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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08
The Literary Outlook.
(BY HERBERT BREWSTER. }

William Hamilton Osborne, a young
lawyer of New York city, is a writer of
short stories who is just now coming
into prominence. He has sold. it is said
over seventy stories to various publica-
lions during the past six months, and,
judging from the number of magazines
and syndicates which are grinding out
his stories in current numbers and from
the announcements of more stories forth
coming from the same author, one can
well believe >that the extraordinary re-
port is truck At the same time one
must not believe that Mr.. Osborne has
written these seventy odd stories during
the same period of time. Doubtless they
represent work extending over much
more time, perhaps a year and a half.
Even this would place him among the
record breakers as a fapid workers
Fifty stories in year by man who
is supposed to be practicing the profess
sion of law in a large city is, indeed
remarkable record. There is just one
danger in this writer's case; he is likely
TO write himself out. II is possible
that he will drain his source of plots or
viii let the quality of his work deterio-
rate, if he maintains such terrific
speed. II is to be hoped that he will
continue to write, but not so many as
fifty year.
Seumas MacManus, when he was in this
country a year or so ago, used to say
that he could write a story in a day,
hut he admitted that he did not care
to try TO write a story every day At
the same time Mr.. MacManus did write
very rapidly and he succeeded in getting
his stories published in most of the best
magazines in the country. Later on in
his career. however. he saw the folly of
writing short stories for a living: he be-
gan to write novels. His latest piece
of work. long story of Donegal. his
own country. will be published in this
country and in England sometime this
spring.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

81 wish to give my testimony to
the efficiency of the Cuticura Rene
dies in what seems to me two some
what remarkable cases. / had a
number of skin tumours - small
ones on my arms which had never
given me serious trouble but about
two years ago one came on my
throat. At first it was only about as
large as a pinhead, but, as it was in
position where my collar, if not
just right, would irritate it, it soon
became very sensitive and began to
grow rapidly. Last spring il was
as large, if not larger, than bean.
A little unusual irritation of my
collar started it to swelling, and in
a day or two it was as large as
half an orange. / was very much
alarmed, and was at loss to de-
termine whether it was carbuncle
Or a MALIGNANT tTmOIlr
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

The March Century publishes the first
of two articles on "HumoB of Congress. :"
by Francis e. Leupp, who has gathered
material during several years experience
as the Washington correspondent of a
New York daily. Mr.. Leupp claims that
Congress is rarely witty, but of its thu
NOR there is no end" One of the many
capital stories he tells is of Speaker
Reed:
How much do you weigh?" fellow
member once asked Reed
Two hundred pounds" ne answered
"Pshaw," exclaimed his friend. You
weigh more than that"
No, said Reed, su'emnly; mo gentle
man weighs more .han two hundred
pounds
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

A weak stomach cannot digest enough
food to feed the tissues and revive the
tired and run down limbs and organs of
the body. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cleanses,
purifies, sweetens and strengthens the
glands and membranes of the stomach,
and cures indigestion and all stomach
troubles. w. II. King Drug Co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

A few days ago a Western man hap
pened into the office of one of the leading
publishing houses in New York and the
publisher began to ask the representa-
tative of the mountains and the plains
beyond the Mississippi what he thought
of some of the Western novels published
during tire past year or two.
What do you think is the best West
ern Action you have read?' asked the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

of South Africa, especially as affected by
the recent visit of Chamberlain to the
scenes of the late war. Mr.. Kipling
quotes as text for his verses the closing
words of the Colonial Secretary on his
departure from Cape Town: Il leave
this shore more convinced than ever that
the forces-the natural forces-that are
drawing you together are more potent
than those evil influences which would
tend to separte you Above all,
South Africa needs the best capacities
Of all of its children"
-Four of the principal stanzas of THE
Settler" are as follows:
Copyright, 1908, by Rudyard Kipling.)
Here where my fresh turned burrows run
and the deep soil glistens red,
l will repair the wrong that was done to
the living and the dead
Here where the senseless bullet fell, ard
the barren shrapnel burst
l will plant tree I will dig a we'll
against the heat and the thirst.
Here in a large and a sunlit land, where
no wrong bites to the bone,
] will lay my hand in my neighbours
hand, and together we will atone
For the set folly and the red breach and
the black waste of it all
Giving and taking counsel each over the
cattle-kraal
Earth where we rode to Stay or be slain
our love shall redeem unto life;
We will gather and lead to her lips again
the waters of ancient strife
From the far and the fercely- guarded
streams and the pools where we lay
in wait,
Till the corn cover our evil dreams, and
the young corn our hate.
Here in the wastes and the troughs Of
the plans where the healing still.
ness lies,
And the vast benignant sky restraints, and
the long days make wise
Bless to our use the rain and the sun and
the blind seed in its bed,
That we may repair the wrong that was
done to the living and the dead.
yrt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

