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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21
THE LAST OF BoNER's POEMS.

In the June number of the Century
Ma gazine opens what is probably the last
unpublished production of John Henry
Boner, the gifted North Carolina poet
whose death a few months ago was so
widely lamented. The poem is entitled
Storm" and is as follows:
l love the dark and stormy day
The flashing Dough, the broken spray,
The swirling and incessant rain,
The pearled and dripping windowpane,
The clouds so donse that one may know
For hours and hours it shall be SO.
Click, click, upon the shining street
Go scurrying horses nimble feet,
A lone pedestrian slantwise bent,
Against the drenching element.
No bird or fowl in tree or sky,
Torn leaves in tumul drifting by,
And rolling with muffled swell
A slowly tolling funeral bell.
Where now the throngs on pleasure bent,
The eager step, the pressed intent?
They must await the sunlight ray;
Storm has no path for such as they.
And fancy now her wand may wave
see the rivulet round the grave.
And with the twilight comes to view
Night closing in on Waterloo.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21
THOMAS DIXON TALKS OF HIS NEW
NOVEL

NOVEL.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., who was in Raleigh
this week. when asked about his new
book, said
''The new book, The One Woman. is
primarily love story, with two heroines
and three heroes and no william except the
deacon of church and embodies in the
form of fiction a study of the life of a
distinguished Congregational minister.
Ten years ago he was the most brilliant
young minister in the Congregational de-
nomination in America. He deserted his
wife and three children for charming
young woman in his congregation, whom
he married under the new forms of so
cialism. The book demonstrates in the
form of character study that socialism
destroys the home and home life. At
the same time its background pictures
the advance of materiallsm in New York
city and the decline of religious life. 1t
is designed to be an attack or socialism
and a defence of the home against laxity
of divorce At the same time the dldactlc
element is subordinated to the artistic IN
the development of the story. It is al
most simply love story, the conflict of
three men over two women. AS striking
instances of the principle in action in the
advance of socialism, we see the case of
Mr.. Walter Vrooman, whose wife recently
man founded Ruskin College, socialistic
Institution in Missouri. But>his wife OBJ
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

fed his agony. To the giddy, deceptive
wIne-cup, and the dissipated, debauched
company he would betake himself-seek-
ing to drown his sorrows and fears in the
Circean cup OF pleasure and drunkenness.
At length the day of all others to him
the fatal day, according to his haunting
dream, was at hand A deeper melan-
choly settled upon him. His health was
as usual after his baleful orgies, but in
spite of every effort on his part or on
the part of his friends, sad PRESENT.
ment OF evil lowered upon him, was con-
tinually with him rising up in all of its
horrid sgnifcancy before his minds eye
to curse him, to madden him, to drive
him to the very borders Of despair. The
evening shades wore on. A large com
pany of roysterers are assembled in the
brilliantly Illuminated room of the finest
hosiery The most sumptuous feast is
laid and the excitement OF pleasure runs
high The culinary art has been exhaust
ed seemingly in its preparation, and all
that wealth could purchase to make glad
the heart, to crafty the appetite, TO
tickle the whimsical fancy or meet the
demands of the taste of professional
Sybarite was there in all splendor of ser
for this magnificent most sumptuous feast
has been prepared at his bidding and these
young friends are his guests for the even
ing. Music and song and story alternate
as the hours advance. THE feast of rea-
son and flow of soul" are there in all
charm and gusto. The wine flows and,
laughter and joyousness have command
Each one seems merry as a bachannal.
The hours go by, it is nearly twelve
O'Clock. The company all aflush with
generous liquors and richest food, are
about to separate. The host moves
parting bumper shall be drunk. The
beaming glasses are filled once more Each
guest raises his glass; the sentiment of
our hero-"A long and merry life" has
been announced, the ringing sound goes
out as the glasses clink against each 9TH
err around the table, they are raised to
the lips, when loI as each eye is fixed
upon the young man, they see tie glass
fall from the palsied hand, shivered into a
hundred pieces he staggers back, a
deathly palor suffuses his but just now
rubiscund cheeks-a gasp, a groan, fall,
and corpse crowns the banquet. Tie
clock at the instant strikes the ominous
twelve, and the fine intellect is stilled in
death, and the manly form but now filled
with life lies a CORPSE, resting in 1.-The
alabaster arms of DEATH" The young man
has peen faithful to his promise and has
kept his solemn engagement made with
the grim warder of his dream.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

