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The courier., 1901-08-10

potts style is, IL anything, enhanced
in his last work. II seemed that moth
ing more could be said about Moor
land rivers and trees and sky and birds
and flowers, than was said in "The
Children of the MIST" but the mans
passion for the visible forms of nature
seems inexhaustible.
l suspect 1t was to tell Of these
things that he first wrote at all. He
paints a dozen different sunrises seen
from practically the same place; all
complete, presentive, and wholly dis
tinct. He tells of nights and Moons
and morns over and over without ever
wearying the readers patience. Such a
knowledge Of botany. forestry, horti-
culture, geology, ornithology and zool-
Ogy as underlies this feryid and pic
torial descriptive writing.
Whether he will sustain his objec-
tive study and delineation Of charac-
ter as wonderfully as Thomas Hardy
has done 1t, Is too soon to say; but
like him he has heard the heart-beats
of the people, and he is more of poet
than Hardy ever was.
The courier., 1901-08-10
Analyzing His Affection.

The young lovers sat beside the water
fall. The rapids and the nearby whirl-
pool had strange attraction for the
romantic young girl. She had heard
the story Of the unhappy maiden and
the yourg brave who had gone to their
doom, clasped in each others arms. to
the slow music Of the swan song. That
seemed very beautiful to her.
Jack" she said. "if you saw me
struggling in the water near the edge Of
the falls would you jump in sfter me?"
"What would be the use. my dear,
when can't SWIM" he answered.
But at least We should perish togeth-
er," she replied, bravely.
"Yes. there would be no doubt OF
that" he returned. shuddering at the
sound OF the cruel waters.
But haven't you often said you would
die for me!" she asked, piqued at his
coldness.
mo. my dear, replied her practical
lover. "If you'll remember, I've always
told you that had an undying love for
you"'-Smsrt Set.
The courier., 1901-08-10

remainder of the summer in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
Married. on Wednesday evening at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Bar
clay, Miss Jessie M. Stanton and Mr..
Zeno E. Crook OF Auburn, Nebraska.
Mr.. and Mrs Crook are both alumni Of
the state university.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Wright and Mr..
and Mrs. w. q. Wilson left Thursday
evening for Chicago. After a visit in
that city Mr.. and Mrs. Wright will visit
Buffalo, and Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson will
take trip up the lakes.
Mrs. Carrie s. Irwin and family Of
Quincy, Illinois, spent Friday with Mrs.
Irwin's mother, Mrs. Eliza Polk, en
route 10 the Black Hills.
Mrs. w. w. Holmes and Mr.. George
Holmes left Lincoln Sunday evening
for an European tour.
Mrs. E. P. Savage left on Wednesday
for Clinton, Iowa, where she was called
by the serious illness of her mother.
Miss Margaret Kyle will return next
Monday from six weeks vacation
spent in the east.
Miss Lennie Stuart returned Wednes.
day from an eastern trip.
Mrs. W. c. Griffith will spend the re-
naming summer months in Minnesota.
Miss Winifred Sherman is entertain
ing her cousin, Miss Bagley. Of Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Webster Eaton have
returned from a months visit in the
east.
The American Savings Bank Of 132
North Eleventh street. pays interest on
deposits.
Hon. Fl. c. Lindsay has returned
from trip to the Big Horn mountains.
Mrs. F. A. Harrison has returned
from a visit in Omaha.
Mrs. Carl Funke and MISS Claire
Funke left Sunday afternoon for New
ark, Ohio.
DR.. Rosa Bouton is spending the
month Of August in Sabetha, Kansas.
DR.. Carr, surgeon. 14l South 18th.
The courier., 1901-08-10

He lat the shore)-This ocean breeze
is awful damp. 1t makes fellows mus.
tache very salty.
She OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, l noticed
that.-Philadelphia Record.
The courier., 1901-08-10