One Minute Cough Cure strengthens the
lungs, wards off pneumonia and is a
harmless and never failing cure in all
durable cases Of Coughs, Colds and
Group. One Minute Cough Cure is pleas
ant to take, harmless and good alike for
young and old. w. II. King Drug Co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08
Kipling's New Poem.

The Settler" makes strong appeal for
South African Cancellation.
Rudyard Kipling has made another re-
markable appeal to the public sentiment
of England in q poem entitled THE Set
tier Its theme is the reconstruction
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08
OLD TIME STORIES OF THE OLD
NORTH STATE, by Mrs. L. A. Me

NoiNiIl . Ale, by MIS-. IL. a. NC
Corkle. Price. So cents Publishers:
ID. c. Heath & Co., New York
This little book is charming from cover
to cover. 1t tells in attractive style the
stories of many of the notable events in
North Cardinals history, and every well
authenticated child story connected with
the State is given. This makes it deeply
interesting to children as well as to
boys grown tall In this day when the
child is the centre of the thought of the
world, the selection of proper books for
children assumes great Importance.
Every North Carolina parent ought to
put this little volume into the hands of
his children They will devour it as
eagerly as a novel and it will whet their
appetite for reading fuller histories of
this Commonwealth, rich in historical in
cident.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08
BARNES NEW HISTORIES OF THE
UNITED STATES

HARNESS NEW HISTORIES OF THE
UNITED STATES
ELEMENTARY HISTORY. Cloth, limo,
$50 pages, with maps and illustrations.
Price 60 cents.
SCHOOL HISTORY. Half-leather. limo,
432 pages, with maps and illustrations.
Price, $1.00.
American Book Company, New York,
Cincinnati, and Chicago.
These standard and popular histories
have been thoroughly modernized, both
as to appearance and contents They in
corporate present-day views of history
and methods of teaching. The larger
book has been revised in every particular
and the smaller one entirely rewritten
by that charming and well-known writer
for children, Dr. James Baldwin.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

The BookmGn, in its current issue.
takes up the question of 1.-THE personal
pull as an authors asset and very sat
lsfactorily proves the belief in a personal
pull wrong point of view for the au-
thor to take. In spite of all that has
been said on the subject, there seems to
b. large number of ambitious writer's
who firmly believe that as outsiders they
do not stand any SHOW of getting
their products accepted. They believe
that anything from an unknown writer
is thrown aside and returned without a
reading. AS a matter of fact the pub
fishers make the most careful search
for good things among their contribu-
tons. Every house employs at least one
reader and manuscript clerk and main
tains some sort of a system for the
proper care of every manuscript which
is sent in to them. One house gets in
more than $4,000 manuscripts in years
time. Several get in between 5000 and
10000 contributions during the same
period 1t is the establishment of a sys-
tenn for giving all manuscripts proper
care and the necessity for maintaining it
which makes a personal pull impossible.
"a manuScrip sent to an editor Snd
marked Personal" on the envelope ma
turally goes in with the EDITORS mail.
AS result it is not in the record of
manuscripts received. or is likely not to
be-, and. if the editor happens to be out
of town or busy, as he generally is, the
manuscript is not read for several days.
The danger of loss is very great and
when it is taken up for consideration, in
ninety cases out of hundred, the par
ticular editor TO whom it is addressed
turns it over to the manuscript depart
ment to take its regular course with
other contributions.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