AS / recall it now after more than for
ty-two years since / read the account, it
first was given in a Presbyterian paper
printed IN this country in or near A. d.
1872. | am responsible for the manner.
the dress of the story as it appears in
1903
THEODORE BRYANT KINGSBURY.
Wilmington, N. c., June IS, 1903
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

story of how the friendship between this
interesting woman and the great novelist
began, IN 1896, when Sir Walter Scott was
in town enjoying his first fame after
the publication of THE Lay of the Last
Minstre.." The letters begin in 1903,
lapse entirely between 1918 and 1921, and
then continue at fairly regular intervals
to 1881. They are full of personal chat
and were evidently highly priced by Mrs.
Hughes
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21
D0O Tho tL6G@paEpy W@p0d]o

OH for booke and a shade nooke,
Either in doore or out;
With the creme leaves whispering over
head
Or the streete cryes all about.
where 1 made all at my ease,
Both of the newe and old:
For jollie goode booke whereon to
locke
Is better to me than golde.
Good Old English Song.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

I don't know; do your
Il finished, saying: There you have the
texts. Now, go ahead
And he did. He was in prime mood,
and beginning, his ideas turned TO speech,
flowing like a heated river.
When we separated at Indianapolis 1T
was long distance to my destination, but
/ preferred to walk, for / was in con-
fusion of mind not unlike dazement.
ITO explain this, it is necessary now to
confess that my attitude with respect to
religion had been one of absolute indlffer-
ence. / heard it argued times innumera-
bic, always without interest. So, too,
had read the sermons of great preachers,
but always for the surprising charm OF
their rhetoric. But-how strange! To
lift me out of my indifference one would
think only strong affirmations OF things
regarded hottest would do. Yet, here was
| moved as never before. and by what?
The most outright denials OF all human
knowledge of God, Christ, heaven and the
hereafter He had made me ashamed of
my ignorance, and then-here is the I'M
expected of the affair-as | walked on in
the cool darkness l was aroused for the
first time in my life to the Importance of
religion. And, while casting round how TO
set about the study to the best advantage,
/ thought of the manuscript in my desk.
It's closing scene was the child Christ in
the cave of Bethlehem; why not go on
with the story down to the crucifixion?
L did as l resolved, with results-frst,
the book, Ben Hur,' and second, convic-
ton amounting to absolute belief in God
and the divinity of Christ"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

Only one remedy in the world that win
at once stop itchiness of the skin in any
part of the body; Doans Ointment. At
any drug store, so cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

Can't be perfect health without pure
blood Burdock Blood Btters makes pure
blood. Tones and invigorates the whole
system.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

Mothers lose their dread for chat ter
rible second summer" when they have
Or. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry
in the house. Natures specific for bowci
complaints of every sort.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

'Tisn't safe to be a day without Dr.
Thomas Electric Oil in the house. Never
can tell what moment an accident is go
ing to happen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21
THE LIFE THAT LIES OUTSIDE OF
THE DUST AND DIN.

(Thomas Nelson Page, in Gordon KEITH
When the temptation grew too oyerpow
ering he lett his office and went down
into the country. 1t always did him
good to go there. To be there was like
plunge in COOL limpid pool He had
been SO long in the turmoil and strife
OF the struggle for success--for wealth;
had been SO wholly surrounded by those
who strove as he strove, tearing and
trampling and rending those who were in
their way. that he had almost lost sight
OF the life that lay outside of the dust
an din of that arena. He had almost
forgotten that life held other rewards
than riches He had forgotten the calm
ard tranquil region that stretched be-
yond the MOL and anguish of the strife
for gain.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

Since the war with Spain, thanks to The
strenuous commander of the Rough RIDER
the cowboy has risen from the ranks of the
dime novel to that of bound fiction. MI.
Owen Wister has grown in his ''The vir.
ginian" what can be made of him by a
skilful hand In "The Log of a Cowboy,
by Andy Adams (Houghton. Mifflin &
Company, we have something that sounds
a little more like the real thing. 1t is the
story. of great drive OF cattle from
Texas into Montana, twenty years ago,
with all the incidents and adventures that
were likely to occur in such an expedition.
The narrative is in the first person and
has al the mark of verisimilitude. Very
likely it is true story. At any rate,
the reader will derive from it lively
sense of what the life Mr.. Roosevelt adj
mires is like There is plenty of action
and adventure in the book, which, if not
written by real cowboy, reads very much
as though it had been.-N. Y. Sun.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

