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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21

marrow choice of one of two candi-
dates in whose nomination he has had
Ino voice. The wiser course would
seem to be that of going to the pri-
mary where his vote and influence
will have some weight. If his choice
wins, he has helped to make possible
the election of the candidate, who, in
his opinion, is the best man. If his
candidate is defeated for the nomina-
ton and he is forced to vote for
man who is not so we'll qualified, or
who is not even q good man, he has
the satisfaction of knowing that he
fought him where fighting is needed
and where there is some chance of
success.
"The true position is to always bow
to the majority of your party, but see
to it, if possible. that the majority is
on YOUR side. A generous fight for
principle however vigorous If made
inside the party will never perma-
nently injure it, and every Democrat
has the right to fight for principle.
IT is gratifying to know that Mr..
Scales was this week nominated by
Reclamation for the State Senate by
the Democracy of Guilford county. 1t
speaks trumDet-tongued for the good
sense of the Guilford Democrats that
they should nominate a man OF the
worth and character of Mr.. Scales
without a dissenting voice. He was
member of the Senate of 1SS7-ona OF
the little band of aggressive Senators
who saved the seeds that producer
Democratic victory in 1898. A'Senate
made UP of such men is q guarantee
of wise and safe legislation.
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WHAT AN EDITOR SHOULD BE.

Rev. T. O. Atkinson, editor OF the
Christian Sun, has been a collese
professor and preacher longer thah
he has been an editor. He has, there
fore, had the opportunity to STUDY 1he
editor from the standpoint of a reader
as well as from the inside as edltor
of a paper Mr.. Atkinson attended
the North Carolina Press Convention
at Morehead last month and in sum-
ing UP the result of the meeting, ne
saws the zone note the editors sound
ed most often among one another
was:
BE a man. have sand. let courage
rule and truth come. Whatever De
the cost or consequence. Ii you can
not find the truth and tell it. lay
down your pen and quit the news
paper business. If you have noG the
courage or your convictions, you
better join some other profession.
Dare to stand UP and proclaim the
eternal verities if it costs you nun
dred subscribers a Whack. Who lawns
should go with his folly and leave the
EDITORS chair forthwith Take your
orders from no man; dare to think
some on your own account: have an
idea to your credit and tell the world
of it as a part of your duty, oDllga-
ton and responsibility. Don't shlrk;
don't sQueal; don't swallow creased
bait Have regard for the feelings OF
others; stab no man in the back; sting
no man for the sake of the writing,
for the man who pours bitterness and
dregs into the cup of human expert
ence is not worthy to WELD an editor
pen. Charity as Well as courage, ira
ternity as we'll as fearlessneSS are
among the noble virtues.
The young man who has Joined the
ranks of journalists or who contem-
plates doing SO will do we'll to imbibe
the spirit of the above. Some of the
expressions are worthy to he written
in letters of light on the walls of
every sanctum:
Don't shirk, don't sQueal."
stab 10 man in ths back.
Take your orders from no man.
Have regard for the feelings OF
others"
Dare to think some on your own
account"
IF YOU cannot find the truth aGd
tell it. lay down your pen.
Charity as well as courage. ira
ternity as well as fearlesSness are
among the noble virtues"
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lefty, to color; and the light of magic
,uggestiveness may be brought to
play for an evanescent instant over the
commonplace surface of words: of the
Did, old words, worn thin, defaced by
ages of careless usage. The sincere
enedavor to accomplish that creative
task, to go as far on that road as his
strength will carry him, to go unde-
tered by faltering. WEAKNESS, or re-
proach, is the only valid justification
for the worker in prose- And if his
conscience is clear, his answer to
those who, in the fulness of a wisdom
which looks for immediate profit, de-
mand specifically to be edited, consol-
ed, amused; who demand to be prompt
~ improved, or encouraged, or fright
aned, or shocked or charmed, must
run thus: my task which | am trying
to achieve is, by the power of the writ
ten word to make you hear to make
you feel-it is, before all, to make YOU
see. That-and no more. and it is
everything. If l succeed, you shall find
there, according to your deserts, en-
enlargement, consolation, fear. charm
--all you demand; and, perhaps. also
that glimpse of truth for which you
nave forgotten to ask
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NOTES.
TURK by Opie Read, published by
Laird & Lee. Chicago.


