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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

lew months later he drifted into an ad-
venturous life 'longshore.
A Welldefined nomadic strain in his
blood, and the unrest Of the pioneer spirit
Of his ancestors, nourished by reading and
romantic speculation, led him TO leave
home soon after he was fifteen. IN MS
search for adventures amongst the scum
marine population Of San Francisco Bay
he soon lost his ideal romance and Re
placed 1t with the real romance OF things.
He became-in turn-a salmon fisher, an
oyster pirate. a fish patrolman, a long
shoreman, Id a general bay-faring ad-
venturer. When he was seventeen he
shipped before the mast as an able sea
man, going IS far as Japan and spending
some time ~seal-hunting on the Russian
side Of Behring Sea. He also served at
divers times in various forecastles.
Reviewing his mental and physical
equipments up to the time he was eighteen
Mr.. London says 4 had lived my child
hood on California ranches. my boyhood
h~ustling newspapers on the streets OF a
healthy Western city, and my youth on
the ozone-laden waters of San Francisco
Bay and the Pacific Ocean loved life
in the open, and l toiled in the open, at
liiC lldIutSb lIlu VI " n. - IillS lO
trade, but drifting along from job TO job,
| looked on the world and called it good,
every DIt of 1t. Let me repeat. this OPP
tlmIsm was because l was healthy and
strong, bothered with neither aches nor
weaknesses, never turned down by the
boss because / did not look fit. able al
ways to get a job shoveling coal, sailor
iZIng, or manual labor of some sort.
And because of this, exulting III my
young lite, able to hold my own at work
or fight, | was a rampant l~ndIvidualist. |
was a winner. Wherefore l called the
game, as [ saw 1t played, or thought /
saw 1T played, a very popular game Tor
men. To be a man was to write man III
large capitals on my heart. To adventure
like a man, and fight like a man, and do a
mans work (eVen for a boys pay)-these
We're things that reached right in and
gripped hold of me az no other thing
could. And l looked Ahead into long
Vlstas of a haZy and nter1ninable future.
into which, playing what l conceived to
be a mans game, l should continue to
travel with uniailing health, without acci-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

dents, and with muscles ever vigorous.
AS / say, this future was interminable. I
could only see myself aging through life
without end like one of Nietzsche's blond
beasts, lustfullv rowing and conquerlng
by sheer superiority and strength.
Further, the optimism bred of a stomach
which could digest scrap iron and a body
which flOurlshed on harpships did not per
nit me to consider accidents as even re
motely related to my glorious PERSONAL
ty."
Swayed partly by interest in sociology
and economics, partly by the fascination
of the enterprise, he tramped many thou
sands of miles over the United States and
Canada. "On rods and blind baggage
l fought my way from the open West,
where men bucked big and the job hunted
the man. to the congested labor centres
of the East, where men were small pota-
toes and hunted the job for all they were
worth. And on the new blond beast ad-
venture l found myself looking upon
life from a new and totally different
angle. 1 had dropped down from the pro-
letariat into what s~ocialogists love to
call the submerged TENTH and was
startled to discover the way in which that
submerged tenth was recruited"
He had more than one Jail experience
in the course of several thousand miles
of tramping, because he possessed no
fixed place of abode and no visible means
of support. Later on he repeated his
vagabond career in the East End of
London, the result being his volume on
The People of the Abyss which, after
its serial run in one OF the magazines, is
to appear in book form in the autumn.
Eventually he decided that tramping was
not all beer and skittleS. and returned to
Oakland, where he entered the High
School. Breaking off his course in the
University of California in the middle Of
his Freshmen year, he went over Chill
coot Pass with the first of the Klondike
rush of 1897. 1t was III the Klondike
that he gathered the material for his
first books, which brought him before
the reading public. His first magazine
article was published in The Overland
Monthly in 1899, and his first book APP
| peared the following year.
l. He is a socialist, and takes an active
part in the propaganda Of the socialist
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