Mary Anne Watts Hughes, to whom Sir
Walter Scott addressed the letters, hither-
to unpublished, which will appear in
the July Century, was the wife OF Dr.
Hughes, canon of st. Pauls. and grand
mother of Thomas Hughes, author of the
TON Brown books. There is pretty
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

Sometime during the autumn the Mac
milan Company viii publish Sir Gilbert
Parkers Quebec: The Place and the Peo-
pie. Sir Gilbert has had this work IN
preparation for many years; indeed, it
has been announced before, but it is now
so far advanced that it may be definitely
promised for the autumn. The two vol
umes will be enriched with a quantity of
illustrations. The author has told the
story sympathetically, relating the city's
history from the earliest times to the
present day. 1t is picturesque and hon
olable chronicle, in which the author has
used to good advantage the dramatic
episodes III the founding of the city, its
struggles, and its intimate connection with
the most stirring period in the history Of
the continent. No one knows the people
of Quebec better than he
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

THE LOTUS, published by the societies
OF Peace Institute, sets a standard fol
school ANIMALS.
1t Is handsomely bound in green leather
adorned with half tone plates of tho
buildings and grounds members of the
faculty, and groups of student classes and
societies, pictures of lovely and attractive
young women. The accounts of schoo
pleasures and the wit and fun that fill its
pages show a wholesome, happy daily lfC
and high standard of work and play
The book is dedicated to Prof. Henry Je-
rome Stockard, professor of English al
Peace Institute, and the South's foremost
living poet. 1t is one of the handsomest
and brightest of the college ANIMALS.
In this month of academic reunions and
discussions, particular interest attaches to
an article in the June Atlantic wherein
John Bascom, whose pubic utterances
upon Important questions have recently at;
tracted much attention discusses the
changes in College Life in Fifty Years
Professor Bascom studies the evolution OF
the college course and of the life of the
undergraduate in their relation to the
social evolution of the country with much
kcenness. He especially distrusts the
modern tendencies toward extreme spe.
cialization, affectation, and dilettanteism
His plea for stricter ideals in education
and for more harmonious balance of study
is sure to stir both opposition and agree
ment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21
THE MANIA FOR DETAIL IN Fiction

THE MANIA FOR DETAIL IN fiction.
CIV. S. Dunbar in The Reader for July)
AT present there seems to be manifest
in the work of American fiction writer's
certain quality which can be best de-
scrlhed, perhaps, as an uncomfortable
mania for detail. They cannot send one
OF their characters through the streets
without cataloguing every garbage barrel
and fire plug that he passes. They have
not learned that the greatest strength of
a story may lie in the things that are
left unspoken.
The day is long since gone when an au-
thor is safe from arrest after writing a
two-page description Of his heroine; but
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
BERRY
PEST
FOUND
Eating th, Foliage of Straw
berries
Good Prospect for Crop Of
Cherries and Berries

There is an excellent prospect for
large berry and cherry crop. Straw
berries are coming into bloom very
nicely, and on some of the earlier va
rieties fruit as large as young goose
berries can be found.
Cherry trees are beginning to shed
their blooms and the little cherries
have set and are getting a firm hold
on the trees. The frosts and cold
dashing rains have been minus quan.
titles. and never has a spring ad.
vanced so gradually and securely into
a more splendid promise.
The Journal editor has located a
new strawberry pest that is destroy
ing the foliage in some OF the fields.
The bug resembles the Colorado pota-
TO beetle, but is brown to black, and
has the trick of falling OF the leaf
and quickly disappearing into the
soil, which II resembles in color.
Samples have been sent TO the agri.
cultural college for Identification. No
great injury has been wrought so far.
They can be destroyed by n light
sprinkling OF Stacked lime under the
foliage
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
A MIndoNr Seal.