So Miss Charming is going to marry
old Jimson? Shell look lovely in or
ange flowers.
But how much lovelier she'll be in
weeds. Chicago Record Herald.
The courier., 1901-08-10

the real English people depicted by
George Eliot, Henry Fielding and
. Thomas Hardy, and by Dickens at his
best.
The world Is weary unto death of
stories about artists and scholars and
aesthetic freaks, and Of studies In
the artistic temperament" Mr.. Phil
potts was wiser than his generation
when he went back to racy, rugged
chronicle Of common life again.
In his Sons of the Morning" there
is a whole troop of working people,
reapers and hay-makers and foresters
and plow-boys and milk-maids, all
presented with brevity and vividness
and impartiality almost Shaksperean.
Indeed as one Shaksperean reads Of
the black RACES of Cramphorn, the
wisdom Of Churdles Ash and the
Courtship of Libby, one things contin-
ually Of Andry and William and
Phoebe and the old shepherd. The
combat between the two sisters, Mar
gerry and Sally Cramphorn, In its rich
humOr and lusty spirit recalls the fam
GUS battle in Tom Jones" in which
Mollie, the forester's daughter, lost her
new gown and most of her reputation.
Both the sisters were known to be in
love with Greg Libby, weak-blooded,
cautious country swain who could not
make up his mind which of them
would make the best housekeeper, and
nightly feared the wrath of the re-
jected. After mature consideration he
proposed to both and invited each sep
arately to appear at certain secluded
spot on the same hour of the same day.
He himself hid behind a rock and the
maids met, began to twit each other
and finally fell into furious battle,
with stones and finger-nails
for weapons while Greg sat by and
watched them, determined to wed the
victor.
| am sure there is no other living
man besides Thomas Hardy who could
have written that scene. IL Mr.. Phill-
potts were not absolutely without SEN
it would have been impOs-
sible for him.
Fiction writer's are becoming more
and more "sicklied DER with the pale
cast of thought" given over to psyche
logical studies so that they have lost
all kinship and knowledge of that part
Of society which lives in it's ears and
eyes and stomach and uses its fists
oftener than its handkerchiefs.
Old Dumas said that to make a play
he needed but four walls, two people
and one passion. Nowadays to make
4 story We need but studio, woman
who is more than half man and a man
who is more than half woman and an
Intellectual affinity. II there were one
nan who could write of the American
common people, the people on whom
he burden of labor rests, who plant
he corn and cut the wheat and drive
he drays and mine the coal and forge |
he iron and move the world, then
here might be some hope for litera- |,
ure of and from the American people. |
But so far our men who write of the |
people at all write of trusts and strikes
md corporations and man-devouring
ailroads, of the mere condition of Ia
,or and not of men at all.
The wealth of descriptive writing |
which from the first marked Mr.. PHIL |
The courier., 1901-08-10
SONS OF THE MORNING.
VILLA SIBERT GATHER.

oohS VI the MornlnS is the title of
a remarkable new book by Mr.. Eden
Pkilpotts. Mr.. Philpotts' first novel.
Lying Prophets" attracted consider
able attention because of it's marked
Individuality and its picturesque and
vigorous prose. His second work, THE
Children of the MIST" which was re-
viewed in The Courier two years ago,
convinced all critical readers that a
new man had entered the ranks of the
great English novelists. In his last
work, "Sons Of the Morning." he has
entirely avoided the fault of diffuse-
ness which detracted somewhat from
his second novel.
In THE Children of the Mist" Mr..
Ph!llloits attempted to depict the life
of an entire Dartmoor village,
and to chronicle fully and
sympathetically the lives of some
twenty persons. In view of the diff
culties of the task he set himself, his
success was remarkable; but the di-
versity of interest in some measure de-
tracted from the congruity and COM
pactness of the novel as a whole.
The scenario of "Sons of the Morn
ing" is much the same as in his former
novels; but the plot is concerned chief
ly with four characters, picturesquely
attended by train Of country-folk and
retainers which Mr.. Phillpotts handles
with notable success. Indeed the most
hopeful Of this young mans many
brilliant qualities is his clear and SYM
pathetic understanding of the British
yeOman and the labOring men of that
part of England of which it is his
pleasure and perhaps his necessity to
write.
Thomas Hardy, George Meredith and
George Moore are all OF them old men,
to whom very many more years of
literary activity cannot be left; and
among the newer writer's there seemed
none of sufficient vigor and body to
succeed them wOrthily.
Sir Walter Besant has chosen easy
and flOwery ways; Hall Caine, who
even in his best days wrote always at
the top of his voice, is now quite be-
yond the province of serious consider
alton. MIR. Anthony Hope Hawkins,
who might have done what he pleased
with us eight years ago and made us all
for a space prisoners of Zenda, has
since done nothing much above the
clever dilettante, and Mrs. Craigie has
never cherished any ambition other
than to surprise.
For the sake of so much that was
beautiful in THE Forest Lovers" We
willfully stopped our ears to that note
of hysterical effeminateness which
crept now and then into Mr.. Maurice
Hewlett's work; but the lamentable
collapse of the latter third of Richard
Yea and Nay" demonstrated that he
has not sufficiently matured to be alb
trustworthy and that his taste
is capable of very gross lapses.
Then there is whole host Of the
people of the Voynich
and CholmOndeley order and a host of
The light and subtle people, passionate
imitators of all genre work, ancient
and modern.
The notable thing about Phillpotts
Is that he has withstood the tempta-
lions of the historical romance and
he Elusive and recompenseful short
story and has gone back to the life of
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07
Artists of Like Mind.

