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o - SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 19l4 I Hb NEWS AND OBSERVER 17 A. ( NORTH CAROLINA t IN CRmCEXAMINAlON Dr. E. L. Starr Strikes Blow at Poetic Complaisance of North Carolina Claims Four Singers of Worthy (The following pa par u read be- for Uie Literary and Historical So cietles In 1U meeting on Wednesday morning ny vr. is. u Btaxr of Win ton-salem.) In a critical examination of the poetical output of the State one ia checked and held still tn aurpriM by a realization of the difference between ' what North Carolina poetry ti no tiularly thought to be and what It is. " That tine glow of patriotiam which haa led us since Alamance to do. , accomplish, has also filled us with correct and well premised pride i what we hare done. Well premised urely: for North Carolina has leen n the death line that Is the front rank, the honor line in each t th three great national crises through which the country has passed By right of Inheritance the North State possesses a wide strain of that splendid self-consciousness that filled England at the time of the settling of tbe colonies. When England found that Its horde of arrowy little sloops or war could devastate the greatest fleet of battle ships ever sent out upon the Atlantic, when through the actl v It les of the Cabots. of Smith, of Hal eigh. the far ends of the earth lifted their nebulous bulk upon the English horlxon. when the shuttle of English commerce brought the woof thread ever stronger, ever more a negated. into the central loom of London, then I here grew to full stature that virile ' Knglish pride of blood and brain which has sincebeen modified only In objective trend, If at all. It had tin soundest basis in the acquisition of a new imaginative outlook. World vision opened up before trta Krigllsh ve. No end beyond the national er fort to compass. Over sea empire materialised; the glory of Shakespeare nd the Kliabethan drama was realiz "ffitV""'""" ' Directly. Touched.. Thin adventurous spirit of freedom lnd self trust flawed, directly, into., the three or four -of the sourwrrnmoitt Jhe thirteen colonies. K emorrsled trig1nally from those cartes of Kng lishrheh to whom n tfh flavor "and - test of living meant ifiore than exile lad a hnm hullriifltf for n'nn Con broad dreaming Kngflshnicti herhme elf trusting, aspiring North Careltni ttis snd Virginians. That holdout IrMitiff of them all, Walter- Raleigh ptinrvd out upon mis t aroiiman snore an anointing breath of freedom. sreadth of confidence. More than ever a as our own time spirit when on th occasion of his final voyage he slaked Ms own life against a dree m. . played ind bravely lost We have remained true to the vision nf Raleigh and have lived out the ex Handing, upward-urging, spirit of self Sependcnoe hrel into ui by the Kng lish through him. In view. then, of the Stale's legui male pride In what it has done and great company of high achievements land ready to answer to the name of North Carolina --In view of the males trust in its potentialities of greatness In many different spheres of activtry need we hesitate to confess that tnli -rmwwl of satisfied appiwirl is perva sive enough to cover a field over which !t has no right to spread? I. we have crown to believe that In one partlcu lar division of literature we possess more than we actually own. It Is lew oolnt autte compatible with that well premised pride with which North rarnnna regard tta past achieve ments. INmiilar K.Mlinatr Too nigh The popular estimate i t .North Carolina poetry is too high. Perhaps the statement will not be controverted that the undiscernlng look with a sur tirisinc desree of cnmphisinnce upon the poetical output of i the State. No rritical balsnce is struck: the worthy nd the nol-o-good are accorded each a reading, an easy word of com mendallon and forgotten- The printed volume of a fellov statesman's poetry is examined in a mnnH of warm sectional patriotism. 'its faults are glaxed. Its merits exalted because it is another volume to he proudly added to our shelf of North Carolina poets. Many have asserted, for instance, that Joseph W. Iloldens "Halferatr Is one nf the finest of sou. them noems. but who has further die tlnguishcd it by adding that ths eighth nlanza beginning with the line "Can mortal toneue in song convey, w so fsr below the level of the remainder ..that It may well be an interpolation of an alien hand. state Pride The Cause. State pride Is a prolific source of this mmular overestlmstlon. In Its train romes indifference to correct standards of rrilirlsm aa deplorable from this source as when it comes from Igno ranee. The final regretful concomlt int is a prevalent apathy among those classes ranable of intelligent, con strui-tlve criticism.' apathy toward the good as well as the unworthy produc ' tiona. Common opinion, these feel has placed a sufficiently high valua- - . I 1 .. .. - nrLt W V. V a particular work. Why lion upon BUCHU FINE FOR We Eat Too Many Sweets, Which Clogs Kidneys, Then ' Back Hurts and Diabetes Catches You WEAK KIDNEYS X Candy sugar' and sweet?, eaten to exrees have a bad effect on the kld 1 neys and bladder, says a well known authority. The kidneys get clogged 1 and si u grlsh and hurt.. You experl- Vnc scalding, dribbling, straining or too frequent passage of urine: fore head and the back -of -t he-head J bone pajnsr spots Tfore tlie eyesTfwiTl be latHrngTusTesTinrnTe haji been yellow skin: sluggish bowels: swollen eyelids or seklee: leg . cramps: un natural short breath: ' sleeplessness and despondency, diabetes. Bright s disease. The moment you have any thtT above symptoms or rheumatic twinges, get from' any reliable drug- cist a good