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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
THE MARCH SMART SET.I

In variety and value of contents the
March number of The Smart Set is the
best yet issued of this maya
zine. "Araby," novelette, by the
Baroness Won Hutton, heads the number.
The story is one of great charm; it is as
realistic as romantic, and it conveys i'll
crisp dialogue and movement vivid pic
lures of modern life in phases as num-
erous as are the characters of the nara
tive. There is a lesson in "Araby" and
that a powerful one: but there is. first
and always, the story itself, vital and
human, the story of an unusual passion
in which the instinct of the primitive saw
age and the conditions of our twentieth
century civilization meet and war The
author has achieved a work of fiction at
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ing printed. The complete work will
not be ready for three years.

not De ready LOT lUTe6 years.
The title of Prince of Literary Hacks"
which Andrew Lang is said to glory in
seems likely to pass to another, an Eng
lishman, who, heretofore, has been known
more for his ability to play tennis and
expound rules of diet and training than
for his capacity to write many books.
Mr.. Eustace H. Miles is the gentleman S
name. He makes the modest claim that
last year he wrote twenty books. Most
of these are said to be on training or
eating The last one of the lot, however,
is of a different character, and tells how
to prepare essays, lectures, etc. When
Mr.. Miles has nothing else to do he
dashes OFF articles for the newspaper
press. AT the present time there are Il
series OF these running IN England and
the United States. vi course, tnls news
paper work is afterwards made use Of
Tor volumes OF BOOKS, but as each Dook
Is supposed to contain 10000 TO $4,000
worus at least, II may be seen that the
author Is a busy man. Mr.. Miles regu-
lar occupation is thGt or instructor III
hlngs college, cambridge. AT the pres
enL time he As engaged on library OF
r. Benson, the author or "Dodo' and
several otner movers. Mr.. Benson HIM
SELF Is We'll known athlete and Mr.
Mics, the coming champion all round
literary hack, now nolds the honor or
champion amateur tennis player or Eng
land and America. some OF MS literary
methods may be understood upon reading
his iast BOOK, just puDllsned i'll this coun-
try. AT intervals IN the volume the
author has inserted rhymes evidently
his own for the direction of the be-
ginner. The following viii serve to il
lustrate:
Don't write, but first think out your
aims.
Your public and the topics claims.
Define by contrast, illustrations, eX-
amples and exaggeratIons.
Use general list, objections, state.
And meet; but don't eXaggerate.
Collect main headings; then collect
headings; underline reject.
Ideas should be the authors own, seen
clear by his own eyes,
Free from wrong aims, omissions, bias,
fallacies and lies.
Music and balance, contrasts, tropes
and rhetoric should be seen.
Then punctuation, grammar, language,
where good use is queen.
Give evidence, points of view and fall
lacies (alasD
Geography and public works-the folk
90 of every class.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
HOW BOOK BUYING HAS INCREASED

Formerly the buying of book was a
matter of considerable Importance. 1t
was felt to be a bit of extravaganza, an
expenditure which was easily avoidable.
Books could be borrowed or taken from
a library; they were pleasant things to
have about; they gave an air of refine
ment and intelligence to a room or a
house; but it was easy to get along with
cut them. People bought tickets for a
concert, a lecture, for the opera or the
theatre, and thought it entirely legiti-
mate to spend a little money for recrea-
ton and refreshment. When these same
people thought of buying a book which
cost no more than a single ticket to a
concert. and not half as much as a ticket
to an opera they hesitated. They We're
not in the habit of buying books, and
they were in the habit of buying tickets
to all kinds of entertainments; that was
the difference. Now people have formed
the habit of reading and buying books
it does not seem to them any more eX-
travagant to pay dollar or dollar and
quarter for a novel than for concert
w Mabie, in the March
Ladies' Home Journal.
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color by a new process which marks the
latest advance in the art.

CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF NORTH CARO-
LIMA AND THE UNITED STATES, by
Sidney M. Finger. Revised to accord
with changes in the law by w. b.
Gather, Esq, of Newton. Publishers
The University Publishing Company,
New York
This book has had an extensive use in
the schools and the new edition has been
printed to make it conform to the changes
in the law. To it's preparation the late
Major S. NJ Finger devoted much research
and labor, and it was endorsed by leading
teachers and public men, 1t is of value
to all citizens, particularly to all teachers
and young men and women who are
studying the duties which citizenship i'm
poses.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02

The March issue of Success" opens
with an interesting analysis of the life
work of Guglielmo Marconi written by
Herbert Wallace, a well-known authority
on scientific matters who, for the past
three years, has followed Mr.. Marconi
in his many undertakings. Mr. Wallace
reveals to us the qualities that made the
young inventor finally successful in flash
ing the message across the Atlantic
Ocean without a WIRE and shows that
Mr. Marconi, during his many years of
experiment, overcame obstacles that one
might suppose would make the most
optimistic and courageous give up.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02

Cherokee Scout

Candidates must not only pat us on
the back and say we are publishing the
best paper in the country, but they must
go down into their jeans and come
across with the dough-, if they expect
us to say anything good ofethem. This
is not hint but plain English.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
A GROWING MAGAZINE.

The success of Doubleday, Page &
Company's new magazine, Country Life
in America, is marked by an increase in
the number of pages and the widening
of it's scope to include a greater variety
of out door interests. The demand for
the February issue was so large that the
number was out of print, in so far as
the publishers were concerned, before
the first day of February.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
AMERICANS ARE GREAT READERS

1.-THE habit of reading is becoming ma
tjonal in this country" writes Hamilton
w. Mabie, in his Literary Talk in the
March Ladies' Home Journal. There is
great and increasing number or
Americans who read habitually for in
formation, for instruction and for pleas
ure. And, with a few exceptions, this
multitude of readers selects good books
books which have some striking quality
OF thought or style or dramatic interest.
Books which were widely read twenty
years ago would receive small attention
today. The readers who can appreciate
The Choir Invisible Hugh Wynne,' The
Cavalier and THE Ruling Passion
would find neither profit nor amusement
in many of the stories which were popu-
lar twenty years ago. With few excep-
tions the novels which have reached d
sale of two or three hundred thousand
have been wholesome in tone and many
Of them have been excellent in FORM
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02

AUDREY by Miss Mary Johnson. Illus
trated in colors by f. c. Yohn. Price.
$3.50 Publishers: Houghton, Mifflin G.
Co. Boston.
few weeks ago Doubleday, Page e.
Co. published 1.-The Writings of Colonel
William Byrd of Westover. in Virginia,
Es.,', edited by Prof. ]. S. Bassett. mem
Der of the faculty of Trinity College,
North Carolina. Those whose good for
tune it has been to read these letters will
find it a preparation for the thorough en-
ioyment of Audrey the new novel by
Miss Mary Johnson just issued by Hough-
ton. Miffln G. Co.. for Col William Byrd
of Westover, the most accomplished and
wittiest Virginian of his time" figures iE
Miss Johnson's new story His daughter,
the famous beauty, Evelyn, also plays
an important contrast to the woodland
heroine Audrey. It would be hard to
find two more charming characters in
fiction.
Audrey is the name of the heroine of
the novel. She is an orphan. a dreamy
child of nature, the protege of Marmaduke
Harvard, a gallant young Virginia planter
&C the 18th century. She and the stately
Miss Evelyn Byrd become rivals for tho
love of Harvard. The story takes us to
williamsburg. Virginia's ancient capital,
and gives views of the life of Colonial
Virginia at its best. 1t is a story Of
absorbing interest, its historical setting
adding to the delight of the charming love
story. 1t is easily the best story that
has come from Miss Johnsons pen. and
this is nigh praise to give to the latest
novel by the author of ITO Have and to
Hold" and THE Prisoners of Hope" 1t
shows growth in the real power of au-
thorship. There. is revealed more ''maturi-
ty of observation. joined with a profound
~ poetic Interpretation of nature and OF
human passion:
Colored Illustrations make the book ur-
usually attractive. Mr.. F. c. Yohn. the
we'll known artist has caught the spirit
of the author most successfully, and his
six striking pictures are reproduced in
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I'M THE LITERARY WORLD.

