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CHARLOTTE DAILY; OBSERVER, NOVEMBER 1,1003.: '.i?BQ.O;KS.V:AfJD v ?Mr N McGhe Waters ha publlah. j flrt acquaintance -with Tldwell, he d a'Stle hook which he- call feel his power over her. and s her HeroM and Heroism in Common" tmotioa grows stronger, aha mistakes - LwlThomaa L. Crowell Co JJawllt-Ior lovew Unfortunately, such, a Sort ere the publishers. A " mistake 1a only too common in reel Mr ' Waters Is a young mas 'life; -What Luclle feels tor the mln vtthii Attained to the pestofats of later ta the beginning 4a the moat ln 11 .H- i.rmt eonzregattons i to sldious and most suoliy pernicious ot 'BrookfrtW' This little book is like' iaU counterfeits and imltatlons--.pee-series of aasaya, each touching upon ' tion mistaken tor Jove. . Her thoughts ' some subject which tha distinguished . are perfectly pure; bat o account of wea.eb.er evidently meets in his dally her very innocence aha fall to recog lite work. - At tha outset, Mr. Waters 5 nlzc that :her , amotion is - essentially ' eaye: - --''-'-' ..- .- tpnysicai in s duii, unui au v Evary man, v'he" has ever achieved, 1 the-verge of. ruin. temporal d aitowe he true it to' thav th eartrnal., When ber, bridge r; burning -1 .ui ! however 1 much' "or flFvl H.hlnt twr her area ara.onen- fI T Tils K S V arv - .-- -v v r -. - , - w little it iv n Wa obMure .dayaUd(5an h. la aaved. though not with i and not in Mi famou one. What r-eit. heavy, coot,- and truly o a b men call fame, or wean. belated recognltioniof what -the-man did., or was,- whn he . waa poor and unknown. - To-day he wears the Hv. hi. , ahiavameatavt but ,V the achievement lUelf courredwhea hi tery waa tha'hor and eimple -ain-jLto i exeluelrely animal, unre. nala of tha poor.! -What mea caul, nved by a alngta apark of spirituality, herolam iaoaly ltt applause, or W(w, th revelation of tho true nature of or ahadowr tha - reality la nt,f n4ov, Sot her comas Just In tlma to thorn-crewned. and grlm. Individ. I WTe Wg vlctlinx . , . . vals find that Ht t At least, autruly i , Laura nd well furnishes ' another herole men do; and whila they I strlklnr $ypa of love, and is the fem rabarraaaad by the glr and glitter ljnin. eunterpart ' of her brother; : of the thing, they linger-lovingly over there Is little indeed to choose between their youth, with lta -hardaMpa' ndjthenv .or moUo U like Iuoile'e. Bovartr. ,Ther have found. .Out taatf. ,ua i. .nulnW ahnlml. hut un. common Ufa, -and not cloth et;gold. la tha true field of heroism."! v Throughout tha book -we find many 1 1 ntarsstin observation end many viewa of human aftaira which are out of; tha ordinary,. . ine autnoriay great atress upon the; Influence ot wo - men and upon tma suqjeci oe'ois coursea freouently- in the book. An - exam Die of one of hla discussions bout, th Jafluene of women 1,M "John Ruskia has made a study of woman in literature. Otf Bhake speara he finds three thlngo to be true. ' Tha first one ia 'Shakespeare ties - hevoaa. bdJ herolnea :Th second fact Is: In ovary play tha calamity hinges on soma man's failure: It la tha men WHO rait ana fait' ... - v.;:V ;'"'! " ' wnkml 1.ha l. tf. ...lii'kliifli play the redemption ' cornea, where there any redemption, through the tieroism and atrength of aeme wo. man.' "Ot :- 'Buskin's 1 first ' flndfor that Shakespeare, who 'hold tha mirror up to nature, has" no heroes,' only herolnea. I will not speak. , . I think : Rusk! lays Htai little thick in that statement; but perhaps the 'Lords of Creation' seed it. ' "But; the other two statements In terest u-The failure of any plan - ' If there be any, hinges on- a woman.' Certainly, King Lear played the fool : and Cordelia, aaved. hlny -. "In Hamler there was no reOemp- tlon, 1ecause Ophelia was a weakling. tf; nnk.ll. UmA lu..' atMn Uftmljt had been saved. . Othello falls Into a enarei Iedemona shinea like a star. i The mea are all weak In the 'Merchant of ? Venice aave Bhylock. rorua is taa caier ogare. xes, men bring, their morai calamltlea ?pon themseiyes, and ,. redemption. If tt .cornea, cornea tbrough-aom good wo man. ivvIa moral things women are stronger than mem That, la Shake peare and it la history. ...,.,. , - ,"Woman his is what Shakaapeara would teach finds her life- In the guiding of men, who guide events.-He goes to war( aha at home makes his ' fireside worth battling for. He wlna the bread; aha at home uses it and makes it go .far. - He l the "house . band,' buildinsr the walla and provid ing for the home; aha takes the houao and by her reencet turns U , into "feat talk to tne of Olympus maids, ' tHvtnely Ull or fair. . Of -Cleopatm'a imperial form, Of Juno's statelr air. Those - mighty- dames, . with redoubted i names, . Kay erst have held their swart' Tie tha tittle wemaeeless her heart, Who rules the world to-day. ,"Tts the hand as soft as the Bestlwg ' -oira v ' ft. mlM Win A .f .-1 . V Tl the voice ss lew as the summer wind mat rules wiuout appeal; And the warrior, scholar, saint and sage Hay nght ana piaa eacn flay. The -world will wag to the end of Imf In "the little woman's way." , .... " "The strength, of woman He In Jier heart, s Ruth givea us two mustra tleni of thla -troth she clung Naomi and she clung to Naoroi'a re ligion. In her mother-inJaw 'She feU love and In tha Jewish religion she felt truth." 