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interferss With Officer.

J. Kelley was arrested last nIGn
a charge of interfering with EQ
nen Duffy and Sweet in the
charge Of their duty. sass
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06

ONE-SIDED PRACTICALLY.

The ultra-utilitarians are not only
as completely lost for art and liter
at,'rC as the Pl.ri.ans. but their point
OF view is far moe catching. We
see the waves Il utlitarianis.n ris-
ing higher and higher every year in
France and Germany, and even
threatening to en- ulf the Gothic tur-
Iets OF Oxford. Il is doubtful whether
IA q world so completely devoted t 0
ltllty there Will Ee any room for
art and literature as these terms have
teen understood traditionally. Here
again the right attitude is tina of the
Arlstotelian. Practicality, the Aristotle
han would admit, is one of the main
virtues OF the peoples Of English de-
scent along with imaginative fervor.
moral earnestness, g~eniality. and
humor but practically pursued me-
chemically and one-sidedly NAV be-
come a vice. And this unitarian ex-
cess Woul seem to nave been reach.
ed not only in England and America.
BIT more or less in the whole Occi-
dental world.-Irving Rabbit
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06

u. HENRY AS 4. STANDARD
AUTHOR.

With the season of College Com
m~encenlPnt At hand, the oOnteTGpO-
rary writer is consistently being neg.
iected in favor Of the h~ightToUs by
the young men and M who are
preparing their graduation theses. t.
Henry, however. is one Of the conten,-
poTancous writer's who is not reeeiv-
ing this college commencement treat
ment. Tor Il large number OF requests
tor Information have been received by
his publishers from graduating stu
dents, who declared that their COM
Increment thesis had as its subject,
9. Henry. his work and his influence
on American literature.
The college students. however. are
Tot the only ones who give testimony
to the fact thai -. Henry is a stand
ard author, for within The last SIX
months requests have beer received
from d number Of producers. wanting
10 bring out plays OF ~vauGe.iilc
sketches based on the 9. ;1anry
stories. one OF the large poDuiaE mag
ttziIes has voted one whole article to
.. Henry and the discovery CT new
material about aim, and Il great many
schools and colleges have asked per
mission TO use the .. Henry BOOKS us
text bouhs of supplementary reading.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06
@.11EuP
AND THF GERMAN
HtEI.

Anyone Who ever read S.deElnanns
.r'itlly ironical play "I'ri;zcn.n'' in
the collection called "Morituri'
~iSctlDr~fs) must have remembered
II on Ies;,iins the newspa per accounts
OF the agitation. against duel
ling in Germany. The military
code cf honor is ~relentiessly
exposed in "Fritztilen.' The
title character is q young officer,
naturally hoIneloving, stIdious and
kind. But he yields to the current
opinion forced on him even by his
father a retired colonel, that a
solder must see lIfe. The RESULT
he ngaSes in a low intrigue, entirely
against his real nature, and is caught.
Ihe play presents him anxiouslS
awaiting the decision OF Il court Of
honor as to whether the disgrace,
rot of the intrigue, out OF the man
ner III which his part in it is exposed.
entities him to fight a duel in which
he is certain to be killed. "Morituri''
contains two other plays-'.The Eter-
nal Masculine and "Teja."
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06

trology. witch-craft and military tao
tics. used his material and IN a rev
weeks would have forgotten the de-
tails. He had OF course the working
emo of a genius. But all those
shelves of theories and metaphysical
speculations are a huge literary joke.
Shakspere is the best we
have of a man of much inherited
ability adapting himself to his enVlr-
onment, and making the most out OF
himself by years OF patient ton ana
a Conscientious striving after higher
dramatic ideals. And thus he attained
inevitably the ~undiSputed ptlrnacy
of the English stage. May | nope
that out of this coInnlon-Sense study
and close personal scrutiny, he comes
forth a more natural, a more human,
and therefore q more adI1lraDIe
Sh~.kSurr
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06

