The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04
THE SPIRIT OF ST. PAUL
l BURNED WITHIN HIN.
BY THEO b. KINGSBURY.


have not forgotten it or him." Such
"a North Carolinian should neither De
forgotten nor neglected. His mother
was of excellent family in the Scotland
Neck section of Halifax county, anu
her father lived in a large, two-story
square house four miles from the pres
ent town of Scotland Neck, on the
road to Palmyra, and in 1870 it was
standing in the grove as of yore, ana
I suppose, is still there. That was
my own mothers home and birthplace.
She was Mary Sumner Bryant.
I have been cheered recently
within q week-with several letters
from two States-in which Rlnd eH-
pressions were given as to my contn-
buttons to The News and Observer.
A leading citizen of my native town
Raleigh. writes: 1.-The writer enjoys
very greatly your Sunday articles
prominent citizen and a member or the
Methodist church. in another town, re-
ferring to what l wrote OF my veneer
ated and very highly esteemed neigh-
Dor and friend, the late Bishop A. A.
Watson. wrote me: II have read
with q vast deal of pleasure, your con-
tribution, headed, "A Life Rich in Ser
vice. Fruitful in Good Deeds An
accomplished North Carolina lady, OF
distinguished and learned ancestry,
writes me from Virginia: For some
months / have greatly missed your
interesting and instructive articles IN
The News and Observer" These are
recent samples of many | receive CIV
ing me cordial commentator, and for
which / am duly thankful. The words
of appreciation from friends are CRATE
full TO any responsive and generous
soul. Ifkind words are not lever new
delight they are at least touching
and pleasing when first read, particu-
larly if you know we'll the character
of the sender.
Does the reader know of the pur-
chase of the Louisiana Territory from
Napoleon by President Jefferson, the
sum paid, and the extent of the pos
sessions obtained? The sum paid was
a beggarly $15,000,000, and the area
secured was twice the size of the orr
ginal thirteen States.
The Chicago Dial, the best literary
journal in the United States-semi-
monthly-has just completed its TWEEN
ty-fifth year From the beginning Mr..
Francis E. Browne has been the editor
and chief owner. 1t has no rival IN
the East. OF course it prints views
and opinions sometimes with which
you can not agree.
Theodore Thomas, the orchestra
conductor, in his autobiography but
recently published, says that in 1915,
"the pigs ran through Broadway, n.
Y, and ate the refuse" / know that
i'm 1S49, wlsen / visited it, the popu-
lation was but 100000, and Canal
street was the dividing line between
all the business houses and up town.
The hotels, with one exception. were
plain structures and with no style and
about as low on Broadway as Wall
street and Maiden Lane.
Some fellow in Tom Watson's Maya
zine, in a quotation on Roosevelt,
closes with this couplet, summing up
aptly:
"His sword within it's scabbard sleeps,
But mercyl How it Snoresi'
Herbert Paul is publishing ga His
tory of Modern England" in five vol
umes. Volume III. is OUT
Three new volumes by Robert Louis
Stevenson is to be published. They
are his uncollected writings. The
first volume will be Essays of Travel,
another, eTales and Fantasies" and
third. Essays in the Art of Writing.
The Life of General r. E. Lee, by
his son, has been officially adopted
for United States Navy Yard Libraries
and ships.
Andrew Lang has a volume'.in the
press on John Knox and the Refor
nation.
Fanny Crosby the famous Methodist
hymn writer, lives in Connecticut, and
is eighty-five. She is married, is blind,
and is Mrs. Van Alstyne. She has
written 5000 hymns, and old as she is
uses facile pen still turning off hymns
of merit. Her last she calls, 80 Lord
of Joy Unseen
Robert Burns is a name that lovers
of genuine poetry will be always in
terested in. His genius was of rare ex
cellence, and much of his poetry pos
sesses n peculiar charm and Originate
ty The best essay / have ever met
with upon him is from the pen of
his great countryman, Thomas Carlyle
1t was written about 1880, or a little
later, 1t is an admirable interpreta-
ton of a man of genius of rare
quality He was beyond doubt the
greatest poet of Scotland! ! was read
him in some London literary review or
weekly, and clipped the following
which | will use here for its real in
terest. but 1 can not give the proper
credit. as / failed to note it on the
slip at the time:
There is no need to recall the clos
ing scenes-the sadness of it all; the
anXieties for his wife's welfare; the
fear of prison, none the less pitiable