Mr.. Jack London. the author of The
Call OF the Wild. The Children of the
Frost and The Son of the Wolf, was born
IN San Francisco on the 18th of January,
1876. His father. John London, a nomadic
trapper, scout and frontiersman, came in
1873 to San Francisco, where Jack. the
youngest of ten half brothers and sisters,
was born three years later. He once es-
sayed a climb among the branches OF the
family tree, and traced both parental
lines back to an American residence prior
to the Revolution. On his mothers side
he wound up with Priest Jones, one of
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18
SUICIDE

The startling announcement that a pre-
ventlve of suicide had been discovered will
interest many. A run down system, or de-
spondency invariably precede suicide and
something has been found that will pre-
vent that condition which makes suicide
likely. At the first thought of self-de-
struction take Electric Bltters. 1t beng
a great tonic and nervine Will strengthen
the nerves and build up the system. 1t S
also a great Stomach, Liver and Kidney
regulator. Only soc. Satisfaction guar
anteed by all druggists.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18
A GREAT

An old Florida colonel who had recently
read up From Slavery" met Booker T.
Washington the other day, and in a bibul-
Gus burst. Of confidence said to the negro
educator:
sub, I'm glad to meet you. Always
"a1tet to shake your hand, sub. l think,
sun, you're the greatest man in America
oh. no. said Washington.
You are, subj" said the colonel; and
.4en, pugnaciOusly: who's greater?"
Nea.' said the founder OF Tuskegee,
lAere.s President Roosevelt"
No, ~oh.' roared the colonel. mot by
d 1ast4.. I used to think so, but since he
invited You to dinner think he's "a blank
scolndreI."
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18
In the World of Literature.
Fffe Douglass Putnam.

I'm BY Fife Douglass-Putnam.
CIhIL v..k Life Publishing Co. PIP.
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one --rIa j., 50 natural and direct that
@-,' = peculiar charm IN this day
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:. writing makes hard reading,
''3' 9Th. converse be true, Miss Doug
a.' p.-r.m must have bestowed upon
r.- Fl truly remarkable amount of
49,. . give her style its limpid sweet
"'.- go. ease Of understanding. 1t must
'e ...grred from this that "Cirillo"
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81. t-.. Of the great Italian singer for
81 ,m.rgau heiress, although simply
IN . -rr0ng and absorbing one, and
rawerful contrast to the cynical
.r.-.. of a similar question in Mr..
PhilIips's Golden Fleece"
~t..gaa1 the story run a philosophy
r ...rd and ~consoling. The slight
..naa III Mysticism is brought so natural
=. .f.t IT, will seem natural even to the
ra-c -se-t.cal.
..r#," j. Miss Douglass-Putnam's first
-.,+ara u the field of literature, out it
-s rue and the story Is 50 we'll
..sthst her future efforts Will be awaited
with interest.
life OF POPE LEO XIII by ] Martin
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l-rrated. containing a portrait of all the
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