most heart-piercing lines in our poe
try is Patnore's.
After exceeding i'll a little good
But if h i'll had SO exceeded that
the little good was not. the pierced
hear, would have closed upon an IN
sensible cicatrice.
Perhaps, by the way. another fea-
son why BrOWninS's remedies are
proffered in vain IS his denial OF
fear. Browning refused 10 submit TO
fear, at once the penalty and the duty
of mankind. Pessinlists on the other
hand. are afraid. and they and Brown
ing do not understand n another
in their opposition; they are not in
telligible enemies. Our pessinlsts tear
not without cause. and browning IS
vociferously hopeful. without full
cause. The antagonists are not with
in touch.
And yet that rObuStiOus poet IS
held, or was held by his own genera
ton, to be a ~realiSt. In certain evil
htings he was. on the CONTRARY. an
idealist. Having never been Sich q
Spanish friar, or such a Bishop Rlou-
gram, ne made them before he de-
tected them-and at such close quar-
tiers, 50 point-blank' He was too in
innate with the Sludee he made. but
the pessimist, though SO partial and
SO imperfect, is d better reallst than
he.
A Tragedy the nODieSl ana itoSt
dreadful of our time refer to NJ.
Paul ClaudeIs drama, "L'O1age'-is
the truer antithesis OF pesSimism IN
fiction. whether in the story told or
on the stage. 1t is a tale OF exceeding
i'll and a little good. Of a world where
with all is not right. | have lately
| read a novel in which everything went
! wrong, and what NAL / appears
takes the form Of "a little chatter
about a servants photograph. In NJ
Claudel's play the sOlace is in the
form Of a ~momentary act Of divine
death after exceeding i'll.
"L'Otage" should be miniStered to
| pessimists, or rather to their readers.
for tears. and Mr.. Jacobs for laugh
ter. The age is not without its RENE
dies.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06

In respect Of dramatic force. exu-
befant fancy, and ceaselessly varyin-
IMAGINATION on the one hand. and
on the other Of a style wrought in
the purest, most virile and most di-
rect temper Of English narrative prose
there has been nc latter-day writing
o effective than Stevenson's Kid
Mapped The Master OF Ballantrae"
and that most poetic OF absolute ro-
mances. Prince Otto" But each OF
his shorter tales as we'll, and of his
essays-charged with indiv1duaixv-
has a quality, an air 81 distinction,
which, even though the thing appear
ed without signature, differentiated it
rom other peoples best, set us to
discovering its authorship, and made
US quick to recognize that master
hand elsewhere.
III l had known, when I first me,
Stevenson many a ago in London.
trat he had written those two stories
OF Sixteenth Century Paris-as
learned afterwards when they reao.
peared in the New Arabian Night
1 would have wished indeed to Tan.
pie him to my soul with hoaks =,
! STEELE. c.. Stedman. "
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06

The present is no more than a little
arid sand dribbling through the neck
OF an hour glass; but the past may
De to a shrine in the coigns
OF some sea cliff, whittier the white
birds OF recolIections come to roost
ana rest awhile. and fly away again
INTO the darkness. But thes brine Is
never deserted. Far away up from
the horizons line other white birds
come. wheeling and circling, to take
the place OK those that have left and
are 1eaYing.-George Moore In Hail
a Farewell"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06