sized bottle of Stuart Buchu and Juniper. Take a table spoonful after meals. Drink plenty of fresh water and abstain from eat ing too much sugar, sweets or highly reasoned, foods. Your kidneys and bladder will then act fine and natural. Kluart'a Suchn and Juniper haa been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys, also to neutralise the adds in urine so It no longer hurts you to !V r? weak kidneys and bladder -and strengthens' these organs and ' cures diabetes. - Beisure you get Stuart's Buchu and Janjpjer as Stuart's is properly cem pounded for kidney and . bladdnr "iroubie. Oalloway Irug Co.. RaJeigh. N. C. sell big 14-e bottle for only tK- Out-of-town people, supplied by ana.! yr express. Call sir write. ' POETRY that There Have Been Just Note. : measure it by a Victorian standard. Certainly the published anthologies of the Stats verse have done nothing to correct thla error. ' At least two of the three collections of North Caro lina poetry- have presented the good, bad. and common place side by side. without caution or distinction. The first, published in 14, offers the work of sixty different versifiers. The last published In illZ, presents thirty six separate poets. The work of each compiler suggests a searching far and near for every single piece of native poetical writing worthy. In the com pilers' opinion., of Inclusion In the volume. - On of the prefaoea tells of selective Quests In the earlier collec tions. In newspapers, old text books and magaxinea. We cannot but wish U told of the exclusion of thia or that poem or author because It failed to measure up to a definitely chosen literary standard. Selections- Mediocre. The result is both smaxlng and mis leading; amaxlng because of the me diocrity of s number of the selected offerings; misleading because of the lack of balance resulting from the presentation of writers of such dis proportionate ability and attainments In a single grouping. The four or five names which should stand out pre-eminently are roped hack with the general class. 8uch compilations are excellent for purposes of record, but not for study by high school pupil, far less the sixth or seventh grade pupils to whom one of the collections is dedicated. There is too much dross In the gold. This work is not a setting forth of the In herently good snd worthy, nor are the poems included truly representa tive. Any state desires to have its best work In a given field considered as- representative, not all ' Its work Tn a riven field Considered as represen tative.: not all its .work-, of all -degrees of richness- and povsrtyr ' . r graded and. high, school alu den Is do "not neefo know the poorer pror ducts of HtateNyerslfleation. No one but the NDeclaJilh, euulsped student along researching lines need to know. If our students are to. grow -up with t he idea. that NtirtJa Carina has, ee. aucea jjooa (Hiry ua 14 proauce better, let us give them Uoner, Mc Neill. Ftockard and Bledd In Jehty and spare them the dissilLuaiohlng tedium of studying mediocrities, ' XI Again when such anthologies pass beyond ..state bounds they show to unbiased critics the. paucity of our political past. The presentation of a weak reason deprives a good argu ment" of its strength. These books offer many weak reasons with seem ing delibcrateness. , lt our claim rest rather upon the few who have done good work. Massachusetts could doubtless put forth a voluminous folio upon a basis similarly broad. We do not find, however such a volume, either In the hands of the secondary school stu dent of that state or on the shelves of statewares' displayed to the public. On the contrary, a limited company of worthy, Ixiwell, Holmes. Whittler. Kmerson. are set forth with their good work, as truly representative. 8o too would we do well to put all our en thusiasm and pride into the support ing of our four ablest poet a We need to centralize upon them, to buy them, study them, teach them, preach them, at the same time realizing that the lesser craftsmen have struven worthi ly. All praise to them and thanks. useful emulators an ineulcators of the poetic idea throughout the State. Much Good Poetry. Ic then our argument that North Carolina produced good poetry sound argument T Is there basis in fact for the claim. Emphatically, yea l sounder basis In a restricted field hen the loyal overestimates of the entire output have realised. I loner. McNeill, Kleritl. Ntockard Tims nut onlv takes from the true rraftsmitn a lifelong toll of (fiort but demands stay of sentence for a certain period following the completion of the w irk. Lasting Judsjment of an artist's creation presupposes a final readjustment of the general vision. And this haa evestualed In the cases f at least three of our poets; John Henry Boner and John Charles Mc Nelll. Recognition has come more slowly to Uoner than to McNeill, due o his long residence outside the ritate and to the greater seriousness of hhr outlook. McNeill had his audience with hlnu it Is true, during his life ime. but the six years elapsed since his death have undoubtedly served to assure his gracious pre-eminence. Add to these, two other names, Stockard and Sledd, and our poetical Roster is complete. r - let what a group It is: Karneet ble, ambltiuus. State-loving, above all, conscientious, these have made our poetry what It Is. In a greater than sectional sense it is good because they have lived and worked. They have put relativity into our verse They nave fed a flame, already light ed, so that now it shines with im measurable clearer radiance than ever before. Voice From Korone. Time has granted true perspective for only two of them, Boner having ed eleven years ago and McNeill six. Dr.