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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-23
Name of Confederate Officer Wanted

To the Editor: At the Reunion of
Confederate Veterans in Louisville last
June, l met Col. Andrew Cowan. who
commanded the First New York Bat
terry at the Battle of Gettysburg. He
wants to know the name of a North
Carolina officer who was wounded
near the battery July 3rd, 1868, which
battery that day was posted at 1.-The
clump of trees on Cemetery Ridge,
next to Cushing's Battery, and near
the angle of the stone-wall, where
General Armfield feel.
This wounded North Carolinian was
put on cot in a bedroom on the
first floor Of fam house back of
the Tarrytown Road and Round Top,
and in this room with him were Lieut..
VIM. P. Wright and Lieut.. w. H.
Johnson, of Col. Cowans battery. The
surgeon of the First New Jersey
Brigade cared for these three wound
ed officers together, amputated an arm
of the North Carolinian and rendered
him a great and peculiar kindness
The first son of that North Carolinian
was named for that surgeon. The
surgeon and the two Lieutenants are
dead and the North Carolinian may
be dead also.
Any one seeing this and able to
identify this North Carolinian Will
please send name to me at Concord
n. c., is a favor to Col Cowan, a
splendid gentleman and a magnifi-
cent representative of that glorious
old army of the Potomac"
PAUL. 2. MEANS
North Carolina apers please copy.
JohnsnoP PwoStsS- eadnterceoAa u
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HALF NEVER TOLD
Heart Filled with the
music of Praise.
Like One of Old Upon Whom Light
Burst He Can Say: Whereas
Was Blind Now
Goo

No man of sence can regret either
the time or the money expended when
he sees that by such expenditure he
has been lifted from misery and deg
relation to a plane of happiness and
respecta bility where he can hold up
his head and look with clear eyes un-
ashamed into the face of his fellows
But when coupled to these results
there is the memory of many sympa
thetic and encouraging looks and
words and a realization of how these
contributed toward his moral and
spiritual uplift, one cannot wonder
that the heart of the normal man
should overflow with gratitude and
praise. An illustration of the above
emarks will be found in the following
letter:
1t is with peculiar pride that / am
onw looking over some of your liter
ature and thinking of the the / was
at your institute; and | just feel like
saying that the half has never yet been
told in singing the praises that your
institute so much deserves. 1t has
been four years since / took the treat
ment, and | have not tasted a drop of
whiskey or anything of the kind, and
would not for the world; in fact /
don't want it, and if l had the time /
would like to come and stay at your
institute for thirty days now, and rest
and enjoy myself with you all again.
/ want to say to you that | never will
forget your kindness to me when l
was there. Col. Osborne, the physician
and the attendants--you all-certain-
~ did treat me very nicely, and then.
when / think of the condition | was
in when | went to the institute, and
the condition [ am in now, it makes
me feel like praiSing God that he ever
put it in the power and hearts of men
to establish such an institute, where
poor fallen men might go and restore
themselves to their families, their
country, and their friends. / just feel
like saying that none know the awful
condition of men who have contracted
the disease of drink but those who
have tried 1t, and l would to God that
| could advise and influence every man
who has this awful habit or disease to
go to the Kelley Institute and be
cured He certainly will not regret
the time, and so far as the money is
concerned he will make that back so
soon that he will not miss it, / have
been and expect to try to influence all
my friends that are thus afflicted to
take your treatment and be cured. ]
just feel like il has been. to sum it up
in nut shell. all and all to me.
HUGH WOMBLE.
Goldston n. c. Nov. II, 1904.
Send names ara addresses of those
who may be benefited to the Kelley
Institute Greensboro, n. G.
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Wonnen's Men.

What women like in men has been
discussed by various of our readers.
primarily regarding fiction and its
heroes. but with reference also to
real life. One warns us not to confuse
qualities which attract living beings
Speaking of George Eliot's "Romala'
she says: I'm real life | believe
man like Tito would attract a girl on
account of his superficial qualities,
while in the book the strength of the
author has shown them up in such
true light that a girl of sixteen. could
not fail to see the danger signal and
take to cover In novels, strength is
always requisite in the hero. and
weakness can not be redeemed by
head or heart No Dobbin for her
This lady. who halls from Texas
thinks William Ashe deserves all he
got When she was fourteen the
hero of The First Violin" disturbed
her nuttering heart To her as to
many of her sex, Scott is obnoxious
partly on account of the kind of wo-
man ne preferred. On her favorable
list are Adom Bede. Monsieur Beau
caire. Peter Sterling, John Storm,
John Halifax Colonel Newcome, The
Little Minister, John Alden, Jacob in
LADY Roses Daughter" Tom of
The Mill on the Floss. and the hero
of ITO Have and to Hold" Such men
as David Copperfield. Richard Carvel
and Hugh Wynne have. little interest
for our Texas beauty, and the Egoist
Charley Steele, and Alec D'Urberville
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IN THE LITERARY WORLD