6elf -Interest would make her-etay In Moab, where her kinsfolk were. There, as Naomi, said again, were other young men waiting 40 serve her. : i But - her attectlona and her conscience were eonoerned. Her heart cried out for Naomi, and. In her widowhood, she dumbly'felt the need f Naomi's religion. Woman - Is aatarally religloua - A man may for. get, God and stW find hi way.' But rarely a woman. ' To live without .Ml. - l tfm k., A ftail . Aft -th ana without the "North Star. . ' i - "Men may live without lovcvv Not eo women, i Without love, like flow ers without the auh. they wither and dle.' The power f wo ma a ilea in her OILBER KiUU A Novel. - By Will K.- Harben. , Harper A Bros., New -Tork.i stone Barringer Company, l ---. - - " t Thia atory iof - Gilbert Nealfcui struggles,' his difficulties, hla tempta tion, his fall and his final 'redemp tionis quite out of the ordinary. It la told very simply and naturally, and merely a a atory will find a ready .weloome.' - But it- la aomething more than a simple tore- atory." It Is a care ful study ot various different apecie of those strange Insanities, which; for lack, of a more accurate aomencla ture, we" group under the common term, love. It baa tha striking merit f selecting real living tesb and blood human being as the . subjects from which to study its phenomena. It deals neither with freaks of nature nor with painted tmagea Consequently we believe we are Justified ia calling attention to it aa a serious effort rsther than a mere story. K ' ' The pleasantest figure In" the book Is that of Mrs. TidwelL In her we see a married woman who has made a mistake In her choice of a mate, and whose love for her unworthy husband ha been utterly killed. , In her hope lass' misery, that of a naturally af fectionate heart without a worthy Ob ject for its devotion the quiet, strong character, of Neal is Irresistibly at tractive to her, and she falls hopeless ly in love with him. Not i? a single word or sction, scarcely by her in most thoughts, Is this love acknowl edged while her husband lives. This love Is a eeuree ot great pain to her, and yet of not a littie comfort as welU After tha death of TldwelU and the confession of her love to Gilbert, h jaerrtrwly escape loir? her mew found - hpp!n", through a . Very feminine lack of the eense of projmr tion but her strong common sense eaves her. Jn Lucile we ha? picture of the r-"s a rrmarue e:n in rer tee-is is to ensrreA, - ,-t - "i ti i , ten nee',' vhpfi l.ro': T4 by Bret ' V In srlvifl contrast to hern Tldwelfa attoctian 1 grossly sensual, - veiled. though It' be by hypocrisy that has Imposed , not only her but In a m'jtaaiira iinon htmself. ' Hie desire for th-t youog woman, Laura ia fully aware 'of lta -nature, Braien as the veriest woman of the streets, flaunting her undoubtedly ' great physical and mental charms with' all the effrontery of a Pompadour, she creaks men's heart for pastime and never appears to suffer a pang of regret. Her mar riage with- David Neal ia a fitting erown to her rapid earear. When this Ci ace .casta her spell en Gilbert Neal, who Is. little versed in women's wiles, aha sweeps him for tlma from his mental anchorage, and. drawa htm irresistibly towards her self. . But hla sober aecond thought sounds the utter , shallowness of her nature,' and by V great effort of will he breaks away from her influence. It la by, very reallstle touoh that. later, Neal. through no fault of hla own. Je subjected to the fiercest auur- ment of her beauty, and and comes within an aoo of ruin in yielding to her passionate entioementa. Hla sat vatloa from the logical consequence of hla folly serves to emphasise tha power of a very different sort of lovo of which he ia the object. Whila by no means an epoch-mak ing book. "Gilbert Neal" contain many points- of superior merit, and enhances the reputation for general excellence previously earned . by its author, : Vv'-v;', -A- TH fIRTNO XJNB. A Novel. By Robert W. Chambers, A Appleton Co., New Tork. stone ft Bar ringer Company. 11.80. Tle Firing Une'f is a novel which Is fTelng accorded very varied re ception. It Is proclaimed by one set of readers to be the merest trash, not worth reading. To others It Is noth ing less than a brilliant piece of work, possessing . remarkable sower - and charm. A Just estimate, as Is usually the case under such circumstance, will probably (all somewhere between tna twoiew, f,v,-, .tp'i.i It cannot be said to be a great book. Neither ia It last to call it trash., It is uaaeniaoiy eiever, not oniy in dialogue, wherein Chambers is wont to excelL but In the construction aad development of the Blot. The ncok on the whole, is distinctly Inferior to "The Fighting Chance," bot tg-nevertheless. worth almost any reader" wwie. v. .':f::. -:- .-"r ,':'"-' " Given a young man and a young woman, mutually attracting and at tracted, add -a seemingly: insuperable, barrier -to their -nnlon,! confine the combination to the limits of one and the same houaehdld for a couple of months, and the outcome is hound to be Interesting to say the least. Mr. Chambers s has 'certainly not exag gerated the situation la hi telooUoa of a title, , . v: , v- . ... , To- faces Manser' and gat ling guns requires less real courage and strengtn of character than to maintain one's moral equilibrium under stress ' of temptation such' as shields Cardroas and Oarry Hamll were subjected to, and the danger, in. the former situa tion is infinitely the less deadly. .' , , : Shiela Is- a fascinating girt Clever, high spirited, frank, she distinctly appeals, from the first moment of the story when aha tumbles most uncon ventionally into Hamll'e . boat, - .half exhausted from her struggle with the Palm "Beach eurt, .Het character. I Indicated in that first episode,' much aa an artist, block ut his portrait with charcoal; and th fining in-of the outlines to done-with delicate appre ciation of -the value, of shades and colore. - The crisis of. her fate hinges on the -struggle