- Uledd. Is etHI- speak ma; for tltm- self. A month ago his voice rang out from London with fine poetic fervor. vie may be certain that his produc tions win sssume always nobler pro portions, for he is endowed with true poetic temperament and vision. Kor Mr. Stockard and his poems. It is dif ficult to find the Illuminating phrase ne can scarcely realize that It Is kindly, generous singer of beautiful songs, maker of charming sonnets. Is onger here to fill his distinguish ed position In the intellectual life of he State 7 Yet the universal regret for his loss will make his self expres- -wivepoems -doublydear; IT ' knew beauty cast from time lone nasi " nd made It ery real to the lovers of his poems. He bequeathed sincerity of purpose to his countrymen, snd a painstaking watchfulness of detail best illustrated by his choice of the sonnet as a favored medium of expression. His Is the method of approval, which memoraoie ior its genuineas ana Uig ur It is not alone the aligning passage f time which singles out the work' of Boner snd McNeill as the actual basis of our claim. Other things have worked together with them. These. .are he gradual change of intellectual at titude throughout the State: the In- reasing efficiency of educational! methods the approving seal put upon sincerity of purpose by such recogni tion as the Patterson cup: the dlrec- ve energy of so able an organisation as this association: above all, a state wide willingness to listen sympathetic ally. Th Professional Note. laW - in" . barnV"le.X tne; WouTd not have failed- of success. They are he mrst poets of the 8tats to lead a professional not. lo native poetry. They publiahed volumes at their own expense, but on the Invitation of pub lishers who sought them out. who de sired their productions, and who paid a nipuawi royalty, on volume sold. They approached their art with ln- n0 VriASJ9l-M lha ft at. baa THE! DEC. 6, 1876 jnOrUcaUSht .yeara- aday-thr first scientific cremation In the United States took, place at Wash ington. Pa. Th. pioneer cremator was Dr. V. Julius Le Moyne. and the subject was th body of Baron da 'Palm. But the American pre cedent had been set eighty-three years before when under penalty of loosing a legacy of (0,00 pounds If hs refused, the son of Henry Laurens, South Carolina's Revolutionary patriot, consigned his father's body to a funeral pyre. . The ghastly experience of seeing his Infant ChUd come to life Just before burial In the earth Is said to have been responsible for Laur ens' demand to be cremated. The, origin of cremation Is lost in the days of unrecorded history. It was practiced sporadically by the pre Christian oivtllxatlona. except In those countries whose religion, Just as do some religions today, for bade Its practice. The Parsees wers worshippers of Qre, but pro hibited cremation because of the opinion that the fire was thus pol luted. The Greeks and the Romans practiced cremation, while the Egyptians considered It an act of paganism and disposed of their dead by earth burial. The revival of the practice In Europe In the 17th century waa greeted with hor ror by the medieval peasants. Kings prohibited It under penalty of torture. Sir Henry Thompson Introduced cremation into Oreat Britain shortly after the dosing of ahe American Civil War. Cslng s reverberating furnace, he reduced a body weighing 144 pounds tn 4 pounds of lime dust within fifty minutes. Encouraged by Thomp son's success. Dr. I.e Moyne in stalled an Improved incinerator In a small one-story brick structure on a hill overlooking the town of Washington. Three years after his pioneer cremation, he died and waa cremated in his own institu tion. te-IMgent - Tielf -respect. " R trowing- ' that poetical- feeHng alone does nor war rant breaking into poetical expres siohr ' They k new t hat ' the feeling must be supported by an Intimate comprehension of a group" of highly specialized laws. Severer St and aril for Boner. t, ii L.-.wv..,4.Brf'0Ml.,i .- baet ;.4tualU!ai f rwl; "tZtZlmH Pt"pptjlaritr W nchly merit native State Honer ;HW71SC.' ed by ess warmth and wtinese f to a severer standard of ritlcuun than 'McNeill. The latter, one might say. deliberately limited his sphere. If imnrr nan miiir nnewiiw. iwifiiiriiini would have been earlier accorded him by. his fellow statesmen. tkf fourteen years spent by Boner In New York are responsible for an acknowledged eminence in letters wnicn ne waa tne last .Minn aro- llnlan to reach. Ilia editorial and critical ahiUtiesKwere generously con ceded by such me a a K. C. tit ed man. i. rv. rutin. nun "ni nam niin (lllder. Heyond the bounds of this Stale, he was recogniiiod aa North Carolina's first mai of letters. It is to be happily observed in this connec tion that a secusid man of"-letters stands forth In This State: a second, and In the difficult field of literXry criticism, a greater. Today Dr. Archibald Henderson takes not only thia rank but that of a scholar of In ternational reputattoTi," tin" authority In a formulative and Involved Held, a writer whose critical acoolade Is well worth the winning. Boner l-tvcs In Poetry. Nevertheless It is in his poetry that touched his harp with so sure a hand nor has had before his mind's eye so clear a vision of beauty. His Hps phrased songs of high imagining and well nigh impeccable workmanship, VYom ballad to sonnet his technique is unfaltering. It Is the smoothness of well polished art. because he added minutely carefuly finish to true poetic inslgnt. Ills vista Is wide. A fuller reading of his lyrics cannot but convince us that he-has deepened the channel of native poetic thought. Poems or .his own State, poems of sentiment, of nature, of imagination he has given out in abundance; personal poems also wnicn become