Al present be i living On the
Fiedmont Hills overlooking san Francisco
Bay. Among his hobbies. other than
socialism, may be mentioned kite flyIng
and boat sailing. Much Of his writing -
done On his >~loop-yacht in san Francesca
Bay at present n ! writing j novel II
the sea. In appearance Mr.. London i a
man q medium stature and weight. broad
shouidered,~ wellmuScled, sturdy. and ot a
breezy carriage. IN keeping wlth the de-
hghtiul ~shIpboard roll II hs walk. His
smooth. unshaVen face with IL square.
Tlrn-Set chm j. s~trlkngly expressive. the
keen ~gray-blue eyes are thoughtful and
lmpassloned By turns. the brow and cnin
Indicative OF strength and purpose, and
the handsome mobile mouth terminates in
what some writer fehcitously terms PIE
tuFed corners He Inpres-ee any one
who meets him casually as a sailor or an
a~dFenturer, not a. a writer.
HIS college course was limited 10 his
freshmen year, finances, or the lack Of
them, obhging him TO turn to at the
familiar grind. This was in 81. and, IN
PEELED by the promise OF gold and adven-
ture, Jack London was among the first 10
JON the fall rush to the Klondlke. He
- 4SH 1cGeAAS StAAd us
who at this season made It over the
Chilcoot Pass, the great majority waiting
Tor spring. A charges were forty-three
cents per pound for carrying supplies a
distance OF thirty miles. from salt water
TO fresh. he packed his thousand pound
outfit, holding his own with the strongest
ana most experienced III the party.
And here in the still white world or the
Mort uhD,a po+,,rn -. H., .Lg .- 4.
every vital throb that resists her cold, and
man learns the awful significance and
emphasis OF Arctic life and action. young
London came consciously into his herIt
age. He would write of thes-the ter
rorlzlng simplicity OF an Alaskan land
scape, It's great peaks bullying with cen
fury piled SHOWS, its woods rigid, tense.
and voiced by the frost like strained ca.-
gut; the fierce howlS of starving wolf
dogs; the tracks of the dog-teams mark
ing the lonely trail; but more than all
else. the human Of the North Pole.
Thus it would seem that his actual de-
velopment as a writer began on the trail,
though at the time he set no word to
paper, not ever j~ottings by the way IN
a note book. A t~ireless brooding on the
wish to write shaped his impulse to defn-
tie purpose, but outwardly he continued
to share the interests and labors of his
companion prOspectOrS.
Alter a year spent in that weirdly pic
turesque but hazardous life, he uccumb
to scurvy, and, impatient of the delay of
homebOund steamers, he and two camp
mates decided to embark in an open boat
for the Boring Sea. The three accordingly
made the start midway in June, and the
voyage turned out to be a memorablv
novel and perilous one-nineteen hundred
miles of river travel in nineteen days,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18
NOTICE TO B~OOK-LOvERS

During the coming week a membership
for the Monthly Messenger Service Of
the Book-Lovers' Library will be organiz-
ed in Raleigh.
| take it that a good many people in the
city will be delighted at the prospect OF
being served by this company, and will
wish to encourage the extension of its
field to this State. All such persons Will
facilitate the opening of the work and
secure a prompt attention if they will
drop a postal card to me at the city post
office giving name and street address.
The membership fee of $40. 90. as adver-
Used before, secures the BOok-Lovers'
Magazine, copies of which will be shown,
and the delivery of at least four books
each month for the year. The member
may make exchanges oftener at the near
est center, If he desires, without other
cost than that of transportation, and may
secure any number of books at the yearly
rate Of 81. 90 for each additional book,
with the same exchange privileges. This
applies also to clubs in small towns joining
as one member.
A complete catalogue is furnished COW
ering all departments of the lbrary's
work; as New Current Literature, Classic
Literature, Juvenile Literature, Literature
of Religious Thought, Foreign Literature,
Technical Literature, etc.
THOS. r. GAMBLER,
State Manager.
Raleigh N. c..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

Statesville, n. c., August Ex-Governor
Aycock has issued requisltion papers for
the extradition of D. Boone Potter, now
held by the Wyoming authorities. He 10
wanted in Watauga county for the muir
der of two men, one of whom was Deputy
Sheriff Howell.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

The very large first edition of Mr.. James
Lane Aliens The Mettle of the Pasture
vas exhausted soon after publication, and
we second edition is already on the mar
'e-- Discussion began to rage around the
..0'E almost as soon as the first copies
.--e INTO the hands of the reviewers, and
Has been growing warmer eve since.
ms 'arman's review in the New York
-.'e9 which virtually said that the right
.'- OF man would not have told the wo-
ian To- whom he was Offering his love OF
@ early SIN, reused a chorus of protests,
-- ~ae Tunes made a feature Of the re
-.> ID ills next issue. Evidently Mr.. Al
% meaning Is that a man ought to tell
.'I-~h the whole truth; that they ought
TO Begin life together with a lie be-
,.'s4 laem. Mr.. Carman and many other
t'pe l'nE differently; but it seems %
e-@aaeal.y settled, by the overwhelm-
Ial'rty Of opinion, that Mr.. Allen
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

"Monteiro Peruvian Ellxla best spilng
tonic. Monteiro Medico Mig. Co. Rich
mond. Va.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

