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Staff Unatfiached.) ; ; I am wouWed as to nay right "jeri .ilUeVefiV' :vv't'f like running! the scaJes orka piano. I promote? vpr ward,, downward, "hands over and cross in the tnlddle." "- Its a"ilay r on the keys r of Captain. Major, Colonel,1 General. Mr., etc. :?Its :fair bewllder inr when I walk the" streets Of niy na- i tlve;clty amongst the many other "so-1 called" Captains, Majors. Colonels and XSenerahflto Jae on thpoul vlve to answer to "any one' or the entitle nont' wiat may.be addressed to me. Some years aeo, entering: the -store pf A. D. Iloyster , Bro., I found ray friends Moses Amis. sq., aod Fred Habei lnj the Jieat of an arjrumeat Speaking to JHoses I said: roood morning Colonel." Turning' to me Moses, with, a withering' glance bowed and said: "Qood .morning. Corporal.1! 'VThanksJ? Tsald I; ''promotion at last" And4 meinory harked back and I re calld the gnarled .root of the oak tree that formed a seat by the sprlnjr tn. thes-'wvdds en the nath about half way TronY' onr camp on Atkins' Hill near Xinston 'to 'Mr. Robert Roun- tree's hospitable home, where davs when starvation C. S.t A: ) Stations were -tod meagre even ' for my"'StOBi ach, a standinK invitation to' a square meal aJtiled me. And Hthe day that resting, itng on that smarted root I made my- calculation that if the war lasted ten -years 'and 1 lived and re mained in that Company I migh t reach ttoe rank of Corporal. And I then and there registered a vow' to apply or ' a 'transfer. 'The ?, rapid changeauof this, the Oast year of the war, nravented this , vow from being carried -wit. I was the unfortunate Captain in - the - 7 O's of i a' Volunteer Military Company. On "account of the then politif al conditions I - never anmied for my commission. Bv -ir tue of ray being Commander of. V: . camp, l ;am enutiea on ',XJ. C ?v; occasion to the title of. Major. I am by seniority the ftead of my clan (Stronach branch), but cannot claim to be even a "Bonnet Laird." T had hopes at one time of succeeding to the uue or Jove and affection by which Mr. A. it.. McPheeters was known in the Presbyterian fchurch. that of "Mr. Alex,?' Wit "when they, make elders out of sib as us man it maun be time w t:ue vine KirK, anq ! tnere are -uners.'! unfortunately IThave drlfu eq away, neim.iess and rudderless, it looks at times, and J do pot seem to oe aoie to make port. .Not even to my -entitlement." . MI have .been glancing over--lancing is the rjght. xWord speeches . made - at me jsoutnern commercial .Comrrflssi and they remind me. Thirty-two vears. Bald: r'You have a beautiful llttld city. ijiir. siryqan,y x. repiieo, "jresJ jBlr. ' iee troji country'for hCaltn and arainage' said Mr. Crego. and dgain: "Yes, sir' J vk . jvuyiu aiii nrrepiy. rXoai?,'; enhojw Jn! ?S?.,S5PWl Jnone&t out asked MiC:Crego. An t 'ask Ithis uesiion i tiies latter day critics Wno mane long ana useless speeches las to the errors of 'the agriculturists? land in 5 therheil didryonf orr could you tx pect a people to do. these things tW required mony when "they were with out money or credit VI ,"Per Bleu:'. If yhu had to go to your merchant.' who supplied iyoU "with provisions on time and he borrowing v mhey at from ? ja to 16 per cent; with your hat In hand. IP rear, and 'trembling; that your . lien or mortgage was overdrawn every time you -were in need "of a little meat or meal,vyou would ' understand that to have succeeded as well as ' he has is to the,. credit and not to the dls- 1 grace of the Southern, agriculturist. I recall i too., that In the 4ays after the War 'some' of our Northerabreth ren sun our "shiftless waj-s ' " and profitless, farming, bought lands ' and undertook to : show , us, Vhow" dcen ploughing with . a ' two -horse 'plough" aa we do in the West." Well. , they stayed long enough to lose their mpty and lands and depart ...cussing out ortn uarouna yankees as bejng the cause qe tneir misrorturte. v . Vr, George tVr. Blacknall used to telL the story; f the i purchase of a sulky plough. Ills installation and instruc tions to the negro plowman the doctor's 'departure for; town and re turn m the afternoon to find the r low man ' fast asleep in his seat and the horse wandering' at will and the short space or time in . which It took the doctor to rt-ig a pair of handles to that sulky plowv ( Some years ago Colonel I L, P0II9 opened an Agricultural Ma chinery - aid Implement store. Un fortunately bur. people were not-ready for reapers, mowers, benders, etc To day there are two or more houses that deal largettr in Agricultural machinery. One of the: Questions asked by the County Commissioners Was, Mcan jour farmers Nprrow money of (he ba,nka on their character as I recall it was Intimated )that elsewhere except in the South farmers borrowed money In character. "I .hae ma -doots'Kven character must have a financial basis, In these days, on. j which to borrow money of banka I have ever thought it was to Jhe discredit of the citizens or? banks of this city thai year after year uanif statements " showed such enormous amounts for us oT money on hand. . Some- things -wroa some where: there , Should be a remedv ta. mae foney' easier When there is such a - surplusl . Merchants - sell goods on personal : character, - Banks v loan loan' money ion : financial character asis.' ' Ishave.: been young and some tning or . preacher all of my days theme. , Extensive farming my next" i nave infea : to see the dar' of both Small, fruits ; and the 1 home garden (wirfter especially) are as I See neces sary and adjuncts to - favor more attention jto both will Tsave money and a ox-tor s oilis. As an economizer of time andmoncy buy a, garden hand plough. ' r , ' : On about'4 I- acres of the worthless looking gray, land, that the Country commission ocneia ; in their travels belonglng;to the Writer. .Jeff Stanlv. a negro, after planting two "acres in, corn, maae jour Dales ot ' cotton. . A hundred acres of scrub oak and pine, la ad with' a top dressing of roeks .for which my father paid Mr. Donald . Capmbell ! one dollar per acre, not because Sw'thniurhr h lan! unrfh if but to "aid ,Mr.- Campbell, sold, and that many :years past, for.forty dollars Slark the prediction, teft years from now thre wlU be little or, no: outlying The po5ibillties of our "seemingly poor trrey lands" is something wonder ful. AVe may; have heen, and may be ew or city, a large' wholesale Gutter- and Hiheese-f merchant; j came to alffghir J took himKfor tt& drive around, the; city. IttturnW. Sir. Cres-o COMMERCIAL are, slow . to leara, . but like Dr. E. Burke ilay wood's slow horse, "we get there Just the same." And what we gain, best of all, we hold. . 5 By and large the Country Commis sion.' like a dose of blue mass or castor Oil, has 'been : a good " thing. It has made ' us do some ' thinking and . some talking. and t- do not doubt will make us do -spine working. - ;: "Old meni for council, ' young men for : war."' - The editor of this paper. (News and Observer) - apologizes for a' mistake he made In-writing an edi torial advocating that It was time 2 for the old men to ' withdraw from the council chamber. ' It -would be well for ! the Democratic . - party to take council to' take council with itself and ask the -question!, Would it not bo well to recall the old men to the "council fires 7? Would ' it not be well. also in naming delegates to commer cial -and other congresses to name some of the "elder brethren." who, know of the -past as well as present conditions. :Ue that has' given thought to the past better understands the needs of the present, fluent; pen or fluent tongue to 'the contrarj'. There are other teachers, the'farmers who . plough and plant more grouna thai they i can tend. 1 The : mer chant and manufacturer domg more husiness - than . " his capital win will allow, and he that hath, as the Good Bobk:says.' "A little learning is a dangerous thing." : "If an ill bird that fouls Yhi own f nest." ' There is no ' new South : ' its the old : South graduaUy cohformlng itself to new conditions 'I wrote in ?an article - on the, WUter Home Garden of the i pil ing Of i leaves between the rows of my collard oaten, or course -cguarus will stand out of doors all winter without nrotectlon. The - alternate changes of weather though driving the sar up and down cause' the leaves to become more or less tough ana stringy rnature's hardening 'protec tion. The leaves 5 keep the ground warm and mellow-and the-"eollaHds sweet and 'tender. Of course . this will not vwork1 in- Shanghai or long stemmed collard which are a -waste as tQ space besides ' taking atrensth from the bll to frrow a long, useless stem. Short stem col lards are the best and most economical..