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Funeral of Mr.. Boner.
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Especial to News and Observer
Washington March 10-A number of
the personal friends of the late. John
Henry Boner assembled at No. 2lS [
Street, ~ w, on Monday. March 8, to
pay the last tribute of respect to that
talented and estimable man. This was
the late residence of the deceased, and
most of those present were perhaps from
the Government printing office, at which
Mr. Boner had been employed. The deep
feeling interested was almost unusual,
since all except the widow were unre
lated by blood or marriage to the dead.
There We're probably thirty individuals
in the room or corridor or in the adjoin-
ing bedroom with Mrs. Boner. The lid
of the coffin was opened and all were
invited to see the features of the beloved
departed The funeral services, which
began shortly after 2:30 p. m, were con-
Quoted by Rev. DR. J. Edwin Amos, pastor
of the North Capitol Methodist Episcopal
church, of which at one time Mr.. Boner
had been a member. His address com
prised, besides obvious and touching al
lusions to death and the character of the
lamented dead, a Biographical sketch
which had been prepared by friend and
handed to him 1T dwelt as much on the
Christian faith and deeds of the deceased
as on his career as a literary man and
his force and value as a reform influence
in the world The eulogist had not known
Mr. Boner in life. Interment followed
the funeral at the house, and took place
at the Boner's request in the old historic
Congressional Cemetery
1T was the last of earth" in the sense
only of the consignment to mother earth
of the remains of a cherished son. Hts
memory his poetical works his example,
his devotion to duty, his refinement of
nature his noble gifts of heart and mind,
abide with his friends and his place IN
literature is secure
Mr. Boner leaves only the widow, long
his loving and efficient helpmate, of his
immediate family.
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in te right direction, and I have reason
in the right direction, and have reason
he lay dying. But l wish to call atten-
ton to some features of Mr.. Boner's
poetry on this sad occasion of lamentins
his death. Besides description poem
of high capacity. he had a lyrical ring
when at his best. which proved his kin
ship with the Southern singers named
above and others, such as Randall,
Reuuier Ticknor and Father Ryan. He
also wrote a few very creditable verses
in dialect-negro dialect, | mean. But
in my opinion his sentimental short
poems and his descriptions of the Whisp
oring Pines, will live longest of all his
illusions In later years, like that gifted
Maryland Georgian, James r. Randall, he
wrote but little.
Excellent as his poetry and as solid as
his labors on the Century and Standard
Dictionaries, the Sunday World literary
supplement and the Literary Digest, it
is to the noble steady tenor of his pure
and gentle and refined Christian life that
his closest friends and admirers choose
to dwell at this hour of their bereaye-
ment. God loved him and He took him
away into the land of Eternal Effolgence
and Bliss Superval Let the blameless
life of the poet long be an example to
the people OF North Carolina and the
South-the land he loved so well and
whose beauties and glories he cherished
with almost inimitable grace.
CICERO w. HARRIS.
Washington, March T. 1903.
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HATTERAs.

A sulphurous sunset illunines the waters commo-
ton
Where never a wave has outrun the tempestu-
doom
OF the turbulent food of the lair OF the storms
of the ocean,
And crest answers crest with signal of mutin
Gus spume-
A sunset Of sulphurous hue on the waters alb
That plunge to the north and the south and
the east and the west,
And leap to the sinister light from their furious
torrent
As If they would fain break the spell of their
torment and rest
In the yitreous glcsm of the sky with the dark
impending
The pillows that bowl to the lash of the wind
and the tide
Break up with intolerant force aud infuriate
rcnding
OF limits rebound and rebound by the spirit
defed.
For the waves they are weary Of sinking and
rising and flying
And weary of wind and the rage of the stream
They are weary of cries OF despair and the means
Of the dying,
And they long for the peace of tranquil and
They are weary OF dragging the foam chains in
trcacherous places,
Of surge and of swirl and OF refuent sweep to
the shoals,
That float and cry out to the parting and ter
rifiea souls
But the demon of wreck is their monstrous and
naerciiess master,
And he comes even now from the hot Carib-
bean afaT,
Where the torrid sun breeds to his spirit host
for disaster
That Turks for the fall OF a night with no
moon and no star.
He has gathered the winds OF the tropic and
dreful tornadoes
That spread devastation by day and destruc-
ton by night;
lie has sent for his herald the lightning that
girts the Barbados
And his mantle is thunder and whlrlwlnd the
track of his fight.
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GOOD ADVICE.