Half Hours with the Best Humorous
Authors, by Charles Morris, has just been
Gsueu IL a new edition by ]. 3. Llppin-
ett Company. The selections by the
TeIEknown editor cup four volumes
appropriately bound in cloth. From the
same editorial hands has just issued a new
edition of Half Hours with the Best
american Authors" in our volumes.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

vIrgm,ans say that Thomas Dixon, Jr's.,
home. "EImIngton Manor" at Dlxondale,
Va. on the shores of the Chesapeake bay
j., one Of the most beautiful estates in the
State. He has a mile and more of beach
on h- own place, and it is a drive of two
miles from his front gate to his house.
There are 800 large shade trees on his
lawn. Although his house has thirty-fve
rooms. he built a log cabin down near the
water that he might nave an isolated place
TO write IN. Mr.. Dixon is one of those
fortunate authors who has a large income
from his novels, and his new novel Of the
evils Of divorce and Socialism, called ''The
One Woman" though only published a few
day, ago. promises to be his most success.
tl book IN a financial way.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

The publishers of THE One Woman"
the new novel by Thomas Dixon, have
sold 81 .0O0 copies since the first of August.
It is d powerful and dramatic presentation
Of the evils of divorce and Will powerful
ly impress all who read it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

-1'. arthur Stanley Riggs, an American
s Who has been successfully the
g.-,oF Of The Manila Daily Bulletin" and
''4A--A Freedom" contributes to the
- Almoer of the Atlantic Monthly
ii. I.s+eallng and valuable letter from
I'll, Philippines.
ldm.i' '~ssss eye Is neither blinded by an
ti I,E laundiced by prejudice. He is
ro.t mixing the Filipino quite the
ths, gentleman and devoted patriot
On GO BIAS seemed to some writer's, but
ta.eI. 0.1ef hand, he is equally far from
is mat hls case is without hope. 1t
o. r0- "l this justice and moderation
aara,,. l TINS irst-hand and intelligent
Ntn.. vi The complexities of the actual
Gus HIS such extreme value to serl-
0-e1ts Of Philippine %affgirs.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

"As exhilarating as a frst-class prize
nSht' is the New York Suns Comment
on Jack London's new novel, The Call. OF
the Wlid. TINS Is one reason why the
DOCK mas been welcomed by men and wo-
men allke-the fact that it is stimulating.
lnvlgoratlng and full # the qualities that
STIR ones blood and brain and ambition
The air that blows through this book
is fresh, Is the comment of another critic,
While all the reviewers speak Of the book $
closness to HE and its superb art. One
writer has made 1t the theme for an ar
tcie On materlalism in fiction, quite for
getting, or emitting, to notice that the
hook is rendered fairly alive by the i'm
aglnation behind it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

Ward, Lock & Company, of Warwick
House, London, are to publish Miss Pet
tcoats' and "On Satan's Mount They
are warranted in their venture by the
laTge sales these books have already had
Oh this SIDE. Mr.. George Richardson, of
the Boston Traveller, has ~dramatized Miss
Pettic0ats' and a production of it, with
Miss Kathryn Fisherman as star, will be
seen IL the early fall.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18
THE RED BOOK

The announcements of The Red Rook
Tor September indicate that the standard
of excellence REQUIRED for tho h4ara,nra
selected 1or that sparkling publication is
constantly rising. Among the con+,ib,,-
tors to appear in the September number
are ROBERT Hlchens, Yone Noguchi. Har-
iieI A Nash, Wlngrove Bathon, z. Phil
ups oppenhelm, Ena w. Peattie, Eliza
beth l.. Banks, and half a dozen Others
VINO are recognized as favorite contribu-
tors OF the best fiction to publications
OF the highest standing.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18

An addition of especial interest to the
American Men of Letters Series is the
Life Of Sidney Lanier," which Messrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Company announce
is to be written by Professor Edward
Minis, of Trinity College, Durham, N.eC.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-06-20
An Oil Road Surface.