between- her love, for '.'the. on man" .and r - determina tion not to. shift the consequences, of her life's great mistake from -her own shoulders to those of her foster pa rent. - Her resolve lit the ' matter - is one -that any .rlght-mInded, noble hearted , yoong woman would , make. The skill ot tha author is shown in the very1 feminine way In which, she conducts herself after-her mind is mad up. , She knows ' that her re lationship wUh. Hamll raurt cease, and yet she cannot break away from It spelt The description of the last interview of the lovers at- Palm Beach la IHtl short .of masterly. a The-most mterestiB)? man. in the book Is not the hero, Hamll, but, by all odda his friend. -Louis Mslcourt The taint of Inherited insanity, Im perceptible in his character in' the be, ginning, .shew ever stronger : and ' stronger, until It finally drives him to .destruction.- . Intensely egoistic h Is, nevertheless,' capable at the last of pure unselfishness, and his cynicism masks what, under different condi tions, would have been true nobility ef character. Underneath his mock ing laughter Is .detected that saddest! ?t all ' notes utter loreIlness-wblch at one a symptom and a cause of hi madness. .. v - - ' 1 Hi attitude towards "Shiela under ; different circumstance lack nothing in gentleness and courtesy. His con- nection with Polly Wllmlnr demon strates beyond cavil that he is made of finer clay than the majority of his associates.; -his easy conquest of the frivolous heart, of Virginia Suydam, I and his treatment or her adds a very human touch to one of the most life- j like characters Chamber ha yet drawn. -'y''; T; ; ; .' --It 1 rther a Tlty that the local; color is laid on so thick, especially in tne earner parr or tne dock. The de velopment of -the story i somewhat' unnecessarily delayed by too numer ous detail, at first of Palm Beach, and later of the hunting expedition.! Thi blemish fade Into !ns!sn!ficance. i however,- before lb slnflp crude snot In the book a crudity so fr'arlnjr a to excite -unmitigated wonJer. . The ' fTVD TOTTt Bt'PT.VFSS. If you don't, nobody wiil. It is your bualnes to keep eut of all the trouhle you can, and you can and will keep out ef liver and bowel trouble If you lake pr. Klnx's New life Piils. Tl.ey keep biiious rm. malaria aad Jaundice out of your K-.'rm. ic. at W. L. Hand fc Co.;i u.-vg store. . -.. : ' -.'-,.'- device of the Wo, stck unto death, whose life Is saved by the appearance of hi sweetheart at his bedside In the crista of his Illness. Is one which we had thought abandoned to the cheaper melodramas, without hope ot resur rection la polite fiction, i The example te tore us at the same time reveai jouy error, and suggests" a poverty of Invention of which, this author has noj hitherto, been suspected.-,- t i- ; ROOSBVjaTIAN FACT AND TABLE. ryBy Mrs. Annie Riley Hale. Broad ...way, Publishing , Company, New i-.Tork. ' - - - - As It Is -the lot ot any man piay a conspicuous 1 part in public affaire to attract to himself many ad mirer and hero-woxshlper. so It is usually nis u to maas unvo bw many enemies as well; who see in his most' nralseworthy action nothing commendable, and who magnify ' his little weaknesses into' horrible vioes. OuT present .stresuon Chief Execu tive 'haa beyond question done -both Of these things, and Mrs. Hale wosild come under .'the latter- Classification, and that by rather wide margin. , The monograph before us takes up Mr. s Roosevelt's career t the New York Assembly stage, and brings it down to date In very thorough fash Ion. Scarcely an Important, episode in that career is omitted In the In ventory; His action In not a single case meets with her approval. In her eyes Roosevelt 'is the Incarnation of Inconsistency ( and fallibility. She allows him neither ' kentie birth nor the possession1 of " those sentiments which are commonly associated with Uh term "gentlemtn." From his youth up, fals deed have been evil, his practices corrupt, his preachment hypocritical cant. Mra Hale pos- sesaet a .- most vigorous Command of her mother tongue, and In setting down her opinion "of "Teddy" ehe haa spared neither vitriol nor spice The little , book produces - mingled feeling ia its -reader. : That Theodore Roosevelt Is Infallible - In Judgment perfect at all times In deportment, or sinless in, his morals, the most ardent of the late "third termers" would scarcely claim, and the President himself would be the first to deny. That many of. Mrs. Hale's points are somewhat ' more than well taken 1 certainly true. Roosevelt has been In the limelight for twenty-five year and If be had made no break In that time, even no . very bad breaks, he would he simply superhuman. Far from such being the case, his Impul sive nature and rather hasty temper have on occasions put him up some rather tall stump. Even the faithful Jonathan i Bourne would admit much.