The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-11-27

tho Northern or the Southern
view. have written with candor
temper. 1t is true that one OF tn.u
fesses that Reconstruction lis
lutionary matter. Those who dr..
find a banked fire; still hot ana
in. for all it has lain under ITS
whole generation; and a Trims
fire from
But without some such eSau.-
the conditions under which aba
States we're readmitted 10 tho
is impossible to form a clear ..
The most significant Of our iutar.. -
lens of the coming decade. uar..
movement for the disfranehiseUeu.
southern negro.
Little. Brown and Comaaar
press "Th Spiritual Sigai#.ar
Lillian Whiting, author OF tho t#r.
Of The World Beautiful" Ta
| ment presented in those volumes
tinued in a plea that the future
the continuation and dcvcla5 uoar r
| present life in all its faculties au.
ers. and tina a trucr knoHlgll.
nature OF man and his rciatiun= ..
tends TO a higher morality and iu#r
| happiness. The title of The @..
| found in these lines from "Aufora L
If a man could feel.
Not one day in the artists ecstasy.
| But every day, feast, fast and H.r..
day.
The spiritual significance burn tHru..
The hieroglyphic OF material show
| Henceforward he would paint tho
with wings
ABOUT LEE, JACKSON AND EuN.#
CWm. E.. Curtis in Chicago I;e"#r.#
In the basement OF the chapel o' N#..
ington and Lee University at LeN#...
| va. the office of the late Rnhcrl T. Ia
| formerly president OF that institutes
| preserved exactly as he LEFT ii o. ..
| morning tina he occupied 1T for IA. A..
time. Not a book a letter or a Ian.r b..
ever been disturbed. Once or f#.#
wear the room is carefully busted. l"+
all times the windows are kept ,.
| and the shutters drawn in order a. prot.
the sacred place 50 far as possible g..
tors that he received the last mur#
| hat he was able to do any work ..
! his writing table under a paper w,-
Tho newspapers he read that Jay .-
beside them precisely who're he Laid t"..
down; the morning reports Of the differ
ant members of the faculty lie untourhe
They were never examined. Visitors .r
sometimes admitted to this holieat Of h.
lies, especially if they served IN iho CO..
federate army under the great c%hl'I'..
whose dust is incloscd in a marble sf
.ophaguS across the hall from his #.u.
beneath a beautiful rccumbcnt Status.
which is said to be the best Likeness tA.
Exists.
Stoncwall Jackson is buried in the nf'.
public cemetery at the other end OF n.
txg,l under a bronze statue represent 0
him upon the battlefield with a licI1at.
in his hands. Gen. Jackson's house
now occupied as a tenement by scN0r.
families. The hall adjoining the Fir
PRESBYTERIAN church in which he cond"u.
I'd his famous ''niggcr" Sunday school
still occupied for that purpose, for DE-
no longer considered contemptuous 4.
lesser men than S%tonewall Jackson
teach colored people the truths OF T..
Bible.
Some years ago a story was publish"
widely throughout the country about Co..
Jackson's ghost haunting the halls OF d.
Virginia Military Institute, where hc "'
I professor, but it turns out to have I'@
a fake" invented by two imagiHa'tN
students who were DESTROYS of c@rcatIeE
sensation.
Col. join NJ. Brooke, who desigucd a.
ram Mcrrimac and thus revolution.
marine warfare, is still living at LcN|na
on, professor emeritus Of physjCs ju f"
Virginia Military Institute. He Wa o.
Of the early graduates Of the Nav
Academy of Annapolis, served with hon.
and distinction in the navy. comma"..
one of the ships in Commodore PER-.
squadron that opened Japan to iof'
commerce., and invented the dee.
sounding apparatus now in use througI".
the world. Col. Brooke has patcnto3 s
aral other important inventions. and I
received medals, diplomas and other r'
wards from several nations. He left +"
navy to enter the Confederate army .
the beginning of the civil war, and at ''
close of the war was appointed 10 Il pr.
fessorship in the Virginia Military In@.
tute, which he still holds.
Early in the war the Confederate M
itary authorities found themseIycs .
most entirely without percussion r'
and President Davis sent for Coy L''..
er. of Virginia to devise some moan
obtaining them. Gov. Lctchcr said 'h.
he know a man who could build marh#"a
TO make them. and summoned
Brooke. The emergency was explain. .
him, and he was asked if he could g." '
thing to relieve it. He replied '
me until tomorrow morning 70 th'H#
over and the next day brou2#
sketches Of machinery for makin@ 49,.
which was manufactured and used b..
ConfcdoratCS through the war.
Col. Brooke is now - years old.
still vigorous and walks from he
dence on the outskirts Of the city 81"
pOStOfflce at the same hour every r
ing. He is SO regular that the r@o.|
set their watches by his appcaraH
In a recent issue of the M"
World, in an article on "BaE3at
Oriental sect, the statement was
that Miss Lillian Whiting. the a"-
The World Beautiful" is a t"i..
'BahiSm,' and one of the latr.
turn from Syria. As the puh'.-..
Miss Writings books, Mcest@.
Brown x Co. desire TO state t|"
assertion is absolutely ungrount
Whiting had never even heard t.
Of 'Babism" until her return tr1s.
and she has mover been TO IGgvFt H..
but divided last winter bctwcr"
and Florence. She was born
IN the Episcopal Communion, |H