universal by ap plication, setting forth as they do that wonder we all have felt, wonder that the strife of living should have to be au grievous, success so elusive support from, within so difficult tt maintain. The circumstance of Doner's life solemnized his outlook without dark ening it. The postponement of mate rial success, accompanied by a cer tain melancholy of self-realization spiritualized his later, vision. What ever of Indifference there may have been In his early life toward the sober splendor of death and life in death. Honer grew to full realisation of the divine purpose in creation Judged by the quality of his poems of spiritual reflection, this poet's steps led blm not infrequently to the moun tain top where a far-away sun Is al ways shining. The faith expresaed In his rarely excellent sonnet. "If I Could Hut Escspe Life's Fretting Ills." It Is of a degree and force which could not rail' to distill to inner content through a life ctrcumstsnced as was bis A Just estimate of Boner's poetry results In the free acknowledgement that his is work which will not die There is a full-voiced music in his verse: there is power and keen-lived spirituality; there Is reverence for fh Ood of thd Open and of his soul... .His., cmrtrltnilldn to the poetical literature of the State lies in point of view as well aa in production. He believed in the Infinite yalmt that go Tn make excellence. In preparation, polish and restraint. McNeill Had No New Theory. McNeill, it must be noted, proclaim ed no new theory of loveliness, left metaphysics untouched and introspec tion unutttred. yet he has taken our hearts In his strong, gentle-fingered hsnds and laid them close against his own. there to feel the warmth and cleanness and truth of him. lie has. done a difficult J.hlj)g,.anl'j;.bf tclfl Ilea bis especial" merit, he has given ex pression to the mood and circum stances of his leop!i!. Next to importance to gtvtng hu manity a new and better understand ing of life, and only a degree less in value, Is the ability 4o sum up the mood through which that humanity haa been passing. Whenever a peo pla. cant lmn lo .tacft, the sums, , prob lem th-ough a stretch of ears, to hold the same attitude even If uncon sciously, there comes one who gives form and order to tbe drawn-out state of mind. Richard Hurton In his Anatomy of Melancholy" analysed the introspective despondency which has dominated 'Erik land for the previ ous sixty yesrs.- McKenxie epitomiz ed the early novel of sentiment In his frankly entitled "Man' of Keeling.". Kor us McNeill did much the same thing. He looked at life about him. saw it with fresh vision, and put it Into poetry. He caught the glamor of th. South; th. gracious reticence of its women, the courtly deference of Its men; the suave gentility of liv ing, the odor of a Southern rose gar den, October and: arbutus things we love the better for hearing McNeill tell us whst we hare always thought uf them. - j The frequent brevity of his poems and the stimulating abruptness' with which they end leave a picture vividly Impressed: yet it Is an old familiar scene beautified, heightened and mad. vivid and we are glad to have it so. Th. technical form la often nnpreten- tieSitnriTseTOvBKritti and HOW DEC. 6, 1914 -"Tdsisibwut fper cent, of ha tOOO individuals' who die In the United States annually are Incine rated In the thirty or more crema toriums located In mare than half of th states. Ten years ago the ratio was about' one-half of one per cent. Th. movement toward universal cremation la gradually spreading throughout "he world. Europe has nearly a hundred cre matoriums, Germany disposing of 1,158 bodies by cremation in 1812. Conceded to be the. placo -of resur rection of the ancient practice Italy leads the. World in percentage of cremations, while during 1111 the city of St. Oall. Switxerland. reported that of the bmllee of (15 Individuals who died there,' 201 were thus disposed of. Kngland Is leaning toward the practice. The authorities of Westminister Abbey, the repository for (ireat Hrtlain'a heroes, recently prohibited the burial of mors bodies there. They must be cremated. Cremation Is becoming a necessity, especially around the large centers of popu lation, declare advocates of the practice. At the rate at which cemeteries are increasing around such cities aa New York and Lon don, each of Which n-nuire about 24 seres f additional land annu ally to bury the dead, it has been predicted that the cities of the liv-. Ing will be veritably encompassed by "cities of the dead.". Humanity Is reluctant to give up th aKelouu practice of Inhumation, some unti crematlonlsts do lerlns ih.it "when the body is consumed by ..heat the soul Is st the same time destroyed." I-eRHj-mlnd.-.l objec tors also point out thai "it des troys all evidence of crime where murder by poison has ben com mitted." In the reply th. irvirm tionlsts argue "that cremation is the only hygenlc. e.in!t;ir and eco nomic methwl of di!