represent her view of the repellant.
A girl from Missouri who is all for
strength, as are most of our lady cor
respondents, is strong for Felix Holt.
with the same authors Doctor Lyd-
gate standing high Rochester is
strong all along the line, although one
dame thinks his power is too Grass
and mixed too freely with the cruel.
Such. reservations bother not her
from Petruchio reaches the highest
mark of male effectiveness. Gentle
men, she thinks, women love "as we
love month-old babies-Colonel New
come and Give, for instance The
Virginian" for her isn't 1t strong
desire to stand in Molly's shoes that
we turn to the beginning of the book
and read it AGAIN. She doesn't OBJ
ject to Rob Roy, among SCOTS heroes,
and in George Eliot Felix Holt would
pass if he used a comb and neckde.
Caleb, in Haggard's Pearl Maiden,
she would have seized upon three
DAYS after finding him. But our dis
cussion of this important topic is by
no means ended.-COllier's July %,
1908
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THE GIF-r OLE TIIE MORNING STAR


by Armistead G. Gordon. Price
$1.50. Cloth, 373 pages. Publishers:
The Funk & Wagnalls Company,
New York.
The scenes of this story are laid in
the land of the Dunkards, a peculiar
people of whom little is known. If
the story itself did not hold ones at
tention from start to finish, the study
of the types and characters of the
DunAtrds-s strongly drawn--would
make the book astonshingly interest
ing. for Mr.. Gordon has mastered the
very inner life and thought of these
thrifty and somber people and writ
ten of them as they are-neither omit
ting their strong points nor magnify
ing their weak ones You would inn
agIne, SO intimate is his acquaint-
ance with the manner of thought and
life of the Dunkards the the author
had been born a Drunkard instead of
a Virginia gentleman.
The contrast between the volatile
French and the stolid Dunkard is in
Carnated in the hero-Benammi You
art. His father is a typical Dunkard
who In his youth fell in love with and
married a beautiful young French
woman who is as unlike a Dunkard us
the moon is unlike green cheese. Their
two first children are Dunkards in APP
no trace of the mother in them. The
third child, a boy. BENJAMIN., is his
mothers very own, with nothing In
him except the French character and
resemblance of his mothers people.
He is a dreamer and an ideallst and
has nothing in sympathy with the
prcsy life of his fathers home. He
has sweetheart, of course, for what
book would be worth reading where
low l0t lan tTll I
loves Tirzah, does this French Dunk
ard and she loves him with the sort OF
love that Grover Cleveland said made
lite lone grand sweet song. He goes
out into the world in the quest of for
tune. In petty quarrel with Stran-
ger on the mountain road strikes him
with a stone and imagineS that he has
killed him. In his after career as
money-getter in a boom town he IAN
cies that the stain of murder lies upon
him. Once he revisits under cove
of the night the old home, and when
1irzah would have fled with him the
specter of the supposed dead man
comes between them and he thrusts
her from him. How he comes to the
knowledge that his blow was not fatal
and that the man is alive is one OF tie
finely dramatic turns of the narrative.
The bubble of the boom town collap-
ses and he goes back to the Dunkards
as poor as he left them, but to find
Tirzah's love waiting for aim, and,
happy in it. he is safe, and they live
together happily ever after as they
do in all good novels and in all Wei
ordered society. The book is artistic
original. fresh, charming and covers
field all its own.
North Carolinians will have more
than ordinary interest in Mr.. Gordon s
book for the reason that he is "a grand
son of Judge J. j. Daniel, of the North
Carolina Supreme Court bench, and
cousin of Judge Jacob Battle of ROCKY
Mount. His father, Mr.. George L.
Gordon, joined an EdgecQmbe COM
pany at the beginning of the war ana
was killed at Malvern Hill. His family
stayed in North Carolina during the
war.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-23

