The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-26

ODE:
Speak no more of his renown,
Law your earthly fancies down,
And in the vast cathedral leave him.
God accept him, Christ receive him.
Tennyson wrote the lode" in 1852
when he was in his forty-third year.
The novel writer's in the United
States who are said to be at the front
the best as we'll as the most popular
are Winston Churchill, John Fox, IT.
Booth Harrington, Kate Douglas Wig
gen, Marion Crawford, $. E. Wnlte
Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Ger
trude Atherton, G.. r. McCuchcon
and Richard Harding Davis. FROM
this list are omitted such Southern
writer's as 7. N. Page, Miss Murfree'
James Lane Allen and Thomas Dixon,
Jr., and in the North the old and
more famous novelists still living,
Henry James, w. d. Howells, Mrs
Amelia Barr, Mrs. CheSterton, and a
dozen other writers of merit Their
works do not sell like those in the
list given, although superior to most
of them. Sale of books is no test OF
real merit, but of current popularity
merely. In all the popular list there is
not one the equal of Mr.. Allen, "a
Kentuckian, in literary skill and ex>
cellence. There is not one of more
power and perhaps eloquence than
Dixon. Miss Murfree has written
books of as much originality and real
ability as the best of that list.
Marion Crawford is possibly the fore
most writer really in the favorite list.
In Great Britain the men of most
genius as novelists are not now the
most sought after-Hardy, Meredith,
Kipling, Barrie, Watts-Dunston. An
other set hold the popular ear. Very
few authors in 1904 were of distin-
guished merit or met with the indorse-
ment of the best furnished or most
famous critics.
1t will be gratifying to the many
tens of thousands of the friends in
North Carolina of Chief Justice Wal
ter Clark, of the Supreme Court. TO
know that in the Confederate Veter-
an. :" a monthly published at Nashville
Tenn, there is a highly appreciative
and just sketch of him. 1t is an edi-
torial, and appearing in the recognized
organ of the ConfederateS, it is the
more noticeable. This organ honors
itself in its appropriate tribute to q
citizen who is best entitled to the first
place in this State, because of his
manifold services in peace, in war, in
politics, in the judicial field, in litera-
ture, and as historical editor. author
and speaker. His industry and devo-
ton to duty are indeed quite wonder
full.
A vast deal is yet to be learned as
to military science, the art of cooking,
the way to live, and it looks as II the
japanese are to give the needed les
sons. The health reports of the ia
paneSe army are more astonishing
than it's reports from the victorious
fields of battle There were 24,652
sick in Nogi's Division composed or
10000 men. OF these there were but
40 deaths. Very marvellous if true!
There were 1913 cases of typhoid fe-
yer and but deaths; 342 cases or
disentery and only fatal. 1t Is all
owing to the diet and the hundreds of
generations of severe discipline and
avoidance of meats. DR.. w. II. Wiley,
Chief of the Bureau in the Department
of Agriculture at Washington, says
this:
when you have got lot of work
to do, don't eat much meat. Eat plen-
ty potatoes, corn and bread. They
build up tissues and don't overWorK
the kidneys, and, in proof of his con-
tentions, he points out the extraordi-
nary capacity of the Japs, who live
almost entirely on rice, for enduring
great bodily fatigue and for resisting
disease and the ordinary dangers of
wounds.
CDR. Wiley said for himself that he
was not a crank on dieting, but he
knew by actual experience as well
he may, for he has conducted the So
called poison squad tests at the Agri-
cultural Department, that a man can
best keep himself young by avoiding
an excess of nitrogen in his diet
whether taken in meats, or cheese, or
eggs, or peas and beans.
IF the American people Woulc
practice a little more abstemiousness
in their food, there would be great
delay in many funerals and a vast adj
dition to health and happiness"
Drinking, gormandizing, eating
meats in great excess are the chiel
agents in destroying health ana
American manhood.
A Wilmington friend who is Guilt
waited and uses a facile pen, sent me
the subjoined, and it is too good to be
kept for my own delectation only:
"a amember OF Congress once
lauded the Countess of Ayr in a speech
in the House; but denizen of the
reportorial desk made him smear his
sugar over the County Surveyor" the
next day in the newspapers.
after similar fashion, an ornate
and classical Senator thus spake:
Anxious Socrates, amicus Plato, sed
major veritas."
But his digestion at breakfast was
somewhat disturbed upon reading in
the paper:
81 may cuss Socrates 1 may cuss
Plato said Major Veritas."
Moral: Don't aspire to Congress;
for you are very apt to be misquoted.'
Mr. E. w. r. Ewing. LII. D.. q
Virginian, I suppose, and a son of a
Confederate soldier, has published an
octave of 383 pages, which is entitled
Northern Rebellion and Southern Sc
cession." 1t is not inaptly named, for
to make war upon the South that had
the right to secede from the Union UNI
der the Constitution, was genuine
case of INSTRUMENTATION and rebellion
on the part of the dominating and
most strenuous North, with its over
whelming odds, it's. hundreds of thou
sands of foreign born soldiers and its
great negro army. The North East
New England-had talked Of rebellion
and secession from the Washington
administration up to about 1925. When
the North, boastful and confident in
it's vast numbers and tremendous