- ' . But (and this Is a Very Important nut) to prove that Theodore Rooae velt Is a deliberate liar, a self-seeking scalawag, an unprincipled scoundrel. Is a rather large order, and one that Mrs. . Hale although doing her very best, has come somewhat short of filling. Her review of his life, pro fessedly fair-minded I not Impartial, is merged oy sucn virulence, such bit tern ess, such unbounded loathing, that on wonders why the lady hated with such good will- Is It simply a case oi vi co not uxe you. Dr. fell: or , does there . rankle in her gentle oreast me memory or some wrong, unforgtven unforgot, which envenom her peirf We do not know; we wish w did. ' for intthat case we would be able to arrive at a very much more -accurate', appreciation ot her work. v V--;'-; -. THIS ? t)VXUw- NOTE BOOK, Hy .Charles Bainhridge. Cochrane Pub lihlng Company, New Tork. f-"We have not Quite arrived at the millennium as yet in this weary vale ef tear and a perusal of this little booh , has the effect of opening one's eyes to how-very far short ot such a consummation we really are. -'The scene opens in the royal apartments In Pandemonium,- Just at his Satanic Majesty is ; meditating a visit to his terrestrial - dominions, and the pages that follow '-'are supposed to be -excerpt from' diary, kept during the days spent on earth. ' The Devil's first . mundane host . Is tne t;ar ot Russia, and a very suc cinct summary is given us of the in calculable amount of devil' work which ' ha - lately i been accom plished in Nicholas" dominions. From St Petersburg the infernal visitant proceeds to Constantinople, to Brus. seis. to the conso. to London ana finally to "little old New Tork." In each-locality .he. finds plenty to in. terest and, from a hellish viewpoint, to delight hlnx If there Is one thing which tickle the Satanic fancy more than another; it Is what he call the dog-woman." meaning that anecle of female whose chief interest In life appear to be centred In her French poodle, and whose day are utterly, given over to frivolity. The .para graphs dealing with ehla particular phenomenon make rather Spicy read tog.".;v' r.-;."- '-. : K The' book Is - a. ' ansthlna- " rvrrt ast against, most of the evil things In the world as it exists to-day: and inas much as the target Is somewhat large, and the Volume somewhat. small. It Is to be feared that "Its publication will not have the lmmedlate effect-of an nllatlng human sin. abolishing human suffering and inkiisuratina- the New Jerusalem on ' earth. , In spite of the Don Quixote features of such a dia tribe, however, that reader la to be pitted who does .not feel, a thrill ef horror? at' fta ' long array of awful facta 2 Truly our vaunted civilisation la very thin in hlaeea and not over tWck Bywhere,;iii- . ... , . .f..-.-.H' . .in. rn', ' . it Prof.'. Thomaa Nelson., director of the textile department ef the A. A M. College at Raleigh, has -published a book-upon the subject of "Weaving, Plain and Fancy." , It Is written in popular style so as to be of help to overseer ef . weaving" and weavera It touches upon the various troubles usually met la. the, weave room and give thd . remedies for - these. The book is over 100 ' Da ares and la a valuable pubUcatioit;. iu -a ;o -! TH 2! AMERICAN MAGAZINE rOR fvw,,' NOVEMBER. - .-'.-.".--j-. . The recent eollttcal develooments in Turkey have focused the attention of the civilised world on Constantino ple. The "Sick Man of Europe" has for; thirty years and more been' a figure ef mingled mystery and faecl natlon ln the eyes ef. the western peoples. The first article in this Issue presents a view of bis-eharaeter drawn by Nicholas - CU. Adoasldes, once a Turkish official, and now- an exile on account ot hla liberal political beliefs. The senuous, cruel old man who sltsl on hla tottering throna-m a state of perpetual dread, is here pictured for us in very distinct outline, snd the picture, though sombre In color and dismal in tona. Is of very rear Interest- Ida M. Tarbetl, writing anrter the caption, "How- Chicago Is Finding Herself,? describe the earlier stages ef the great traction .war. which Is not yet finished in the-great Illinois -me tropolis. . Prof. WV I. Thomas devote a half dosen-entertaining paces-t The Psycholoary of Woman's Dress:" snd -Otis skinner tell- how' Edwin Booth burned the stare effect of his brother, John Wilkes, ' many years artr the tragedy in Ford's Theatre. -Tr. William Lee Howard, a distln eulbhed nervoos specially of "Baltl Ipiore. attack the nresent hlah-schoot vtm In . mwt vlgnrons fashion in "Helpless Youths and lelea Men." He particnlarly resont the numerical rrepnnderancy of the fair sex in th tench'.r.g profevsion.- alleging fhat- K tend to make milksor out of eur boys. Hi plan Is to have the schools taught by vigorous, impressive, manly men, who will mold the characters of the lads in the right way. His theory, as a theory, is quite sound." but its operation, unfortunately,. U as unat tainable aa tha nearest fixed star, As long aa a great many women, are com palled to support themselves and are willing to teach to- order to do so, and as long aa the vigorous. Impres sive men described are able to make from five to "five hundred times as much money in other professions. Just se long will our boys, as a rule, be taugat py sehooinwrms. - r The month's fiction is of a very high order, the best stories being Myra Kenya "Elisabeth's Aunt Elisabeth and Brand Whltloek'a - "The Gold Brick."" The number as a whole is one of the most interesting and best' Daianced magastnes that, has reached inis raoie tor months. - syrrirg maoazinbs for novesc. - "-:'.;,' BER. - The Uses of Adaeralty," by Emma Lee Walton, thia month's novelette, Is the diary of, a little New Orleans girl who goes to make her living as a scnooi teacher in Chicago. The thin thread of tha plot is trite almost to absurdity, being the old, old story ot tne governess winning mistress' rich brother. This weakness, how ever, only serves to bring out the real cleverness of some Of the scenes and I an advantage rather than the re verse. The ketch,for it i scarcely more, abounds In ' very amusing dialogue, and is a genuine relief after the usual blood and thunder selections mat ordinarily adorn the first section pf th current magaalnea The moot Interesting of the special articlee Is Rupert Hughes "The First uperatio war," which details the hls- torio controversy which raged a cen