-pciiK of our dead." ,j atmtf'uf'fcnod art. Tlie freshness kf his conception stand C.nb rette-n- dldjy. No better delineation of rural life and of the negro nature is to he fioind In Southern poetry. McNeill. m.re over. IS or tne order or avaln r joict whieh the South more than any other his singing. -, What Next ? Thus far has native poetry develop ed. What is next to. come? Surely tflese roue gentlemen who hnv wrought so splendidly would he th first to say that the great flowering oi Carolinian poetry Is yet to lie. II is inevitable. Inspiration is on eiery band. Inclination exists in each lo cality. Precedent has been set.. Ability watts only to bo guidrd. Herein lies the obligation ot the State. If we wish to encourage tin native poetic Instinct to fullest ex presslon. to stimulate It to fine pro ductlve vigor, we must first teach the coming gneration of writers that poetic feeling alone cunnot ri'Hii It in true poetry until it has been refined polished, restrained and supported by greater jeeiing and more worn it Ip good to ataud Wwf- Mount Mitchell or beside the rapids of the Krtuich Broad and feel the scene strongly enough to be moved to ex- f resaon. -We need to feel more of it. n the variegated life about us drama tic qualities are everywhere waiting to be seen by the finer senses. Wsttor Pater says: "How aha 11 we pass nv st swiftly from point bsf point snd be present always at the fvcus where the greatest number 'of vltaKforces unite in ineir purest energy? To burn al ways with this hard gem like flame to maintain this ecstacy, Is success in uie Yet felling alone 'Is no warrant for me expression or reeling In the una exact and demanding of all the arts Poetry is a stream whose banks arc well defined, whose channel must be known. Poetic feeling must be made to kindle a great desire for real facili ty of expression, t'nnumbered writers of verse in North Carolina have slow ed with feeling and turned immediate ly to expression. If. with the feeling once expressed, they have been too prone to let It stand and make its bid for rank as literature, they have done a very human thing. Who does not Know the pleasure of weaving parti colored words Into the patterned like ness of an Idea And once it Is done, only the most level headed apprecla tor of the rclativenea of -merit can resist the praise of others less able than himself. Unly those who have tried know how difficult It Is to write even half well. The coming poet must feel, must "burn always with this hard gem-like fUme," but he must realise that his form of expres sion has grown polished, smooth and conscientiously exact. ' The new generation of writers must be made to see. moreover, that a lim ited output closes one of the avenues to eminence. Kvery man loves the thing he has created, yet In a literary sense "each man kills the thn k he loves" If he lets It stand alone, un flanked by the lesser precedinc ac complishment and the greater effort following. Joseph Iioldens "Hat teras" is Indeed a valuable poem, yet Is practically the only poem of espe cial merit bearing his signature. Why did be n ot w rite .more ?- Why- es ve this thing he loved to suffer from Its isolation? Very many of the lesser poets of the State would have won a higher rating if they had written more, granted that the continued t n. deavor were cumulative in intention.' The genius of I'oe is needed to se cure fame with an extremely limited output. Iet -our new poet speak out freely. Many phases of life must be touched, animated, laid bare before a writer can reach true noetic stature. The poet is an understander of life hot in a single aspect or Instance. I.rteflv set forth but In a broad, full. rich, and loving ;omxr.ehcnsioji i nen li-l us emnnaslse this fee ins polish and freedom of utterance. I t our high school teachers of Knulish when they interpret the work of i.iir worthiest poets, put the thoiitrht daily into their students' minds that the truest poet yet to sing in North cr. Una is shout to string his lre. ljrx us meet him with standards of mug rntoq Minl. i.n.l.U n.m anh wi.k. furms of recognition and encourage ment, and love him while he is living lie haa almost reached us. He i. coming up the hill, lust bevond the -reet. hla young face aa-low with con. fldence antj promise. The world's Dtt Iron ore output was 132.600.000 tons. New Winter Ideas Mrs. Frank Redford ."The Place .'.Where Quality . - . - County." ,. ' ? GRQIVV EGETABLES THEYEARTHROUG It Can Be Done, Employe o Cotton Mill in Charlotte Has Shown EIGHT KINDS GROWING NOW During -Past SixYears There Has Not Been a Day When He Could Not Go Into Gar den and Get Something To Eat; He's Prize-winner; M People Live Well DOHOTHY MITCIIKIJi) t harlot te. Iec. 6. There are very lew people in tho Mtate who are aware or tne fact that the greater portion of the winter vegetables can be grown at home-right In. their gardens, and that Instead of paying fancy prices tor siaie snipped vegetables the could go out and gather the fresh crisp ones ii mey would try their nun. la a winter gardening-. This fact that vegetables will grow In this climate during the winter has oeeii clearly donionst rated bv Mr. N' K. Htnsnn. tin employe of the Atherton mill or t harlntte. He has now grow Ing in Ins garden eight different """"i l veaetaii ew. wtvli h are caiiiiugca, onions. turnips. lettuce. r.idishrs. mustard, and collar.ls all in tne garden, while bo In experiment ing this year by keeping a f'-w hills o pepper in the house as polled plums in- iook up some or his choice hi nnn placed tlu-m in boxes and these have been kept from the cold and an nourishing. Pepper as a potted plan would not only be a uaoful thing from wnicn to gather fresh peppers now a. nd tljeiL.buJ, .it. K.mld. U'kb.ji fa cile til nnatiliss deo. ration with its V1V4U iwwn aod- red colors " lri; Vt inner. . Jir. lliiiHon in one of the benl rrtr ueners or i lutrlotte, and he N a-gard ener for all i he year around He sta ed that during" the Mi Sears that he has Uve1 at the null that there has not been., a -alwjie. ilay(4it te could, nt go out nml.gitfhfY something to eat from bis. grvden. .' This year ho- took the first prize for the best vegetable display in the Indue! rml departmen f the, Chailotto. fair. In thle eon nection. 