The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-15

rushing ship that disappear IN a lew
minutes, the noble life goes out, so far
as this little life Is involved, and is for
gotten and neglected, and men are ready
for new fayorites and heroes. /. Is very
doubtful if man of Jonathan Edwards's
abilities was ever born on New England
soil or in the entire North. Truly has
the Boston paper written this:
If Jonathan Edwards had lived in Scot
land or England the towns in which ne
was born and had lived would be visited
by tourists from every land. If he had
lived in Italy or Russia these places would
be marked by shrines bearing his name,
and the paths to them would be worn by
the feet of pilgrims, and the popular story
of his life with choice selections from his
writings would be in the hands of the peo-
pie 1t will be a great misfortune If this
revived interest in Edwards shall be al
lowed to die with nothing further done to
popularize the man and his thought and
10 preserve by appropriate monuments
among the American people the memory
of one of the greatest of her sons"
It is a great pleasure to recognize
genius and pure, great life, and it brings
me satisfaction to call attention to the
greatest theologian of our land in a second
article.
The New York Saturday Review asks if
it is fact that the reading of ephemeraI
trash cultivates an appetite for something
better" With long observation to
back my opinion, may say that feeding
on literary garbage never excites to higher
desires in letters and never creates a
taste for anything better than garbage.
SI<o& CT, or
consensus among the publishers that read
ing trash does not lead to reading better
things"
The men and women, the boys and girls
who are fed on trashy reading will have
dwarfed minds, live in ignorance, and for
ever remain satisfied with the poor stuff
they have fed upon, and never know that
the Action and Tone and all interior wo
most popular selling books are just what
they will seek and buy. What ever their
merit or meanness.
l have called attention already to the
new method OF preparing history-select-
ing several writer's to prepare different
portions of history. Lord Acton intro
duced it. He was Professor at Cam
bridge University, England, was very
widely read scholar, and started the new
plan of writing modern history. 1t Is now
stated that nineteen of the most learned
men in England have contributed the
nineteen chapters to the second volume OF
the Cambridge Modern History" But
Stubs and Freeman, Macaulay and
Froude, Green and Lecky q have just
seen his death announced, have all passed
away. Who survives to be mentioned
with them? I know of none but Goodwin
Smith, perhaps, and he is some seventy
eight.
A writer in Charleston, s. c., sends to
the New York Saturday Review an
Elegy by NJ. Saunders that appeared in
the "Hibernian Magazine" in 1880, pub
lished in Dublin, Ireland. 1t was stolen
bodily from the worldwide famous "Elegy
in a Country Church Yard" by Thomas
Gray. The correspondent asks:
do you suppose that thirty years after
Grays "Elegy" was written it was so lit
tie known that a magazine which strong
~ resembles The Spectator could deliber-
ately publish thing like the above and
not recognize the theft OF both ideas and
words?"
There is to be a daily newspaper publish
ed in London for the Women only. 1t IS
to be called the Daily Mirror. The name
may cause the women to look into it, but
will they see themselves correctly re-
Elected. 1t will be eight pages, and the
price will be two cents daily. Cheap
enough if it should prove OF real value. The
fact that sensational Miss CorelH will
write a serial story does not give promise
of anything fine or exalted in literature.
1t is worth noting that Dakota is at
the head of the States in more completely
ignoring God and His Bible IN the i'm
portant matter of Divorces. Little Con
necticut, close to Boston, stands second.
What a fall is that-the country OF the
Puritans so lost as to allow all manner
Of disgusting divorces. 1t is no wonder
that the memory of the truly sainted and
greatest of her sons-Jonathan Edwards
has been forgotten.
1t is not generally known the first
movement to place the Capitol of the
American Union was not at Washington
on the Potomac river; but at Wright's
Ferry, Pennsylvania. 1t was on the east
bank of the Susquehanna river, on the
very site where Columbia now is situate.
1t was first called Wright,s Ferry. The
river is a mile and a quarter wide.
The idea is about exploded that corn
or wheat is ever successfully grown now
from seeds found among the Egyptian
mummies. find this copied in the New
York Saturday Review:
This much for the Goodyear corn
Now, what are the fructifying powers of
seed centuries after the parent plant has
freed them? Will they terminate? Elk
periments have been made without afford
ing any evidence in support OF the claim
so partinaciously advanced. AS Egypt
was great corn and wheat producing
country, and so much has been written
about mummy wheat terminating. may
specially refer to experiments and obser-
vations there. THE wheat (corn,) with
frequently seven years on stalk, is cult
waited in Egypt. 1t is called mummy
wheat but no wheat found in a mummy
case has ever terminated CHelps to
Bible Study Page 2SD."
An elaborate life of Lord Beaconsfied
has just been issued in England, and is by
Wilfred Maynell. 1t is remarkable that
almost the same day, imposing blogra-
plies of the two great Parliamentary and
party rivals should have been issued.
Disraeli was man of rare parts, and
i.