Laird & Lee, Chicago.
Another charming story from the
pen of that versatile genius WAC
knows so we'll how to depict the va
rious phases of character and emotion.
Turk" is more of a character study
than the authors former stories, anO
while the book deals with conditions
as they existed in Kentucky durin. the
DAYS of the Old South, the real story
lies in the delineation of that sturdy,
manly character, freckled-faced Turk,
whose constant effort was to live UP
to the ideals inculcated at "Old Blood
a school noted for it's rigorous stand
ard of honor.
The description of his temptations
under the midnight stars is an excep-
tionally strong study. Left an orphan
as the legacy of a feud, Turk was
bound-out to q planter. Shaving and
sweltering in the tobacco fields, ac-
curing an education in his garnet by
candle-light, he falls in love with Nan,
the daughter of his master, the girl
with the devilish dancing eyes. Her
scorn, her jibes and jeers at his
freckled "turkey-egg face" arouse his
ire but fail to kill his love.
In spite of her apparent indiffer-
ence Nan smuggles candles and books
into Turks garnet, escaping the es-
piOnage of her father, VINO had acqulr-
ed a strange hatred of learning and
education, despite the fact that he
himself is college graduate.
The romance of hidden gold, the
transformation from poverty to com
narrative wealth and the romantic de-
nouement form a fitting close to the
fascinating career Of simple, nople
large hearted Turk.
No writer of Modern American nc
ton has caught the fancy and capt.
waited the sympathies of the people
as the author of 'Turk," the mos
charming of all the stories from tne
pen of that American Dickens-Opit
Read In this novel the author
genius for depicting character true
to life was never better displayed.
Large 12mo, attractively bound II
silk cloth, special cover design II
three colors, eight full-page half
tones and frontispiece in colors. Price
| 81 %
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The August Atlantic.

The August Atlantic contains
powerful and instructive paper, which
Will surely attract attention and create
discussion, upon Unpublished CONNER
eial Crime (the way of the rich man
n Guiding the law). written by George
w. Alger, author of the recent much
talked-of Atlantic paper on Moral
Overstrain.
Bliss Perry contributes his striking
tribute to Haythorne delivered at the
late Bowdoin College Centenary cele-
bration.
Daniel G.. Mason discusses Disson-
ance and Evil, a quaint analysis of
he connection between evil sounds
md evil doings, and Martha Baker
Dunn offers a enthusiastically anus
.ng paper on Temperance and Judg-
ment to Come, form the "Down-easf'
point of view.
Two interesting travel papers are
Tutnila, an interesting and informing
paper upon our Samoan possession by
President David Starr Jordan; and a
Selborne Pilgrimage by Cornelius Wey-
gandt, who leads us to the former
habitat and to the spirit of the times
of Gilbert White, the World-famous
naturalist.
John Ruskin's delightful letters to
Professor Norton are contained in this
number, and Robert Herrick's power
full serial novel The Common Lot is
completed.
Short stories are: The House of the
Dead Hand, a weird Italian romance
by Edith Wharton; The Two Chanty-
Men. a sailor sketch by George Was
son; and The Toid's Utopia, humor-
Gus Western tale by Ella B. Water
bury.
Literary papers upon A Literary
RlackmaiIer (Pietro Aretino) by Paul
van DYKE, and upon Books New and
Old by H. W. Boynton and Letters,
Diaries and "reminiscences by s. M.
Francis poems are contributed by
William Watson, Martha H. Shack
ford Edward n. Pomeroy, and the
number closes with lively Contribu-
tors Club. =
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21
The September Smart Set.

September is the season of turning
leaves the brightest will be found
in thi% months Smart Set. 1t cor
tains 100 pages of delightful stories,
poems and sketches by the best au-
thors.
An unusually clever novelette,, "The
Mission of Mr.. Eustace Greyne, by
Robert Hichens. opens the number. 1t
is a very humorous account of the
mistakes and misdemeanors of an
Englishman who. on behalf of his
literary wife. endeavors to make q
dignified study of african frailty"
among the shady corners of Algeria.
'"The Stage at the Present Mo-
ment," by David Belasco, is one of
the most interesting articles on the
atrical matters ever published. The
writer. possessing intimate knowledge.
gained through mastery of his pro-
fession, criticizes the evils of the
Theatrical Syndicate, and reveals
many sharp truths concerning plays
and playing
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21
The Gladstone Chewing Club.