Edward Chalfant of Chicago, in speak
ing Of modern art and modern artists.
told the following story: "Of the great
living painters James Abbott MacNeill
Whistler. the anglicized American. and
Anders Zorn unquestionably rank at the
very fore. / am not sufficiently up in the
technique Of art to attempt a comparison
of their work. but in one respect they GER
'tainly greatly resemble each other, and
that is that each mans bump Of conceit
is mastodonic in its proportions. Each
man feels himself to be a great artist and
therefore sees no reason for denial when
Iany one intimates that he Is.
Every one remembers Whistler's IA
nous snub to an admirer who had just
informed him that he regarded him
Whistler) as the greatest artist the world
had produced. with the possible exception
of velasquez. why drag in Velasquez?
ldrawled Whistler languidly. Somewhat
similar was Zorn's reply to an inquiry re.
GENTLY put him Mr.. Zorn, who is the
greatest etcher since Rembrandt was
the question, and I am was the laconic
and all sufficient response that it called
forth"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07
ArSenalS Abolished.

Washington, May 2.-Secretary Root
today issued an order abolishing the
following arsenals: kenebec, Au-
gusta, Maine; Fort Monroe, Fort Monroe,
Va; Allegheny. Pittsburg. Pa; Indian
apolis, Indianapolis, Ind; Columbia,
Columbia, Tenn
The property at these a~rsenals will be
disposed of by the several staff de-
partments and the men serving at them
will be assigned to duty elsewhere. II
is stated at the department hat with
the increased transportation facilities
in the country a large number of ar
senalS are o needed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07
Spring Millinery
at The Big Racket
Gaylord's Millinery Business Has Grown
Almost Double This Season.


We have made great efforts to please
in style, quality and price. We have
just received today a big liz Of new
made hats in all colors, pinks, blue,
black, white. etc at SIS each. Also a
nice line Of made chiffon hats for 81
each. A nice line of baby girl hats at
75c. The new white Jap sailor to be
draped in silk at SOC each. A big lot
of made split hats Of red, pinks, blues,
whites, grays and blacks at SOC each.
A nice line of children's hats, ready
trimmed at SOC each. A good line Of
childrens sailors at 25c each. 100 nicely
banded sailors for ladies, at 1oc each.
Nice white rough straw sailors at 25c
each. Beautiful gold tinted and autumn
foliage for Csc a bunch. Large three
spray foliage at rs and SOC a bunch.
A big line Of ready trimmed hats.
These hats are trimmed by the milli-
ners in the store. They are nice, new
and stylish. We have them for so, IS
and $1.00 each. Our $1.o0, $1.25 and
$3.50 hats are nicely trimmed. Leghorn
or shape hats any shape and any color
you want-very pretty. We sell trim
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07
The Morgan.Leyland Contract.

New York, May According to a
private telegram received here today a
provision in the contract between J.
P. Morgan and Frederick Leyland &
20. gives the latter the right to con
tinue to ply steamers between the
Mersey and the ST. Lawrence.
In all the remainder of the service
the Leylands wave the controlling in
terest, including the newly-acquired
West Indian routes, and guarantee
that they will not again enter the
North Atlantic trade except is it ap-
plies to Quebec and Montreal, for the
term of fourteen years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07


med hats from soc to $50 each. We
handle all kinds-silk mulls, mouse
LANES. tinsels, gilt cause. etc, from 15c
to 75c a yard.
We AVE just received today a big
line OF velvet ribbons with satin back,
No 1 at 1Sc a piece Of 10 yards: No. IA
25c, No.. 2 30c. No. 9 Is 15c per yard,
No. IL zoe a yard. No. 16 Csc per yard.
The ribbons Is very cheap.
We have a nice line Of applique
trimmings in white, black and cream,
from 10c to SOC per yard. In val laces
and insertions. embroideries, allovei
a and embroidery yokings. we have
quite a nice and complete stock
We are doing the millinery business
OF the city-selling more goods both
wholesale and retail than any other
house.
We trim all hats free when hats and
material are bought of us.
We are agents for McCall's Bazaar
patterns at 10 n 15c each. which are
as good as any pattern at any price.
A full supply OF fashion sheets to give
away. McCalrs monthly magazine Of
fashions 50c per year with n pattern
] free.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07