Is money, or the present mania for
amassing it, really an evil? Read two
remarkable articles in the AuguS
Eyerybody's. dealing both with the
direct and the indirect effects, of the
money-mania; they may help you to
a conclusion. A miracle of millions, -
as performed some half dozen years
ago. in Boston, by tho now notorious
New England Gas & Coke Company
(Henry M. Whitney and H. H. Rogers,
leading spirits), is the amazing reve-
lation reserved by Mr.. Lawson for this
significant instalment of s"Frenzied
Finance" With scrupulous fidelity to
detail, this fearless witness tells how
certain leaders of finance, of eminent
public standing. not only defraud and
deceive the public, but betray and
treacherously injure their closest
friends, merely to crafty the Unsuitable
lust for more and more millions. In
Chicago, meanwhile, to this same mo-
tive and to equally eminent persons,
there are traceable crimes precisely
as infamous. In the powerful conclu-
sion of THE Greatest Trust in the
World" Mr.. Charles Edward Russell
shows the needless suffering inflicted
upon the Chicago poor by the merci-
less money-makers of Packingtown;
and eloquently urges the overthrow OF
t's2 Beef Trust by united moral force
The integrity of the Republic itself
Mr.. Russell believes, is at issue here
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RAISE YOUR SUPPLIES.
Cheap. Ignorant Labor Responsible for
Over-PrOductiOn i'm Cotton.
(MarshVille HOme.)

(MarShVille Home
Some farmers are wishing they had
planted more cotton, since the price
advanced. It's time enough yet to be
making wishes of that kind. In fact
we dom believe any farmer who raises
all the meat and corn and vegetables
that he needs for another year will
be wishing for more cotton and less
home supplies next fall, it matters not
what the price of cotton is then. 1t
looks more like living and it is certain
ly the surest plan to have home-raised
rationS at home so that we can live
without having to go to the stores for
supplies every two or three weeks.
While there are a few farmers who
have by the tenant system accumu-
lated some money from big cotton
crops raised by their tenants, the
farmers who do real farming them
selves and have bettered their condi-
ton have done SO by raising cotton
only as a surplus crop, and they never
get excited over nigh priced cotton SC
as to cause them to change thei;
methods.
1t is said that the greatest generals
who commanded most wisely their
armies were cool-headed men who
never became excited. even in the hot
test contests in battle. We have OBJ
served that farmers who do their own
work and make a success of their oc-
cupation are men who have fixed ideas
as to their methods, and high-priced
cotton doesn't excite them. If high
priced cotton comes they get the Dene-
fit in proportion, but they are not
swept oft their well-defined paths by
| to run off after uncertainties, and
when fall comes they fill their cribs
and smoke-houses with unbroker
regularity every year.
| If it were not for ignorant tenant la
Dor every farmer would be forced to
farm more for a living and use cot
ton only as a surplus crop. t is cheap
ignorant labor that makes over-pro-
duction crops possible nj the South
and having to come into competition
with this kind of labor is a serious
handicap to agricultural progress jr
| the South.
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Recreation for July.

The July number of Recreation viii!
delight the sportsman's heart. 1t con-
tains some of the most interesting
hunting and fishing stories lima ginable
and the departments are brimful of
splendid hints for the man who goes
to the woods and waters for pleas
ures, sport and health The leading
story is entitled Buffalo Hunting
Thirty-fve Years Ago" written by
Capt. James H. Dixon, an old army
officer, who watched the gradual ami
hilation of the bison on the Western
frontier when the white men and In
dams thought the supply inexhaust,
ible. The story is quantity reminiscent
and we'll illustrated. Carl E. Acker-
man has a splendid illustrated paper
on the turkey buzzard, in which this
strange bird is described in its native
wilds and mountain fastenesses.
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The August Smart Set.