1 would like to add that tho mill people aa a rule are much belter gardeners than the majority of cltl sons of the towns of the .State. Having come ironi the country, the mill pen pie huVe acjtitreil ih li.tl.it of grow ing thliiKs. and their Indust rloua bub Its have not made them afraid o work. The average city man think that a garden docs not pay. because tie avs hla llnu ih inn ;ilu.tlle to work in a garden when he can make three or four dollars a day and hire gardener for a dollar lie still thinks It If be has tunc ( waste In Ihc nfle noons before his utlleo Ilous begin, know a matt u ho Iuin amassed a fo tune and one of the M-crets of bis su cess has been In that he does not mind doing a, dultux day Job w-frerr he rrn rest spell from a l:'0 or 1 1 oil lob Hut fortunately for the. mill man he has not learned to figure on bis tun but he makes garden If he has the energy to work It and does, not sider that he has Inst anything. There are some, however, who make no ef- rts to grow anything, but this num ber la wry snuill eoinpaiefi -to th. majorit Tt t oltnrd s rorltc. Most of the mill feotb. are sum mer gammers, although thev may t all hive a gieat variety of veg tables, but there--are very few v, he have brancheil into extensive winter gardening, although nearly all of the progressive ones have such vegeluldes as onions, turniis and collards. The coKartl Is a favorite with the mill peoplf ImC; use thuy acquired a taste It' when bark on the farms and no frown of society can ever nia(le I nun lurrK ironi II. 1 ne coiiard net known Hi society. In fact, there ire quite a haim!cr-of people who never heard of ihie. and In order to In- loduee I tto ni eader ho perhaps s not aciitiainten 1(h It. It i 1 -ountry cousin, aslt were, of the c.jbbage. When young. It takes a d gardener to tell tbeha apart, but after growing up the cabbage takes he big head and draws Its Tusaves In ruther exclusively as if afraid bf com aiiiliiati.m. while the coll.ird. Xft'' he true country type, wears ii frirok open expression and spreads Its b-av wide open to tho sun. Mill IVopIo Well rVd; Sometimes -.t hcie arc Inllinaliona hat the mill people 'arc poorely fi d Much a statement aluays shows lust now little the fin-jikor knows ntiout he Industrial workers of the cotton mills If I bad to name the greatest fault of the mill M;.oplt of the Mlate should name hrwt: scpmlmg too much for something to cat They do not buy economical!) , but will pay the t penny f.r something they particu larly want. Kor instance: In the early .ring they will pn - 1 or so cents for a c hicken that will not make, a pomi l r meat while the man In the town Or Itv who is ftcciirnniattni; something w ill eat roast leef w inch i ofti fc'i cents I'tuttid., lluringi-th riwrt pressure1; wslted a mill family where the mill was running only half tlno , and thev were asking me how they could eco nomise, lining tn the dining room I und two meats and three vegetables well as a desert and I 8iigg-ited hat they have only one meat for din er atid tw o vegetables or If lunched, ust one. The reluctance (,n their faces showed me planil thev wmld never do it as long a they could make rj.unti to Py the grocery bill. tint back to Mr. Ilinson and winter gardening: He keeps beets fr"h all hrough Ihe winter by Pmiklnc them Oder the earth. He merely lakes fhcni lifrln ih- early' fall ' dri.l digs a bole big eno.ih to hold bin Mipplv which he covers wtih earth "In bis hot bed. whl b is necessary for t vei up-to-date irardenrr. he yelp an early start for spring vegetables ,j a cot of J'i or fin an adeijuat" hot bed can Ire equipped Tnr a go .T size Taniilv a'nd vegetables ran V grown all during th VjJIlrr lf,.ftiiiiLAa4, iiv.(j Uudr.ad glasa. tbe I'ost-will toil" h i Hardening is genetaly t on?.dered lo be a summer vi-ati n. but .-o-cording to Mr " Ilinson if t rmo-h eitsier- to raise winter egetai.es than mimnier tnes, lan.-ause there -is not sin h a griiwtb. of ee.t and gFto to i .mil.al and the exercise during tin cold wea ther is much more . Feasant than working In the hot sun. He was tdeas ed to U arti that a storv whs' to he written about, bfs garden, and said thatjnsybe it ipub t encourage others t sTart one. Thin was evidently in reference in the mill people, .hut there are tbnutvands lnth in the country and city who could lake his advice and find that It was not. bad to .follow. There are tomato'clubs for thV girls, corn clubs for. ihe bo-s. whj, cuunue it to the children? Whv not a winter garden club for grown-ups? M would be eqiial to golf, tennis and other out of door -sports fjr exercise and be sides "ft Would beautify many a vacant back lot that is partially filled with rubbish and cast ofls from the house as wll aa afford more sanitary con-, ll.rlnu. BPriiiiul I mA k. k j tit li bringlior drwi.'the grocerjr bill. l kv w goit.g Vast t deo cluii t ! , THE GREAT EUROPEAN .WAR IS T""B0TH TERRIBLE AND HUMANE Europe One Vast Battlefield and One Vast Cemetery Cities Filled. With Nursing Homes lor -Victims of. Holocaust of Mars. (lawrence Hick. Jr., In Philadelphia Record. ) War waa never more terrible: nwr more humane! I'aUl the bloody aun of conflict rose a few months ago over Europe, the world dreamed that the very awful ttess of the modern engines of destruc tion high-powered rides, great guns capable of sending a huge projectile through the steel-plated sides of battleship, explosives comparable only to the dynamic forces of nature, sub marines bearing death through the depths of the seas, aeroplanes and .eppellns hurling It from the sklei was the surest guarantee of peace. Yet war came, the most frightful war of all the ages. Carnage is In the air. Europe Is one vast battlefield and one vust cemetery. Hospitals in Kngland. In France, In Germany, In Austria, In Russia, are overflowing with the wounded. Ureal cities are as If each had been tbe scene of some terrlblo catastrophe -their hotels, their public buildings, the dwellings of their principal citizens hale been transformed Into nursing homes fi the victims of the holocaust of Mars. And yet it is true that this a a hu mane war! Death Ratio I its. Wounds- have been no fewer thafi In oilier modern wars, but tbe propor tlon of deaths from Wounds has been far less. And there has been less sick ness. There lias m-cn b'ss su(T-rlhg oi the field of battle. Never before had soldiers who escape instant death o the battlelleld a better chance of re turning homo alive. It may be that they will pass home through the doors iff a hospital, after a long con xalesccnce. Hut no longer Is It true that to enter a Hold hospital ia lo rn .ir the outer portals of diuUb. In ot jir , ttajra. 