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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
The May "smart Set"

Gilett Burgess's novelette,, which
opens the May number of The Smart
Set, will surprise his admirers, for in
1.-The Visionists'' he has entered an en-
tirely new field and produced a story
which is not only timely but power
full and Accordingly interesting. He
has gone to London for the locale of
the tale The heroine is a young girl
who, through force of circumstances,
becomes a member of a society OF So
cialists who call themselves vision
lists" Her adventures are wonderfully
exciting and the tragic denouement IS
unforeseen. This novelette, will win
new laurels for Mr. Burgess.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
Other Best Books.

The April Critic published as the
best six books of fiction issued during
the last half-year Mrs. Humphrey
Wards 1.-The Marriage of William
Ashe," Charles d. Stewards ''The Flu
gitive Blacksmith" Robert Grants
THE Undercurrent," Eden Phillpott's
"The Secret Woman" Henry James
1.-THE Golden Bowl" May Snclair's
''The Divine Fire" Changes suggested
in the letters addressed to the editor
of the Critic, and approved in May
issue, would substitute THE Garden
of Allah" and Paths of Judgment"
for some of the above.
OF the publications, fact or fiction,
since the April Critic went to press,
in the opinion of the group of readers
who made the lists, the Six Best
Books are:
THE Autobiography of Andrew D.
White
Adventures Among Books" by
Andrew d. Lang.
Notes from Diary" by Sir
Montserat Grant-Duff"
de Profundis," by Oscar Wilde.
Constance Trescot, by S. Weir
Mitchell.
There has been no epoch-making
book of fiction published in the last
few weeks" says the Lounger in the
May Critic, but there have been
some notable books that are not fic-
ton, the most important of these be-
ing Mr.. Whites Autobiography"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
THE CONSUMER PAYS THE
FREIGHT.

Because nobody talks much about
freight rates except railroad folks and
shippers, some people jump to the
conclusion that nobody else has any
concern in the rates. The Durham
Herald voices that view when it asks:
IF the railroads and the manufac-
turers are satisfied with present rates
who is it that is doing the kicking"
AS a matter of fact most manufac-
turers Except those who ride on free
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
Roosevelt A Rapid Reader.
(From the Century. }

have no record of the Presidents
recent reading, but it is not a secret
that he is keeping up the pace"
Some of my friends are still read
ing at" Morley's three thick volumes
of Gladstone's Life" The President.
of course, read them promptly, gain
ing, I am told, not only fresh but
a much more favorable view of the
great leader whom he confessed he
had hitherto failed to understand. A
publisher not long ago told me that
Mr.. Roosevelt seemed to have his eye
on the authors of their house, and
now and then a private letter full of
appreciation would pass through the
publishers hands on the way 10 an
author In the thick of the campaign
of 1904 l happened to know that he
reread all of Macaulay's History
of England" all of Rhodes's History
of the United States and Dickens S
Martin ChuZzleWit.
The other afternoon he was hand
ed new book-a not very long dis
sertation on a matter of current in
terest. That evening he entertained
a number of guests at dinner, and
later there was musical party at
the White House at which he was
present. At luncheon the next day
the giver said to him Mr.. Presi-
dent, Of course you have not had
time to look at that book" ooh,
yes" said the President, 81 have
read it" Whereupon he proved that
he had done so by his criticism OF
the book. One day lately a book OF
short stories was sent to him; almost
by return mail came a letter thank
ing the sender and saying he had al
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

passes or get some concession or re-
BATE are not satisfied, but If they
were satisfied to divide with the rail-
roads the heavy burden which high
freight rates impose on the consum-
er, the people who pay the freight
rates have a right to demand a re
duction. The manufactures and the
railroads nearly agree on protection.
but that does not relieve the burden
upon the consumer who pays the
tariff tax.
But the consumer hires no body
owns no newspapers, controls no Sen
atorial cabal and he has hard time
to secure consideration.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
LITERARY NOTES.
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE, by Henry
Van Dyke. Publishers: Charles
Sentiments Sons New York.