once absolutely distinctive and wholly
fascinating. 1t is one of the best novel
cites yet published in The Smart Set. In
sossaying we give it the highest praise.
RHIEHLS DAS SPIELMANSKIND
AND DER SUMMER RATSHEER. Edit
ed, with notes and vocabulary, by
George M. Priest, A. NJ, Instructor in
German. Princeton University Cloth,
12mo 134 pages. Price. 35 cents. Ameri-
can Book Company, New York Cincin-
natl, and Chicago.
Among the most intimate of the poet
Tennyson's American friends was Cap
tain w. Gordon McCabe, of Virginia
who visited him both at Farrinsfor6 and
Aldworth, at various times from 1854 to
1892. Captain McCabe,, with the con-
sent of the present Lord Tennyson, has
contributed to the Century an article of
personal recollections of the laureate
which sets forth in a variety of aspects
his intellectual and domestic life. Some
interesting autographs accompany the
article, and portrait from photograph
by Barraud. Among the topics treated of
are Tennyson as a host, as a reader of
his own poems, and as a smoker, his
table talk about Thackeray and Shakes
peare, his methods of work, etc, etc;
and there is a very curious story CON
corning his fathers escape from an en-
barraSsing and dangerous position in the
Russian court
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A LATER LETTER.

Dear Sirs-Have improved some since
writing you before, only occasional cough
and very little discharge from nose. Feel
ing much better My hearing is much inn
proved now; not so much roaring in my
head since Duffys has brought my blood to
a healthier condition and motion.
Sincerely yours. W. SCOTT.
March 81, 1901
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02

en- the pages of written book,
Though they to all may beauteously
shine,
Yet every one with his own eyes may
look
And one alone the writer's thought
divine.
But whether books be meadows fresh
and green,
Or whether they but cultured gardens
be-
Whoever rambles through them still
must CLEAN
Only such flowers as he has eyes to see
ADA CRANAHAN.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
THE ODD PENNIES.

THE ODD PENNIES.
For the sake of saving odd
pennies don't buy an inferior
emulsion when you really need
SCOTS Emulsion.
The difference in price is
pennies. The difference in re-
suits is pounds-pounds of
new hesh-and days of
strength. and comfort.
Those who have lost flesh
can regain it more quicklIby
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02

The publishing season is really begin
ming another strenuous session. Within
the next week scores of spring books will
be placed on the shelves of the dealers.
Already the increase of advertising mat
ter in the literary journals is evidence
CT coming busy period for the book
men. OF the books just published, Mr..
Stephen Phillips Ulysses" is attracting
the most attention from purely literary
Those who have read it
carefully declare that it is a splendid
work of poetic Imagination, Astounding in
beautiful verse and executed with the
strength of a wonderful talent" Frank
Il. Stocktons Kate Bonnet" and a new
novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett are
among the first of the new books, and
these will be followed shortly by Mary
Johnstons Audrey and Conan DoylC's
Hound of the Baskervilles." OF these
books, doubtless DR.. Doyle's book will
take the lead in point of sales, because
there are so many admirers of Sherlock
Holmes waiting to read more of the al
ventures of their hero. DR.. Doyle's re-
markable defense of the English govern
ment in their conduct of the Boer war
has just been issued. 1t is a book of
some forty or fifty thousand words and is
placed on sale at the remarkably low
price of ten cents a copy. The price was
fixed by the author at the cost of pro
duction, it being his desire to give his
defense as wide a circulation as possible.
AS a contrast to book which glorifes
warfare as this one does, Ernest Cros-
by's Captain links, Hero" should be
I G a
and one of the chief characters in
the volume is Kaiser Wilhelm The
publishers expect the book to stir up
something of a sensation, because it will
be issued just about the time of of Prime
Henry's visit to this country. 1t was
said that the author objected to this
plan, because he feared it would subject
him to severe criticism, but the publish
ers reply that, since the book was in
hand long before the visit of the Ger
man prince was contemplated, they see
no reason for delaying it's issue now.
Andrew Carnegie, it would seem, is di-
viding his time between writing checks
for libraries and writing books. At any
rate, another volume from his pen-oT
from his secretary's typewritcr-will APP
pear shortly The volume will be called
THE Province of Business" or some
thing of the kind, and coming from such
a successful man of business doubtless
there will be many who will want to
read the book. In a recent address be-
fore the Authors Club in New York, Mr..
Carnegie said that he had been twice
blackballed by the organization before
finally being admitted. On the first oc-
casion he thought the reason was that 1T
was suspected that he was not the au'
thor of the book he claimed, and the sec
ond time he was rejected because no man
could be both rich and a good author
HERBERT BREWSTER.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02

