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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08

Tower City and Valley City, the latter
place being the home of Gov. White.
AT each place the President said. a few
words OF greeting to the crowds at the
stations.
Bismarck, N. D., April 7.-Standing
in the private office of Gov. White at
the state capitol, this afternoon, Pres-
ldent Roosevelt received the assurance
of the friendship and support OF the
great Sioux Indian tribe and similar as
surances from the chiefs of the Mandans
and Grosventres. Twenty of the most
distinguished chieftains of the tribes
had come from their agencies to see the
Great Father and to assure him of
their support and good will. There
were many famous Indians in the as
semblage. John Grass, the orator and
chief justice of the Sioux, presented the
President peace pipe of beautifully
carved pipestone in token of the good
will and friendship of the Indians.
I'VE have been treated well by the
good great father" said Grass, "and
we hope he will again be great father
when his time is over"
Water. chief of the Mandan Indians,
also presented written assurances OF
the good will of his people.
Tell him. said President Roosevelt,
through the interpreter, that l am
glad to see him. The Mandan Indians
have always done welI.''
Then the wrinkled old chieftains
granted the Presidents hand and SOL
EMMY grunted their approval.
t1,x.r {sa,, Nryn-
held in the private office of Gov. White
where the President met and shook
hands with many of the friends of his
Western days.
Following the reception he delivered
a brief address from the balcony of the
Capitol building to crowd of several
thousand people assembled from all
parts of the Missouri slope
Il am an old settler of this state"
said the President. 81 lived here ~
years ago, and feel that 1 am an old
timer"
He paid a special compliment to the
veterans of the Civil and of the Philip
pine wars who We're present to greet
him. He expressed his great interest
in the growth and welfare of the state
Of North Dakota.
Il know the people of the West" he
said. There are two ways to know
man by working with him, or by
him, and on the ranges there
ire men with whom have worked and
with whom I have fought"
At the conclusion of his address the
President was called upon again to
meet number of old friends and after
4 fve-minutes' interview the members
of the party re-entered their carriages
md were driven back to the depot,
passing en- route the scene of a barbe-
cue where two oxen and several sheep
We're being roasted for the attending
crowds.
President Roosevelt stopped long
enough at the barbecue to receive
huge sandwich of roast beef and rye
bread. which he ate with genuine rel
ish.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08

While we have been doing these
great and beneficent works in the
islands, we have yet been steadily re-
ducing the cost at which they are done
The last Congress repealed the law loI
the war taxes, and the war department
has reduced the army from the max
imum number of one hundred thousand
allowed under the law to very nearly
the minimum of sixty thousand.
Moreover, the last Congress enacted
some admirable legislation affecting
the army, passing first of all the mil
itia bill and then the bill to create a
general staff. The militia bill repre-
sents the realization of q reform which
had been championed ineffectively by
Washington, and had been fruitlessly
agitated ever since. At last we have
taken from the statute books the obso-
lete militia law of the Revolutionary
days and have provided for efficient aid
to the national guard of the States. l
believe that no other great country
has such fine natural material for vol
unteer soldiers as we have, and it is
the obvious duty Of the nation and OF
the states to make such provision as
will enable this volunteer soldiery tC
be organized with all possible rapidity
and efficiency in time of war; and.
furthermore, to help in every way thf
national guard in time OF peace. The
militia law enacted by the Congress
marks the first long step ever taken il
his direction by the national govern
nent. The general staff law is of i'm
nenSe Importance and benefit to the
'egular army. individually, I would
not admit that the American regular
either officer or enlisted man, is inferior
to any other regular soldier in tn,
world. In fact, if it were worth while
TO boast, I should be tempted to say
hat he was the best. But there must
be proper training, proper organization
and administration, in order to get the
best service out of even the best troops
This is particularly the case with sucf
a small army as ours, scattered over
so vast a country. We do not need
large regular army, but we do need to
have our small regular army the very
BEST that can possibly be produced
Under the WORKOUT and ineffective or
sani2ation which has hitherto existed
a sudden strain is absolutely certain t.
produce the dislocation and confusion
we saw at the outbreak Of the war witt
Spain: and when such dislocation ant
confusion occurs it is easy and nat
ural, but entirely improper, to blame
the men who happen to be in Office, in.
stead OF the system which is really re.
sponsible. Under the law just enacted
by Congress this system will b.
changed immensely for the better, an(
every patriotic American ought to re
joice; for when we come to the arm!
and the navy we deal with the homo
and interests OF all our people; an(
when such is the case party lines are
as nothing, and we all stand shoulde
to shoulder as Americans, moved onl.
by pride in and love for our common
country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08
NOTICE..
To Owners or Keepers of Dogs.