An acceptable window seat which
most girls crave for their rooms starts
with one OF the low rattan seats with
out backs that may bc bought at any
shop Offering an assortment or this
ware. They come in different lengths.
no that a little care In selection secures
one TO III almost any window spaee.
They may be left tue natural color. or.
preferably, stained to match the finish
OF the woodwork OF the room. A loose
cushion adds to their comfort, and n
valance may he used II liked.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
city Wells Infected.

After the analysis of watcr OF sew
eral wells Health Officer Paine de-
clares them the indus OF typhoid germ
infection Especially is this so OF the
well on Ganey Mathews premises, n
West Ninth street, and the doctor has
ordered that the well be abandoned.
Four cases of typhoid alone have
resulted from the use Of water Of the
Mathews well-Messrs. @. Datson,
Wade Bailey and Miss Lila Mitchell,
an Of whom are convalesclng from se-
we're cases OF the disease. Miss Agnes
Mathews has just recently been
stricken with the malady. Eugene
Register.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
state Lands.

The state school lands are goine
rapidly. and yesterday was a banner
day in handling them. Most Of the
purchasers are buying land without
knowing anything about it, and it is
quite possible some of them will re
vert 70 thke state and be sold again
over 10000 acres were turned over
to private people yesterday, the price
being s125 per acre. and the first
payment is 25 cents. The present
rush for lands will continue until
May goth. at which time the price is
doubled. and purchasers will want
positive information concerning the
lands before bidding for them.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29

An authority says that glassware will
last longer and look better II the fol-
lowing hints as td its care aud preser-
vation are regarded: Tepid water. the
best castile OF other pure soup aud a
still brush are the hrst essentials AFT.
er washing and rinsing place the cut
glass in lockwood sHwdust This will
absorb the moisture In the cutting
Next remove the sawdust from the
plain surfaces with soft cloth by
following these directions the original
elearness aud sparkle OF the glass will
be mnintnlned.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
SOCIALISTS
HAVE THEIR
FIRST RALLY
Spell Binder WiIkenS
Manages to Get
aCrOwd
RakeS Everything From
President Roosevelt Down
to Constable

The Socialist party opened It's cam
paign at the city ball Tuesday even
ing with three-headed performance
by Orators wilkins, Of California
Quinn. Of Portland and Candidate for
Congress Engle, from Corvallis
There was a good deal Of enthusi
asm. and the chairman Of Marion
county, r. Il. Ryan. was in his glory.
with the tramp. tramp OF marching
soldiers. the ringing commands of Of.
ficers. and the metallic ring Of the
steel over his head NJ. W. wilkins,
national organizer OF the Socialist
party. spoke TO a fairsized audience
in the city hall last night. Mr.. vii.
kins Is a typical spelbinder. and his
word pictures OF the condition Of the
wage-earner we're worked out with a
close attention 10 the details Of pov.
erty. prostitution ana crime.
Mr. wilkins believes that the wage
Garner OF today Is slave. and that
the economic struggle Is a class strug.
gle with wealth arranged on one side
ana tine wageearner on the other. He
Is an earnest talker and makes one
think that he believes what no
says.
A Joint debatc has been arranged
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
Killed
By a Bull

Corvallis Or, April 29.-The unex.
pected attack Of Jersey bull so in
jured William Armstrong. a farmer
that he died At $3.50 Tuesday night,
two hours after the trouble. The bull
was hornless. and the injuries to Arm.
strong were mainly inflicted while the
animal stood over the mans PROSTATE
body, and persisted in the attack with
repeated butts from his hornless head,
Armstrong was Gs years Of age. and
resided four miles south OF Philo-
math. In the vicinity OF Oak Ridge
He was leading the animal from the
pasture To the barn for the night,
There was a ring in the bulls nose,
and 10 this short chain was at
tached The old man held to the end
OF the chain Ak he led the way 10 the
barn. No one saw the attack begin,
but a partial account, feebly given by
Armstrong. after his rescue, is that
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
SHIELDS
PARK
CONTRACT
Has Been Let 10 Albel |
Southwick
Salem Summer Palace OF
Amusement Projected