Fired with a zeal for achieving
sound health, certain ladies have start
ed a club called the "Organized Rum
inators'' or Bovine Club. William
r. Gladstone is naturally their patron
saint, for did he not chew every
mouthful thirty-two times, and retain
his faculties in full vigor until he was
more than eighty years of age? :
We resolved to do likewise, and in
the enthusiasm of the hour 1t seemed
as if we were attempting an easy task.
AIas We were reckoning without
our host. or rather without our most
butler, a much more important per-
SON. 1t may seem a simple thing, to
those who have not tried. to para
phrase Mark Twain and to
Chew. my sisters, chew with care
Chew in the presence of the black
butlere.
But it is not.
Difficult as the members of the new
society find it to face the frozen butter
and his ilk, they find it even harder
to pursue correct principles OF mas
tication and at the same time mann
tain conversation as fine art. How
and when did Mr.. Gladstone deliver
himself of his thoughts during the
progress of a meal? How did he
answer questions. or did he maintain
a silence as of pastoral glades, broken
only by faint bovine echoes? Doubt
less in the bosom of his own lam
lily the great man would have replied
to a question inopportunely asked by
his better half MY dear-seventeen,'
or whatever number he had reached
in his progress to the correct thirty
two. Should his noble example ever
be followed by the world in general,
e might dare say this to a neighbor,
or make the necessary signs in the
finger language. But the brave plo-
neers of the Bovine Club hesitate to
do this. lest they be thought deaf and
dumb or crazy.-The August Atlantic.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21

Mecklenburg county is about to es-
tablish a reformatory for youthful
criminals. Such an institution appeals
to every mind. No argument is need
ed in it's behalf, and the commission
ers of Mecklenburg are deserving of
all praise for their determination to
save if possible the youthful offender
from becoming a hardened criminal.
There is every reason why reforma-
tory should be built but we agree with
the Wilmington Star, that this matter
of undertaking the reformation of
youths should be the States concern,
and certainly it would be more eco
nomical in the aggregate for the State
to establish and conduct such insti-
tutions than that each county should
build and maintain them separately.
The Star adds:
The expenditures in the large num-
Der of counties which will doubtless
follow Mecklenburgs example in es-
tablishing separate or county reforma-
tories would make a State reforma-
tory of more pretentions and useful
ness. One or more reformatories un-
der the auspices of the State would be
more Systematically conducted, the
concentrated management will be
more economical, and the opportunity
would be manifestly greater for Sc
curing experts in moral training, med
ical attention, trades, education, etc.
No reformatory should be contemplate
ed that does not embrace an educa
tional feature and chronological train
ing Send the bows and girls back to
the world with their minds and morals
improved, equipped for trades or quail
flied for useful occupation. Let us
hope another North Carolina Legisla-
ture will not adjourn until it has faV-
orably voted upon the establishment
of an institution to reclaim it's youths
from degradation and ruin.
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MORNING TONIC.

(Forest Crissey in "Tattlings of Re-
tired Politician.'O
The man who lies down and goes to
sleep on the soft side of a political
cinch stands a good chance of waking
up just in time to see his hide nailed
to the barn door by the fellow who
couldn't sleep because he had TO
whistle in the face of expected defeat
in order to keep his courage up.
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Joseph Comad's Literary Creed.