Zen dollars fine, and in addition dog
70 be killed If following provisions are
not complied with:
:, The law provides that every dog except
those covered by a special kennel IL
cense, must wear around his neck a coli
lar distinctly marked with the owners or
Teepers name and registered number.
The law makes 1t the duty of city aiI-
thorities to cause all dogs within the
city not 50 licensed and collared, except
warrant issued within 10 days after May
T., and In addition thereto to enter a COM
piaint against their owners or keepers,
Licenses are payable to Frank g.
harrington, City Clerk.
The foregoing provisions win be strictly
enforced. "- 70
HENRY M. BREEN,
City Marshal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08
INCREASE REFUSED,
fAt 1t is the Per Capita Tax of Mule
Spinners' Union.

8 Boston, April 7.-Despite the factthat
the mule spinners in four mills at
Woonsocket and seven Of the largest
mills in Lowell are on strike, the,
national convention of the craft held
in this city, today, unanimously refused
to increase the per capita tax. the
opinion being that the union had ample
funds to support it's members.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08
R|HEU
n All the Year Round Disease.

Rheumatism does not come and go with winter
time always; in fact some suffer more during the
Spring and Summer than at any other season. When
the blood is charged with Uric Acid, Akali and other
irritating poisons, then the system is in the right
condition for Rheumatism to develop, and attack
is liable to come at any time, Winter or Summer.
Rheumatism, because it attacks different parts Of
the body, and is sudden slow in its action is given
various such acute and chronic, muscular,
articuar nhanmatory ercural and sciatic but it is
the same old acid blood that causes all Some are
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08

stiffness in the muscles and joints, and
the blood settle upon the valves OF the
heart and ends suddenly and fatally.
It won't do to let Rheumatism
run on. 1t is dangerous disease, and
you can never tell where it is going to
strike. Home remedies, plasters, lini-
ments and such things as produce
counter-irritation, are soothing and
may relieve the pain temporarily, but
the polluted, acid blood cannot be
reached by external applications.
Rheumatism must be treated
through the blood, and no remedy
brings such prompt and lasting relief
as S. S. S. It attacks the disease in
the blood, neutralizes the acids, and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08

Jamestown, N. D., April 7.-Presi
dent Roosevelt arrived here at 49,
O'Clock this afternoon, and after brie
address left for Bismarck, where he i;
scheduled to arrive at 5.15 P. M. Three
stops were made by the President be
tween Fargo and here, at CasSeltor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08


the produces
stiffness joints and
h1oodc et+au valve of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08

Tower City and Valley City, the latter
place being the home of Gov. White.
At each place the President said, few
words of greeting to the crowds at the
stations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-08

Portland, Ind, Jan. 10, 1908.
After being terribly crippled for
three years with Rheumatism, and
having tried we'll known remedies I
could get no relief. And having
read OF the wonderful effects OF
s. s. s., I concluded to try it, and
am happy to say that was entirely
cured, and am able to work as well
as ever did. .
cheerfully recommend 8. 8. 8. 20
all sufferers of this terrible disease,
and will say that if they will con.
tinue the treatment, as per direc.
lions, they will find permanent
cure. Il. W. SEES.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