Cooke Patton and Albert South
wick. who have the contract for erect
ing the pavilion for the Shields park
summer theater went over the ground
today, and work will begin on the
structure tomorrow.
The dimensions Of the enclosure
will be s0x12O. with entrances ON
Commercial and Center streets. The
management and entertainments will
be on. a circuit of ten similar parks
and summer theaters in the principal
cities Of the Northwest. the companies
playing the best towns in the four
states. and the plan is to have daily
every night during the
season.
The grounds will be enclosed with
a tight high board enclosure. with ele.
yated ten.cent circus seats on the
back and two sides. and better seats
with backs in the main auditorium,
which will have a sloping floor to the
3O.foot stage in front. capable Of seat.
Ing 1900 people.
The whole will be elaborately light
ed with electricity. and have the cool,
starlit heavens overhead. Altogether
Il promises to be a popular place of
public amusement that will be an add.
ed attraction to life in the Capital
CITY.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29


will start for the exposition grounds,
preceded by the president and invit-
ed guests in carriages. Al the
grounds a presidential salute of TWEEN.
ty-one guns will be fired.
The doors OF the Liberal Arts Build.
ing will be opened and band concert
will be given. At o'clock the cere-
monies will begin They will consist
OF an invocation by Cardinal Gibbons
aud addresses by the exposition offic.
clals President Roosevelt will make
an address. and after a grand chorous
former president Cleveland will speak
on Friday the members OF the di.
plomatic corps. the Representatives OF
foreign governments to the exposition
and other official guests will be taken
by "A military escort To the grounds
Addresses will be made by the French
Ambassador and the Spanish Minister
The civic parade win take place sat.
urday and will be reviewed by the
governors of the various states, In
the course Of the ceremonies at the
Liberal Arts Building addresses will
be made by Governors Odell of New
York and Dockery OF Missouri. AZ
the close Of the ceremonies on each
of the three days "A centennial salute
OF 100 guns will be fred. A display
Of fireworks will be made each even
ing.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
FIFTY CENTS
A MONTH

. A small bottle of SCOTS
Emulsion costing fifty cents
will last a baby a month";
few drops in its bottle each
time it is fed. That's a small
outlay for so large a return of
health and comfort.
Babies that are given
SCOTS Emulsion quickly re-
spond to its helpful action.
II seems to contain just the
elements OF nourishment a
baby needs most.
Ordinary food frequently
lacks this nourishment;S SCOTS
Emulsion always supplies it,,
Wen ssnd you a sample irss upon request
SCOTT 4 nowNF ,oo Pearl Street. New Nork
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29

Bacon grease. by the way. should
never be thrown away. as Il Is useful
In n variety OF ways. Cabbage chopped
very fine and boiled until tender is
good seasoned with hot bacon grease
poured over II after II has been put In
deep dish. Slices OF bacon may be-
used 20 garnlsh this honicly, but excel
lent, dish.
Good VIII.
Have good ~ill To all thai lives lettirI
unkincness die.
And greed and wrath so that your lives
be madc
IAke soft nE.s passing by -Ruddha
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
Well Known Man ples.

Edward p. Rands died at Oregon
City yesterday. He was 50 years old
and is survived by his wife and the
following children: Mrs. f. L. White
OF Oregon City; Senator q. NJ. Rands
of vaconuver. Wash. Mrs. NJ. A.
White. Oregon City: c. A. Rands. OF
Oalsdale. Wash. Mrs. James l.
swafford. Ernest p. Rands and Harold
A. Rands. Of Oregon City.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29

ne stopped over on som.
it was then that the sD,,''' ''''
1t was totally unexpec,ss
strong was knocked prO.,,.'
a loud believing thai ~
attention of Neishbor Hsss''
a mile away the bull ksS' ~
tack. The l2.year.Old = ?
turning from school. ana s',' ],
in the house but 100 !, |,
away heard the bellovlOr
were attracted to the sen.
seized a club and at,,,s.,
but the animal refused
away.
Then Armstrong call. .
to bring the shotgun I'M.
A charge OF shot from a
sent by Armstrong; An.
the bulls nose drove
away. Neighbors 500,
the manned victir,
the house. His ches~
crushed in.
The deceased had reas
30 years in Benton cous
his wife resided with MAJ
ersox. their daughter n,
ments OF the funeral avn,
al of John Armstrong. vA..,
from Wallace. Idaho
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-29
Died Too,,h,,

Cyrus Bacon. aged 50 va,
wife, 40 years, died at Fo,,
Tuesday night, the latter tr,
hour before her husband. n
from Illinois to washhrr
where they had since nst.
children survive then