The city of Bakersfield. Cal, has con-
HI2eted with Phillips Bros. to oil the
Streets of the city, for which 10000
barrels of oil will be required. Before
applying the oil it is put through a
heating process, by which the lighter
companents are separated from the
heavier, which sink and are drawn off
md reserved for application to the
road surface. This material when
mixed with the dirt by means of har-
rows forms asphaltum, thus. it is said,
keeping down dust and rendering the
surface of the road practically water
proof and instead Of requiring an APP
plication Of oil soon, the road needs
only ordinary care to preserve it, it is
estimated, for q period Of ten years.
BY this means good permanent road
s secured at less expense than the for
ner system of oiling the streets at
ncre frequent intervals for the DIR.
pose Vt laying the dust only.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-06-20

kept getting worse. One day a neighbor
woman brought me your book, the Ills
of Life and wanted me to take your
medicine. | told her that | had given up
all hope of ever getting well. | had tried
so much medicine. Ny nciehborS thought
was near.y dead with CONSUMPTION.
FINALLY | concluded that | would make
a last trial. So my husband got me bottle
of Peruna and Manaiin. | commenced
taking them according to directions. That
was two years ago. \ year ago last No
vember | gave birth to l0-pound baby
boy, who is well and hearty; and | am
doing my own homework. | can never
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is the best medicine | ever heard Of
Mrs. f. f. Thomas.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the Use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-06-20

"The young man had been out West
for some time. He had gone out there
with the idea that he could win for
tune, but instead Of finding the way
to success a smooth one, it was rather
rough and rocky, marred by thorns
to prick the feet. pitfalls and all that
kino of thing. Put in plain, unpoeuc
language he was run down at the heel
and baggins at the knee. In order
to make a living he had been forced
to become a pie merchant on small
scale. He was in this business when
we found him, and had small NOV
able stand on the corner CT two
streets in a we'll known mining town.
My friend recognized him at glance,
and rushed up to greet him. The fell
low seemed to be lust little embar-
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-06-20
Women Made Strong and Happy
r1OtherS.
Catarrh of the Pelvic Organs is Free
quent Cause of Barrenness.
Pe-ru-na Eradicates Catarih From
the system.

TO the woman of ancient Israel not to
become mother was regarded as the
greatest of earthly calamities. To
become mother-more especially the
mother of strong, healthy boy-was the
height of glory for the faithful woman of
the good old Bible days. Even now, when
maternity is not esteemed as of yore, the
mother OF healthy children is an object
of admiration. and sometimes envy, by her
neighbors. AS compared with ancient
peoples. the average American woman has
a low appreciation of motherhood. There
are, however, a great many exceptions to
this statement.
The accompanying letters from grateful
women who have been made strong,
healthy and happy mothers need no added
words of ours to make them convincing.
Catarrh had weakened and impaired their
entire systems. Peruna made them sound
and well.
Mrs l.. NJ Griffith, Arco, Idaho, writes:
Your medicine did me wonderful
amount of good. 1t cured me of barren
ness. am 30 years old and never had
any children; but since beginning your
medicine | gave birth to a l0-pound baby
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-06-20

girl She is now six months old and
weighs Is pounds My friends were all
surprised Some would not believe it until
they came to see me.
My husband says he never saw such a
change in any one as there was in me after
| had taken three or four bottles of
Peruna. l am stronger than | have been
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you all My letter is too long already
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/ can never thank you enough for your
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other medicines failed She was real bad
with la grippe"-Mrs. L. NJ Griffith
Mrs. f. +. Thomas, Alpha, Mo. writes:
Il have used your Peruna and Manalin.
/ had been doctoring for several years, but
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-06-20
WEsrBRANCu Mich April 18TH.

WEST BRANCH, Mich, April fifth
Many thanks for the sample of Doan's
Kidney Pills. We had tried many
remedies with little benefit but found
Doan's act promptly, and hit the case,
which was an unusual desire to urinate
- had to get up five and six times of
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the back, the heat Of which would
feel like putting ones hsnd up to
lamp chimney l have used the free
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with the satisfaction Of feeling that l
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