Mrs Burton Harrison's name has al.
WAYS been identified with particularly
entertaining fiction, and for many
years she has not given us so capital
a piece of work as The Carlyles,' the
long novel which opens the August
number of The Smart Set. 1t is by
far her most important story. and is
a distinct departure from her former
novels. The scenes are laid in ana
around Richmond. during the stirring
days of 1855, and the introduction OF
several historical events adds great
ly to the interest of a splendid dra.
matte love story. No novelist dealing
With the Civil War periods has sue
ceeded in creating more realistic al,
mosphere or characters more convinc,
ing.
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HOTELS AND RESORTS.
PINE BEACH HOTEL

In heart of jamestown Exposition
Grounds.
A new. magnificent, perfectly ap
pointed, elegantly furnished, charm
ingly located, year-rOund resort. All
outside rooms, IS being with private
baths.
Cuisine unsurpassed. Boating, bath
ing, fishing, and hunting. twenty-five
minutes by trolley from Norfolk; thir-
ty minutes by boat from Newport
News.
Now quoting very special rates as
Introductory. For further descriptive
matter, address, VIM. G. ROVER,
Manager, Pine Beach, P. o., Virginia.
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School and College Sport.

The leading article in the August
Century will be discussion of The
Spirit of School and College Sport.
American and English Rowing" by
Randolph D. Paine, formerly one of
the Yale crew. and considered an au-
thority on college sport. Mr. Paine
likes the genial flavor" which charac-
terizes English athletics and holds that
the professional coaching system in
America is not an unmiXed good. He
writes with an experience, enthusiasm,
and authority that should give his
article wide interest.
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How 1.-THE Simple Life" Was Born.

Few books have made upon a peo-
pie such an impression as Charles
Wagner's THE Simple Life has
made upon Americans. The story Of
how he came to write it is told by
Pastor Wagner in his little book, MY
Appeal TO America published by Nc
Clure, Phillips & Co. The book was,
in a measure, the result of accident.
One day Mr.. Wagner CHANGED to be
calling upon Madam Edgar Quinet,
widow of the famous Edgar Quinet.
Madam Quinet asked Mr.. Wagner If he
would bestow the wedding blessing
upon her maid, who was engaged to a
working man. Mr.. Wagner agreed,
and spoke with cordial simplicity and
sympathy to the young couple. Mile
Buisson, the daughter of the French
political leader, CHANGED to be in the
small audience that witnessed the
ceremony. She was to be married. Il
few weeks afterwards, and requested
Mr.. Wagner to speak for her as he
had spoken for Madam Quinet's maid.
Mr.. Wagner consented, although he
thought such a simple talk would be
out of keeping with a ceremony at
which thousands were to be present:
but M Buisson himself said-"Do not
worry about that. Let it be done, ac-
cording to the wish of my daughter.
You will please her exceedingly" At
the big wedding Mr.. Wagner spoke
of the simple life. and urged upon
his young friends his deep conviction
that the very happiness of life lay il
a true and normal mode of living.
Among Mr.. Wagner's hearers was NJ.
Armand Collins, one of the foremost
publishers of Paris, who was so inn
pressed with Mr.. Wagners address
that he wanted a book in the same
vein Immediately. Mr.. Wagner took
fire at the idea, and had all the chap
ter heads laid out in a few minutes.
And in this way was born the famous
doctrine of THE Simple Life"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-23

Here is an unfamiliar portrait of
Rudyard Kipling. who is probably
more widely read and discussed than
any living writer of English. His new
story, " An Habitation Enforced,
appears entire in August Century.
BY most critics. probably Rudyard
Kipling is ranked as the greatest of
ing story writers, and new tale from
his zen is always an event in the
world of books and magazines His
latest story. IAN Habitation Enforced"
in the August Century is the
first TO he published in an American
nlagazine for almost a wear.
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Literary Notes.

Mr.. Charles Battell LOOMS. whose
first novel is TO be published this au-
tumn by Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co,
has fled from the tradition of the Jer-
sey mosquito to his ancestral home in
Torringford. Connecticut Few au.
thors are fortunate enough to have
ancestral homes in their possession
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DoNl,s Life OF Macon.

Every North Carolinian ought to
own copy of THE Life and Times of
Nathanial Macon" by Prof VIM. h.
Dodd. Only two hundred copies re-
main unsold. and DR.. Dodd offers
them to- libraries and teachers at one
half the price. Send $500 for copy
to DR.. w. E. Dodd, Ashland, Va.
LITERARY
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SEASON 1906
BUT">LO LITHIA SPRINGS HOTEL
Cottage System.)

