The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04

nan suffrage has made some progress
as South Dakota and Washington have
a referendum on the subject. The
proposition was narrowly defeated in
California;, Nebraska. Kansas and
Oklahoma. Justice Brewer, of the
Supreme Court, favors the suffragists.
The principal strike in 1909 was
of the steel works near Pittsburg. Pa.
and resulted in a victory for the strik-
erS.
4 great interest in civic improve
ments has been shown in scores of
American municipalities. The pub
lie celebrations too have assumed a
patriotic and historical character. This
was apparent from the AIaSkan-YukOn
Pacific Exposition at seattle to the
Lake Chanplain pageanes and the no
table HudsOn-FultOn celebration in
New York. The popular PLAYS on the
other hand show a tendency to Sc
rlOusly discuss social problems. The
opening Oh the New Theatre in New
York and the success Of such plays
as 1.-The Battle" Strife The Melt
ing Pot The Passing of the ThirG
Floor Back" all indicate the elevation
OF the stage in response to public
thought.
of 1879 miles and the Presidents OF
the United States and Mexico claspe6
hands on h Rio Grande.
The passing away of the last vestage
Of sectionalism between North anG
South has characterized the year. The
| centennial of L%incoln's birth was eel
ebrated South and North. A buS OF
Robt. E. Lee has been placed in thu
National Capitol and the name OF
. Jefferson Davis restored to the arch
: of John Cabin Bridge a Washington
i where it was effaced nearly half 6
n ~ ~o M, - = e
presents her namesalSe battleship 9
silver service with the portrait of To
fersOn Davis engraded thereon. The
Confederate veterans at their reunlJr
in Memphis gave General Fred Gran1
q tumultuous ovation and President
Taft speaking at Petersburg. Va.
pays tribute to the valor and glory O
Southern soldiers.
Harvest of Death.
The harvester Death. during the
ear has not been inactive. The finan-
Cial arena has lost II. H. Rogers, the
Standard Oil magnate, who began
business with $500 capital, and died a
multinQilliOnaire. Edward H. Harri-
man, who rose from the lowly abode
Of a poor clergyman's home and the
position of office boy when 16 years
old, without school advantages, dice
September 8 at the age Of 81 years,
possessing the domination over IS, GOO
miles of railroad track, stretching
from ocean to ocean,, and the own
er of a personal estate estimated al
800, 600, 900.
The philanthropists, John Stewart
Kennedy, who bequeathed $50, 600, OOO
to charitable and ph~ilanthropic OBJ
iects, and Charles n. C~rittenton,
founder of the Florence Crittenton
homes for outcast women, have pass
ed from the stage Of action and left
the world richie by their lives.
The valuable services Of Simon
iNewcOmbe, the American astronomer;
Charles F'ollen McKim, the architect
who designed the Rhode Island CAPT
to1, the Boston Public Library, the
Pennsylvania railroad station in New
York and other notable triumphs in
construction; and Cesare LambrOsso
the Italian crimonologist, have beer
lost.
Fresh in the public mind is the
emo of Governor John A. John
son, Of Minnesota; Justice of the Su-
preme Court Rufus W. Peckham;
State Senator Patrick II. McCarren, OF
Rrooklyn; Representative David
DeArrnond, who vas burned to death
with his little grandson in Missouri
President Penna, of Brazil; Don Car
los, of Bourbon, pretender to the
Spanish throne; and State Senator
John Raines, Republican leader in the
New York Legislature,-all states
men or politicians Of note. The serv-
ice of Spanish Vice-Admiral Pascuai
Cervera and the assassination by the
BLACK Hand society Of Lieut.. Jo-
| seph PetrOsinO. chief Of the New York
italian detectives, merits that the
memory of boil should be honorably
preserved.
Among those VINO have peen remov-
ed from the literary and perhaps re
ligious forum might be enumerated
Sarah Orne JeWett, author; Rev.
Father John A. Tabb, poet and priest;
Bishop Daniel Goodsell, Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church; George Tyrrell.
the great Modernist among Catholic
T~heologians; Hinton Rowan Helper,
the North Carolinian, author Of that
stirring book, the Impending Crises"
lf~orerunne of Uncle Toms Cabin
in precipitating h Civil War, who
die by his own hand in Washington;