The most miserable things in the
world are those suffering from Dys-
pepsia and Liver Complaint. More than
seventy-fve per cent of the people in
the United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effects: such as
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual
Costiveness, Palpitatien of the Heart.
Heartburn, Waterbrash, Gnawing and
Burning Pains at the Pit of the Stomach,
Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and Disa-
greeable Taste in the Mouth, Coming up
of Food after Eating, Low Spirits, etc.
Go to your Druggist and get bottle of
August Flower for % or 70 cents. Two
doses will relieve you. Try it.
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lie tramples the bays and the straits with dis
dain and with frantic
Delight smites the waters that crouch IN ms
pitiless way
As he sweeps from the Mexican Gulf TO the roar
ing Atlantic,
Foresgnahng storm to-the night and the place
of his prey.
From the rack of the sky Of the twilight a less
ening crescent
Sinks into the gathering gloom of the black
ness of night
And the wandering breakers are lit with
CLEAN phosphorcscent
As landward they grieye in the glimmcr Of
Hatteras light
A giimmer tina: tracks lone ship which is toll
ing and beating
Away from the tempest impending but hope
less to fec
From the demon that comes with a luminous
fame for greeting
And wings that uncover the nav of the raw
enous sea.
And the waves that are weary of wreck and
destruction are maddened
They rise to the call of the trumpeting huui-
cane king;
They race to salute him in frenzy as if they
were gladdened
At the sound of his voice and the swoop of his
slumberless wing.
In the vortex of tempest the tragedy wild is
completed.
At midnight the sky is unclouded and bril-
liant with stars;
To the fathomless thousands hundred more
dead sink unsheeted,
And the ship rent and mastless is crashing
Hatteras bars.
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OCCONEECHEE FARM.

We have for sale two Shet-
land Ponies for $4,000 each.
They are beauties,
We offer also young Jersey
Cows with first calves. at
$500 each,
These young Jerseys are finely
bred, and by proper handling
ought to develop into very
choice animals.
One Heifer ready for de-
livery. Orders booked for 5
more, to be supplied in the
order received, and when the
Jersey is ready.
OCCONEECHEE, 80
HILLSBORo. N. C.
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HENRY JEROME STOCKARD
ON JOHN HENRY BONER
Some of the North Carolina Bards Most Famous
Poems Reviewed by His
Friend

To the Editor: At the request of the
editor it gives me pleasure to write
further of the life and work of our dead
poet.
John Henry Boner was born at Salem,
~ c., in 1915, and so, at the time of his
death, was about ffty-eight years of age.
Ills parents were OF German descent, and
were identified in work and spirit with
the Moravian settlement in that oil
town. The poet had only one brother,
Eugene, who was a professor OF music
ana is, / believe also dead. He Lad no
sister Financial reverses with the father
cut short the education of the sons and
necessitated their becoming bread-win-
ners in early life. John learned the
printers trade, and was soon editing
small paper of his own. In 1858, he
was chosen Reading Clerk in the Legs-
lature and moved to Raleigh where, al
ter this service, he worked in one of
the printing offices. The next year,
1863. he married Miss Charlotte Smith,
OF this city. While here he formed
close friendship with Theo. H. Hill and
Joseph Holden. For sixteen years after
he left Raleigh-trom 1871 to lSol-ne
held a civil services position in the Gov
eminent Printing Office at Washington,
and from this place he went to New
York city, where he engaged in literary
work for seven years. AS was said IL
my former note, he held i'm no'tdnt posi-
lions during this period: but, owing to
declining health, was forced to surrender
his ideals and return to his former less
CXacting duties.
His only volume of poetry, Whisper
ing Pines" was printed in 1883; and, as
he has been a frequent contributor to
some of our leading journals-notabiy
The Century Magazine large part of
his best work has never been collected.
About two years ago he issued PAM
phlet containing a few Of these later
poems, but this was not extensively cir
culated nor is it in satisfactory form.
The range of his notes is wide. 1t eX-
tends from the negros rousing camp
meeting song to the gravest and most
polished lyric Compare these two poems
as Illustrative of this statement:
[See Book p. 100 "Cismus Times Is
Come" and Pamphlet p. 4, "Remem-
brance.l
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stood
An arcbetype of glory and herald of the good
Predestined to develop the human saintlihood.
From boreal aurora to Southern Cross a chime
OF ringing bells pealed skyward harmony
sublime
musical concordance significant in time.
These bells attune the ages, and arts divnng rod
Reveals, a heavenly VISTA and science, lightning
shod
Blazons upon the future mans destiny is God.
HENRY JEROME STOCKARD.
Raleigh, N c., March IA, 1903
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TIE WOLF.