tury ago in Paris between the fol lowers of oluck and the admirers of Plcclnl. The next paper in this music series will deal with Motart. Two delicious bits of thinly-veiled Irony are Included in the fiction tit lea One, Dorothy. Canfletd's "An Instrqc tor to th . Simple," . has some sidelight to throw on th composition of a modern "ftx-beer-scllar;" while Me other, "The Unspoiled Product of the Soil," by Anne - O'Hsgan. deals with the ever timely servant question. The beet of the remaining fiction la on ot Holman . . Day' Cuxabexl stories called "Old Tastrybogua" Wallace Irwin contributes a charac teristic nomen ballad entitled "Im mediate Delivery." , THE NOVEMBER OUNTER'S. Two aerie now running In this magastae are worth watching. "The Sword of Bam Decree," by Alan Oor don, has several times been com manded In this column, and the No vember story, "Cherry Ripe." Is dis tinctly the best of the serlea, aa thus far published. "Esme Decree" is a swashbuckling noble of the day of Queen Elisabeth and hi adventure In company with Drake, Raleigh and other personage of th time, make very thrilling reading. The series Is not only entertaining, but Is excellent as to its local coloring. The other series, Fred Jackson's "The Man In the Motor Mask." which was Inaugurated last month, is frankly an Imitation ef Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes," but an Imitation which 1 By no mean a slavish copy of It original. It hr. Nlkodor I known to hla friend as a consummate- Idler, but I In reality a des perately hard-working 'solver of social mysteries, , The two storle thus far published give, promise of a very Interesting ra . .- ,..;,; - " SalntV fit41 eantomratlMi Of impocsimuu maa xo ouna reaj is PaUla Herbert's "Shepherd All ana Maiden Fair." while Mary Richard eon's "Th RsculAdy" Is th ac count of a very charming chapter of accident A Reciprocal Burglary," by J. A. Tiffany 1 quit an Ingenious tale,'- although marred .by being chopped off somewhat . too abruptly as the close. : ' ' r; "SOUTH ATLANTIC O0ARTERLT. f Ob aocount, ot a rl of unavold vi. -Kh.ni.' th October number of The South Atlantic Quarterly, pub- ii.hA -at rturham. has been delayed. It ha appeared,- however, and brings to an end tne seven vojwn. i magastne. v The fact that It has lived foe aeven veers and has maintained a nnlf ormly good - standard is moat gratifying to Its mama wnu in magaslne ba no official connection with -the college, the membera of Trinity ' faculty have had most w do with projecting ana mamiim It. -t: It 1 "lnno senee, however, looal magaslne. as It oootrioutor com from all parts of the country and It ubcription list Include II' hrarl aad Individual of all local itlea and conditions. The magaslne la especially notable tor it wm rne of ubjecu and contributions, and th representative articles W th publica tion thla time are many a atriklng evidence Ot the national character of Haturallv the nresent number, ha several article ot a political nature. Dr, William P. Few. dean ef Trinity Collea-e. write on "Education and Cltlcenshlp In Democracy" a plea for a weu-rino ana 5imv oltlsenshlp. . . . .In their studies ef Orovsr CTevehtnd and Governor Hughe the editors, Dra Edwin Mlms and William H. Olasson, writ -of past and oontm- rDrary. tendencies in recenv ponucaj lstory. , The emphasis Is laid In ths study Of Mr. Cleveiana on nis eaorts In behalf of civil service -reform and tariff reform and on hla resistance to the free silver erase. illustration are given of hi courage In dealing with ' PUbua questions, sua vspecwi attention la directed to hi relation to th South. Dr. Q lesson has a most interesting study of Governor Hughes,: whose addresses and papers recently brought oat together in one volume and whoee . victorious campaigning mak him one of the dominating ng ore in American life. . Mr. John Bennett a prominent law- yer ef South Carolina, and author of soma note, contribute an. aruci' 1 great scientific value oa . the negro dialect that is spoken arouna, unar leston called "Ottllah."'-- He claims that of the three dialect spoken by American negro, two of which have already bean explolnted by Southern atorv .nun. - "nullah." is th meat interesting, "richer In color, individual- j ity and philological-Interest than the simpler Virginian made famous and familiar nr the taiee oi uncje jte- nvua"- and th stories ef Mr, Page. Many examples are given from- con versation to - to Illustrate fh peculiar quality of the dialect ' It la interest ing to note that Mr." Bennett is con templating a series ef stories which will he written In thla patoia In this connection It msybe noticed that Dr. Mlms write else ef Joel Chaaler Harris, who died atria - the . ; nest summer. -" -' ;' 'f- ' A - ' Prof. t H. MUter. . ef Princeton CnlversHy, ' discusses In a --. most thoughtful " and illuminating way "Modern Views of tbs Bible and of Relis-ion," an article well worthy of the serious attention of all who would nderstsnd some of th -roost recent tendencies ef religlou thought.' Prof. Chsrles F. Smith. ot th University of Wisconsin, write a sympathetic article ipon that ever-lnterestlna: sub ject. Robert E- Lee- . Mr. William Ludlow Chenery, ef th L'nlvereity of Chlc;9, gives an account of Hull Hmias, t tast city, showing some thlnj of lte eLstpry end Its various . .' 'i AMERICAN MOISTENING , " f 4T. 0. C0THRAI7, plana for the improvement of muni cipal Ufa , "f --v.'