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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
THE RACE PROBLEM.

Having done with the rhetoric of which we have spoken about. DuBois goes into statistics to show what the negro colleges have already done, in the way of train ing teachers and leaders for the race. He shows further that the supply of negro teachers is stiH insufficient and says that there are in the United States thir- ty-four institutions giving above high school training to the negroes. Then he adds that six institutions. Atlanta, Fisk. Howard Wilberforce and Leland, are the important negro colleges so far. Which enumeration rather produces the unde- sired effect of making the reader feel that the negro Is pretty we'll equipped as to opportunities for getting Latin, Greek, mathematics, philosophy-to which Du- Bois attaches so much importance as civ- ilizing agents.
 The next paper, by Charles W, Chesnutt. is on '"The Dlsfranchisement of the Me- sro." Chesnutt Is of the opinion that the people of his race. though heavily ham dicapped, have made such rapid progress that the suspicion is justified that their advancement, rather than any stagnation or retrogression. Is the true secret of the virulent Southern hostility. By this state ment the author displays his utter lack of knowledge of the true state of affairs Taken all together. the book is worth reading and will doubtless do more good than a great deal of the political ranting which Is making the rounds of the news papers. Uames, Pott & Co, New York;.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

statesmanship q plead" he says, flor industrial education and development for the negro not because want to cramp him, but because I want to free him. He speaks further of the fact that the training of slavery left the negro at the end of the war, in possession of nearly all the common and skilled labor of the South, and he adds that for nearly twenty years afterwards the value of the indus trial education given by the plantation was overlooked. Hence, the present generation of negroes. largely ignorant of how to do any useful thing; hence also. the crying need of the work for which Tuskegee Institute stands.
 The title of the article by William E. B. DuBois, of the Atlanta Negro University, is "Tae Talented Tenth" His text $ that the negro race, like all races, Is going to be saved by the exceptional men. The problem of education among negroes must, first of all. deal with the Talented Tenth. It Is, a problem of development of the best of the race that they may guide the mass of the race away from contain- ination and destruction of their own and other races. Do you think that If the leaders of thought among the negroes are trained ard educated thinkers that they will have no leaders? is pertinent ques- ton which he asks. It is true. as he says. that | hundred half-trained demagogues will still ho ldthe place they SO largely ocupy now, and hundreds of vociferous busy-bcdies will multiply.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
By Aron Nosirrah

old conception; not in the antithesis to truth, not prettification of fact or falsi- fication thereof, but a more forcible pre-. sentation of truth itselt. Hence In the books that do not finch in setting down the dark and terrible In human life. we recognize a kind of beauty "the still sad music of humanity" Thus the notion of the aesthetic has been stretched to admit more of life, of reality. And 1t is only in the literature of the last half century that this beautiful lesson has been learned.
 Though Lamb seemed to challenge ''The right to be- of the literature of the Nineteenth Century. when he said that for every new work that appeared he read an old one; We think he would have been more respectful of the new, had he with persistent thought considered that We are Their of the ages" and that all that has gone before mtfst be moulding in- fuences In the unfolding of larger designs. Our conception of art, all art, widens only, as we build upon the past. With the receeding heights at our feet as foun- dalton stones. we rise to higher albeit more etherial elevations. Literature. and life, which some one has said makes literature possible must reach still further summts in progress. ever carry ing forward the truth which has irra- dated the past.
 It has been thought that there could be no development in the world of music the art of the emotional side of human nature-that the old masters of a given period had sung the song that told the story, and might never be repeated; but behold! master arose in that wonderful! Nineteenth Century, who by the strength of his descriptive genius voiced the human instinct as 1t had never been uttered be- fore.
 The Literary Riches of the Nineteenth Century-The variety and quality, and the great number of representatives in the literary world of the century just past, Is a record of excellence In creative work. degree of enthusiasm possesses us as we review the names of conspicuous writers in the English language. Shelly and Byron and Keats; and Eliot and Hawthorne: Dickens and Thackery: Wordsworth and Coleridge; Scott and Stephenson; Poe. Tennyson. Sw1nburne, Browning, Carlysle and Ruskin, Lamb and Hurst and irving whitman and Kip ling; Emerson and Lowell and all of the philosophic as well is that ingenius train of local dialect writers. This skim ming glance. ever. reveals literary rich ness calculated to produce a reverential admission for. and belief in the present. That literature has responded to the law of advancement which the scientific and material world discloses, we are permit ted to be happy in observing-that and not backward Is the universal trend.
 Aron Nosirrah.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