-" In my ?eregrinalions 'through East Raleigh saw some Jong legged ' collards at feast1 four feet 'high and 'they .had taken ' on "the 'appearance of the Quarter in which ' they Were $rowh tough and 'dtsepntabielobkfn'g. ' Even collards can -be i grown' to 'look re; 8DectaTle". 'And '; t hey recalled ;the celi flard; that I bought One Sunday -after noon oCDW UJe Lewis of Shackelford Banks. Old XiJe 'and 'his wife lived in a one-reom and lean-to cabin built of driftwood and wreckage xh Shack ' el ford Ban ks in Bogue 1 Sou ntL r The laziest ami 1 therefore ; s, the happiest man 'I"ever" knew his-. Cabin -and hi: collard' patch "wer all f of hIs' posses sions, and 5oh ' thls. sahd- liank . he r grew, the ' largest; and ; tallest, collards , I.'ve eve? . seent and he collard which. 1 potrghr of 'him'tharsuiraaTr afternoon way the"C?rartd- "Daddy of "the collard family. The-purchase "money : was. flfty cents. Aif-iirgeronnd ' as three or four cOliards and topping" myself W height? 'It took two of 'us to carry it to the ! boat Lije, after loosening the earth on one side. -passed, me the hoe 'and .said. '?Now "ypu dls on the tother side," Which, en jojing the situation,- I declined i to do. -' We ' took it op by the v roots, eairled ti : to v the hotel at f-i Morehead ' J Clty, sawed a fibgsnead , in two. filled . it with, earths replanted Mr, Collard and set -him up for a sign on the' railroad platform in front Of- the Atlantic House.. - -'- I did not intend writing this. I wish ed to write about either our Public schools or the .01a Time Christmas, but that Southern Commercial Con gress switched roe off the track, t One of my: daughters the other -day said: "ainer, -Airs, jx - -says ne 19 going to enJoy so much youf reminiscences' and I replied, "I am so glad that the old people enjoy them, as I write Let?s Suppose The Case Suppose you ? were adosen blockB away ; from - a - doctor 7. pr, suppose you "lived next' door to ; a ; doctpf ' and the - doctor was jotit ' a dozen blocks seeing another. , patient. And suppose your child was showing symptoms of Croup. What would It mean? It Would pot only mean anxletyj it would hot' only mean that ' -you would be obliged to get a doctor in a hurry, and It might : take half the night, but it WOVld mean p.piAX. Ana in ; cases of Croup -or .pneumonia delays are truly ; dangerous. . But ; suppose the case: Suppose you ' had in the home, as yon should always have, a bottle of Gowan's Preparation, that great external remedy, which does miracles. hTro,st,i:.;:VTVou.. would ' simply ruh the infant tweri or Uhreovjtlmesand be positively unconcerned. . You would f eeljy secare. In -?"the . elorning the Chances. are,, ninety-nine in" a; hundred the chUd; would ' ierctly vrell This - is not a picture drawn by a dreamer; r We "have thousands of testimonials to back up orurstatement Ask; yOvr own neighbor. Tha,ls hest The 25 or BO Cents you' had expended would be the ' best money you ever spenlUf .j: There is, . no - telling ; when Cro,up ? will come.'l-;: It comes - in . the nlght.'-vlmhe'"lb'8'-'sHght,:ioough i?r' heard.-you knerw Jthat Croup ist $heye..-:Jn'-;TOontr.yoM;:.ftatij;apply Oowan's - Preparation and the 1 result wlir . satisfy you. We guarantee gowan's to do all we claim, for it It U 'I sj wonderful-medicinehe most; wonderful we know anything f about Its enorrnous sales Justify our claims. People who use s once use i again and i tell their neighbors. - Suppose! even yoti $0 . for the doctor the fact that you. had, at once applied vowan s It being external, could do .no harm and the 25 centis spent In the opera tion ; wuid' be well spent. When the doctor" c.a ipe ho ifwl ' say yoy, had done wronghe wjpuld say that you had done no harm. If you didn't find the doctor you would have-saved, per haps, your loved one's life. ' DW tZ-m 72THOURS'. - And the mart addicted to the Whiskey .habit is relieved from alt desire for alcohol If he takes the! scientific : ' ' " TELI?AQ.:TriEATr.!ENT , ;x . As administered af the Telfair Sanitarium, Greensboro," n. m ' C. -'No sudden letting down;, noi shock; no