A Chronic Congressional Contestant.
Washington. May 1.-The testimony
in the contested election case OF Walker
VS.. Rhea. Of the Ninth congressional
district of Virginia. was opened today
in h office CT the clerk of the house
Of representatives in the presence OF
General Walker. the contestant. and
Alexander Mcdowell. the clerk OF the
house.
The testimony was sent to the gov
printing office to be printed.
General Walker contested Represen-
tatfve Rhea's seat in the last congress
and elections committee No. /, in the
closing hours of the session, reported
in favor OF Representative Rhea. This
makes the third contest filed by Cen
eral Walker during the past six years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07

lew York. May "A petition TO the
governors of the New York stock ex-
change was circulated amongst mem
bers of the board today TO close the
exchange on Saturday in order to en-
able members to catch up with their
belated business owing to the great
press OF the recent very active market.
a special meeting of the governing
board would have to be called to con-
slider the petition. as there is no regu-
lar meeting between now and Satur-
dav
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03

ipulation and proper arrangement OF
colors it could be transformed into a
hat that would delight the most fas'
tidious lady in Berlin.
That very evening, therefore, he
obtained sample cap and examined 1t
closely. He found that Its founda-
ton was of straw, and that on it was
built an amazing and gorgeous super
structure Of cocks and peacocks'
feathers. In front, too, was a small
framed mirror and round it were sew
eral silver coins and two of gold.
Next day he made further inquiries
and learned that sometimes the foun-
datlon is an ordinary fez instead Of
straw; that IN embroidered 'kerchief
is invariably worn with the cap, fall
ing down 1t at the back, SO as to pro-
tect the neck, and that the headgear
was introduced from Servia into Bos-
mia about twenty years ago. What
surprised him most, however, was to
learn that 1t iG only married women
who wear this cap, and that it is their
fixed rule to "trip 1t Of all its feathers
after they ore married one year, and
henceforth to wear only the founda-
tion Of straw or plain 'oz.
With three or four Bosnian caps
carefully packed in bandboxes he re-
turned to work. and now his firm is
debating whether it would be possi-
BILE to model from this picturesque
headgear hats that would commend
themselves to the fashionable women
] of Berlln.-New York Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03

the object of the cJinin- IT, :
purpose the target is now Deins IL
signed by Captain Capps. 1t will
represent part Of the side OF the bat
tleship Iowa.
All this structure and wall Of armor
when complete will be mounted on u
big float and towed out to sea OF San
dy Hook. .
When viewed broadside on 1t Will
look like q small section Of the bat
tleship Iowa. But looked at from be-
hind or from either end 1t Will pre-
sent the curious form shown In the
diagram. Several years ago the French
Government built dummy represent
ing the complete side Of a war ship
as a floating target. Our new target
is modelled after that.
The Gathman gun which Is to be
trained on this miniature enemy has
huge barrel with IN eighteen-inch
bore, but the gun is shorter and light
er than our twelve-inch naval guns. Ii
has Just lately been completed at q
cost Of SG5,O00 at the Bethlehem
Pcnn.) iron works, and is to hurl gun
cotton shells.
One shot from the Gathman gun is
expected to sink the biggest war SHIP
Qfloat
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES!
IA VERY COSTLY TARGET
Reproduction Of a wne sadp The4
Will Cost Fortune % Bs
Used as O Mark.
Esi8sssS3s378sss sG3sss7SS3sss
Our naval experts are making ready

Our naval experts are making ready
to test new gun and q new explosive
In very elaborate fashion. No old war
ship being available, the Brooklyn
Naval Yard has received orders to
make dummy vessel, at a cost of
$4,000 or $4,000, the side Of which
Is to be an actual duplicate of an actu-
al man-ofwar.
This costly target, says the New
York Journal. will be used to test one
of the new twelve-inch rifles such as
are now being installed on our latest
battleships.
Upon this floating target will also
be trained the new Gathman torpedo
gun. One shot from this frightfully
destructive weapon may blow the
dummy war ship into spllnters.
Naval officers are now discussing the
question Of what avail it would be If
the armor were of the finest quality if
a shot striking it should drive 1t bodi-
ly into the side of the ship or so strike
and injure 1t as to permit large quan.
titles Of water to enter. 1t is thus
evident that the quality Of the armor
is only one element, of the resisting
power Of the ships side.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03
Torpedoes and Ether Waves.