--
and did do hack work. coliaboratel
with others, adapted Old plays and
stories, was an excellent actor, a
shrewd shareholder. laid b. for his
family and old age, anu had an eye 20
the main chance.
/. Shakspere felt his way haltingly
and experi1nentaliy through farce
comedy, Ornedy comedy Of
manners, and meiodrainatic preseHta-
ton of history to perfect storytelling
in high comedy and pure tragedy.
Not till 1900 can we say much Of aim
as a mink At the beginning he
showed no marked ability in struc-
ture and absolute mediocrity in char
acter drawing. His chief concern
with each successive play was doubt
less the momentary effect. It never
entered his mind that his plays would
be put to the critical scrutiny of the
study and lecture-room.
2. In the high comedies OF his sec
ond period 15S5-160O), he mastered
the art OF plotting. He discovered
how to tell an absorbing story in dia-
logue with manifold details. These
comedies were a normal development
from the romantic type Of comedy in
vented by Lyiy and barking back to
the comic devices of the intertudes
and chronicle plays.
u ' dSAAd1Su III 4 VI Hia-
matte storytelling, Shakspere deve1-
oped an extraordinary interest in
character. In his third period he be-
came, II not the diScoverer, the per-
fecter Of modern tragedy. In his
melodramas he wa like Narlowe,
more interested in his characters as
princes or kings, mere personalities.
He was hampered by q sense Of fact.
But in the great tragedies he is most
interested in them as human beings
with passions raised to the highest
power. So he puts increasing en-
phasis on individuality until he is able
to portray a character like Macbeth.
or Juliet as the victim Of an edict of
cruel fate, or like Hamlet or Lear as
the victim Of a struggle between the
mans temperament and his environ
ment, or as in OthellO, Of a clash Of
wills. or as in Anthony, or Troilus, OF
the baleful fascination Of oman or
Of an individual like Brutus in col
lision with the spirit OF his age. And
) just as he had in the comedies por-
trayed the lighter passions and play
fully burlesqued the foibles and at
fectationS of the time, SO in his thirO
l period he portrayed the supreme and
violent passions OF man, love, jeal-
. ousy, infatuation, ambition, treach.
e cry. hate, rlngratitude, and revenge
, and presented the tragic spectacle OF
4 strong men ruined by being brough,
j., into conflict with the moral order O.
u the world.
Thus SShakspere slowly forged
ahead Of his fellows, adding to native
q poetic fancy, a marvellous gift Of ex
pression; to this, power Of observa
It uon; to this. great technical skill il
plotting; and last Of all an extraor
binary facility in portraying individ
ST uaHty. And so he averaged up bette
~ tnan any one else in the whole feel,
T. III III NE qualities that UyaFp nocacSop
s Tor successful and enduring work
IS his artistic conscience would not al
:" low MN to remain immature. and tina
y meant wi All the talk about hi
IN vast and superhuman knowledge i
re aosuIu. AS occasion demanded h
ne cine history. antiquities. botany. as
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06
A NORTH
PLAY
The Author Of esther Wake" Tell.
O His Play Was Suggested aud
What it Means.