The wolf came shifting at my door,
But the wolf had prowled on my track before,
And his sniff, sniff sniff at my lodge door-s1ll
Only made me laugh at his deyilish will
] stirred my fire and read my book,
And joyed my soul at my ingle-nook.
His sniff and his snarl were always there
But my heart was not the heart OF hare.
] cursed the beast and drove him away,
But he came with the fall of night each day,
And his sniff, sniff sniff the whole night through
could hear between the winds that blew.
And the time came when l laughed no more.
But glanced with fear at my frail lodge door,
For now knew that the wolf at bay
Sooner OF later would have his way.
The Fates were three, and was one
About my life net spun;
My soul grew faint in the deadly snare,
No homage had been offered no alteration paid
And the shrewd wolf knew my hearts despair.
A crash, and my door flew open wide.
My strength was not the beasts at my side
That night on my bearthstone cold and bare
He licked his paw and made his lair.
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FOR SALE.

One "Allls" five-saw board trimmer.
5000.
One "Stearns" three-saw slab slasher,
800.
One Farquahar. 20-horse-power Cornish
Boiler. with stack and all fixtures COM
plete, 5000.
One So horse power locomotive, style
boiler with stack and all fixtures com
plete, 5000.
One 9x12 Skinner engine, $3.50.
One Farquahar saw mill with carriage
and track long enough to saw forty-hve
feet, four head blocks.
One extra heavy swing cut off saw
with thirty saw.
One extra heavy swing cut off saw with
forty saw
All this machinery is In first class con-
dition and can be delivered promptly;
can be inspected here.
PINE TOWN MASHINE co,
Pine Town, n. c..
213-Fri and Sun-10t.
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REMEMBRANCE.

7 think that we retain OF our dead friends
And absent ones no general portaraiture;
That perfect memory does not long endure,
BIT fades and fades until our own life ends.
I'nconsciously. forgctfuness attends
That grief for which there is no other cure,
But leaves of each lost one some record sure
4 look an act a tone-something that lends
Relief and consolation. not regret
Eyep that moor mother mourning her dead child,
Whose aconizng eyes with tears are wet,
Whose bleeding heart can not be retonciled,
Into the graves embiace-even she shall yet
Remember only when her babe FIRST smiled!
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HENRY JEROME sTocKARD.
,reciation of poetry

reader with just appreciation of poetry
will admit.
One of the last poems he published in
The Century is entitled 1.-THE Wolf"
cannot read it without emotion for it is,
fear, an. expression from his inmost
soul. These arc the lines
Pamphlet p. II, "The Wolf.
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Between these extremes are to be
found verses of every shade of senti-
meut and emotion; and the difference in
tone within the classes themselves is
striking. With the negro souls above
compare this:
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While Mr.. Boner was not member
my church, he was ct heart a Mora
van. Another of his final contributions
will serve as fitting close for from
il we may gather his beliefs and hopes
concerning that shadowy border-land
whose vast hush he has entered.
Pamphlet PIP. 10 and II, Immortal
ity."1
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poEs COTTAGE At FoRDHAM.