Philadelphia, Pa, March 10, 1901;
Dear Sirs-I have now used four bottles
of your Malt Whiskey, and think l owe my
life to this whiskey. am % years ola ana
have had catarrh of tie nose throat and
head for twenty-five years or more. am
hard of hearing. About six weeks ago
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
CATARRH CURED,
HEARING RESTORED.
After Is Years of Suffering with Catarrh Which Caused
Deafness, MIR. W. Scott Was Completely Cured by
DUFFY'S PURE MALT WHISkEY.

was so sick could not eat, sleep and hardly
able to walk. Felt more like dying than
living. Was under a doctors care and
taking all kinds OF drugs and medicine,
douches. solutions in nose, etc. The doctor
nearly blew my head away with powerful
air pump--ncd,cdted ar he called it. 1t
did absolutely nothing in my case. threw
everything away medicine, air pump,
douches-and commenced on Duffy's Pure
Malt Wniskey. J, felt better from the start
| take one ounce with water before and
after each meal and at bedtime, and now.
after using four bottles, ! can eat and drink
and sleep well, and feel better to-day than
/ have for twenty years. / was opposed to
all kinds of liquor and used none for twenty
five years / use Duffy's as medicine
only, and shall continue to use it as long as
| live if can get it, ! know it will keep
me alive, and may in time improve my
hearing. hope it will.
Yours very sincerely, w. SCOTT.
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with the case. Instead of a dramati;
scene. which the reader expected, Mr.
Chestnut ends this episode of the story
in the following way:
AS we have seen, the charge against
Campbell had been made against the
whole colored race. All over the Uni
ted States the Associated Press has
flashed the report of another das-
tardly outrage by a burly black brute
all black brutes, it seems, are
hurly-and of the impending lynching
with it's prospective horrors. This
news, being highly sensa tional in it's
character had been displayed in large
black type on the front pages Of the
daily papers. The dispatch that fol-
lowed, TO the effect that the accused
had been found innocent and the
lyrchng frustrated, received slight
attention, if any, in a fine-print para
graph on an inside page. The facts of
the case never came out at all. The
family honor of the Delameres was
preserved, and the prestige of the
white race in Wellington was not Sc
riously impaired
Almost all the white personages of tn.
pooh udVS very uIdch SOULS. IHey ue-
stroy wills. thereby depriving the blacks
of their rights. They hamper them ir
their progress. They do not give them
any chance at all. The book is undoubt
eddy an exaggeration, as Uncle Toms
Cabin was an exaggeration. But in spite
of this, and deep down beneath style and
construction and climax, one recognizes
the underlying strength of man who
thinks. 1t is the cry of one human sou
against the great injustice which he feels
is being done his race. +. NJ. H.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-28
CHARGED With BURNING CHURCH
Supreme Court Hears a Case Which has Cen
fury Feud in It

A most interesting case has been ar
gued here in the Supreme court this week.
1t is that of Alexander Mccall, of Mellow
ell county, who, being convicted of the
burning of a Methodist church and SEN
tcnced to five years in the States Pris-
on has appealed.
On account of local surroundings the
case was removed from Mcdowell to
Burke. 1t appears that this is between
the Brown and Mccall claims of Nc
Dowell, said to date back as hundred
years. At one time Mccall was tried
on charge of burning a barn of Rom
Brown but was acquitted. Later the
Concord Methodist church was burned
and Mccall was charged with aiding in
this and was convicted. One of the
strange arguments advanced was that he
did this in order to convey the impress
sion that some others were fire bugs. He
is reported TO be a great church singer.
In this church burning case it is
charged that Mccall employed a man
named Keaton to set fire to the church.
He was convicted, the Browns aiding in
the prosecution. Many lawyers were en-
ployed in the case.
In the hearing this week on appeal be-
fore the Supreme court Mccall was rep
resented by Messrs. Locke Craig, R. S.
General Gilmer, E. J. Justice and Jno.
T. Perkins represented the State. The
decision of the Supreme court is awaited
with much interest, especially by the
adherents Of the two clans.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-28
The Hackmen Fined.