4lleeae a ,n- -eue.ro more to be reared than Ihe armed soldier-of a Hostile Tores, and hospital gangrene following the wound fnr more serious than th wound ft Tf, Not so today. The man responsible for the change is the army surgeon. In warfare nowadays Ihe doctor Is more ttrmortarer than the Tifncer." Th latter leads bis men against an en ci uy w ho cjin.be seen, and In a. jneaa lire guarded against. the former shields itrem night and day from an enemy "fnr-more msldldua and deadly Mortality llgiires for wars of com paratively recent date simply take one's breaih away. They prove that the Lacllin is deadlier than the bul let In Napoleon's I'enltianlar cam paign ti'l. OHO of bis soldiers were kill ed by I ho enemy; ton.non died of dls eiiMe In June. IK12. a splendid army of nOO.tion crossed the Piclier. their faceK set toward tbe bleak steppes o Russia Hlx months Inter, tn liocem ber, the beaten remnant straggled borne. . There were scarcely 20.000 survivors Most of the 480.000 who perished died of disease Kngland suffered almost as severely In the t rlmea. Thnre almost one fourth of her troops tiled of typhoid fc.Tibr.- dyaent.ery. and-. other. .lnfwcllnus diseases. In the Franco-Prussian war tbe tide of death from disease began to turn France lost 14ft out of every 1000 men by disease, (fermany. how ever, even then advanced In the med ical science of the hatt lefteld. lost by sickness only 24 men out of every t housand. The army surgeon has a double lob. He must learn bow to cut down this mortalitv from disease, and he must study also busy to cut dowti the nior nutty from wounds. A century or so ago for every thousand dead on the held from seven in twelve.'thousanil others died a ling ering death from their Injuries. In ii r own civil war. bad as conditions were m- many of the Held hospitals. 67.000 died on the Held, as compared to 4S.000 who died of wounds. In the Franco Prussian war 17 000 Hermans re killed In battle, while only 11.000 ted In hospitals. After the war be- : Veen--fa-pap and Russia the .lap iinnv doctors figured that only 11.000 f their countri tnen had- dted of wounds compared to 47,000 who fell in baltle Hgnrcs on Chances. fr. Woods Hutchinson in a recent article 'summarUed Ih" comparative risk of war as follnws: "The chances of a modern soldier being killed In battle in a year's campaign have been reduced to about one tn .10. bis hancesH of dying of wounds received In battle about one In 60. his chances f dvlng of diseaNe to about one In The liorrors of this great present war: Xbe awful stories of regiments wiped ihjl and long corpse trains filled with IheVdead tied In bundles, tbe mass of sluv-klpg. stunning news that comes day arVe'r day from the front -all have contributed to obscure, the real fact of t he Xhum-ancncss" of the European eontlict.'x et the fact renufKis It may sound like iU' in urv bad t.-lste to speak of such awar as this as humane." Hut think hVwr fright fill wmild he tbe mortality (inH, suffering if the old conditions of mormedical iiiiprnent and ignorant surgiciM teoti- n srltt" T'Te-rair.-YI'-- nT'lhe splendid millions that obeyed the mobilization all List August only a few hundreHs .f thousands of human scarecrows.N wisted and bent by hurdsahlp, en feebled tiy disease, or maimed bythe surgeon s knife, would crawl oacK to bel'r rlfltied homes after the war Was vet- j How is it dimr1 How do thu world s siimes manage o i-oiiil.ine deadly offectiveneess In slaughtering th' enemy and SHVihg ef- ectieni In preserving Ihe health of Heir own men, both the well and the wound'-d? inly by clothing tbe army S"rg' Q" Bii-h- a Ininsl -il.U-taiuril-pnw. rs. Ie controls the destinies of the oblier. from t he moment of enlist nient .to the day of discharge or of burial in a soldier's unmarked grave. licking the Kei-nilis. Kver one remembers the angry I'.rttPdier w bo was refused cnllslmepx hortlv after the war began because his iceih were in nec-d of repair, snd want to olte trie enemy - he wanted t boot Mm. r.ngiatid has oeeen ex remHy careful in picking recruits They must be absolutely sound men Here the arfny surgeon's word it su preme. This ia line way of helpline preserve the health of the fighting force- to let none get t the frottf" who are w eaklings. Iih-c enlisted. be soldier in Britain's armies, and ; n every other army Involved, is tin-' er the army surgeon's 4-orl Tin- reCrutt must be conditioned. War is hjtrd' work, harder ilhr.any labor, harder than any sport. -Men must train physically- for war as they would for a cross-country run. - Therefore. the doctor prescribes and fupervlses their excrtiec In the preliminary period of training , before they leave . for the front. Also the recruit hi vac cinated seal net both smalioox and pryphoid fever ' Typhoid was one. of ee- old scourges or tne soldier. Thanks to antityphoid Inoculation, the disease ia 'grow ing race-, In the modern srmy. .' - v The srmy surgeon Is V consulted bout the soldier's clothing, his shoes asiiecliiHa