'NNN he 3tE&.tt
Sition. He said:
The play was written at the 81.
SeStiOn of Professor n. w. Wat
OF Chapel Hill, who had become dt.3-
" interested III the events wh.#,
stirred North Carolina lmm-d.4..
before the American Revolution. sti
who suggested that they be dram
tized. A careful study Of the p~r,ai
convinced me that Mr.. Walker i.l
pointed out TO M q Ntrits ole MN. -
dramatic sold-ore, ami it seemed Iatt
faithful effort Mould bring it IL. .s,a
surface.
absolute fidelity t. historic tr..ta
became Immediately Impossible. rus
truth W ufd have meant the e|iin4nt-
ton Of Esther Wake n frurh 81 tt,
70 nance which at present i
Governor Tryon aad hi, oppo:ert4
the Regulators. Esther VAL n
truth never existed. and i r&,. =
criticism and piitistn a~dnl.aI.rq
wraps about the n".."l, u the ,a,-
pie WHO moved around her. In ,,",.-
tiaudire. iilcrtas. and aEatfju. n,,, n
Of the freedom Of tn. r.4yw8 te}l.
tried 10 reproduce tee -.tars tn,: :
heroes as | saw them.
This laaGe the p!ay s.f,uo
T,Son. proud. aristoc,ati" ana aa-
yielding III his tuith+u!n~ss L, TIA ,,
terests Of t.nsiaud. is ~ta.lslst I.., ~,
face with tfe ne"eI iNti:a.. -.
Young America .onf..nts n.tt enc
iahc. f"aho .NH.eti'h = s'"%i> ':tt-
ihs - HaS - u" n.'''t"2'' =
where the old ana 'n- Hcs oiu-t Mil
Struggle Tor mastery. 1.iats ,'u.t
and his I:esu!atG"s Sc p~.e ~. .3,.-
nions Of snetisa's ,'"eit. II 3.,t
10y e f'"7I, +N+'' :'itt'' t,~t.".
- ~ ii""' itt'at "tt$ '
o"ai'S. ''N iuFs 3fr t'>s|s'3 :" ttt
So.."aiitS MIN i:aS ",tt 1.1.@ 5'
:. Nch ~ 'soGta ~ 80 !" 81" 81
80 Luz 80 kiin'.h'
i'Fse htii lie7t' IN *I-Sl. ina
81 IS ~ toNfp.Hi'l>e we, tf>
20. . INJURIES ara Ia ::n't'i 80 Is
'"oas, 20 more sot-l iita s> "
iiSoa ahu -: '"i".'"
r>'IN uoHS, !i""eNt%- va vi - !" :
1lle b''zaini'tti's 81 M tit'i|t. - '%
wSAe 'N'iFtu t'i% l":.a.f Ai#i"t =
SeuiiSSt f1iSi"ht 5ftli1#{" ia : -
s'utlS A'Ts'i>a. - iVE&t?a ;i"' ttt
s.o1N oi.s : q 40 pr4"ts1Hz. 49, 't-
.he,,t. idf-see:HS S"in' "or'aE. = -
II r'5laho. she io\Fa ne! iatit"f 49,.
yet she Immensely admired the - "tt
luaitl-S u tie 'oionE. fstrcthcd =
''t'hti aiming, she learns 20 %pf'''-
c!ate james PHSn the vigorous '"1
piooocu seadcr . the regulators. - !
GIVES hun her h-irt. o. '~.'3i''; :"
o:ielne, pou:Fi nue l. A"ste ~,'t
beau"
The play in its present form j. ~
complete and imperfect. Kind f~ri,l.is
IN q spirit Of constructive rrili1isrt
pointed out to ms these impeIfee-
tons. And right here, owe !, .ett
to that fine Young scholar and by
liant critic. Doctor Archibald Hef,G r.
son who with rnar-jne i,ct noir-..3
nv wav OFT of The 1ren-nd,fs t,-d-
cuIties which n.stt the c,im,x: Ia Mr..
TT r. HINGES } d.rotad rnn,na IL. {,
Fdramati, apaaa-n, wha.a nr;,i.i
rests firmly ., he own A.. ,,.,i. -
forts. ~ p~ofas-nr uarsten, rb,~.
Kindness ao,,a1s his o,und schnl, rsh5n
to professor Crabar w. fria,a ..,ls
n.ur 81 SINS ranrnnt., af : /
oarol'na' to Professo: Williams. tf>
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06
~UP
VARIOUS THEORIES
ABOUT SHAKSPERE

CONTINUED from Page Three.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
At the Prison.

What are you in for. my poor fell
low"
I'm afraid it's for keeps"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
NEITHER HAYsEE:D NOR ANGEL
But There Need Be Little Question
That Young Lady Had Much
Ingenuity.

Across the line on the Kansas side
where the study o. agriculture is
compulsory. one of the high school
girls took home her monthly report
card and proudly announced:
II took the highest grade in the
class in history, English literature
and German"
That's al very weli" replied her
father, critically examining the card,
but how about this grade i'll agricul-
ture?"
''Oh, well, explained the daughter.
I'm no hayseed!"
little farther down department
grade, not altogether satisfactory, ap-
peared.
And how do you account for this
grade in departments" he inquired
I'm no bloomin' angel, either"
she replied.-Kansas City Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
BABY'S HAPPINESS
DEPENDS ON HEALTH