. Thera are the usual book review by the editors and Dr. William K. Boyd, of the department ot history at Trinity;. REPCBLICAN3 AND THE 2TEX3RO. The Position of Republican Party Baa rrocressed irom nnraced nepre : sentsUlon oa Account of Dlsfran- ' etiiannarat to Demand For Repeal -ef XMsfrsnchJsesnent IuWf, and Taft epectncaiiy jcndorse That riana. T the Editor of Th Observer; , , H There Is one plank in the platform of the Republican party, adopted by Its last convention in Chicago, which should be carefully read and consid ered by every white man who believes In Anglo-Saxon government before he considers voting for William H. Taft tor President or for any Republican candidate for Congreaa . The negro question is settled so far as th Democrats are concerned, but tne atepuDucans not only show a dis position to unsettle it but their po sition on this question is a progres sive one, getting nearer and nearer to the point of disrupting our Southern constitutional amendments as the negro vote at the North sets more troublesome and mere difficult to con trol by the Republicans. Tne negro plank In the last national RepuabUean platform is the most se. Hoiisiy threatening of any ef lta de clarations since our amendment nave been adopted, and In our aenao i aaoptea. ana in our sens i " y a -.-y evening, Ne- f It ha not yet received the,818: m . . a Jfc S by the voters of the South vmber Uth, at f oeiock. book or security attention I Which it seriousness demands. - A showing their erorraaalva eelrit of hostility, tha Republican platform or io simply demanded that, if our amendments should be found to be unconstitutional, our representation. in congress ana in tne electoral col lege should be . nronortlonatalv re. duced. In. this rear 1101 the elatform of the Ohio State Republican conven tion, drawq by Mr. Taft, declared th belief that our amendment ar un constitutional and a the remedy de manded also the punlhmnt of th SOuth by reducing Cur representation. But this remedy did not meet th demands of the already incensed ne gro voter ot the doubtful Bute. What Sroftt to him If our representation . e reduced t "fUe would still leave him barred from th ballot bog. So in order to laoat . hi demand, when the Republican -national con vention met In Chicago this .year it Went still further than they had gone before, and adopted language not us oeptlble of any other meaning of pur. Dos than a demand for the complete upsetting of our disfranchisement amendment. The following la an exact quotation front. their last ta ,, Satform "We demand equal Justice for all men, without regard to race or color. Wa declare once mere' and' without reservation for. the enforcement In letter' and spirit of tha- thirteenths fourteenth and fifteenth amendment to the constitution, which wa design ed for the protection and 'advance. ,-roent 'of th aegro, and we eondema . all device . that have for their real aim hi dlafranchlsement for reasons f cofor alone a unfair, na.Amerlcan and repugnant to th supreme law of th land." , i . . :. Whether thla . declaration ' wa adopted out of 'geauine hostility - to white government is the. South, or whether a a necessary meaiui ' to placate the negro at the North. Mr, Taft, 1n his speech of acceptanC; m discussing this particular plank, de clare: "t stand wltM my party squarely on that plank in tha Plat form." v,:, . Can any-Southrn whit man sup port that platform declaration, or th cnaiai , wno tanas upon iit . ' - DEMOCRAT, Ralelgly Oct tOth,, rro Tim polls; we a he ready" This tha Hinging Challenge) of Chair, man EHefWme Result Will Pat an End foe Some Tuna to. Coma ro , - Republican Hope in North Caro lina," fa His Last Confident Word Before the Ballots Ara Cast. Special ta Th-Observr. - j' .'. V' v.t Raleigh, Oct. 11. The work at Demecratid State headquarter 1 about over. The work of sending oat th large Stream of literature to every precinct in the State baa been completed. Reports .rrom district, county and precinct worker have been received and tabulated, and the result la that State Chairman Eller Is ready to meet tha Issue at th ballot box next Tuesday, ia full confidence that tha party strength wlU be 'held Intact and unimpaired. - '- - To the request for a final word front him through the.prsa to th people of th State, he responded with a con fidence based upon carefully compiled Information and a consciousness ot the winning force, of hi , party' position. , -. , , '. ;, ... j. "'.-.. "Tou ask what t have to say about th result next Tueedar?" ' I say, th result is going to put an end tor some Um to come la North Carolina to Republican bopes, "and Is going -to discredit therr hUims as emphatically sa wasa. they claimed that white snpreenacy. would lose in 1 tee.;-The same Democrats that re deemed this State from disgrace find degradation by o,00 majority ar with as tilL Few, indeed, they are who will admit; that they have for any reason turned. Republicans non can (iv a worthy reason, for display. ins ne xurn-coax, -... (. "The latent power or .Democracy fa this-. State ia snfflaienfaad will al ways reassert itseir.: setere the mo mentum of It former triumph la lost. Th e lamer thi year ot the Republican 'pie-huater' ha awakened Democrats everywhere to th aitution and they will be la line November Id.' The low level, on which the Republican cam paign, ha been pitched forbid pa triotic whit men to go- -with ..them. Not daring to rata aa Issue in their piatiorm or challenge -oar -right to rule In open, honorable debate, -the nuanwnacker and e anonymaua cir cular teeming Vlt duplicity and f.lMht, Urn. I,- . . M unity and party seal are necessary to overcome auch tactica. ; i. , Party unity waa sounded at Char lotte and at 'Denver party seal has ainaied ante enthusiasm and few la deed are the Democrats who ar wilt ing t stand Idle-while their brother re preening to th front , Let eo one be' deceived by the claim that three, or even one, Republican will ' go to! Congrea from North Carolina Let no one b deceived by the gambler's odd on Taft that la a part ef the gam. Let no oaa he deceived by the humiliating - boast. '.We have the money and we will buy th election rain.' Every trustworthy afif die- Interested meBsnae that come from . the North snd th Wert reveals the1 truth that every , one feels in his heart, the people -are with . Bryan. Neither bluff .nor boart Is going to shake our cnfHnee In victory. To I the polls', -we are ready.