A-ittcduati. board, ot.ex. ) peria. svonti out, las ration, ana uv uis Held the regimental surgeon keen an eye on the men and their food at mealtime, to make sure that th ra tion is well cooked and tastily sea auued. Kven the amount of water that it .is best for the men to drink al stated intervals on the march la work ed out by the medical staff, and undar their supervision filters and sterilising appliance are prnvlda and constant' ly used for' purifying tainted or ails pected water supplies. The doctors' of an army lay down the sanitary regulations for lot first -aid dressing is greater than one might imagine. Most of the troubles that follow, a wound that does not Immediately kill are due to Infection. There Is always danger of blood poisoning, and If soil from the ground gets into tag wound, of the deadly lockjaw. There fore, the fate of the wounded man often depends upon the manner In which the first-aid dressing la ap plied. The frlrl Ambolance. Field ambulances are placed at the outset of a battle at sheltered points along the tiring line. Nurses and sur geons wait here to apply emergency dressings. Wounded soldiers- drag themselves, or If they cannot wallc are ca cried on litters or crossed rifles, to these ambulance stations. Here their wounds. are rireaewd roughly and they are paaaed on to the hospital tents at the rear. The more seriously wounded are borne in litters or sent1 In anil.ula nces. light motor , cars be. Ing used largely for this purpose. As soon aa bis wounds will permit, the Injured soldier Is sent from the hos pital lamp to one of the permanent hospitals in eome eltjr held by his own army. Thence -hs Is sent home, eit her In a hospital ship, r m s -hoe-- pitai train. France is wall equipped With IJtieae. heMtol tram Bweh, tain Is capable of accommodating 12J wounded; wit H a berth fid- each. There ar i cars lo the train, of which six are hrtttpTtaT cars There i an oper ating rimrn, a pharmacy, a eupplv, room, a kitchen, a dining room and a pantry, each taking up a car. Then there are -additional cars for the; slightly wrrnndett -irr-co'nvBlesrerrt,- and " for the surgeons and tturaes in charge. Fuesla has .. . aixWl4r.,-,. iraJiia.-- called '.'white trains," and supplied by the great Russian nobles. . Kngland. France and flerniany are dotted with new hospitals, erected on short notice by the srttvy medical au thorities for the reception of wounded, line of the finest and most modern ot these hospitals is at Cambridge, Eng land. A modern, though unpreten Hons hospital, haa lieen erected on one o' the must beautiful of the crick et greens of the historic university at ambrldge. It consists of a series ot frame buildings with the south side of each entirely open to the fresh air' and sunlight. This Is said In he thn first fresh-air military hospital ever constructed. To further carry out tho fresh-air principle, all the wounded, who can stand It are taken for a fHve every afternoon In the hospital motor ambulances and -private ..cars furntHb ed by the people of Cambridge. There are 1200 patients In the hospital. Anierliwjw at Paris. One nf the moat successful of these base hospitals has heeen operating In I'arls, under the supervision of Amer ican physicians. The "American- Hos pital." aa It Is called, has become fa mous. During the flighting near Forts surgeons sallied out from this snd other Parisian hospitals In motor cars and taxi cabs, and drove right up to the firing line for their patients. One of the first official reports from a medical authority In the war xnnn comes from Ir. Von Hohjemlng, the medical chief of the Herman army. Ills report covers the first two months of the war only, and rfer to' the -western Mold of baltle that of Hel- gtum and France, lis declares that the Herman medical arrangements worked out In a way that was entire ly satisfactory. In view of the extra ordinary service required, the forced marches, the difficulty of transport and the exceeding great' number Of wounded. It's the armv surgeon's Job to keeu & whole skin so that he rn patch up tbe maimed and broken fighters of his mmaiid. Hut he cannot avoid Lik ing 'risks and the records of all tha armies show that only too frequently bis bravery wrings his death. One of the most characteristic stories of bravery comes from the antipodes, where the Irritlsh hae been Invading Herman New tlulnea. Captain Brian rklev, a young surgeon In the Aus tralian naval reserve, took off his coat with Its Red Cross sleeves snd gavve it to a soldier, who was carrying a wounded man out of the fire lone, so as to protect the victim and his bear er. The surgeon kept on working lit his shirt sleeves r-a splendid target for lire and with no distinguishing mark Inform the enemy I hat he wax a Ited Cross worker. A Herman officer shot him. and he died.. The Herman, ; was captured, and court -ntartiaJcd on the charge oT firing on the RedJL'roser-. but exonerated. Instances of brav ery might he multiplied. The iJ-tny surgeon regards it all.ag.jart .of..lhs -pnme'. ' TfTs up'lolilin' t" fend for the enlisted man, tn camp, in battle, sart or the battle. If the bullet finds"!! billet under a Jacket with the red pcrnss on the sleeves why. trs only I the lust duty of th day's work. Funera I Flowers A little berK-r arranged, a little mar - srttstlc. W tsrn you waa ' nice. telrpbooe VAN UNDLEY CO.. FloraU Ureenshurn, W. O. " 5 MARY'S IAIHGH, L CL flooded M 1B41 fey Hey. AlOert SnsSdea, D, IX tsd esslnai Begtes KPTEMBER IT, ltla. si in MasBspsssgasflassBSsss PtACES ASSUUTTi a order or APPidCATioar KEY. GEO. W. LAY Ola j- j W I! - 111 r.j.'av.wsa.'.. 'r'.t.vji -j
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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