When your baby is cross and fret
ful instead Of the happy, laughing lit
tie dear you are accustomed to. in all
probability the digestion has become
disarranged and the bowels need at
tention. Give it mild laxative, dis
pei the irritability and bring back
the happy content of babyhood.
The mother should make sure that
the laxative used contains no opiate
or narcotic drug. A mild, pleasant
tasting, harmless laxative like DR..
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsir is ideal for
children because OF its natural COM
position and gentle action. A small
dose of Syrup Pepsin at bedtime viii
bring easy, certain relief next morn
ing, and with no dlstressful gripping or
ether discomfort. You can get DR..
Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin at any drug
store. Your name and address on a
postal to d.. w. B. Caldwell, 203 West
ST.. Monticello, H., VIII bring a free
trial bottle by return mail. ADV.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
Trappers Sail 1000 Miles on a
Trading Trip.
Voyage Msre Without a Chronometer,
Sestant and Compass Being tho
Only instruments ION
Board.

San Francisco-Wor has been re-
eeived here of the successful termina-
ton of one of the nerviest ventures
ever tackled on the Pacific coast II.
c.. Slate and Peter Peterson. who left
here for the arctic last May onithe an
cient hay scow Alice Stofen. have ar
rived safely at Point Barrow. They
left here May 16. both, their friends
believed, headed direct for DaVy
Jones locker. They not only fooled
Dayy Jones, but had delightful trip
The Alice Stcfen is a schooner rugged
scow of seventeen tons that was built
forty-six years ago for service on the
bay. Originally the vessel was stout
and serviceahle and we'll fitted for its
work il the sheltered waters OF har-
Dor and river Never at any stage of
it's career would anybody but two
hardened trappers have considered
the Stofen as fit for a trip as far out
side the heads as the Farallones.
Slate, who has spent twenty years
OF his life trading and trapping in the
aTctics. wanted, to get back there,
sn6 the Stolen was about the only
kind of a beat that his means would
permit him TO bpy He bought the
old seow for a song. He provisioned
it for h hong trip and loaded 1t with
trading goods. and May 16. with Peter
Peterson for crew, sailed for the
arctics
Th' oaly navigating instruments
aboard the Stolen were g little old
boat compass and a sextant as old
as the seow. Slate oor.ld not afford
a chrouometer and, as he admitted to
a friend before sailing, would not have
known low to use 1t If he had. BY
means of the sextant and compass he
estimated latitude with comparative
accuracy.
For longitude he trusted, In the
words OF more conventional Haviga-
tors, to main strength and stupid
ness" Slate called il tnstinct He
announced before he left that he could
smell his way into the arctics, and
as he got there all right it is probably
true.
In a letter to friends in this city
Peterson. the crew. writing fnom Point
Barrow under date OF August is, said
that they had just arrived after very
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
TO TEACH HYG|EN|Cs
Cleveland Schools Also Promote
Physical Growth of Students.
lciudes the Study and Combating of
p Ocular Troubles and Nervous Dis
orders Among Pupils-Plan
Wide in Its Scope.