Two negro hackmen, Charles Sander
ford and Adolphus Holman, who en-
gagged in an ARRAY and disorderly con-
duct at the depot Tuesday morning, were
each tried before Justice Maroon yes
terday morning and fined $100 and costs
each. strict oversight should be kept
of these hackmen for their squabbles at
the depot are of frequent occurrence, and
they are very often a nuisance to visi-
tors to Raleigh. Between their i'm
portunities and that of the drivers of
baggage wagons the incoming guest has
often a hard time.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-28
A JULES VERNE GUN
Flash! Boom! And off You
Wh'zz to the Moon.
A Monslrous Coast Defence Gun That HurIs a
Two Thousand Pound Shell twenty
one Niles.
(By the Associated Press

Albany, n. Y, Nov. 26.-The big TO-
inch coast defense gun which was manu-
featured at the Watervliet arsenal, was
shipped today on the Merritt Chapman
Company's largest barge to the Sandy
Hook proving grounds, and will reach
there some time Friday. The largest
crane in the world had to be pressed into
service to load the gun on the barge on
which it is being transported down the
Hudson River.
Under the direction of Colonel Farley,
commandant at the arsenal, the gun was
loaded on a specially constructed car
weighing 34,37O pounds, and slowly
moved to the arsenal dock. where, by
means of the crane and mammoth der
rick, it swung onto the barge.
The following are the dimensions of
this great weapon of coast defense;
Length over all 40 feet, 80 inches.
Diameter at breech, 5 feet.
Bore 16 inches.
It's construction was begun May IA,
1898, and it was finished June II. 1902
Some faint idea of its power can be OBJ
tanned by the statement that it shoots a
projectile weighing 1870 pounds a dist
ance of Il miles. If smokeless powder
is used it will require $40 pounds or
about 1000 pounds of black powder
The crude steel from which the gun was
assembled weighed 36S,000 pounds. 1t
has cost. in material, labor, and ma
chinery, about $150,0O0. A large amount
of new machinery had to be made for
the work; one of the largest cranes in
the world, if not the largest one built,
to handle it; new lathes We're secured
and an immense amount of new ma
chinery was purchased. The cost was so
great that it is doubtful if any more of
similar size will be built. When it was
decided to build this gun it was the in
tention of the government to construct
about twenty 16-inch guns, but the
cost has been such that the project
probably will be abandoned.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-28
BULLETS AGAIN FLY.
Though the General Strike in Havana is Prac-
tically Over.
(By the Associated Press

Havana, Nov. 26.-With the exception
of the cigar makers all classes of labor
ers returned to work this morning, and
business generally has resumed its nor
NAL condition The cigar makers still
have few minor points under discus
sion.
The authorities had begun to think
that there was no fear of further dis
turbance, but there still remains feel
ing of animosity in the hearts of some
of the more demonstrative strikers
against the motormen and car conduc-
tors, who are blamed for breaking up
the general strike by the refusal to go
out. Threats we're made during the
afternoon in outlying wards to do these
men injury, and these menaccs culmi-
mated at dark this evening in an assault
upon several cars. Shots were fired
from house tops in Belascoain street and
a motorman and two passengers were
shot, the motorman being fatally injured
All the rural guards, with the eXcep-
ton of those in Columbia district, were
summoned to duty in Havana. The
streets through which cars are running
are patrolled by the guards, and two
companies of artillery are stationed IN
the asenal and Treasury building ready
to assist the police, though it is thought
that there will be no further disorder.