The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

There is so much of lax opinion, of
false philosophy. of low morality in much
of the reading of this age that no
one can be too careful in selection OF
what to read and what to avoid A vicious
book may forever poison the mind. Very
depraved views, dangerous to youth
and hurtful to advanced manhood, are
sometimes heard in the pulpit, and par
ticularly IN the boastful North. A year
or ago l remember that Mr. Charles f.
Adams, of Concord, n. H., man of parts
and of distinguished lineage, commented
upon a certain Bishop who regarded some
very lax conduct as not so bad as it seem
ed, annd held that falsehood spoken was
infinitely worse" | have not the article
Of Mr.. Adams, and accidentally, so to
speak, have a dozen or so lines only as
the conclusion l do not recall exactly
what the following was based upon, but
it was evidently offensive, for Mr.. Adams
writes, THAT the affair is condoned by
the Bishop and other clergy as a matter
of small consequence-thc good Bishop
even going so far as to pronounce a false
hood infinitely worse'-cannot fail to
work for evil in the minds of ma jority
of young men and inexperienced readers
who are too apt to forget that~a novelist
IS about as likely to be a person of lax
and immoral views, if not of practice
as to be a paragon of wisdom and virtue
The less circulation that our Librarians
give to such stories-and to one or two
notably nasty novels by James Lane
Allen, which might be named-the better"
1t is a good suggestion, l doubt not. to
drop Mr.. Allen, however clever in some
respects as fictive writer he is.
1 have nothing but kind, friendly feel
ings for the negro race-for the well-dis-
posed, orderly, industrious portion /
would be glad to help them now in any
proper way that would make them
worthier, wiser, happier. The tramps, the
vagabonds, the pistol-carryng gang Of
scoundrels, without decency or character
cannot be respected, and deserve no
consideration. They are a burden of no
value as citizens or up-builders, and many
of them are murderers at heart and public
enemies. They are hurtful to their own
race and bring reproach upon it. 1
cherish no prejudices against the black
race like those of the North. l would
gladly aid the meritorious negroes in all
that makes for higher manhood, greater
usefulness, a stronger morality and a bet
ter citizenship. Even the Republican
government does not put the negroes in
the departments at Washington or in high
places in the North, and they remain ser.
vitors. They do not even give them the
ballot in the District of Columbia right
where the Chiefs of that bad old party
domlcile and devour and debauch the ma
ton. They do not put them in offices of
responsibility and power, but Roosevelt
loves to foist them upon the South.
Look at Charleston and behold the blum.
derlng outrage. The last attempt of little
Rosy is to compel the thousands of negro
children in Washington to enioy
picnics with white children or no fun
IS allowed: What a supreme, bitter fool.
The Oldest Greek book in tho world is
now reported. 1t was discovered in 1902
by DR.. Ludwig Borchardt, well known
German axehaeologist. He was excavatinc
at Abusir, when he found Greek tomb
of the fourth century A. D. The chief
find IS a Greek roll inscribed with the
second part of the 'The Prosians of
Timotheus" He was a Greek lyric poet