The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-14

BASED on Acts 27:22-24. He preached one
hour and fifteen minutes. The first fifty
ii-iuteS was of most marked power.
Ai'eF mat he changed his sermon. and
NoHhpleled the striking line of thought in
. qulel. almost colloquial tone. These
" sermons are most memorable and
satisfying. / learn from the preface TO
ms volume issued since | heard the ser
mons that he never wrote a sermon in
his life.
read quite recently in a Northern
ollicaI magazine that DR.. sam johnson
was the author of the fine savin-"And
.ouched nothing that he did not adorn.
MIC" ne was referring TO that delight
u poet and prose writer. oliver Cold
9nhlth' ana that it occurs in the epitaph
ne wrote upon his friend. But is it no,
q translation from a Latin source? There
are some Latin verses that run as fol-
roWs' Dut l do not know the authorship:
oul lnultum fere scribendi genus
Non teIigit
>ullum quod teligit non amavit.
Did Johnson write the Latin a1soo
| purposely write above verses instead
OF verse and why? Verse means one
line. 1t is common to hear preachers
giving cut Sing the three first verses.
meaning really the first three stanzas.
1t IS wrong also to say three first" nv
thlng; that is an mpossibilfty
ny the way, a long chapter could be
written by a competent explorer correct
'ng Quotations from profane and sacred
writer's. Scriptural Interpretations abound
al lnfnitum. Memory is very trcacher-
Gus and VIII deceive the most wary.
Reading the other day / came across a
sentence in Latin that would be q good
text Tor a political essay at this time
Tor certain fellows in our State. The
sentence reads: Temporal mutantur ct
nos mutantur in ills" The translation
IS: The times are hanged, and we are
changed with them That means that
there is nothing fixed or stable. either
IL situations or opinions. Alas: that is
so true. and particularly among Shiny.
easV-golng politicians. and office hunt rS.
and grub grabbers. Some one has put
the above sentiment into quotable verses:
Men change with fortune, manners
change with climes,
Tenets with books, and PRINCIPLES with
times"
How few politicians have fixed. iufexl-
bic principles. who never stwobble" or
wander from the right, but stand firm
and unbcnding, the same last year or
twenty years ago or forever. Men learn
II they have brains, but they do not be-
tray parties or sell out for loavcs and
fishes. That is, if they are not Of easy
political virtue and are as unstable as
water and corrupt as Satan.
Let me gather a few literary items
here. There is more stupid trash pub
liShed now as poetry, and in book form,
than ever before. 1t is pitiful to glance
on such volumes in which there is no
art, no inspiration, no good quality of
any kind. Here IS a stanZa from a re
cent volume called 'Visions of Life" by
a Northern scribbler Of verse:
And while we keenly miss her,
Let us remember still
That dear Miss Willard left us
Because it was Gods will"
What a very remarkable face "Rare
Zen Jonson" had. 1t is full OF intellect
ual power, and Of q certain human beau
ty. He was the first of English Poet
I~aureates, was appointed in. 1916, anG
! with the exception of Tennyson, who was
appointed in 1850, (the fourteenth) was
of the most striking intellectually Of
countenance. William Morris was an
other poet of most engaging face. In
youth he was eminently handsome, and in
! middle age of fascinating attractions.
His poetry and novels are not read as
i ! 1~,y ~I0"lI no H. ,rar - pA~. 80 Nv
| poet, of much originality and uniqueness,
and his prose is very unlike that which
attracts the hosts of readers now There
are several biographies Of this original
and agreeable author, (to those who rel
ish genuine literature) and the last Just
issued is by Elizabeth Luther Cary,
price $500, published by Putnam
Of New York. 1t is entitled:
| civilian Morris: Poet, Craftsman,
| and Socialist" He is really one OF
| the most original writer's Of the last forty
| years. He was born in Essex, England,
in 1884. He died a few years ago. AT
| one time he thought Of the ministry, be
ing "impelled by the sensuous beauty OF
| ritualistic Worship as q writer IN the New
| York Critic expresses it, but he abandoned
| the idea, and gave himself to art. to poe
try, to benefiting his fellows in another
| field.
Miss Ellen Glasgow, of Virginia, is
| both novelist and poet. Her last book
| she calls "Thc battle-ground" 1t is not
| so we'll received as her earlier books. y
writer in the New York Critic SAYS:
Her carly books were vizualiZed witt
almost startling distinctness, and lett on
the readers mind a definite and deeply
etched picture. In the present volume
the edge of the e~tching-tool seems blunt
cd. The book is simply a wartime story
like many others. In spite of its subJec'
it does not take hold.
She published a volume Of verses re
Gently that are we'll prepared, and q fe"
rod mnrn not far hpiOW true nOotrN