest al readers. but is calcu
lated to do the South good as meeting
and answering questions about Southern
labor about which 50 little IS known in
other sections. Prof. Dowd is accurate
III all his statements having gone to
original sources for mis- information.
The editor Of Gunter's takes issue with
Mr.. DoWd. but does not. in our juds-
ment. weaken the force Of Mr.. Dowd's
article.
Mr.. Charles B.. Herman of the Balti-
more bar, has recently made an interest
ing and valuable contribution to American
history. 1t covers a period of more than
200 years. and includes collections Of
Biographical n historical data not here
tofore published from the private papers
and correspondence of various prominent
families. In its title only IS it defective;
for The Tiernan Family in Maryland''
fails 10 convey TO the mind the broad
ground which the book covers. An idea
or It's scope IN one direction may be de-
dnced from the following interesting ex-
tract:
Among the proceedings before the
prlvy council OF King James II. in re-
gard to the dispute between William
Penn and Lord Baltimore az to the
boundary line between PENNSYLVANIA and
Maryland, the following is entered:
Thursday, October s, 1855. My Lord Bal
tinlore and Mr.. Penn attending. Were
called in. Among the documents submit