p1 oduced forty or more volumes or verse.
The object of this article Is, first, ia
present as complete a list cf the volumes
as possible, as q matter of information
second to provoke inquiry and lnvestiga-
ITEMS so that any errors or omissions may
be corrected; and third, to enlist aid II
forming the best possible collection oI
North Carolina poetry for presentation
to the Library Of our State University
at Chapel Hill.
The following is the list as 1 now have
t-about forty volumes by about thirty
writer's:
MISS LUCILLE Songs
From the Carolina Hills 70 pages.
From the presses OF DoXey, New York.
1902
JOHN HENRY BONER-"Whisperi
Fines" Brentons Bros, New York. i57
pages. 1883. Another volume by Mr..
Boner, prepared just before his death
and embodying the best of his work, has.
I believe, been published recently, GER
tainly is in the hands of the printers.
MRS. MARY BAYARD CLARKE-Four
volumes. The first compilations of NORTH
Carolina poetry was made by Mrs. Clarke
il appeared in two volumes (each con-
tanning 237 pages), was published by War
ren L. Pomcroy, Raleigh. and has the
title Wood Notes; or Carolina Carols:
Collection of North Carolina Poetry.
It contains 1872 poems by so writer's.
'Teniela" herself III eight poems furnish
ing the best work in the volumes. In 1866
'Mosses From a Rolling Stone; or, The
Moments Of a Busy Woman" appeared
60 poems, 16S pages. VIM. B. Smith and
Company, Raleigh The best of heI
works wasworks was, "Clyiie and
Frenstian, or The Liby and thePaper.
| New York: e. P. Dutton and Co. 1871
Sixtyfive pages.
| NEEDHAM BRYAN COBB-"Poctica
Geography of North Carolina, Cold Wa
| Ter. Reply to Gray's Ecgy, and Other
| Poems" Cambridge: Printed at The
Riverside Press 1887 CO pages.
! ROBERT T. DANIEL assisted by Mrs
| Hardy rs)-"Daniel's Selection
| (Hynlns, about 80 of which were original
Printed in Raleigh by Thomas Henderson
| in 1912.
| CHARLES FORCE DEEMS-Dr. T. B
/ Klnsbury IN an article some months age
| credited DR.. Deems with small volume
o. poetry which was written and pub,
! lished before the author was twenty The
title, publisher and value of the volume
were not given.
MISS S. OH. ICKsON-"Poems" by
20 H. Whittct and Shepperson, Rich
mcnd. 1900. 81 pages. 81 poems.
MISS ANNIE V. DUFFY "Glcnalbar
and Other Poems. Published by E. j
Hall and Son, New York 1878 The first
poem covers SIS pages, and there are about
80 other poems. 155 pages in the volume
! EDWIN WILEY FULLER-"The An
gel in the Cloud" The fourth edition
with biography and additional poems
Published by f. j. Hall and Son. Now
| York, lSS1, the first edition having ap
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

to DE critical with book that holds your
attention from start to finish as does ''The
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come but
in order to give the readers OF this column
a less enthusiastic view of the book, we
copy in full below Mr.. Doubledays crit
icism:
"a good story, of love ana adventure ex-
cellently written, with much OF idylllc
charm and Supplemented sweetness. It
is not what one would call powerful
book, it is just little too far alOof-too
fearful Of displeasing for that; there are
portions where too sheer a prettiness ana
sentimentality make their superficial APP
peal and incline us to recall these festal
Sundays when. in the presence of calol-
ling children we received a book thai
could not hurt a lambing; and of which
the title-shall we not say-might have
closely resembled the present one? But
nevertheless,D''The Little Shepherd OK
Kingdom Come has many rare and de-
lightful attributes. which will bespeak the
attention of critics, and practically insure
it successful career with the public. We
should rot be surprised if it reaches the
hundred thousand class.
Truly charming is this novels atmos-
phere OF sincerity, brightness and ideal
ity. Mr. Fox affects us not a little In the
manner OF Joel Chandler Harris, whom
he, however, In nowise initiates, and
whom. while falling below in the qualities:
of hurnor. breadth and a certain genial
''livingness. he entirely outstrips as
narrator OF continuous incident. Tie
story is complete chain of adventure
from beginning to end; there are abso-
lutely no tame spots; and when finally
we close the book after bringing the hero
from childhood on through the Civil War
to his Margaret and happiness, we dis
cover that our reading has been vcry-
rapid and intense. Yet It is not to the
mere record OF exciting events we have
yielded. but rather to the fine spirit that
informs them, and which, together with q
certain faith and genuine chivalry cxhil'-
tied by the writer throughout. not only
detaches US temporarily from the world,
but leaves Us the germ of profit.
1T is. perhaps inevitable that the re-
cital of the hero's boyhood is more actual
to us than that of his later. and of course
more conventional, career. The little walf
of the Kentucky mountains makes more
convincing appeal for our sympathles than
the student. lover. soldier of later years;
Chad is less thing of fiction than M.
Chadwick Buford, and the author seems
in his depletion of the former more COM
pletely at home-to be volclng indeed an
emotion more intimate with his soul, than
when he quits the mountains and their
cool, mysterious charm in order to give
us worId-life and something OF war his.
tory. Mr.. Foxs handling of the latter Is,
truth to say, nothing that should bring
him much celebrity. He shifts the scene
too often. he doesn't make US feel what
the soldiers feel; we seem TO be following
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25
SAM JONES ON TOM DIXON'S NEW
BOOK.