Joseph Conrad has achieved what
is probably the most noteworthy de-
scriptive style of any author writing
in English. He has recently allowed
himself to be quoted in regard to his
literary creed as follows: 1T is only
through complete. answering devo-
ton to the perfect blending of form
and substance; it is only through an
unremitting, never-discouraged care
for the shape and the ring of sentences
that an approach can be made to plas-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21
Hawthorne's STYLE


Yet the most marked quality of
Hawthornes style is neither simplic-
ity nor clearness, nor reserve of
strength, nor undertone of pathos. 1t
is rather in the unbroken melody, the
verbal richness. It's echoes linger in
the ear; they wake old echoes in the
brain. The touch of a few other men
may be as perfect the notes they
evoke more brilliant. certainly more
gay; but Hawthorne's deep-toned in
strument yields harmonies inimitable
and unforgetable. The critics who
talk of the colorless life of New Eng
land and it's colorless reflection in lit
erature had better open their HaW-
thorne once more His pages are
stepped in color. They have a dusky
glory like thu great window in Keats
Eve of st. Agnes
diamonded with panes of
quaint device
Innumerable of stains and splendid
dyes,
AS are tn. tiger-moth' deep damask--
ed wings;
And in the midst, 'mong thousand Ter
aldries,
And twilight saints, and dim emblaz-
onings,
A shielded 'scutcheon blush'd with
blood of queens and kings.
This subdued splendor of HaW-
thorne's coloring is part OF the very
texture of his style. compared with IL
the bruSh-Work of his successors
seems thin and washy, or else crude
and hard, it is like comparing rug
woven in Bokhara with one manufac-
tured in Connecticut. But surely our
New England soil is not wholly bar
rem if even for once it has lowered
into such consummate artist as Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, who, While he de-
voted his art to the Interpretation or
truth, was nevertheless lowered with
such instinct for beauty that his very
words glow like gems and echo like
music and grant him a place among
the few masters of English style
Bliss Perry in the August Atlantic.
"a camp meeting of more than one
hundred thousand, a veritable nation
assembled in faith are the words in
which Mr.. David Bell Macgowan In
"a Russian Lourdes' in the September
Century, describes the pilgrimage to
Sarov in August, 1908, to the canonl-
zation of the Russian popular saint,
Seraphim, whose image is worn by
every Russian soldier. What gave
special interest to the occasion was the
participation of the Car and Czarlna
in the ceremony, to which the Cen
tury's Illustrations testify.
Rural China after the war with Ja-
pan is the scene of a story by Ralph
d. Paine, both humorous and tragic,
which is to appear in the century
Round they World" number, the
September issue. under the title OF
Corporal Sweeney, Deserter." 1t is
written out of Mr.. Paine's experience
as a war correspondent during the
Boxer troubles and will throw much
light on the Chinese character. Syd-
ney> Adamson who illustrates II, was
also in the campaign to rescue the le-
cations.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21

The Republican State platform
abounds in charges against the DEM
ocratic administration. But they are
charges that cannot possibly be sup
ported by facts or successfully de-
Tended onthe stump. That is the only
construction that can be put on Chair
man Rollins letter declining Chair
man Simmons challenge for a joint
debate between the candidates on the
two tickets. The Republicans should
have thought of the possibility of
their getting into this ugly plight
when they were making their plat
form.
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HavtIlorne's Creed.

Yet Hawthorne believed that the
bliss Perry in the August Atlantic)
sin and sorrow of humanity, ineXphc-
able as they are, are not to be thought
of as if we We're apart from God. A
neighbor of Hawthorne in Concord
has recently written me that when
death once entered a household there,
Hawthorne picked the finest sun
flower from his garden and sent it to
the mourners by Mrs. Hawthorne with
this message: Tell them that the
sunfiower is q symbol of the sun, and
that the sun is a symbol of the glory
of God A shy, simple act of neigh
borhood kindness,-yet treasured in
one memory for more than forty
years., and how much of Hawthorne
there is i'll it! The quaint flower from
an old-fashioned garden; the delicate
sympathy; the perfect phrase; the
faith in the power of symbol TO turn
the perplexed soul to God! Hawthorne
was no natural lover of darkness, but
rather one who yearned for light. The
gloom which hauntS many OF his pages
is the long shadow cast by our mortal
destiny upon a sensitive soul, con-
scious of kinship with the erring race
of men. The mystery is our mystery,
perceived and not created, by that
finely endowed mind and heart. The
of insight. the soft radiance of truth
and beauty are his own.
Memories of the Confederacy.
One of the most interesting contri-
buttons yet made to the literature or
the Civil War appears in the Septem-
Der McClure's in an article entitled
Memories of the Beginning and End
of the Southern Confederacy" being
unpublished chapters of history from
the "reminiscences of louise Wigfall,
Wright. daughter of Louis T Wigfall.
senator from Texas to the United
States Senate, and later to the Confed-
crate Senate and also an officer on the
staff of Jefferson Davis. The article
consists of a series, of letters written at
the outbreak and close of the war,
which reflect with remarkable accu-
racy and interest the thought and
spirit of the times. They reveal the
inside life of the Southern people and
reflect all the tragedy of high hope
and bitter disappointment in their
dear lost cause.
The letters are written by members
of the Wigfall family and others high
in the councils of of the confederacy,
so speak with authority. number
of interesting contemporary portraits
as we'll as drawings, by w. r. Leigh,
illustrate the article.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21