Cleveland.-"To teach children how
to live-to live happily. healthily and
capably"
In the opinion of Cleveland public
school officials this is the fundamental
thing under the educational system
And it is the object of extension work
undertaken for this school term. The
establishment of a new department of
school hygiene and the extension OF
school social centers throughout the
city are designed to accomplish the
single result of teaching children how
to grow mentally and physically in
way most interesting to the children
themselves.
What shall it profit child to gain
an education and lose his health?' is
the question asked by DR.. E. A Peter
son. head of the hygiene department.
in urging parents to lend their en-
enlargement and active assistance.
Within a few weeks social center
clubs will have been formed in every
Cleveland public school. Mrs. Sarah
w. Hyre. principal OF Brownell school.
long Cleveland teacher and champ
ion of this work. took the lead by
aiding the organization Of three clubs
for boys and girls to study civics.
The building will be open at night to
the clubs and the childrens parents.
Virtually the whole community about
Brownell school will engage in the
study of civics through the winter
months.
In the broad work for hygiene the
increasing prevalence of ocular trouble
is to be combatte1 through co-opera-
ton with every outside agency.
We have known for years that
ocular trouble increases in schools
from the first to the eighth grades,
said Doctor Peterson. but why it is.
no one has ever explained. We wish
to study this trouble and correct II.
We may find it is due to the wrong
color of paper or the size of type
Also, we will find out what causes
nervous disorders among pupils. We
will make the boy and girl SO inter
ested in the schoolroom that they will
be happiest there. because they will
see that to live and study rightly will
make them grow into strong men and
women"
| The department of hygiene com
bines with the regular medical inspec-
ton instruction in school nursing, per.
sonal and public hygiene, physical
| training, recreation and school santa
| ton An elaborate outline of the
work. made by Doctor Peterson re-
Quires the fullest measures OF coop
GRAFTON from parents.
Detection of communicable diseases
and mental and physical defects and
\ thei2 correction are accomplished
with the aid of the family physician
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
Persistent Rains Cause Bishop of
Chester to Revive an Old
Question.


London-This is the month of the
harvest festival. but as every crop
in the country has been seriously
damaged, If not ruined. by the per
sistent rains. it is not surprising that
a bishop has raised the question of
Ought we pray for fine weather."
In a letter TO the rural deans of his
diocese the bishop Of Chester dis
cusses the appropriateness OF harvest
festivals in such season. says Lon
don letter.
The persistent rains which have
damaged our crops" says the bishop.
cannot but revive the old questions.
In such 8 wear is it wise TO hold
harvest festivals? Can we expect
farmers TO give special thanks when
they have SO little to be thankful for?
With our gres.tly enlarged knowledge
of meteorolSrgy, what reason or real
ity is there in praying for changes OF
weather."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
PRAYER AND THE WEATHER

He suggests that there is sounder
piety in accepting submissively sun
shine and rain. even when they seem
unreasonable and excessive. The pc
tition, Give US this day our daily
bread necessarily involves prayer
for seasonable weather, and Doctor
Jayne submits that 1.-The thing
most needful is ,habitual prayer
for seasonable weather" He main
tains that people should be slow in
asking for changes of weather, as we
can see but a little way ahead, and
weather that now looks disastrous
may in the long Tnn assume a kind
lier aspect
He finds comfort in the thought that
through the friendly commerce Of
nations the harvests OF the world are
ours, and that the price of food.
though it may rise. will not rise to
famine heights, as it would if we were
dependent upon oUf own resources
alone. This part Of the bishops let
ter is being widely quoted as an
argument for free trade"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
Little Thinas That Helm.

To clean meat chopper, put piece
of bread through it after you have
been chopping raisins, meat OF any
thing that is hard to wash out of a
chopper and you will have no difficulty
in washing it afterward
To make an ordinary candle serve
as an all-night lamp, pack finely pow
dered sait around the wick as far up
as the blackened part. In this way a
mild, steady light may be obtained all
night from even a small piece of can
die.
To make corks fit in catsup bottles
take ones that are a little large and
boil them in clear water for 20 min
utes. This decreases their size In
sert them in the mouths of the bot
ties while hot, as they expand in cool
ing, thus making perfectly tight stop
pcrS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-11-12
chivaIrous tn Face of Misfortune.

At a mass meeting recently in a
nearby town an old and foremost citi-
zen who clings to the sartorial style
of years ago, was called upon for mis-
views on the subject in discussion. He
made a brief speech. and as he was
compelled to hurry back to his office
he turned to the seat next to his, on
which he had deposited his silk hat
just in time to see a woman fatten
it completely by sitting on it.
Ever polite. his feelings were never
theless stirred, and the best he could
think of to say under the circum
stances was:
I'll hope you have not injured
yourself. madam. kansas City Star