-" , - ''mrlvsiJartL 79 Milk Street, Boston, Has' 'J taive, W Rex FllnttioiSoofinB The Best For Leaky Roofs. "v For sale only by J " -'V CHARLOTTE. SUPPLV CO. MARRIAGES. POVBXJEB WEDDING ASNOTXCED. Misses Roberta Wade Hall aad Annie Ixmiee Hall Will B Givesi In Mar . riaga Wednesday livening, Novem ber 11th. Special to Th Observer. . Rock Hill, , a. VM. ai.-vsro have been iaeaed. which read as fol lows: "Mrs. Marr Letherd Hall re quests the honor of your presence at the marriage or ner oaugnw, xvw berta Wade, to Mr. louls Rerabert Williamson, on Wdnesday evening. November Ilth, at o'clock First Presbyterian ehurota. Rock HuV .B. C," and "Mra Mary Irftherd Hall rw quests the honor of your presence a ths marriage of her daughter, Annie Louise, to Mr. William Jtanooipra mil fl n" thU doable weddjng win h the social, event of the year In Rock Hill, where tbeae two charming and aooompliihad aroung ladles ara very popular, mad ao. by their loving disposition and many noble trait, of e?Mr.CtLoule Rembert, !wUlUnuon Is an influential business man of Sum ter and baa many friends In thl olty who will rejolc in hi good fortune. Mr. William Randolph -Sim, for mriy of Chester, bnt who ha mad Rock HUlhl hom for 6me Jm,bj lag connctd with th standard Drug Stor. 1 vry promising yoanir man! and ha made many staunelx friends since coming to this city. , The ceremony will be Pr'or,n.eaJ1J B.V. R.-A. 0B''irn Rev, F, K, 81 ma of pa'to: Mr. GUlpi I a brother-in-law eot th MIssea Hall, and Rev, Mr. Sim, Is th brother , of Mr,. Sims, hence Jho appropriatenes ot thl aeUctlon.ot mlnltra v . . Wfr,'!&-: Many out-of-town ; popJ ft pected to attepd thl ocla function. Roach-ThornweU Wedding V to B BotanwtoM Tncsday, Special t The Observer. fRoeh Hill. 8. C Oct. tlh rlaae of? Mr- John Knox Roach, of :I8?V,fi fi: 7.. TManev Wlthmpoon TrnwVur-.toynMltMwtll place Tuesday. atterae.cn gt St the hom of the bride's mother, Mra- 3 H. Thomwell. in. rottat. .r wu boa. aulet affair, only "a" "intimate friends and tha family being present. . ia'n wss to have bean solemnised October tth. but waa postponed on account of tha tllnaas Of tne MTwm, , confined In the Rock UU Hospital with typhoid fever, i'i(t Grime-Tboms-oi, at Dnnn, Corresponasne o ,. ' Dunn, Oct. I9.-At the homtj ft ha bride's aunt. Mrs, O 4t rark( Mlsa tn.th. Thomaaon waa happily mar-i rled to Mr. O. D Orlmes, Of c4ony.?'' Oa.,-. wdnday afternoon t 1:1S o'clock, The bridal party entered tha parlor to the atralna of Mendelssohn's wedding marcn, cn .'- By Miss Mary Prince Orbaon, Of Olo on; Rv. A. Ji Parker performed tha ceremony. The bride - wa attired In 4 golng-away gowa ot green cloth. Mis Thomaaon haa -mad Dunn her home for only the ehort time ef ona yar, but In that mad many friend. The groom la superintendent of the Mllstead Cotton Mills a few miles from Conyers. ' The many handsome present attest th high esteem in which this young, coupl is held in their reepecttv home. ; ' T; :- ; v ' Board-Powell, at Wake To ' ' Covrespendenee of The Observer. - Wake Forest Oct IB. Wednesday evening at olock. ia Wingate Me morial Hall, a beautiful wedding was celebrated when Mia Jssle May Powell became the bride of Mr. B. P. Board, of Washington, D. C The , hall waa elaborately decorated with. , bank of palm, fern and othr flow- i era. 'presenting a moat artistic and pleasing effect To the strains of wa bridal . chorus from Lohengrin, tne bridal party entered In tl f dlowln order: The ushers flratJ. W. Bailey and Lewi M. Powell, E, W. Timber, lake. Jr. and Walter Durham, W. H. Pace and Henry Lanneau, W. Roy all and Messrs -Wilson, Kelly and Howell, of Washington. Captain Walker, of Washington, was best man. .Then followed the bridesmaids autred In whlt-mealin evr taffe ta, carrying pink chrysanthemum Miss Ada Le Tlmherlake, MIssea Jeesia Brewer and Carrie Barlow. Miss Annabel Seward. Misses Mabel Powell and Nlta Fender, Miss Carrie Hobgood, Miss Sarah Seward. Missea Petl and Rosa Powell were maid of honor and . Mr. Harvey (Beward, raa'J Iron of honor, - h The bride, atttred In white satin and real lac aad carrying a hwer bouquet of bride's rosea and hlies of th valley, her veil being caught with a harvest moon of diamonds, the gift of the groom- entered oa the' arm of her father, Mr. W. C Powell.: While th ceremony avaa being- performed by Dr. W. B- Royall, assisted by Rev, Jf. W. Lynch. Mra A- K- Fleming. o Loulsburg. played "O Promla Me." i At the conclusion of th ceremony en elegant reception waa give , at "Idyhnide." th summer home of Mr. W. C roweil, at whlob a host ef frfeads gathered, to do: honor ta the popular bride and groom. After th reception Mrt and Mrs. Board left for an extended tour Northv after-which they will make their1 home in Wash ington, D. C. - i i i t Lose Tbrtw Flnrevs la Begging Fac- . . . - tory, - - .. Cerrespeadeno Tb Observer." Hendersoa,: Oct ta. Elll Van (th an, colored, while working In Par. ham' bagging factory last evening, had three of tha fingers of hi right hand amputated by being caught ta th machinery. . Henry Harris, also colored. "while working In the asms plant, met with a inuilar accident a hort time sine aad died two weeks after 'the ooc-urrence from toe rnscts o Piood poison.. &6inax,tynB Ytm. as lAnnni 11117 " I 1 1 lKs4lll THE DEATH RECORD.