unpleasant' sTnp-- ' V tons Sanitary 'building; privacy, j- beautiful, grounds delightful- porches, cozy- rooms, -: Skilled physicians and experienced at-r' r . tendants In constant charge. For terms address today. ,f . -;", THE TELFAIR SAUITAn)br.1, Greensboro, X:J mainly for them," and then, vi maun laugh," J, too, who only feel old when the Black Dog is on my back, am call ed old Mr.'Stronacb, and - my young. friend, JOhn Irwin, of "New YoTk City, a ' good Scotch j ; Irish Pres byterian; elder,, who; .Some time since, sent me 9. pottle of Scotch whiskey and who writes me of his last summer's vacatlonhe is an active business ! man." Having a' six weeks Vacation I went to Minneapolis and down' to the great lakes to Duluth. re turning to New York, finding-1 had a week, I. spent that week at -Atlantic City," and e only a boy or 84 years. And memory calls back the day , when I, a slxteenyear-old boy, the . day Hoke's division of Johnson's army, re treated through Raleigh, ' passing down yayetteviue street. Mrs. it. not then - a ; Mrs. bat Jdlss A. -1 will not say the prettiest I might- woman in the town called to me from the gate of her hbme.i "Child, surely you ore not a soldier, too," and today Mrs. R. Is yet a ydung -and handsome woman. - - r . 1' As to my friend Oscar. Blacknall, CONCERNING AND THEIR PRODUCTS WI T. B. K . 1 There have been a few literary classics I have not relished or read with satisfaction. Some - few I once abandoned in despair thinking them impossible reading for me. ;But some Of these became favorites In the end. I recall that , when I - was . passed ' my forty-fifth year- I failed completely in reading Thackeray's pendennis" with ' any true satisfaction or even pleasure. Before ' I was fifty-five I read It with exceeding ;delight- v Since then another reading r'flHed me with Singular gratification and admiration, and so much so-1 placed It among the most, entertaining of Hhat masterly rjter's best productions. ; : I - regard "Fendennis" a tnarvel ; t of ' enter tainment and attractive pove'.s at once unique, 1 original. r charming ?I could read .it: again - Jifeet sure, -with undi minished satisfaction. " It Is really one of Thackeray's most remarkable and unique attractive -works, of ' rare and positive genius. Then ; again, as once before mentioned, l i,. faned sevef a. several times -to read s.f Don' Quixote." one of 'the world's suprem-t classics.' J ana a -run or. genius anatentertain- snept as nn eggs of meat. 'l;jiot only. can read it now: with, antiro interest hrMiirWAuf Hnr .tfl rid .all tv-ji own inaurerencevancUatu-pidity in; tnr nanyrrears hef ore. rln never;' read JDon -Quixote'; with : great.!, interest until I had .passed: my seventieth: year. Just why! did: not passes my! compre hension; 'vlt is all the critical : world has-Bald of it, and It will be read until the eha comes to the race. , It is ab solutely unrivalled in : Its -originality and ; freshness. trange ? to say while read -and enjoyed the1 "Dr; ' Cam eron," when a . youth. --.as I did also rGll - iBlas' ; ; and - fThe- Iiiuciad'' V iof o iIe ? t.Camoentw land Montaigne i i iand i others books "jcariarre to the general." to m auote what - Thackeray called cit. .1 have never j been a.blejto appreciate Goethe: who outranks all German authors, for after many readings of several trans lators of his most marvelous achieve ment as a. poet 'tThe Fautse" I have not" been able " to - see the grahdler. power and exalted geniuS of Goethe, above all " other writers i since. Dante and Shakespeare as1 his thousands of admirers have seen him. I believe steadfastly that Milton 1 was a greater poet than Goethe' is. I would be gratified if repeated f readVitrs ' of Faust" had given me the insight and admiration that seem to fill so many of the great German readers. There are other works ' much admired ; that fall to reach me somehow. Some latter-day novels are greatly lauded, but they fail to attract me. Some-of the highly praised books of the last quar ter of a century are to me rending ( ?) uores. some political ; novels I . have found as dry; as a picked bone as dry- as po!l Ileal statistics With which they are filled. 