Cottage System.)
Now Open. Closes September, goth.
On Norfolk Division Southern r. r.,
81 miles east of DanviIle, Va, Round
Trip Tickets, good to return until Sept.
goth, on sale at all principal points at
reduced rates. Guests have the free
use of medicinal waters. Hot and cold
mineral water baths Send for PAM
phlet giving full particulars.
A. w. ARCHER. Manager
clan.
Estate of THOS. F. GOODE, Proprietor
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Scotland Neck in Mourning.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth.

Scotland Neck Commonwealth
Lost q Cow.-Prof. C. w Wilson
lost a valuable cow Tuesday.
Lost a MuIe-Sometime ago Ed.
Smith lost a mule from the result of
becoming overheated in the field.
Lost a Horse.-F. P. Shields lost a
good horse Saturday night. Some
nights before the horse was snagged
in the stable in some way.
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How 1t Looked.

Dear John" wrote Mrs. Newly
wed from the shore. II enclose the
hotel bill"
Dear Jane, l enclose cheque,
wrote John, but please don't buy
any more hotels at this price-they
are robbing you.''-August Smart Set.
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SELECT BOARDING HOUSE

Mrs. Wiley NJ. Rogers calls attention
to the fact that this large house
within half square of the capitol. ha!
been newly painted, papered and furn.
ished, AMI is open for boarders by tht
day, week or month. Large and air!
rooms. Reasonable prices. Within
one-half a square of the capitol.
1I8 n. Wilmington ST..
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of the fact that he has committed 6
complete novel
Mr.. James B. Cononlly returned
! from the ocean race by steamer, and
| will pass the summer at his home ir
! Dorchester, with perhaps a trip amona
his fishermen for the mackrel fishing
! His new book, ION Tybee Knoll" is
published by Messrs A. S. Barnes &
| Co.
Miss Mary Brewster, who lives at
Norwood, tCincinnati's suburbl has
published The. Brewster Genealogy.
1566-1905," containing the records of
40, 200 families, descending from Will
liam Brewster, the ruling elder of the
Pilgrim church, who came to this
country in 1920 on the Mayfiower. He
drafted the celebrated Compact"
which has been called "the first writ
ten constitution of the worlds history"
Ameong the distinguished descenants
of that Great Puritan was the late
Chief Justice Pearson, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of N. c.. The
book Is we'll illustrated and will inter
est many. 1t was published by Graf
ton Press. of New York City.
While the Atlantic concerns itself
frequently with subjects of political
and social interests, it can always be
relied upon to speak with decision
upon the literary tendencies of the
hour. 1t does so in the July number
with a paper by Henry D. Sedgwick
entitled Mob Spirit IN Literatul e." In
if the author analyses with caustic
satire the popular craze for the best
selling books of the month
Paul Jones for a man long dead is
very much in the public eye just now,
but of all that is being written about
him, nothing is more interesting and
striking than his biography by Alfred
Henry Lewis, of which the first in
stallment appears in the August Co.'S
mopolitan. This account of the great
admiral will be one of the most inn
portant magazine contributions of the
present year.
A book intended primarily for lads
just coming to the age of interest in
their country's history. but which
should appeal to all young people, is
Indian Tales collection of stories
originally printed in st. Nicholas.
Further books in this promising series
of historical tales will be: Colonial
Stories Revolutionary Stories,
civil War Stories" and Our Ma
tional Holidays"
McClure's Magazine printed large
extra edition of the July number i'll
anticipation of the demand which, 1t
was expected. Miss Tarbell's Rookie
Teller study would create; but the
public interest SO far exceeded the
circulation managers calculations that
in six days the entire edition was ex-
hausted With the August number oc-
cupying the presses, it was not pos
sible to print more of July, and orders
for $4,000 remained untitled.
The Ridgway- Company an
nounces that about September LIST, 1T
will publish Thomas w Lawson
"Frenzied Finance: the Crime of
Amalgamated" in book form. Mr.
L,awson's idea, shared by the Ridge
wav-Thayer Company, is that the book
should be offered to the public at q
very moderate price. Accordingly it
Will be published at $50 per copy.
There will be a more expensive edition
for those who desire 1t.
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Mr.. James b. Cononlly returned
from the ocean race by steamer, and
will pass the summer at his home in
Dorchester, with perhaps a trip amons
his fishermen for the mackrel fishing.
His new book, ION Tybee Knoll" is
published by Messrs. A. S. Barnes &
10
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and Mr.. LOOMS confesses to a hope
that his will remain with him in spite
of the fact that he has committed 8,
complete novel.