The fact that soup houses are being
opened in Chicago to feed the dis
tressed hasn't stopped Republican
orators from talking about Prosperity
and a Full-Dinner Pail.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21

1t is hard for the man with corns
10 stand on his dignity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21

Speaking of being "stilI' recalls q
story that happened in the second year
Of the Cleveland administration Har-
rison had named a competent man Tor
an important place in the treasury
Department, whose partisan activity
had made him a leader among lie
publicans in his section of the Eoosler
State. knowing of his politlcal prom
inence in his State, where people eat
and sleep and drink politics, there was
great surprise that Smith (tnat
generic name that all good people love
until they do something bad ana nave
to change it,, was not fired or TIE
day after Cleveland was inaugurated.
An Indiana Republican from another
section of the State. whose name may
be called Jones, because thal is not
his name, thinking that or course
Smith had been fired ScoS aSo oy the
Democrats. was walking down rem
sylvania avenue one afternoon IN the
early fall of 1894, where he was sur
prised to meet Smith on the avenue
with stomach of official proportions.
He expressed his amazement at seeing
his friend in Washington supposlnS
him TO be i'm Indiana. and asked MN
when he arrived. smith answered:
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

valley below. They follow each other
necessarily. those behind coming on
the top of those who have reached the
base. The men and lastly the women
then join the siders and the frolicsome
game soon becomes as fast and excita-
BILE as on a switchback railway. Occa-
sionally a slider slips himself and
loses his balance. The fun then COM
mences. The frantic attempts made
by the awkward slider to grasp hold
Of something, his tumbling and bump
ing as he descends. and Anal plunge
into the pool is a sight which will pro-
woke laughter from the gravest Of
judges.
The exercise ia continued TIL about
O'clock in the afternoon, by which time
every one is tired and hungry crowd
does justice TO the meal. After an
hour spent In gossip and smoking. the
picnic 10 at an end and the pleasure
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

they rolled Bumbo on the barrel.
There we're no visible results.
Spessardi then thought OF the hos
pital. He sent hurry call FOR an
ambulance. When the surgeon arrived
he was indignant, but the tears OF
Spessardi and his wife prevailed. and
he prescribed an injection OF brandy
After this treatment and more rolling
Bumbo suddenly opened his eyes.
groancd and dropped on the barrel
The ambulance surgeon said Bum
DO must be put IN a warm room inn
mediately or he would die from expos
ure. Bumbo was placed IN a wagon
and taken to the steam room AZ a
bathing pavilion. and was kept there
until evening. At length he was de-
clared ready 70 return 20 his quarters.
and I'm a much intoxicated condition he
was received there by the joyful spes-
sardi.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

gramme. A spur Of hills from where
leaps a waterfall and at the base OF
which is a pool is then selected. on
the day appointed, all instructed over
night wend their way toward the foot
of the hills. After climbing up the
hills until the pleasure seekers reach
n great rock on which they can ac-
commodate themselves comfortably. a
halt Is made. Fires are then made
and the business Of cooking started by
the women folk.
The game Of meng-gelunchor then
commences. II is to slide, and the
game is TO "toboggan" down the wa
terfall into the pool below. Little boys
first do the sliding. They go to the
TOP Of the fall. cit down on one Of the
cascades with feet straight out In front
OF them and with a hand on either side
10 support themselves they glide down
the hundred odd feet Of hight to the