1 , never affected to be charmed with D' Grealls political novels. But i I read them more than fifty, years since, ; and I might find them now more neatly. I reaa nearly an f fits earlier books. He had some rare gifts and much vrit. I believe In being honest with vour own mind and truthful in speech In all things and always.'! V Do not ever preted to Jike books f or -which you haye aversion. V Do not read . cheaD. thin, poor fictions and call them good. xjo not seek to be in the reading swim. The; World now is over-run with cheap,, trashy. unsound " books. It wlU be : real credit v to admit your Ignorance as to the most of the cur rent publications 1 mostly sought af ter, WhenUhe current novelists are paraded appeal one to the masters and In doing so do not forget Eugene who ( ?) among the best French nov elists. You will be sure to name Victor Hugo and -rightfully so, and Alexander 'Dumas.; the 'Elder. I take to . add that 1 1am " n ot one of the in fatuated lovers, of Balsac. He Is par aded now In French literature as the greatest Of all novelists of that 'land, and perhaps the ' foremost in all the world. I am Ignorant. I I never read but on of his novels, as his best, as it was commended, and found it far below the greatebt In: English litera ture and far below some of the best French productions. Judge honest judgment, and avoid as you would a pest ninetj'-nine hundredths of all the fiction that .have appeared in a de cade or ; so. Read great literature t you would Improve your mind ; and cultivate vour taste- Poor Mictions are Poor stuff for the mind and often for the morals. You can only develop the mind and refine the taste by real cul ture r by communing with Ytbo great and accepted sovereigns who still rule in from their urns" r (Tennyson.) That is the sure, 5 the only way to improve - the 5 . taste ' and enlarge ? the minds. I Read "' the masters afore all others. "Remember that It reQulres as much time to read a poor books as It does -to read a good or a great book. Read the best. Read the grea.t.a.utbors, the - fore most writers of the ages and the na tions. " You' win read fiction of .course. Read the men f genius, the creators, the builders. DO you know what the word "poet" means? It 'means a "builder." ' : merely -a 1 versifier," A real noveiist is a Creator If great. Read Henry Fielding.- If you can- stand his plain speech, coarseness and even 'v-J he'ery may yet go out to him.'r'The iPhillestines (clrcarslans) he C upon thee." Z 1 . ' . ' My ; Christmas ; stocking. ' a cotton sock home knit, good and' stretchy On "top a 'pack of popping ; (not fire) crackers; ;i a red appleJ ' an orange. fetick catidy, peppermint; sassafras u.nd hoarhound filled the leg;-nuts and two hunches of raisins the .foot, and 5 way flown in. the big toe spot, rile put in his .thumb and pulled -out a plunk" the . plunk 'a silver ten -cent - piece &nd money could. not buy or me what o you today would be. poor Christmas stocking. e ,',--,. ;. j P." S. More' and more,- as the days roll , by, and - the "billingsgate . rolls Out." I I'm v glad that ' on account of the crumb" (not " .of comfort) ' which jIr. Itoosevelt handed out to the peo ple of Charleston. 1 1 declined to serve on the ' hard working" reception com mittee when Mr. Roosevelt came to Raleigh. ? Can't the Counti y Commis sion find the ..Jlicrobus Billingsgatas that afflicts the President' and apply the remedy 'ere he destroys himself? AUTHORS lNGSBt'IlY. - . 1 vulgarity, of' thought. He lived -in ooarse times. ' In an impure . age. : Ht had considerable greatness with bis Other ; defects, "head James. Auster, Walter Scott, of .course.- and Thack-' eray and Dickens and-George : Elliot ai half dozen of Bulwer's, best-: and cleanest, Mrs. Gaskell's "Cranford," one or more of : KIngsley's ..hest; Charles -Reade's masterpiece, tlhe Cloister," and the "Heart:" a" great Fe's , superb "Lornai c3urs hw the unflagging populari '.iTv,;! tv of Scott s historical ' novels which tiction; Hiackmore Doone." Shorthous o line . Ihglesanf': George Meredith's "Rich ard Febere!, and ."Diana ot the Causewaj's," and others -we . - could name. "Hardy is really a novelist of genius, and has written some hooks Of very high, merit , But hi his two lst novels . he ..became ' so" offensive With his , filth, so nasty '-'. with t . his stories." that'll v"qu!d "say avOld them, although they are creations .ot genius. I j voiUd name 4: dozen "Or more, : of Almerlca.n. fj.etlons Worthy of; your at tentfon. 