The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-01
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.rI0n. a writer OF reputation,
-..,,5 through his Call of the
1.% -.,rributes a humorous love story
wac. -..- Monthly for September.
.sz Dixon, Jr.'s The Leopard's
--.-. has the distinction of being pub
So. ....s ia Germany. An edition in
"7-.- has lust been issued IN Leipsic, a
A-- .r ready at the press of Fred
t..- r.-hhart at Munich, and other
t-.' -.~- abroad, it is reported by
I~... F. rer. Page and Company, are seek
~o' ~. r-lts to the book. DR.. Dixon's
.= -..., The One Woman" is shortly
a- in several foreign translations.
FL. Journalist.
,.-- A--.alboine, long called "the
,,..,r.5ru of the Rockies" lies twenty
from Bauff, and towers, a mighty
..ar.-a. fifteen hundred feet above its
+..or-. Attempts to scale the peak
49,. -r.yca futile, till James Outram, in
~.anr with four guides, was success
4. TIL. details of this mountaineering
, .r0.uGpe the most sensational yet
..r.av.d in North America" viii be told
rr. eertembcr Century. Reproductions
q number of photographs VIII add to
.r. r.t.auyes Of the narrative.
The story of how a shipload of French
money. intended for Philadelphia, was
rr5,.I mt Boston and was then transport
al ON OK carts through the British lines
~. the city on the Delaware, is told for
the first time in DE-. Oberholtzer's bio.
gr.r'rv Of Robert Morris. The money was
intended to provide specie to start the
hank Of the United States during the
revolutionary times. The tale has been
hitherto d sealed chapter in Revolution
.ry history, and so has the true account
Of Morri-.s successful efforts a little
rrIcr 10 borrow money from R~Ochambeau
TO- paw the ragged Continental troops.
Without this money Washington could
not have taken the Northern regiments
at Yorktown. Many historical episodes
which were Of vital moment to the coun-
try them. and which are of keen interest
to u, today, are said to be related COR
the first time in this volume. Robert
Morris. Patriot and F~inancier is written
largely from new materials, including six
teen manuscript volumes by Morris him
sell. .ut AIdNIIlitldH ooIiDduy dlllOuIltc
the book for immediate puDncation.
Samuel MerWin, the author, got him
SCI into a troublesome scrape once while
Gathering material, some of which IS
used in his new novel, His Little World"
which is to be published Immediately by
A. s. Barnes and Company. He had
engaged temporarily as foreman for a
contractor who was building a grain ele-
yat0r at a Lake Michigan port. One of
his first duties was to superintend the
"shunting' of some freight cars. With
little idea of what he had to do, he bold
" cIambercd to the top of a car and took
bis station at the brake. The engine sent
the car whirling to the switch, and at
what he supposed to be the right mo-
nert, the young foreman attempted to
turn the wheel. But the brake turned
hard and his muscle was not equal to the
occasion. Before he could stop it, the
CIT went humping into another car which
il pushed off the track. Fortunately Mr..
Merw1n was able to hang on and no seri-
Gus damage was done, but thereafter the
job of traking was turned over to one of
h, sang. Mr.. Merwin got experience,
however. and that was what he was after.