In this day of cOmmencements
when public men and graduates are
discussing the great problems of life
and the graduates are solving them
with an off-hand sense of infallibillty
that makes the old marvel-it is re-
freshing to read the address of a
master mind on the true school and
the true education Closing the mag
nificent address, DR.. Van Dyke said:
There is a great complaint nova
days about the complication of life,
especially in it's social and material
aspects. 1t is bewildering, confusing,
overstraining. It destroys the temper
of tranquility necessary to education.
The single life is recommended, and
rightly, as a refage from this trouble.
But perhaps we need to understand
little more clearly what simplicity
is. 1t does not consist merely in low
ceilings, loose garments and the alb
sence of bric-a-brac. Life may be
conventional and artificial in a log
cabin. Philistines have their preju-
dices, and the etiquette of the cotton
mill may be as absurd and burden
some as that of the manor house. A
little country town, with it's infieXible
social traditions, it's petty sayings and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14


on the one in the middle, put me on
his right and w. on his left. He
asked w. ali sorts of questions about
home politics and the attitude of the
clergy, saying that as a Protestant his
opinion would be impartial. 8 ".
rather guarded at first decidedly "ba-
male" / told him afterward), but the
Pope looked straight at him with his
keen, bright eyes, saying, "Je vous en-
prize, NJ. Waddington, parlez sans re-
serves"
THE QUAKERESS. A Tale by Max
AdeIeX (Charles Heber Clarke -Four
illustrations i'm color by George
Gibbs and four half tones. II mo.
400 pages: Price $3.50. Publishers:
The John c. Winston Co, Philadel-
phia.
Quite appropriately this charming
story that gives us u charming
heroine comes from the Quaker city.
The plot of the story is suggestive of
romance. The heroine, brought UP in
the old time strictness and quaintness
of a Quaker settlement, visits an old
fashioned Southern home of wealth. A
dashing young Southerner, with the
qualities of chivaTy and courage, loses
his heart and the young Quakeress
finds, all against her will that love
is stronger than creed or opinions. 1t
is as genuine and beautiful love
story as you have read since you last
read Henry Esmond, only it is sweet
er and more like folks ought TO fall
in love, and will make old married
folks young again.
Among the notable things in the
book is a description of a typical
First-day meeting il one of the quaint
cid houses of worship that are scat
tered about the region referred to-,
and of which most Americans know
little q picture of a Quaker funera,
and other pictures of domestic life
among the Friends.
The scene shifts for a time to a
plantation in Maryland at the begin
ming Of the Civil War. and the author.
apparently from his own experience
and observation, represents Southern
those to which the Quaker girl has
been accustomed, Later, there is q
attle-chapter, with a vivid descrip-
ton of the invasion of Maryland by
the Confederate army in 1862.
There is very little difference be-
tween Yankee QuakeTs and Southern
lovers of sport when both love music.
nature, and learn to love each other.
The Quaker, aside from his dress and
his strict devotion to his religion, is
like other folks though there is
something in the training that makes
for strength of character and hatred
of sham and forms. And it never gets
out of the Quaker, even to the third
or fourth generation, even though the
descendants marry out of the church
and enjoy dinners that the old-faSh-
toned Quakers would take no pleas
ure in The late Dr. J. Milton Worth,
long State Treasurer, in his early
manhood, fell in love with a girl who
was not q Quaker, and. according to
the rules was turned out of the Qua
ker church But he told the members
of the Friends church. You may
turn me out of the Quaker church
for marrying the girl l loved, but you
cannot turn the Quaker out of me-
1t was bred in the bone.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

Director j. EIwood Cox was hot
enought after the Seaboard. when he
requested the Railroad Commission to
compel it to reduce freight rates and
pay him $500. If it is right for the
State to fix and enforce intra-State
rates, why is it not right. Mr. Cox. for
the Federal Government to fix and en-
force interstate rates?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
and then come forth and direct NOR
tails in the way of life.

and then come forth and direct NOR
tails in the way of life.
Many people cannot adjust them
selves to new conditions without pain.
God is good, there is no devil but
fear, nothing can harm us, the Uni
verse is planned for God! All! a new
Thoughtful life is one, and we are
brothers to the birds and trees. Our
life is q necessary and integral part of
the Energy that turns the wheeling
planets, and holds the world in space
lie who influences the thought of
his time, influences the thought of all
time that flows. He has made his
impress on eternity.
If you are a student in a college,
seize upon the good that is there. You
get good by giving it. You gain by
givjng-so give sympathy and cheer
ful loyalty to the institution. Be proud
of it. stand by your teachers-they
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
The Car as am Insurance Risk.

