The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-30

Ut the SlreeLe cfyeS all ABOUT.
Where MAZE reade all at my ease
Both of the newe and old
for a jolle goode booke wherein to
locke
Is better to me than golde!
A RARE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT.
The last issue of Charity and Children
says:
I'm the News and Observer of the 10th
DR.. Hufham has an article of rare inter-
est to the people of North Carolina. 1t
describes the influence of man from
Maryland who organized the Baptist de-
nomination in this State Not Baptist
churches now, but the Baptist denomina-
ton. This was an achievement of far
reaching significance and we are glad
that Dr. Hufham has placed the honor
where it belongs 1t is a matter of real
interest to all our citizens for it will
be generally admitted that the Baptist
denomination has been a very power
full force in four State for the larger
part of the past century, and the long
looked for North Carolina historian will
find much in this article to aid him in his
great work. We do well to honor the
great men who shaped the policy of the
State in it's early years, and guided it
through the first struggle of its exis-
tence; men like Nathaniel Macon, who
stands easily first among the sons of the
State; but in that list of glorious names
Paul Palmer's will have a high place.
He wrought in a different sphere from
Macon and the others, but who will say
that his work was less effective and po-
tential than that of any man of his
timer"
THE LEOPARD SPOTS. A Romance of
The White Mans Burden. 1865 1900, by
Thomas Dixon, Jr. Illustrated by C. ID.
Williams, New York. Doubleday, Page
& Co.. 1902
The story begins on the field of Apo
mattox where General Lee, under the ad
vancing shadow of defeat has almost
bowed in despair when, suddenly, the
martial spirit within him in aroused by
the tread of disciplined troops. 1t is
Cox's North Carolina brigade. The great
man lifts his hat and says: God bless
cid North Cardinal
From this. theNfirst page, to the last
where the scene is in the Governors
home in Raleigh, the book overhows with
interest to North Carolinians. 1t is a
bit of history too, which our Northern
friends and kinsmen should. and no doubt
will. read with interest and profit
The action is in North Carolina when
she was under the rule of the carpet
Dagger. the scallawag and the negro;
when she cleansed her legislative and
judicial halls of that offal; when, a sec
IL aigrh y G
tated our eastern counties, and when
again our true citizens asserted them
selves in the overthrow of that CHASTITY
regime.
The reader who, from memory or from
books. can recall the events OF the past
thirty-fv years will have brought be-
fcre him many familiar scenes and char
acters. The home coming of the ragged
hungry soldier; heaps of ashes where
homes had stood; vacant chairs in other
homes; the reunion of lovers the many
faithful and the few base negroes; the
Union League; the Ku-KluX Khan; the
helpless old arstorcrat in his rage; the
urreconstructed Southern woman; the
willy stranger come like vulture to fee d
upon the carcass Of the dead confed-
eracy; all are here depicted with 10 fall
tering hand.
The garish painting of crime and of its
swift punishment by the mob rcvclts
while it Convnces the re2l.r that the
world should know, as newspapers abroad
do not tell. how the very core of cur
life. as a 7eo1 ., was probed.
The time is too near in the past for the
publication of key to names, but We
see likenesses in Amos Hogg. the Cover
I1T I'd "a
machine boss. The hero, Charles
present governor. What the reader
sees is a composite of William j. Bryan,
of A. NJ. Waddell and of AyCock.
CASTOR is influenced though not DONNA
ted by DR.. Durham whose prototype. we
are told is Dr. Hufham, Baptist preach
er, well known in North Carolina. In
the town Independence, We recognize
both Charlotte and Wilmington
The love story is fnll of interest, in
spite of too lavish display of aIfec
ton and the hero and heroine do fairly
typefy our young men and maidens. He is
courageous vigorous of mind and body,
and full of the fire that warns the Ia
triots breast. She is womanly, obedient
10 the law of her fathers concerning VIC
her lover when oppression, even from
parents hand, touches her peculiar rights
As literature. the book has not the
artistic quality of Red Rock" or the
subtle cutting quality % ~ Fools Err
rand" both dealing with the same Pc
riod. 1t is crude here and there, but
as a presentation of times which We're
strcnuous-not to say brutal-it has no
superior Though lola is not more real
istic, George Elliott is not stronger in
the impress upon the readers memory.
ANNIE G. RANDALL,
In the State Normal Magazine.
AN INVALUABLE HISTORICAL WORK.
We publish elsewhere in today's paper
the last chapter of the Histories of the
North Carolina Regiments of Confederate
Soldiers, which is in the nature of a re-
view and summing up of the preceding
chapters. IL is from the pen, of Hon.
Walter Clark, editor of the Histories of
the Regiments. and is a fitting finale OF
the most valuable and interesting pub
LEGATION over made in the history of North
Carolina. II furnishes the basis for the
future historian of the most glorious