The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-11-03
uHJS SCALES THE HORSE
PULLS THE WOMAN DOWN
,orine L~ynching of Horse Thieves = Neccase;,
Dellaf''7 q l~eccesslty,
Roosevelt Grows Goggled-eyed Over LYNCH
ing of Negroes for Rape.

presidents, these descendants have been
men or men. But not one has eaualled
the lllustrious and very able man from
whom they have come. The celebrated
and perhaps infamous, Aaron Burr. was
q grandson. He was highly intellectual
ana possibly was not so base as he Is gen
orally represented as being.
Much has been written in censure Of the !
lllustrlous Thomas Jefferson the greatest
political factor and genius vet horn in
TINS c~ountry-greater than Washington
Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Webster. Cal.
noun, Clay or any other of the grand roll
or statesmen and political 50
OF his alleged infidelity. He has been
scoffed at, lied upon, slandered without
stunt, and yet IN fairness it can be SAID
OF hlm that he was not an infidel, a scoffer
at Religion, an atheist or anything else
low and malignant. He wrote to Or.
benjamin Rush, of Pennsylvania. on u
April, 1903, IN which occurs his views as
TO the Christian religion. The whole of the
letter IS not before me, but in the part l
nave he writes as follows: s'They are
the result of a life of inquiry and reflec-
eiSA tIii WHY Hull THAI anu
Christian system imputed 10 me by those
who know nothing Of my opinions. To
the corruptions of Christianity am
indeed opposed; but not to the genuine
precepts of Jesus Himself. 1 am a Chris
tian IN the only sense in which He wished
any one to be, sincerely attached to His
doctrines, IN preference to ali Others" If
he accepted the Divinity Of Jesus Christ
1T is not given. It Mould have appeared.
How any man can read Johns Gospel,
and not believe that Jesus was indeed the
Son OF God, and clothed with the creative
and saving power of God, is beyond my
understanding. l do not know what JEFF
terson held at this great, vital point.
Henry Theodore Buckle was one of the
most gifted English young men of the
last half of the nineteenth century. His
famous work on The History of Civil
cation in Europe Will perpetuate his
name for years to come. He died in the
East when but thirty-nine years old, while
travelling. He left one of the greatest
private libraries of which I have read. 1t
numbered 80, 900 volumes. Mr.. Gladstone's
library contained 80, 900 volumes Buckle
agreed with Macaulay as to the great
executive abilities Of Rev. John Wesley.
Macaulay was the first great historian to
appreciate the eminent religious reformer,
scholar and divine, who knew nine Ian
guages, could speak Greek tluently In
conversation, and wrote Latin as easily as
some scholars can English. He was over
ten years at Oxford University, and was
not even a Phi. d. or a D. d. Titles were
not common as fish in those days. 1T took
much learning to attain them. Macauley
.1.1 &c NJ, VYorIoI- +ho+ ohio Capi,,- for
government was not inferior to that of
Richelieu," and he was the greatest of all
executives of France. Macaulay said
more-that Wesley devoted all his pow
ers to what he considered the best good
Of his species" Buckle referred to him as
''the first of theological statesmen and
so he was beyond all fair question.
], Buckle said that he was the greatest OF
all divines in his time or since, and SO
he was. There is a tablet to his memory
in the great national mausoleum, West
minister Abbey. Green and Lecky pay III
their noble histories high tributes also
to the illustrious man of God.
> I read not long since five stanzas IN
the Charlotte Presbyterian Standard, en-
J, titled '"rhe Seabeach in Autumn" by
Mary C. Gates. If am not wrong IN
f Judgment. they are poetic, and she may
/ be glad of them. They are breezy, stir
; ring, heart-lifting. ] would like to copy
all but content myself with the first and
fourth, and they may not be better thar
the others:
Beyond long lines of seward dunes
Beats martial music of the sea;
Like Titan blows of rhythmic ease,
OR onset of old mailed Dragons.
, Long slants the light of Autumn's sun;
In choiring chant the crickets sing;
: Snow-white the sail as plumed doves
wing,
And peace falls wide, for day is done
I make a few literary notes here thai
may please some readers. Right Hon
John Morley's life of William E. Glad
! stone in ,nree octave volumes, is now out
The first edition in England was exhaust
ed the first day. me price Tor the Worl
IS $1,000 net.
The American novelist resident in Rome
Italy, Crawford, nas a new novel JUS
issued. It is we'll praised, and he IS al
interesting writer of fiction. It s called
n THE Heart of Rome" The price Is $3.50
Ouiller Couch, a writer OF some cleve
fiction, has a novel emitted "Hetty Yves
lev" 1t is said to be full of insight an'
) suggestiveness." The heroine IS a stste
Of the celebrated John and Charles Yves
lev. She was gifted and unhappy.
Hon. Thomas f. Watson's Life am
Times Of Thomas Jefferson, an octave
price $50, will attract attention, Tor IN
theme is highly important ana the write
, is of skill and power and independence
4 Mr.. Watson has achieved richly desefVe
fame by his The Story OF France, a re
markably entertaining work OF some LOU
naees His Napoleon" I have rot seen
int if has been lauded no little. Apple
ton and Company, the New York publish
ers saw of the work on jefferson: MI
Watson's book is without doubt the mos
i yaIuable recent contribution to the Ms
tory OF Revolutionary times ana cnara'
tiers. His personal sympathy WIN IN
e democratic simplicity and the poiltlca