- Children Die of Bheamallsm and Appeti did Us. " , . Correspondenoe of The Obeervsv. ,, Btausvllle, Oct. 19-Morris, the I-year-old son of Mr. and . Mrs. -W. I White, of Sbarpesburg township, die t last night of rheumatism, from which he suffered -Intense pain for ora time. , "' Master Carl Morrison, the ll-year-' old son of Mr. and Mr. Francis Morrison, of Loray community, aiea Tuesday jiight at - the BlllUgslV Hospital. He underwent an eperatioa Sunday for appendicitis. Tha opera-' tlon was successful end he was getting along nicely until Tueedsy( when sputsi trouble developed. Robert C Shaad, of CMsxohia, . O, :U, Obrvr Burean, : ' : llto BerkeUv Balldiar. ' - . Columbia, S. C Oct. II. ' Mr. Robert C Shand. president of the Shaad Builder Supply Company nd otherwise prominent in business and aocla circles, died to-dsy at the Columbia Hospital la his I Tth year, from aa Injury to aa - appendicitis wound,, following an operation per formed several months ago. - 'The fu neral wiu- o neia lo-morrow- tuimr noon from Trinity church.' - Hs was the son of Cot. and Mra. R. W. Shaad. Beside these he- leave three brother and two slstsrs, all of Columbia. Funeral aty Garland VL? Todd al Le- . : j noir. . ; - " ;. . ' Special to Th Observer, j . - Lenoir, Octi l.Th funeral serv ices of. Mr. Oarland , St. Todd. who. died In Lo ' Angela; Cai, October llth, were held in the Methodist Church her yesterday by th pastor. Rev. Ira Erwln-.- Mr. Todd,; who wa only 1 yearn old, waa a1 "devoted member of the Methodist church and often expressed prior to his sad- death hi deep and abiding' faith in-the sa vior. Th high esteem la which th young man .wa held here is attested by th large attendance of people at hi funeral end burial.-The floral tribute was on ef exquisite beauty. VW TV Jntsmery jot IredelL ; i Cerreapondence ot Tb Observer. - - at.vllla ntrlJ SA Iredell ountV lost on ot It best eitlsens In th death of Mr. William Thoma Mont gomery Tuesday night at hi hom in Cool Spring ' township.- . H did- not become 111 until a few day before death, ' but ; sank ' rapidly, and death was not unexpected . though ' greatly deplored, 'i Funeral service were con ducted from Fifth Crek church yes-, terday at noon by Rev. J. A. Scott. D. D of Stateevllle, and the inter ment was In Fifth Creek graveyard. He 1 survived by hi wife, who wss Mis Crawford, and three children MraJ. -C. Steele and Mr, J. Tbad. Montgomery, ot Stateevllle, and Mr. Victor; C- Montgomery, who. lived at homa :'ir. v''-',-'.i 'ii S..' l,-i'', : Captain William H. Day, of Kalelgh. ':'r'yf Observer Bureau.'-i-'v , SYi 'vTh BoUeman Building, ; - :'C'.''; -.'"..':'.-;..v Raleigh.. Occ it. ,-. Capt. Wllltam H. Day died at hi home to-day, having; had aa apoplec tic stroke Tuesday, His age was it. tte was oorn in fttuuax counv, sd, In Company K, Thirty-seventh Regiment, attaining the rank. of cap tain; was lathe Legislaturs and su perintendent Of the penitentiary dur ing j.i a part of Governor RuaaeU's administration.- For thirty year he had been division counsel : for the Seaboard Air Una. .His wlfs wa Mary G, Edmunds, ef Halifax coun. tv. who survives hlaa. His funeral will be held : to-morrow from th Church of th Good Shepherd ' and among ' th pall-bearers will - ha ' ex. Chief Justice.--Montgomery, : Justice Brown. Thomas 8. Kennan. ex-Judge Womaek. Thomas W, Mason, Thomas M. Ara-a nl V. (1 Tnniir. . : '.' ihiijx'eby co3rcBs"LFiyTO. South Carolina Anduhon Seri ecary . proceied Against 0lmnhas XJnter , prlsea TJhdcr Bird Lawa . . ; Columbia, & t C ; Oct i 11. Jam -Henry Rice, Jrw aecretary of tha Aa ; dubon Society of tiouth Carolina, this -morning obtained, , through Megls- aw wwaasea vwia, - wawipaif against two. Columbia dry goods and millinery concerns, charging violation " or tne laws for tne protection or son game btrda . Tb warrants name the , James L. Tapp Company and Mr.W. H, Monckton. Jr., manager of the Globe Drygoods Company. The cases ' were heard this afternoon by Magis trate Fowlea - f The action taken this morning by Mr. Rloe U the aaoond move of the kind that base been made -against Colombia miltnery eeaeents. - Th defendants pleaded 'gailty and wera'find--l each.: . i'4 --t.t j .j .i - j,- Convict Guard Tried to KOI Bansetf. Special to-The Observer. 1 ; - , i" .'.'; t. .Oaffneyi S. C Oct 11. S. R- Ray. ; of the Esell ectlon of this county. was indicted at th . recent term of the Court of General Sessions for aa assault with a pistol upon a eonvlet while- he was acting as guard. . He failed to. appear when hie easa was called last week - and ' learning that the judge had issued a ttench war. rant for his arrest, hs drank two ttot. ties ef laudanum, which put him out -of" businesa. Dr. J. Neebltt wa called to -see him Tuesday and after giving him the most heroic treatment returned to town. : Ray remained in a stupor until Thursday s afternoon. when- he regained consciousness and la now considered Out of danger. ' The hardest '-ewea of WdRPmNTT. OPKTH aad JJQLUrt addictions to c- 1i tea days by eur' new PAINI. method. - No extreme tiervosn. a Umba diarrhoea or bn ef sanitarium in th worW-aivlng VXC rUTIONAL, GUARANTKli. Honey bo placed in bank and payment m v ter a cure te-reelised.. I'aclut wt... not visit Saultarium can fca eur. atelv at home, Hefrnecs: A"v r.. Minister, City Oflfic nl or tv Lebanon. Writ to-day i -bovkM f fsinn'iilsrj. . tin) ncr.oi r s ' Dept. O. C. '. ' !..
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