The Car has been the most active
recent risk in English companies,
says a writer in Leslie's Monthly for
June. Up to a week before last
Christmas the rate on his life was five
per cent per annum. On December 20,
holders of Russian bonds, who insur-
ed him with the Lloyds for some tens
of thousands of pounds, had to pay
fifteen per cent for policy running
only ten months. After the assassi-
nation of Grand Duke Sergius and
the Terrorist threat to wipe out the
imperial family, the Car suddenly
retired from activity as an insurance
risk Nobody wanted him at the
underwater placed on his life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
ITALIAN LETTERS OF A DIPLO-
MAIvS WIEE h1r Nary King Wad-

80 : = " = Y, Uy MOI y LII . " etN1-
dingtOn. Illustrated from drawings
and photographs 8vo. PIP. 324.
Price $3.50 Publishers: Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York.
A woman's view of italian high life
will interest all who wish to read OF
what a bright woman sees that histo
rians and diplomats do not think it
worth while to tell Nine. Wadding
ton as Miss King spent much of her
girlhood in Italy in association with
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
MORNING TONIC.
CDR. Samuel Greene.)

The miller lowers his wheel to the
current of the stream. fastens it there
and God grindS his earn. So put my
anxious little life down into the cur
rent of the divine life and movement
and God takes up its burden and in the
place of submission l have both rest
and power.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

The credit of Beaufort county is
gilt-edged A few days ago County
Treasurer Tayloe sold $3.50 of re-
funding five per cent bonds to Den
nison Bros e. Co, of Cleveland, Ohio,
for a premium of $1,O3S.35. The pur-
chaser " i pay for engraving the
bonds. Beaufort owes no other debt.
It's affairs are we'll managed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

Rains for six weeks in Texas have
cut off the cotton planting and Geor-
gia farmers are blowing up their cot
ton that was planted but was lost in
the grass They are re-planting. But
the crop will be shorter than last
year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

If Mr.. Cone and Mr.. Cox had gone
to Washington as railroad directors
and taken the railroad side, nobody
they essay to speak for the cotton
and furniture manufacturers, and err
roneously supposed they were satisfied
with present conditions and present
high rates
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

President Alexander, of the Equit-
able, says that the surplus belongs
to the policy holders" But how is
policyholder to get his share when
they keep piling it up and refusing
to make division?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

The young men in North Carolina
are almost everywhere at the front.
In the recent election in the towns
most of the important towns elected
young men as mayors.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
"Constance Trescot."

DR.. S. Weir MitchelTs new novel.
Constance Trescot," has followed
so closely upon his youth of Wash
ington" that the public may get the
idea that Dr. Mitchell is a rapid
writer; but the facts are quite the re-
verse. DR.. Mitchell has rewritten
Constance Trescot' three times in
the past three years. The manuscript
was put into the type for the first time
two years ago, and a single set of page
proofs was struck off on large paper"
and bound up for the author, who
worked for year on these page
proofs. SO many changes were made
that the book was entirely reset be-
fore issue Dr. Mitchell believes that
Constance Trescot" contains the best
work he has done or will ever do.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

We apologize to our readers for
printing it Miss Nan Patterson" 1t
should have appeared simply Mar"
A woman of her stamp is not entitled
to be called Miss
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
BY EBERT HUBBARD.
Editor of 1.-THE Philis;ine, Author of
Little Journeys" "A messDage to
Garcia" etc.