Writing of Thomas Dixon's new book,
which is being roundly denounced IN
many quarters, Sam Jones says:
tom Dixon's new book, The One
Woman is chasing down the road after
Leopard's Spots, read and criticised
by tens OF thousands, In this he fights
socialism like he was fighting snakes
The critics are badly divided, some praise
and some think it is just awful. But
whether they commend or cOndelln. they
all agree that he is strong dramatic, en-
tertaining and captivating. Lake the m
mortal Grady, he gives forth as much
magnetism from his pen as from ms
tongue. Tom Dixon would have been a
Booth on the stage, an Edison iii clcc-
trical mechanism, q Lou Dillon on tnH
race track, a Napoleon as warrior 4
Jim Jeffries as sluggcr, and yellow
dog under wagon as a plain citizen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25
0m Gh@ [l6G@uoaDoy Vy@r0d]o

THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM
COME, by John Fox, Jr. Price $3.50.
Publishers: Charles Scribners Sons,
New York.
"This is the most delightful and charm
ing book / have read in a decade" said
a Raleigh woman, whose discriminating
Judgment of books, can be safely followed.
1t was a very sweeping commentator
this lady made, and l have so much con-
fdence in her judgment that her comment
whetted my appetite to read the story.
And when the last page was devoured-
for it is book you must keep on read
ing until you have reached the end
/ was almost. but not ute as enthus
iastic as the lady quotes above.
In the Reader for October Mr.. ]. Stew
art Doubleday reviews this charming
book, and is most too critical. 1t is hard
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the characterize of the American. That
would be fame for the ages
The following is 4 description of the in
tuence OF Aliens Mother. She it was
who n8tllled into his young mind that
close observance and love CT Nature
winch characterizes equally his life and
writings. Together they rambled through
woods and meadows, together watched
the birds, the opening flowers. the burst
ing buds. While teaching him to love
nature, she also cultivated above of re
fined literature. and inculcated the deep
veneration for spiritual things 20 at
parent in his books This gentle mother
was for number OF years his orly
teacher
The mysterious title THE Mettle of the
Pasture" is Il thought from Shakespeare's
Henry the Fifth. And you good yao-
man whose limbs were made in England.
show US here the mettle Of your pasture
let US swear you are worth your breed
ing
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25
THE REWARDS OF LITERATURE

THE REWARDS OF LITERATU
According TO the cable news John Nor
ley received from the publishers fee OF
$4,000 for his Life of Gladstone" just
ISSUED. This is the largest sum ever paid
Tor copyright biography in England. 1t
is not large TecOmpense for task taking
three years and involving the reading of
over 100000 documents For purposes of
comparison there is the American instance
or John CT. Nicolay and John Hay, who
are credited with receiving the same
sum. $4,000. from the publishers for their
work on THE Life of Abraham Lincoln,
published III 1899. From his biography of
Lincoln. issued soon after the war, Dr.
Holland realized $4,000. James G.
Blaines Twenty Years in Congress"
brought it's author $4,000. General
Grants family received something like
100000 from his Memoirs.
1t is told of the late Joseph Harper
that he wrote to Blaine while the book of
the man from Maine was in preparation
that to the historian the publisher came
to the door and took off his hat A later
writer has remarked that the favor of
obsequiousness is now yielded by the
publisher to the popular novelist. Five
fiction successes of the season 1900-t9O1
were reputed as bringing their authors
$4,000. $4,000 $39, 600, $4,000 and $780,
600 respectively. Probably some of these
figures have since been beaten. Contrast
the $500 which. as a first return from
The Scarlet Letter" made Hawthorne
richer than he ever had been before
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25
THE METTLE OF THE PASTURE.