This work is composed of a series of articles by Booker Washington, William E. B. DuBois, Charles W. Chestnut, Milford H. Smith, Paul Lawrence Dun bar (the negro poeO, H. T. Healing and T. Thomas Fortune. As showing the light in which the educated negro views his own and the white mans problem of the ultimate and final solution of the race question this book is valua- ble addition to the discussion. Of course the Southerner cannot agree to Its entire category of propositions and statements; but it is by far the least radical of any of the books published solely represent ing the negro side of the issue.
 The writers of the articles in this work are perhaps the few negroes best known outside of the awful veil' as William E. DuBois calls the color line; and 1t is also an iuteresting fact that the writers do not agree Indeed some of them attack ing each other. Booker Washington prob ably receives the most censure by the other writers. Booker Washington writes the leading and best article.
 William DuBois. the representative of the negroes Of Northern education, the persistent and even clamorous advocate of high learning for his race, offers a paper much longer than Washington's. It is out of taste and exceedingly extreme in it's tone.
 Booker Washington explicitly declares that he sets no limits to the attainments of the negro in arts, in letters. or in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
BY ANNA ROBSON BROWN.

fathers bold spirit. and his grandfather's idealism, with a dash of an Italian moth- CT dreamy languor, makes an interesting central figure. That he deports himself at times much like young prig is not unnaturaal On the whole the lads heart Is sound as Is his head. Perhaps the priggishness was merely an inability to understand the father, who in the read CTS eyes. seems to have been fairly decent old chap, as decency goes these days. generous. shrewd. with an odd sense of proportion and humor Of course in his case. in order to point the proper moral and balance PauIs scruples. 1t was necessary to make Mir, Ellicott the prin- c!Eie factor in a rather shady land deal at the beginning of his career. which of course, every right-minded and self-re- soecting reader must view with horror.
 But. nevertheless. this one shady spot in an otherwise excellent gentleman may be that touch of genius that has made him human. for it is certainly true that he is the most natural and realistic character fin the book. It follows that in this shady
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

"Are we growing better?" This oues- ton which we hear asked so often, cer- tainly concerns our literary. In com parative review of literature before and during 1900, and that of the century just closed, Richard Burton, wrote. in the Criterion, this significant paragraph. 'Literature always reflects life, and the best literature of a given age is a mirror in which we may see move the body or the age, and, listening, catch the sound of Its heartbeats. Its language Is our own; it expresses our ideals. industriai. social, political, philosophical, spiritual 1t involves a. hundred questions peru. nent to our own period and to no other" This is the intellectual side of literature. as Mir. Burton says, but he also reminds us that, aesthetic conceptions them- selves also change" and that repre- sentative piece of literature. is a sure registration of this change of thought and feeling
 That deification of the past. to which we are prone. Is the nebulus of obscurity. which shuts from the vision the far pers- pective which the present commands. The past is not outgrown-it belongs to us as an enlightenment of the preserf>. We build upon the past" Tn the heart of the ideal present, there is the pulsation from the mighty fluid of the past, throb- ping backward ana 1orWaru, to tne Ie- motest ages of thought. e
 Know and believe in the present.-That the present in literature should be appre- ciated, MT. Burton has this to say: "The very fact that it is the present. and not the past, is in its favor" It represents our day, and holds an interest for us beyond that of any other time. All that the past has offered belongs to us In the pursuance of a higher culture. We get out of the past all that We can, for the service that it may be to us in the ever aspiring present. The spirits who have left their halo shimmering the earlier time, are the ministrants of instruction and delight for the wonderful now. Chaucer still weaves the spell of homely simplicity into our vibrant hearts; and we are not unresponsive to Sponsors note of chivalrous deed That golden time of letters in the English language when Shakespeare, and those who soon came after him, appeared upon the litera- " stage. as permanent figures; is a wealth that they cling to like goodiy heritage To that period that brought us Dryden, Steele, Addison, Swift, and also the time of the introduction of the novel, we nay tribute, as furnishing a part of +he development of that idealism of art that this present time is distinguished. Mir. Burton expresses this thought most trenchantly for us: Since realsp1. so- called, became the dominant creed. beau tv the aim of all art, has come to be regarded as something different from the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
M The Millionaire's Son &

It can be conscientiously said that the least worthy thing about Mrs Browns latest book is it's title. The book instead of being a distinctly trashy variety as the name would suggest. Is really a most sincere on the part of It's author. Mrs.
 Brown has used her hero as the figure upon which to drape the old argument of intellect versus money. The boy is an odd mixture of heredity. His grandfather was a man of brains and deep thought. a friend of Emerson and a transcendant- alist. his grandmother a busy. hustling person capable and fond of commerce. The two sons of this oddly mated couple are what might have been expected: one a dreamer and thinker, whc studying his way through college. contracted a dis ease and died a poor man. in a worldly sense, before he was 70. The other son. Kendall. and the father of our hero. shrewd, capable in commercial affairs and resourceful like his mother. anna assed a large fortune in an amazing short time. His son. Paul. a strange mixture of his
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
Statues Shocked Him.

Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 man bent nearly double, carrying a heavy load of grapevine leaves and talk Ing volubly to himself. was stopped near the fortifications in Paris recently by a police inspector, who inquired:
 What are you doing with those things?'
 T am taking these leaves to cover the statues in Paris that haven't any" calm ly answered the man.
 Suspecting that he had encountered a thief. the inspector took the man to the nearest police station. where the man said:
 T am president of the League of Mod- esty. Our members can't bear to see statues without even bathing tights on. Therefore. my mission is to dress them with leaves"
 The man proved to be Edward Porte. whose forty-two years in military service in the colonies had affected his brain. 1t is asserted. But as he was regarded as harmless he was allowed to continue his mission work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
Twin Beds Growing in Favor.

We are making more twin beds this season than ever before" said manu- facturer. Persons who are gefurnishing their flats after the summer holidays al- ways ask to look at them. even if they do not buy; but many buy who say they have slept in the ordinary double beds since they were married. Some purchas- CTS tell me their doctors recommend twin beds as cure for nervousness. A rest less person sleeping in a double bed might kick about and deprive the other occu- pant of sleep. On the score of comfort the single beds commend themselves Some persons want more clothing than others, and the single beds permit each person to do as he or she pleases on that score. Only a few years ago twin beds were show window novelty. To-day they are much used. They range in price from $1O to $1OO a pair. The latter are, of course, very beautiful The custom was brought here from Europe"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
@ Little Literary Side Issues.

Noah Brooks. the journalist ana author
 who died in August at Pasadena Cal,
 had in his youth a strong ambition to be
 an artist. He was a Jonathan to Lincoln, for they were as brothers in affection. MT. Brooks went to Washington as a cor respondent-and MT. Lincoln sent for him as he said, Just for old times sake,'' adding, Do you suppose ever forget an old acquaintance?' Mir. Brooks was a welcome visitor at the White House. Not only the President but the entire family particularly Mrs. Lincoln and Tad that typical and attractive boy of whom MT. Brooks has written so sympathetical- ly in St. Nicholas and elsewhere-delight- ed to have Mir. Brooks with them. He frequently accompanied the President to the front, sometimes with Mrs. Lincoln and Tad" He was often employed by the President on diplomatic and political missions of importance, and 1t was at the Presidents request that MT. Brooks, immediately after the Baltimore conven- tlon. in 1864. when Lincoln and Johnson were nominated. called at the White House to give the President intimate and personal details of that historic gather ing. Mir. Brooks often told with a fine sense of humor how the President un- joked him the day after the because of his failure to send him word of his nomination. MT. Brooks used to recall the curious fact that no one at Baltimore thought to telegraph the President the result of the ballotine, each of his friends fondly believing that some one else would send the news. This intimate association with the President was. of course. a source of pleasure and pride to Mir. Brooks. It also helped him greatly in his professional work. It brought him in intimate contact with the eminent men of that time. and there were giants on the earth in those days" It kept him in touch with affairs, so that his correspondence was that of ono speak, ing with authority and knowledge, and the letters of "Castine! which was then his pen name, were read eagerly.
 Those who have loved that dear little classic, "The Birds Christmas Card" will be happy to see a photograph of its au- thor, Kate Douglas Wiggin, made by Thompson of London. A most attractive face and figure is given a beautiful pose. We do not know that the picture accom- panies the new book from her pen, "Re- becca of Sunnybrook Farm" We hope that 1t does. for all will like to look at the face of one who writes such charming Action.
 did critic to take hold of him. Laura B. Starr in her visit Among the New Books which she records in the Delinea- tor. deals with Mr. Hickens after this fashion:
 Ills pen as clever diaboIically clever, If you will. but the reader of his books
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