The less you require looking after
the more able you are to stand alone
and complete your tasks, the greater
your reward. Then if you can not only
do your own work. but direct lntelll-
gently and effectively the efforts OF
Others your reward is in exact ratio
and the more people you direct. and
the higher the intelligence you right
" lend, the more valuable is your
life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

A mother seldom attempts to jolly
he" son by telling him he is the very
image of his father.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

1t is ridiculous to suppose that
youth can shut himself away from the
actual world Of men, women and
things, in a college for a few years
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14
The June Smart Set.

"On the Newport Road" is the at
tractive title of the novelette, which
opens the June Smart Set. Sewell
Ford is the author, and he has writ
ten as sprighly a piece of fiction as
has recently appeared. The story tells
of Mrs. Billy Redkirk's social am
billions, her daughter, Barbara, may
make a brilliant marriage, the sudden
loss of the Redkirk millions, and their
ultimate recovery. The tale is comedy
from the first to the last-bright,
clean, clever comedy-and no reader
can afford to miss it.
The remarkable advancemade by
modern medicine in handling conta-
gious diseases and the possibility, first
suggested by Pasteur Of making all
INFECTIOUS diseases to disappear from
the world, is told by Dr. A. c. Seely
in Leslie's Monthly Magazine for
June. The writer shows what work
has been done in bringing about arti-
fetal immunity through incubation
and indicates the lines along which
physicians are working to curb the
contagious diseases that now ravage
the worlds population.
Ainslee's for June makes another
palpable hit with its leading feature,
Lne UONclClIE, entitled ~ lie Outgoing
of Simeon" by Elizabeth Duer. 1t is,
first of all, a love story, but it has
such freshness and originality that it
can hardly fail to please the taste of
even the most jaded reader of such
fiction. 1t also has, what is not usually
looked for, more than one dramatic
climax, so tire is no lack of interest
in it,
Ernest Thompson Seton's new book.
''Woodmyth and Fable" will be issued
by The Century Company April 22d,
with all the daintiness of dress and
wealth of illustration which charac-
terize the Seton books. Mr. Seton's
first literary work was a series Of pa
pers on the animal life of Manitoba.
Interest in the sketches illustrating
these and similar articles was so keen
that Mr. Seton was summoned to New
York to illustrate the geological part
of the Century Dictionary, contribut-
ing over one thousand drawings to
this work.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

Salvation lies in carrying the Froe-
bel methods into manhood.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-14

I expect to see the day when no
school teacher will have more than
twenty pupils.
The Holly chieftain., 1905-08-04
Cars Message Commended.

st Petersburg, Aug. 1.-Emperor
Nicholas martial message to The Oren-
burgh clergy, in which he expressed
his determination never to conclude
peace dishonorable TO Russia or un-
worthy of her greatness, am which
was gazetted yesterday, is reprinted
in every paper in Russia to-day, 1t
has struck a responsive chord in many
quarters, even among the friends OF
peace
The emperor words, however, by
no means bear out rsh4ee- constS!let tioh
placed upon them by the jubilant WI
party, nor do they at all exclude the
idea of successful termination OF
the approaching negotiations at Ports
mouth, but they certainly strengthen
the militant spirit aroused by the
cabled versions of the Sato interviews
and the cold figures representing the
supposed extent of the contribution
to those demanded by Japan.
The Holly chieftain., 1905-08-04
To Reproduce Custer Massacre.

Portland, Ore, Aug. 1.-There have
been spectacles and spectacles, but it
is reserved for the management of the
Lewis and Clark exposition to create.
perhaps, the most startling and inter-
esting of ala reproduction OF the
wiping out of Clusters band of United
States regultrs at the fight on the
Little Big H rn river. in the summer
of 1876. Thi, event, which has gone
down into history as one of the great
tragedies of warfare will be given a
setting as realistic as it is possible to
make by employing real Indians and
real soldiers to perform the sham bat
tie tactics NECESSARY.
A band of 200 or more Umatilla In
dians from the government reserva.
tion in Oregon will take the place OF
the bloodthirsty Sioux who killed Cen
eral Custer and troopers. For Custer
and his men the soldiers on the
grounds will answer. The fight Will
take place on exposed ground in the
exposition area, where it may be wit
messed by all those in attendance Au-
gust 10th. The Indians will press
closer and closer until the last man
falls and the tragedy is complete.
Though no scalping will be done, as
in the real massacre, the yells of the
Indians and the cracking of their
rifles will serve to make the scene
thoroughly realistic.
The Holly chieftain., 1905-08-04
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Mayor Dunno Declares His Faith in
speech at Boston.