ABBoTT'S A BOY ON A FARM. BY
Jacob Abbott. Edited by Clifton John
son, with an introduction by DIR. Ivy
man Abbott. Cloth, 12mo, 1S2 pages.
Illustrated. Price, 45 cents. American
Book Company, New York, Cincinnati,
and Chicago.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

The Hobart Company in New York will
shortly issue General Charles Kings
latest novel, "A Daughter of the Sioux"
1t is said to be General Kings master
piece and will be awaited with interest
by the many admirers of General Kings
works
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

The March Atlantic contains a memoir
able paper upon the writing of history,
by Capt. A. T. Mahan. This paper, which
was recently delivered as the President
Inaugural Address before the American
Historical Association, is an authorita-
tive and Illuminating discussion of the
larger principles of historical compost
tion by one of our most eminent prac-
titioners of that art. Capt. Mahan's
conception of the plan of Providence
which in it's large fulfllment we call
history is here expounded with adj
mirable lucidity and suggestiyeness. The
paper will be helpful to all readers who
wish to read history intelligently, in CIV
ing them a clearer notion of the ideal
by which the true historian is guided
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

9 Ny friends tried to persuade me
to consult my physician but dread
ing that he would insist on using
the knife, [ would not consent to
go. Instead got a small bottle of
Cuticura Rcsolvent and box of Gu
ticura Ointment. took the former
according to directions, and spread
a thick layer of the Ointment on
linen cloth and placed it on the
swelling. On renewing it | would
battle my neck in very warm water
and Cuticura Soap. In q few days
the Cuticura Ointment had drawn
the swelling to a head, when it
broke. Every morning it was opened
with large steritized needle,
squeezed and bathed, and fresh
Ointment put on. Pus and blood,
and yellow, chccsy, humorous
matter came out. In about three or
four weeks time this treatment
completely eliminated bo' and
tumOur. The soreness that had OK
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08
DIM Ghe l6Gepa0oy W@pDd]0

ANDREws's BOTANY ALL THE YEAR
ROUND. By f. F. Andrews, High
School, Washington. Ga. Cloth, $40,
302 pages. Price, $500. American Book
Company, New York, Cincinnati, and
Chicago.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

constantly a dvisin g
others to use them. Re-
Gently l recommended
them to an Office boy for
his father, who was dis
abled with salt rheum.
The mans feet were
swollen to an enormous
size, and he had not
worked for six weeks.
Two bottles of Cuticura
Resolvent and two boxes
of Cuticura Ointment
worked a perfect cure.
You never saw q more
grateful man in your life.
-" / am very much in
terested in another case
where l have recon-
mended Cuticura just
now. My housemaid's
mother has a goitre
which had reached a
very dangerous point.
The doctors told her
that nothing could be
done ; that she could live
only two or three weeks,
and that she would die
of strangulation. She
GpaJ ~ ha,. nod
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, spreads
over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief IL I'M
mediate and cure follows It's not drying-does
not produce sneezng. Large Size, so cents at Drug
gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents.
ELY BROTHERS, sc Warren Street, Now York
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08
OCCONEECHEE FARM.

We have for sale two Shet-
land Ponies for $4,000 each.
They are beauties,
We offer also young Jersey
Cows with first calves, at
$500 each.
These young Jerseys are finely
bred, and by proper handling
ought to develop into very
choice animals.
One Fieifer ready for de-
livery. Orders booked for 5
more, to be supplied in the
order received, and when the
jersey is ready.
OCCONEECHEE,
HILLsBORo, N. C.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

Weekly under date of March 18th, Col
liers having made arrangements with
Mr.. Kipling to publish exclusively in
America all his poems on political and
timely topics that are printed in the
London Times"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