An ingenious mechanism has been
devised by an Englishman, by means
of which q submarine torpedo can be
steered by ether waves transmitted as
in wireless telegraphy. The torpedo
In addition to the usual explosive ap-
paratus, carries Marconi coherer. IN
circuit with q relay and batter, and
this is so arranged that 1t governs the
movement of the rudder. a fine wire
attached to O metal hoat keeps the
torpedo in communication with the
air, and, consequently, with the ether
waves. By means of wireless trans
mitter the apparatus in the torpedo Is
actuated from the shore or from a
ship, and the torpedo's movements are
thus controlled.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03
News of victorIa's Death In India.

When the telegram arrived stating
that the German emperor-was hurrying
off to Osborne to be at the deathbed of
the queen the natives of India at once
said that he was eager to put in a
claim for the crown of England, as the
son of the eldest child of the queen.
This report spread far and wide, and
no amount of argument would con-
vince the natives otherwise. Their
traditions almost invariably depict a
fight for the crown on the death of
reigning monarch. When rajah dies
his heirs always squabble and intrigue
over the succession. Even the intelli-
gent Indian fancied that the emperor
would try to seize Great Britain. When
q telegram arrived stating that the
Prince of Wales looked worried and
haggard" and that the emperor was
very grave" it was at, once concluded
that the quarrel had begun. Finally,
when it was stated that a German
squadron was going to Portsmouth for
the funeral the natives looked unut-
terably wise and said: "Of course he
will wait until the queens body is in
the earth, then he will secretly turn
his guns on the British fleet" In such
strange circles does the Asiatic mind
revolve Bombay Correspondent, Chi
coga Record-Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03
Tho Latest In "Tips. {"

x somewhat grasping hotel proprie-
tor met his match not long ago. He
had shown q wealthy visitor into a
room containing chandelier holding
twenty candles, and instructed an at
tendant to light them all. The man
did SO, but the guest Immediately or
dered him to put them nll out. Yet
when the visitor asked for his bill he
found this item: Twenty candles, five
shillings."
He went back to the room and took
them all out, wrapped them IN bit of
paper, and slipped them into his over,
coat pocket.
When leaving the hotel he found
many servants in the hall, smiling
pleasantly, and ready for the expected
tip. Then the departing guest drew
out the candles and began to distrib
ute them. ALLOW me, SIR" said he
with q bow; permit ME, miss. They
are very superior candles, I assure
you; I paid good price for them,
and so he left them, staring hopelessly
Mt their novel tip.-Tlt-Bits.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03

away beneat:, the yoke, but this last
is entirely optional. Over the seam
which forms the skirt to the waist are
arranged a succession of traps OIL
bands beneath which the silk ribbon
sash is passed, and which serve to
keep it in place.
To cut this dress for girl four
years of age, three and half yards
Of material twenty-one inches wide,
two and three-quarter yards thirty
two inches wide, or two and a quarter
yards forty-four inches wide, will be
required, with one-quarter yard of all
over tucking for yoke; or one and
three-eight yards of plain material
thirty-two inches wide, two and one
eight yards of 1ouncing thirteen inches
wide for skirt, one and a quarter
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-07-03
Makes n Publisher Tired.

It Is very apt to make the publisher
of newspaper tired after carrying :
subscriber for two or three years with
out seeing the color Of his money to
have him finally send along his cash
accompanied by letter ordering his
name off the list, simply because he
was asked to pay up. Instead OF ap-
preciatIng the extension of his credit
for SO long a period, he is only too apt
to consider himself q much injured
Individual when payment is suggest
ed. What he should do after holding
back for SO long time is not only to
settle up. but by way Of returning
past favors, pay for few years sub
scripion in advance. That's what he
should do, but does he do 1t? WE'LL a
man of good breeding does-Fourth
l.ytata.