Here lived the soul enchanted
BY melody of song;
Here dwelt the spirit haunted
BY a dcmOniaC thTong;
Here sang the lips elatcd;
Here grief and death were stated;
Here loved and here minated
Was he, so frail, so strong
Here wintry winds and cherries
The dying freight blew
While he whose song was peerless
Dreamed the drear midnight through,
And from duh embers chilling
Crcpt shadows darkly filing
The silent place, and thrilling
His fancy as they grew.
Here, with brow barred to heaven,
In starry night he stood,
With the lost star of seven
Feeling sad brotherhood.
Here in the sobbing showers
OF dark autumnal hours
lie heard suspected powers
Shrek through the stormy wood.
From visions of Apollo
And of Astarte's bliss
lie gazed into the hollow
And hopeless vale of Dis;
And though earth were surrounded
BY heaven, it still was mounded
With graves. His soul had sounded
The dolOrous abyss.
Proud. mad, but not defiant.
He touched at heaven and hell
Fate found a soul plant
And rung her changes well.
Alternately his Tyre
Stranded with strings of fire,
Led earth's most happy choir
Or flashed with ISRAELI.
No singer of old story
Luting accustomed lays,
No harper for glory,
No mendicant for praise,
lie struck high chords and splendid,
Wherein fercely blended
Tones that unfinished ended
With his unfinished days.
Here through his lowly portal,
Made sacred by his name,
Unheralded immortal
The mortal went and came
And fate that then denied him.
And envy that decTied him,
Ard malice that belied him,
Have cenotaphed his fame
Here is a touch of extraordinary pow
er. The melody is as haunting as that
of the great genius of whom he writes.
The second stanza especially rings uni
sonant with the harp of that saturnine
minstrel; while the third is a striking
exposition of him in his weird environ
ment. Swinburne, the mother of tone
color since Tennyson, never surpassed
this in this quality in any work of equal
length; nor does the poem suffer when
its imagery is compared with that OF the
better known English writer.
Another poem that will be read with
interest in North Carolina is Pamphlet
PIP. / and 2, "Hatteras."
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CK.

There's morn than instinct in the ioeund plav
OF "Jsck. I" the little Scot. dear as a child
Alas. that Arrogance has so misstyled
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erasmus TINES is COME.

when de sheppuds watch de sheep on de plain
oh Bethlehem
(Crismus simes is Gomez
Dcy was 'stonshed at de star dat went a-swingins
ober dem,
(Crismus times is Gomez
DEFY lean upon de sheppud crooks a-shadin Cd
der eyes,
Crismus times is Gomez
An dey know de sun oh glory wasa swlne lur
to rise,
(Crismus times is Gomez
De wise men walk wild der heads ben low
Tweu dey hear ban o music like dey
nebher hear bcfo',
An de angels come singin wild de stars
in der hans
An der famin wings a-shnin ON &c
heathun Ian S.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.

Having qualified as administrator C.
t. a., of the estate OF Ambrose r. Pearce.
deceased. late of Wake county, n. c.,
this is to notify all persons having claims
against the estate to present the same
to the undersigned on or before the 18th
day of March, 1904, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery.
L. F.. YOUNG
Administrator C. t. a.
March 1903.
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HOW OFT I'VE TROD THAT SHADOWY WAY.
Full many a peaceful place I've seen.
But the most restful spot ! know
Is one where thick dark cedars grow
In an old graveyard cool and green.
The way to the sequestered place
Is arched with boughs of that sad tree,
And there the trivial step of glee
Must sober to pensiye pace.
How oft I've trod that shadowy way
In bygone years-sometimeS while yet
The grass with morning dew wet,
And sometimes at the close of day,
And sometimes when the summer noon
Hung like slumbrous midnight spell
Sometimes when through the dark trees Lell
The sacred whiteness of the moon.
Then is the hour to wander there,
When moonlight silvers tree and stone
And in the soft night wind is blown
Ethereal essence subtly rare.
At such an hour the angels tread
That hallowed spot in stoles white
As lilies, and in silent fight
They come and go till dawn is red
three stanzas closing it are written with
great felicity. But | must differ in this
estimate. 1T seems to me Mr.. Boner
reached his highest perfection in tho
following truly remarkable poem. Pam
phlet p. Z, "Poe's Cottage at Fordham. ]
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De kings of de erf woke up dat night.
(Crismus times is Gomez
An der crowns look shabby in de hallyluyer
light,
(Crisnls times is Gomez
But de po' man Siz en- tuck his ole hat down,
(Crsnius times is Gomez
An hit look so fine dat he fought it wer crown,
(Crismus times is Gomez
Ole Jordan roll high en- old Jordan roll
low,
An de star stood still whar dc folks had
had to 60,
An de angels flew away agln a-lcaNln
arter dem
A blaze road from Juda to de new
Jerusalem.
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Den pile on dc lght'ood en- set aroun de fire,
(Crismus times is Gomez
Rosum up de ole bow Chune the banter higher,
(Crismus times is Gomez
Dere's no mo- coonin' OBJ de log in dc night.
(Crismus times is GOMEZ
o glory To de lam fur de hallyluyer light,
(Crismus times is Gomez
De crismus possum am a-bakin mighty
snug,
So han roun' de tumbler en- de little yal-
Ter jug
Wild dc co'ncob stopper, de honey in
de bowl
An aglory hallyluycr en- a-bless you soul.
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Here. too, is enthusiasm. but OF
another type. As distinct also is the
strain of the following sonnet. read in
comparison with Remembrance.
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THE LIGnTooD FIRE.