SMOKE La Josephine" and young
Fritz"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

and was unable to speak, when her
daughter, at my suggestion, tried
the effect of the Cuticura Ointment
and Cuticura Resolvent. Strange to
say, she was very shortly relieved of
the most distressing symptoms. The
swelling seemed to be exteriorized,
and she is now able to be around
her house, and can talk as well as
ever.
1t seems to me that l have pretty
good grounds for believing that
Cuticura Remedies Will prove sue
cessful n the most distressing forms
of blood and skin humours, and If
you wish to use my testimonial as
herein indicated, am willing that
you should do so, with the further
privilege of revealing my name and
address to such persons as may wish
to substantiate the above state
mcnts by personal letter to me.
Chicago, Nov. -, 1902.
ivilizod world. PRICES: Cuticura ResolTents
Pills, CSC. per vial of 60); Cuticura Ointment,
Send for the great work, Humours OF tho
British Depot, 1928 Charterhouse So, Lon
/, Australian Depot, r. Towns & Co., sydney
TION, Sole Props, Boston, U.S.A.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

There is activity in all publishing
circles just now. During the present
week, there will appear scores of new
books-most of them novels. The pub
fishers have found quicker means of get
ting out their products and as result
the fall and winter work of the authors
can be brought out in the spring seasons
There are exceptions only in the case
of such novels as are neld first for
specialization. The present season is
larger at this time than any previous
season has been so early in the year.
fishing world are becoming shorter year
by year. few of the fortunate pub
fishers have been able to go abroad for
few weeks this winter, but for most
of them, the work has become as con-
tinuous a grind as that of their clerks.
Mr.. W. PETIT Ridge is a story teller of
an enyiable reputation. Only a few days
ago, in lecture on Dialogue and Re-
partee, he related the following:
"A woman who had been selling fish
entered an omnibus with her basket on
her arm,-empty, it is true, but with
an unmistakable odor clinging to it.
She sat down beside a young man who
drew his coat tails away and plainly
showed his disgust 81 s'pose," said the
woman, presently, that you'd rather
there was a gentleman sstting besides
you?" yes, | would" was the prompt
reply. a pause, then-"So would L."
"A plain statement of the truth" said
the author in his lecture, lis sometimes
more effective than any intended re-
partee." He proved it by telling about
a small girl in Clerkenwell who was
sent out with still smaller child. "thc
| youngest baby in the family" Draw
from her charge, however, by the attrac-
/ tons of hop scotch, she placed the little
enc on the curb and joined in the game
/ The baby crswled into the road and con
/ seQuently the traffic was congested. II
was rescued by a policeman, who, taking
| it to the little girl. Indignantly asked
Us this your baby?" "No. sir" she said
Its mothers" Mr.. Petit Ridge told an.
other story of a woman who was lament
| ing the death of her husband III these
worlds: mo, / can't forget i'm! II,
was good husband. Somehow l cant
get i'm out of me ead-and he's beer
/ dead a week."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08

publisher. The Westerner had read
widely.
We'll" he drawled in reply, there
was book brought out several months
ago called The End of the Trail by a
fellow named Mason. He knew what he
was talking about That's the best
Western novel I've seen"
They fell to talking of Western types
and the former cowboy and miner ex
claimed:
There is one Red Saunders floating
around in a book who is all right He s
true. That man Phillips who wrote the
book must have lived out there for
long time and known Red Saunders.
I'd be willing to bet that both Mason
and Phillips lived out West for a number
Of years if they are not Western men.
L don't happen to know either one of
them"
THE trouble with most Western fc-
ton he went on, 'is that it is written
by Eastern men who go out West for a
few weeks to get a lot of Impressions.
They go TO ranch and the owner is
naturally, very glad to turn his COW
punchers loose for the benefit of the
writer's, but they don't get the real cow
puncher that way. You've got to live
with him and be one of his kind Same
with the miner or any other kind of
Western ment."
The publishers of a life of Andrew
Carnegie, recently published, made a
curious lot of errors in connection with
the indeXing of the book which many of
the books readers would like to have
explained Most of the subjects con-
suited in the index cannot be found on
the pages given for the references One
can scarcely understand how such a con-
dition of affairs got beyond the proof
readers. One reader has tried to figure
out that the paging in the index must
refer to the pages in the authors manu-
script which contained the references,
but why the index should have been made
up in this form is another puzzle. Per-
haps the publishers will shortly make
clear the mystery of these blind refer
ences in the Carnegie life and stop the
wear and tear of mental machinery which
is now going on among the baffled read
ers of the book.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-03-12
GINEsILLO.