James Lane Alien furnishes this sug-
gestivc paragraph i'll his McttIe OF the
Pasture
Il wish to God that some virtue, say
the virtue of truthfulncss, could be known
throughout the world az an Unfalng
mark of the American-the mettle OF tho
pasture. Not to lie in business, not TO
lie in love, not to lie in rcligion-to be
honest with ones fcllowmeu. with NO
mon. with God--surposc the rest of man
kind would agree that this constituted
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

]
ter's accomplished daughter; and rom
Smith, Elder & Company, the ondon
publishers of Thackeray's works. The let
ters. it is promised, will have well nigh the
interest and completeness of a now story
from the magic pen which wrote Pen
dennis and THE Newcomes"
Maud Wilder Goodwin's new novel,
| -Four Roads to Paradise" will commence
! in the November Century 1t will be a
story Of New York life, with some scenes
laid in Florence. Theme &nd treatment
were suggested to the author by this
sentence from the Talmud: -Four men
entered paradise, one beaeld and died.
one lost his senses, one destroyed the
young plants. one only entered i'll peace"
Othr fiction of the November Century viii
include: The Marrying of Susan Clegg,'
| By Anne Warner, with pictures by Flor
erce Scovel Shinn; The Little Canoe,
BY Henry Wallace Phillips THE Missing
! Exequatur,' by Benjamin H. Ridgely:
The Shadow of Love-" by George Hib.
bard; another Gallops story by David
Gray, THE Reggie Livingstones Coun-
try Life" and The Summer of st. Mar
tin by S. Weir Mitchell.
B. l.. Farjeon'S "a Comedy in WAX"
r;tten shortly before his death, begins
in The November ST. Nicholas, and wiz
1un through several issues. The dead nc
velist's first success was Crit q story
of Australian ife. Grit. hero of the sto-
ry, is a dog. Grif's cretor was imme-
dIateiy hailed not only as the Australian
Dickens but as the successor of Dick
ems. He was 2 story teller from his chill.
hoed, his impromptu tales being the de
light of his companions and school-fe!-
lows; and he wrote much all his life.
FaTjeon was son-inlaW OF Joseph JET.
telsOn, and he leaves u son VINO gives
gseat promise as a musician. Some thirty
years ago FarjcOn came to America aid
gave readings from his, books in Steinway
Hall, New York.
The November Leslie's Monthly is an
enlarged and improved magazine, with
more pages more pictures and more
stories than ever before. The leading ar
tIcle--and it is one that must attract
great deal of attention-takes up the
way in which big corporations influences
legislation at Washington. tells how tie
Lobby is managed, and points out what
Senator'S and Representatives are in the
service OF the trusts and just what trusts
they serve. 1t is a most striking story
and one that is only too true, There is
also a clear-cut sketch of Charles F. MI,
ply, the present leader of Tammany Hall,
with a full page portrait
Leslie's Monthly is specific and clear in
IT'S charges in the November number
against the present members of Congress
who are agents of the trusts, to the ex-
tent of stating names, both of the Sena-
tors and Representatives and of the cor
porations concerned. The article would be
sensational but for IFS truth
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

The November Century will begin publ
cation of some new Thackcray letters,
relating the story of 'Thackeraya
Friendship with an American Family"
For years the existence has been known
OF this series of jcalousy guarded and
entirely unpublished letters by Thack-
cray, written to various members of the
family of the late Mr.. George Baxter, Of
New York City. Permission to publish
these letters in The Century has finally
been obtained from Miss Lucy w. Bay
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

THE CAROLS OF CAROLINA.
~ List Of Forty Volumes by Thirty Tar
Heel Poets.-A Collection Of These Pro-
posed for the Library Of the State Uni
Yersity.
1t will probably be news to the cYcu
bCst-informed and most appreciativc
among the literati of North Carolina.
when they are told that cur poets have
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

out a campaign over a map, not flushing
at the blood "reminiscences of some veter-
an who knew what wounds were and the
weary round of marching. He attempts
frequently to convey a sense of. the pitt
full condition Of the South at the end IF
the struggle; but his phrase is not large
enough, he misses the grand pathos he
is always too fearful of retarding the ac-
tual story. The romance of the Civil
War is yet to come.
This novel is nevertheless entitled to
careful consideration, and is sure to create
a wide circle of enioyment''