'but will ' merely suggt'st :now Rde'a f TabeS. Nathaniel ' llawthorhe's Ijest novels,; -: ; 'sonie . of Fennlmore CSooper's :; . clevr-resr ilndian - ;noyels:j Miss. :Murfre.e's "In' the CI o ads," and some others mishtvCisigire$ted,7Read: fiction; but t give s your spare hours, to-- toe best. -i 1 Oh course ripkl eurvev; nayeoeejij compel veu .tor .omit, jscYt. wf'rriit rij rji.",?..' Dr. T.1 ft, Kingsbury. eral names deserving of special men tion. The point is, read all thergood books i you can. the hest when possi ble. - but a void trash in all - literature.' I have not in this survey named the: great poets of the world. How many people know "poetry when they see it? How. - many can distinguish: be tween thegreat and tho common? . Now and then I meet with an ar ticle from a Northern critic that-la remarkably. calmx and acote. ' I read such a paper from the pen of a. New' England writer, , Dr. II. D. Sedgewlck. It appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly and was worthy of -. that f leading Northern critical monthly. , -It was foil of -taste, judgment insight and scholarship. Among other things he held that Goethe , was the .- greatest man of letters In Europe in the last century. That is probably, true as far as the: literature of Europe Is con cerned. Victor Hugo h3d rare and most attractive qualities, v .Who . ever produced a greater novel than his -es Mlserables"? Sir Walter Scott probably never equalled it but then Scott produced a haH dozen novels but little behind Hugo's masterpiece. Mr. : Sedgewlch : is right; I believe ' in. hs . opinion that Seott . was the best man of letters In Europe, in the nine teenth century . omitting as he does, Hugo and Goethe.-the. one a French- man and the other a German. I think that they; were the two highest literary products of the two; nations inj the: last , century. Mr. Sedgewlth is felicitous in drawing the contrast between the great Scotsman and the gteat . Frenchman; -I cite-1 a passage and-accep it, V-true'r--"-;-,'v-?- ''-i r-:; ?j"Next to Victor Hugov 'net oountlng Goethe, the greatest man" of -,letteri ini Erope. of this century. -Is Sir Wali ter Scott. r Mary the ?differvnie, b tween. him -and Hugo." Scott's poetry r r i If WMfirr 'Hi 'i 1 - -i I sA II P. and "i novels .have vigorous vitality ; from his common sense, and therefore they are Ingrained in the trunk of English : literature; tne iresn sap 01 their romance quickens ; every . root and adds .greenery to cver bough. Victor Hugo is passienate, imagina tive, majestic, ; powerful, eloquent demagogicat but; he does not stand the hard test of squaring with the ex perience of common men." -; ; ; The Jllusttfpt; William . E. Glad stone, the greatest statesman ot Eng land, may ,: not - deny, with ne one exception .of S' Edmund iBurke; .put -a very high estimate on waiter scott and preferred his novels to all others. I have loved Scott since I was a boy, and ibelievej him to ' deserve the first place among British writers of fiction. An English crtic in the Edinburgh Review some time "ago reterred in ofdentary to such "appended t compo sitions aa Ivanhoe" and the "Talis man," 5and says that Scott "revived the legendary age of chivalry and adventure with aU -the magnificence of his poetic imagination." He saj-s aliso that Scott "was the first to nie 'tb method ; of- easy. v sparkling, na twral dialogue for developing agqa.'! That is correct no doubt Scott was ihe greatest teacher of others how to really write novels of a fascinating. original, ch arming, rational, fresh directness. That very distinguished ed that "Walter . : Scott's ' romances produced - a- revolution in the art ? of writing histories; that no greater mas ter of the art of writing 'historical divination " has ever. lived, and that his. profound insight Into -the mldlae val world, the true' relation between 'different classes, its political -and so cial aspects, originated a new and brilliant historical method which au perseded 'the dimand limited - views of scholarly erudition." ; Read over again the acute remarks of the very gifted Frenchman. They are admir able and every way Just , Of writers in-English