ti6n, por entender que sufrir1an perjui-
clos otras personas. Nos place esta
rectificacl0n; conocemos al sef1or Me
YES y mucho nos hab1a extrafado que
cometiese ninguna incorrecci0n, que
fuera contraria q su proceder honrado.
"A bordo del <Philadelhiao y pro-
cedente de La Guayra yenian con desti-
no esta ciudad dos pasaieross Ell va
por esta en- la obligation de sufrir cua-
rentena marchandose esta tarde tie
nen los pasajeros que seguir en- Ell va
por rumbo distinto trasladarse para
cumplir las prescripciones de aquella
la barca existente en- nuestro puerto con
ell indicado fin.
Los doctores Carbonell, Santoni
y Cordova, han establecido un consul
torio medico en- los baios de la casa de
don Joaquin Ferran, situada en- la plaza
principal esquina Ia Villa. Intervie-
ne como administrator ell Lcdo. en- far
macia don Francisco Giol Texidor.
Mediante la adquisicion de un tikes Gu
yo valor es de setenta Y cinco centavos,
Ell paciente tiene derecho q ser reconoci-
do y obtener medicamento que prescri-
ban los sefores facultativos.
Los policfas Regelio Castillo,
Juan Albizu, Jose Soltero Francisco
Quintana, que agredieron & Pancho
Quintana ocasionandole diversas heri-
das y contusiones, denuncian este (
medida que para aquellos Sc sefIala como
fanza solamente la cantidad de trescien-
tos pesos aquel Sc exigi0 seiscientos.
Parece que las garant1as y la justicia
que hemos tenido por un corto espacio
de tempo Sc van ausentando precipita-
damente.
-Muchos pasageros que han llega-
con que ell yiaje Sc ha llevado cabo in
yirtiendose dos horas y cuarto:. Una
de las causas principales es la falta de
de los jefes de estacion ad-
mitiendo una carga superior d la que
puede arrastrar la maquinaria, de modo
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-03-12

co. Sin duda aIguna no Sc habran exl- VI
tado las causas que motivaron las que1as
anteriores. co.
En- La morada del senor don Gar,
los Cabrera Sc ha llevado q ca6o una una
reunion con ell fin de organizar los les<
teios Y recepci6n que han de llevarse
cabo en- obseqHio de la senorita Alice
Roosevelt que nos yisitara muy en- bI.e- bre-
We. Asistieron dicha reunion ell fre-
sidente de la Corte de Distrito, senor
Joto Nusa, ell iefe de Correos, ei seno1 nor
iuez de paz don Emilio Cortada, don
Enrique Fritze, don Pedro Juan Besosa
Y otros caballeros -cuyos nombres no re-
cordamos. Fue nombrada una comlsion
principal con la cual han de entenderse
las distintas sub-comisiones.
-Por ell vapor Ponce han sldo en-
BARBADOS con destino los Estados Uni
dos seis mil y pico de sacos de azhcar,
Y por ell Philadelphia, una gran cantl-
dad de barriles de chinas.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1903-03-12
Don Enrinne FrituoL

Don Enrique Fritze ha s;do
brado Tesorero de los fondos osuo o. non.
recolecten para los festejo8 que w qae u ! ss
buten & la senorita Roosevelt '0 Sc tri.
El baritone senor Mench.
muestra altamente satisfecho s,iaca do 4 Sc
ci6n que le tributaron despu6s - IA u ovs-
cierto del domingo sus admirado""Talc "Tl Con-
Nuestro querido amigo doa r.
los Diaz, de Juana Diaz, Sc encueot,. cu oa',
Sc nos informa que los Oh.
que existen entire los prohom5raalss 5alsules g
republicanismo Sc hacen extensir,u vel
los no prohonabres. Recientem9asr,t@s q a
fue suspendido cierto negocio doa e F le
publicanos que trabajaron en- los ' re re-
mas elecciones, por haberse neg.5a 5,'l, .
dar participation en- el & un hermssnaoo y
un concejal. Que mucha raz6n lU Tue ~
Abril al afrmar que la moral habia INV In
do de Grecia y de Ponce Du