When wntry days arc dark and drea
And all the forest ways grow STILL
When gray suow-laden clouds appear
Along the bleak horizon hill,
When cattle all are snugly pCnned
And sheep go budding close together,
When steady streams % smoke ascend
From farmhouse chiumeys-in such weather
Give me old Carolina's own.
great log house. a great hearthstone,
cheering pipe of cob or briar
And red, leaping light'oo fire,
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This is no ordinary writing as any
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When dreary day draws to close
And all the silent hand Is dark.
When Borcls down the chimney blows
And sparks fly from the cracking bark.
When limbs are bent with Snow CT slcct
Aud owls boot from the hollow tree.
With hounds asleep about your feet
Then is the time for revcric.
Give me old Cardinals own.
hospitahle wide hearthstone.
cheering pipe Of cob or btiar
And a red rousing light God fire.
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His beloved friend, Theo. H. Hill, re-
garded the following as among the best
work of the poets hands:
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The intelligence of brutcs, and said them nay
At this life's close. Denying them there may
Be no Supreme law such as man has filed
Against them. | could well be reconciled
To share with all Of them a judgment-day
And life eternal Not blasphemous thought
ONitness, Thou who knowest mel is mine:
But this dogs life, innocent, is fraught
With limitations of such high design
THAT | could wish we never had been taught
To think man only holds the spark devine
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-01-24

tween Minister Bowen, as the repre-.
sentative Of Venezuela and the rep.
resentatives Of the powers. However.
while the administration regards the
bombardment as un|warrantable. the
United States has no intention Of TAX.
ing official cogni2ance of II.
Some consideration was given 10
the proposed antitrust legislation now
pending in Congress. Regret was ex.
pressed that the impression prevailed
In some quarters that the bill reported
to the house from the judiciary com.
mittee was an administration meas.
ure.' Il was made clear that Il Is NOT
an administration measure. aud does
not represent entirely the views of the
administration ON what antitrust leg,
islation should be enacted by this con.
gress. II can be said to be the hone
OF President Roosevelt and his cabinet
th@ antitrust legislation along the
lines Indicated by Acknowledgement
Knox In the bills which he submitted
to the house judiciary committee NAV
be enacted at this session.
Questions OF policy regarding I'D.
polntments in the South were also dis
cussed. The administration has been
considering the adyisability OF issu.
anee OF an order regarding fitness OF
candidates for Office, and the Presi.
dent talked the matter over with his
advisers today IL vas decided how.
ever not 70 promulgate ANY official
pronunciamento Of that sort.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-01-24

Senator DAILY Suffers Bereavement.
Hon. John DAILY, Of Benton county.
received a telegram today, announc.
ing the death Of his sister. Mrs. Mary
Fee, at Stockton, Cal, at 0 o'clock last
night. He has not yet been informed
Of the date Of the funeral, but, unfor-
t%unately, is so situated, with refer.
ence TO some important public mat.
tiers in the legislature that he cannot
attend. Mrs, Fee was aged 80 years.
and was very much attached to her
Oregon brother.
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pared at once, and late this afternoon
the treaty was sent TO the senate. The
President and members Of the cabi-
net are confident that the treaty will
be ratified at an early date, without
encountering any serious opposition.
The Venezuelan situation was dis
cussed at length, but It a be said by
authority that no change in the atti.
tude of the United States is in con.
temptation at this time. The gov.
eminent will continue its policy OF
"sitting tight" The bombardment of
San Carlos by the German warships
Is regretted sincerely by officials OF
the administration, because of their
apprehension that It may complicate
seriously the pending negotiations be