since Scottr no one has sur passed . Thackeray . in hLtorical and romantic composition. Read 1 his ad mlrable "Henry "Esmond," his "Pen demm's," his" !"Virglnius." his won derful ' "Barry::, Lynan,". . most uni que among novels, and you will relish and appreciate his the more. Let me; mention an Interesting' fact show ing that In spite of the annual Issuing of more than .3,000. novel, that Scott not, only remains supreme as a story teller, of -glorious -j gifts, originality. imaginative power and unequalled in ventlon, but he is; still read - by tens of thousands of people who really seek the best. Next to Scott the most popular Is Charles ' Dickens, of whom i ' ave so recently written at -some length. In England there Is a Socie ty knoVn as the , National Home Reading ynion.-- I do ! not know its age. It has a large i membership. In one year not Jong ago nearly 10.000 joined. The relating to the special mI A i t the literature in the entire British Colonies, Seott- and : Dickens run far ahead of -others, v In- 1907 I ' think I Jcott had v more ' than one million copies sold, and "Dickens equalled him or was. but . little behind.: Rev. Sydney ; Smith; the "famous clerical . English ; wit, was a--man to like and value. : lie, was not only man of ' InUnite : rjest-'- but he had great common sense and tine capacity as 'a writer, 'The man who never read nis published essays, moktly. contribu tiohsjtrt 'the famous .''Edinburgh Re view" in; the early fifties, , has missed a great ""deal : r . genuine .wit and humor;of a rich; and rare ayauty-'lle, was. the" first ditor Of the. irrcat Edin- bhrgh Quarterly,1-, and' one of llie -best tfiot exactly, correct ,tc say jsmlth was rihe first editor, lie was one, of sev eral, i .The others were famous men In their ;. time--Lord Brougham, . -Uord Jeffrey. Hury Hallam. the historian. ana smith.. . What a most rare combi nation. Smith was possibly the leader at first and -did nvueh to-lmpart in terest, and distinction to the most re markable publication. ,-JThe .Review has not' a Tory organ . like "Black wood.".,but aspired '" to represent he young party knowtt?5' the Constitu tional Liberal party. The Review began In 1 8 Q2. and I from ' t he start it was ' bold. : enterprising, vigorous.' en tertaining, scholarly. It was viva cious, even audacious.: very much in dependent' - Sir Waiter Scott, a Tory, wrote for it at one time. - It wielded a decided power from the beginning and still flourishes after more than a hundred years of power and Interest Sydney Smith was decidedly an " ai tarction. He was very original.- Many books and sketches have been pub lished on him one by Lady Holland, another, by: Mrs. 'Austin. Sketches or him. are numerous.-one , toy Lord Hol land., another by Stuart Reld. another by Sir Leslie Stephen; the well known British essayist ett There have been articles on - him in Biographical Dic tionaries. And then Smith wrote more or less about v himself, The latest and most important book concerning him is by George W. E. Russell. It is one of the valuable series known as "The English Men of Letters."' c ' T. B. KINGSBURY., j Wilmington. N. C. . ; YraniiiiR for IJght. -. When it comes i to- consuming4 gas in large quantities blind people can beat their seeing - brethren all hoi low." said ' an inspector .of the gas company. T know two . families Where both husband and wlfb are bllrul. Every jet is turned on -full tilt in their homes at night, and is kept going at that rate dear up to 12 o'clock.Ugh and darkness are all' the' same to the afflicted ones.' but they insist upon il lumination brilliant enough for a re ception. -And that particularly for night is nora whim peculiar to those two coup res. '-"'-Most Ablln.d" people feel that way. -"They demand The light and In the rprlvate :homes and insti tutions 'where the "blind are cared for the gas bills vouclj tor the strange fancy.". . : ' ''-.'. ' :"- u' J,: .". f;- . Matt of Life and Death, Lady Tourist (with notebook) Were you not afraid as you Stood there in the jaws of death? " ? Old Salt' (r'eminlscently) -Not 'that I 'knows of, ma'am! 'You see, I had been used jo facing the jaws in v life;. I'm. a married man. From the Janu ary. Bohemian. ' ::'?. 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