Boston, July 29.-Several thousand
persons this afternoon heard Mayor F.
F. Dunno of Chicago deliver an ad-
dress on Municipal Ownership" at
the annual outing Of the Tramway
Club. Democratic organization in
West Roxbury.
In his speech Mayor Dunno reviewed
the municipal ownership movement,
citing statistics to support his state.
ments.
81 can confidently assert" he said,
that it is almost invariably the rule
that where utilities are furnished by
private companies they cost from fifty
to one hundred per cent. more than
where the same utilities are furnished
by the public companies"
The speaker vigorously defended
himself against statements which had
been published that he had recanted
his faith in municipal ownership, say
ing:
81 am glad to state to you that the
cause of municipal ownership Is ar
IDENTIFY espoused by me to-day as IT
has been for several years past, and
that am as confident Of its ultimate
consummation as l have ever been at
any time in my life.
81 confidently predict. from what
know of the people of Chicago. that
within very short time it will have
the proud distinction of being the
first city in the United States to be IN
actual ownership of it's own municipa
street car system, and when once tina,
great city has proved that municipali
zation of street car plants is an as
sured success it will mean that hun
dreds of other American cities will fol
low in her wake and accomplish an
economic revolution to the great ad
vantage of the citizens of this coun'
try"
The Holly chieftain., 1905-08-04
Colorado Normal Institute.

Denver, Aug. This is the season
for the State Normal Institutes and
quite number are now in session in
the districts, or will be in the next few
days. The districts are composed of
two or three counties each. Miss Kath-
crime l.. Craig, state superintendent of
instruction, has arranged to visit a
large number of the institutes and will
be kept travelling almost constantly
during the month. Her topics will diff
fer according to the gatherings ad-
dressed. Miss Craig's schedule is as
follows: Pueblo, August Sd; Colorado
Springs, August 4th; Hugo, Lincoln
county, August 18th; Sterling, Logan
county. August Sth; Fort Collins, Aug
ust 9Th Monte Vista, Rio Grande
county, August l1th; Trinidad, August
18th; Mancos, Montezuma county
August cath.
The Holly chieftain., 1905-08-04
DENVER MARKETS

Denver Union Stock Yards, July 81.
With an abnormally light run OF cat
tie last week at all markets, prices
failed to show the Improvement that
was expected. Good choice beef is a
little higher than it was a week ago,
but the common and medium quality
stuff is just about the same, with feed
ers and stockers showing a decline of
about 10 TO l5c. The demand was very
little improved last week over the
week before, and the light run alone
was responsible for what advance was
made. Receipts here were somewhat
heavier than the week before, but Of
ferings lighter. as several loads were
billed through to other points and did
not go on sale here. Good steers and
COWS, the kind on which the advance
was made at eastern markets, were
conspicuous by their absence all week,
and there was nothing on sale to test
the strength of the market.
Hog receipts were liberal last week.
The demand was also good and all sold
readily. There was some fuctuation
in prices from day to day, but values
at the close are right around where
they were at the opening. Tops are
selling up to s5.55, with the range
down to $40. Packers are pretty well
loaded up with hogs just now, and
while the demand will be fair this
week, it will not be heavy.
The sheep market continues to go
lower. Eastern markets reported a
good big decline every day during the
first of the week, but later the market
has been firmer. Prices. however, are
still lower than week ago. There is
good demand for feeders, buyers be-
ing unable to fill their orders. Feeder
sheep and lambs are fully steady with
the close a week ago.