1 is always conscious of the desire to have him take his imagination out in the sun-
 shine to kill the morbid bacteria" Our critic yields to MT. Hiclxens, in | that she says. "One is fascinated by the skilful character drawing" And 1t sesrna
 to us that she further gives the verdict of merit when she makes the followinR comment on 'the two morphia maniacs-- the one deep, sly and given to ecneeaIina the habit, the more common type. and the apostle who boasts about the delight Of it and initiates many victims-are crea- tions that will live in literature. It was a difficult task the author set himself 4o make Mrs.. Isney so fascinating. in spite of all the revolting conditions. that the ''Baizac Boy" must needs give her the highest and best love of his nature q steadfast. chivalrous. protecting love that was to last as long as her life; this Mfr. Hickens has accomplished in way tha< commands the readers admiration" Mir. Hickens seems to have been able to ful- i'll the requirement necessary to picture morbid conditiOns-and he Is thus the re- cipient, albeit 1t is unintentionai. of tuss praise.
 Laura B. Starr does unusually good work in her criticism. We had almost said it is so unusual. that she is born to the task. Certain 1t is, that she does not follow the beaten track. She has her own ideas. and expresses them happily. She has said of 'Darrel of the Blessed Isle:" Darrel is not diamond in the rough like Eben Holden: he is . diamond cut and polished, lacking the proper set- ting" So many critics have had some thing to say of Darrel, but none have said that he is the polished stone. which he verily is.
 That eccentric temperament of Thomas Dixon's has led him to do the eccentric in
 The One Woman" Only a mind char acterized by sharp and singular meaader- ings, could have conceived such story to say the least. This is the primal cause for the use of questionable methods that good may come" But this book with Pigs in Clover and we have enough to foment wrong in the mind of youth. for many a day. The author of one, a min ister. of the other, a woman. Pity 'tis, 'tis true"
 Masculine as is the name, Frank Dan- by, which the author of Pigs in Clover has chosen to conceal her sex, she has become generally known. and weur. led to wonder if she could blush when she reads such a criticism of her work as the following: Unpleasant we have call ed the book, vulgar in cover. in title. and in much of its matter. tiresome through many pages. but holding germ of bru- tai force quickened by gleams of keen intuition and shrewd psychological anal ysis that demand recognition and lift tt well above the ordinary level.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

land deal young woman was involved, who afterwards becomes the woman for Paul. One wishes there could be found a flaw in the character of Alexa. She is so btautI:ul with fine. generous beauty. so level headed, so high principled. so kind, courteous. and altogether so self respecting that it Is no surprise that Paul loves her. The only wonder is that the reader doesn't. But these points are after all not the main issues. The story itself is good. clean and wholesome. It ends properly with the triumph of in- tellect. and yet MT. Ellicott. the elder. does not grovel out of the story spat- tered with mud. and his very dashing and attracting daughter. Gertrude. and very happily is gratified in her ambition. As for Mary. the younger, it must be con- fessed that although the author seems to have done her best for this young person she makes very little impression one way or the other. The book Is lively with characters. ali of which are interesting and well drawn. Dana. Estes & Co. BOston)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
l Tips From
 A Critics Culver.

Stanley weyman's '.rhs rcne Nlahr is true to the life of love. war and magia in old Geneva.
 How easily George Ade's genius lsnds itself to descriptive ''In Babel" Chteasa with its typical instances of humor ar4 sadness, are as keenly sketched as O. meos.
 That subtle instinct that enables Johx Fox to take hold of thu Kentucky ilfe. has made him to tell c tale fn "Ths Lst- tie Shepherd of Kingdom Come," hardly equailed lately in simplicity and psthoss
 Etherialiy eievating is what has sssa said of Gordon Keith. Mr. PAgs haa thus fulfilled the mission of his tifne
 The Kipling enthusiasts will be ready in October with c welcome for . new volume of poems. which he calls 'srhe Five Nations"
 A local study of keen appreciation rs- veals Miss Anne Hobson's talent in hts- morous delineation. and in the portrayal of local eccentricities. 'Tn old Ala bama" is a narrative of happenings h . small Southern town. as49 bas
 '"rhs One Woman is being cIssssd witA sappho.
 'Extravasant Fun" is the descrirtjpn given of "A Few Remarkx' by Simeon Ford Such serious subjects as the follow ing, are dealt with: Plank Notes" "A Eulogy of Sir Henry Irving," 'Tmpres. sions of Boston, George washinston," Hotel Suicides"
 For club study, wm. H. Fisnainx hss done fine suggestive work in Study Shakespeare
 Basketry is . ''fad'' with some persona who are restricted in heavier woriz3t 10 Interestingly explained by Miss Mary White in her two books. The last is More Baskets and How to Make Themr Mature and the Camera" betrays the experiences of an expert. All one has to do Is to read. and he understands the art in this volume so clearly and sim> ply explained.
 Angelo, the Musician is a sympa- thetic story of musicians. Marriett Bart. nett must know the musician's temper ament, else she could not put herself so realistically into that pitiful end- ing. tH'' 1fT Home Floricuiture," by Ben E. Rex. ford. is the truest assistant for the amateur. for it's written from experience and gives plain. practical directions.
 William Elroy Curtis tells what he thinks of Abraham Lincoln-the rest in his work has already been told.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
DoRCAs.

One day woman, gently bowed,
 As with his easy yoke. Stood on the borders of the crowd,
 Listening as Jesus spoke. She saw the garment knit throughout;
 Forgot the words he spake: Though only. Happy hands that wrought The honored robe to make!' Her eyes with longing tears srew dim: She never can come nigh To do one service poor for him
 For whom she glad would die. Across the crowd, borne on the breeze,
 Comes-'Inasmuch as ye Did 1t unto the least of these.
 Ye did 1t unto me- Home. home she went. and piled the loom And Gods dear poor arrayed. She died-they wept about the room
 And showed the coats she made