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The new Webster's International Dic tionary of the English Language is re garded by the celebrated Dr. Murray, editor of the greatest English Diction ary ever attempted, that lias been on the anvil for thirty years land is still unfinished, as perhaps the best of oner volume English dictionariei. There is a-supplement of 25.000 words, an addi tion of one-seventh of the; grealt vol ume. These have been prepared under the editorship of the distinigxiished W. T. Harris. L.L. D. The New York Evening- Post thinks that Dr. Murray Is not up in the one-volume dictionaries as English one-volume books of the kind are small in comparison with some A: -orican publications. Writing of th la!:o3t additions to the Webster thai scholarly newspaper says: j "These are words which have come into Importance during s the last ten years. Their multitude ; measures our progress during that period. A full half of them belong to the physical sciences, and of these nine j out of ten to. biology, including . medicine. There must be five or six thousand botanical - terms, alone, in the supplement. About a tenth or twelf th of the additions are words of local use.. Probably not five per cent of them are good literary j words. There are near a thousand col ! loquial -and slang expressions." ; It also points out many errors to be found in the last additions. lJut withal (that, it is a very useful an elaborate work to he in one huge volume. The novel Richard of the Lion Heart Bay Mr. Hewlett is being read and re tviewed. It is a new study of Richard's Character Iby an able, acute mind, and a most charming writer. It is a pro ttiounced success it is agreed.! Of course Jthe bes't critics disagree ini their ap praisements, but all agree as .to its luncomimon cleverness. The Evening iPosit devotes a column' to its! consider a jtion. We quote here and there : "It will have already appeared that the book shows much of the 'high se riousness of the great 'dramatic' nov els, to use Mr. Paul More' s-Suggestive classification. This has not; prevented certain qualities of the 'epic' novel as well. Behind and aoout tne main enar- i acters lies a whole Itroubled Tivorld. . . The mediaeval combination of refine ment in taste with sheer brutality in morals is seen in Richard's I rivals and fellow-crusaders. . . But this much should be said, tha't the sound of arms in this book has the epic ring, and is in no iwise to be confounded with the mere clatter of present-day romance. Of the manner of Ithe book much good Js to be said, but .with certain reserva tions. . . Of the striking prose of this novel, highly wrought and distin guished as it is, a word should be said. There are many euphuisms. To the more common euphuism of prettiness Mr. Hewlett has never .condescended. But Ithere is a euphuism of power to wihch the greater spirits are prone. . . . It was Mr. Hewlett's prose style that convinced us some tenj years ago that the publication of 'Earthwork out of Tuscany' was an event jih English literature. That judgment, so far as it went, we have had no occasion to- re tract. . . Certain defects lof this no table book have been considered some i what at length, it is in thef confidence i that Mr. Hewlett's 'Richard Yea-and-! Nay' is only the earnest of the great romance that no other writer . of the day is so likely to give us. , - These extracts will serve tshow the attentive reader what manner-of book it is. Frederic. Harrison, the safest erf tic in England, 'says it . is the one strong success Of 1900. or words to that effect. We gave a week ago his precise language. Hewlett is the foremost I master of style among a"ll living writers of fiction in English. tm Saiis'hurv's "Napoleon: The Last Phase," is a great success. It is conceded ; by all writers who have dealt with it. He is heartily in sympa thy with Napoleon, the captive, and condemns unsparingly ithe j treatment hP WHS subiected to bv England. That is quite remarkable comirjg from a British lord and an ex-prime minister. He also shows that in his captivity the greatest man of nineteen centuries was mentally and physically much of a wreck. Great as-he was at Water loo, he was in partial decay. If he had not been he would have whipped Wei ling'ton out of his boots. But for the German Blucher t he would j have done that any way. S6 "broken by the storms of state" was the great emperor that his latest biographer or critic says that it 'is safe to say that had he effected the impossible and escaped he could never have seriously disturbed the world again, except as a tradition." He gives a picture that is sadr-his great mental powers turning upon him But in spite of English bad treatment and the consciousness of ai great and final fall from which he was never to . rise again, he bore himself. ij as the ac complished English lord says "with dig nity and composure the affronts of his English guardians, but ruling his own household of tactless, petulent and mu itually jealous attendants with gentle ness, patience and good humor, sooth ing even the most irritating of them, the refractory and sometimes insolent Gourgaud with a 'tenderness akin ; to that of a parent for a wayward child." This part of the picture Is new as well as true.' Thalt eminent literary authority, London Academy considers Stedman's recent "American Anthology" a "wil derness of mediocrity It is interest ing to see how high English authority regards the two hundred years of American poetizing. We quote at large: . ' It is clear that America has no dis tlntive national note in poetry. .; .. The effect produced by this volume it must frankly be said, is not satisfying, not impressive. . . It is an especially depressing conviction which the book forces on us is that the advance of American poetry has not been sustain ed. There seemed more than hope for a nation which had produced such a group as that of Poe, Emerson, Lowell and Longfellow. . . If another Poe were unlikely, it seemed no unattain able ambition to advance beyond Long fellow. Biit America has not even maintained the level of Longfellow. Among the later poets none stands prominently forth but Lanier and, in a minor degree, the minute grace of Father Tabb." Mark, Poe, Lanier and Tabb are southern. It says of Lanier that he "is the only one who has gone back to the Elizabethans and the seventeenth century." It praises Whitman. It cop-' ies a dainty poem by Father Tabb, of Maryland. Referring: to the best north ern poets "of the present day," it says that "the dead Sidney Lanier is by far the foremost of these names; a poet of true genius, but represented here by .lengthy extracts." The London Athenaeum! reviewing Hewlett's novel . considered above "Richard Yea-and-Nay" says this, and it is worth copying for its some from a great literary weekly journal: "Mr. Hewlett's new masquerade of mediaevalism shows him to be an apt master of the ceremonies. He spirits his readers on into the lands of old world romance and chivalry with all the grace and certainty of the finished artist. But this sense of delicate illu sion and dramatic fitness was to be ex pected from a writer who in some re spects stands alone. He is to be class ed above ithe . vivacious historical ro mancers who have lately, held the field." THE VALUE OFA NOBLE YOUTH. If we correctly apprehend the point made against The Messenger by the Raleigh Times, there are no young men now leaving North Carolina. It re gards such a statement as "ancient his tory." And yet the editorial it opposes gave several names of young men who have just left North Carolina. If it has failed to see in the last five years that many valuable young mien had gone out and are now with the large body of "the dispersed abroad,'.' it has not looked with open eyes. The Mes eenger always regrets to read of a wor thy, promising or gifted North Caro linian going from home in search of employment or honors or moneyi An ed ucated,, intellectual, moral, energetic young man is worth no little' ifco a state or a communiity. While a youth may leave for "pastures new," two young men! will come in hils place and find equally as inviting pasturage as he will probably secure abroad.' We ' knew a young man to come to North Carolina from the north. He worked steadily up, and, we believe, he gets $5,000 sal ary a year. There is always "room at the top." The young men are not neg lected as a general thing in thi3 state. They are manfully to the front and three-flourhs of public places are held by them, we take it. The tendency is tio disregard in politics the elderly al together, and unlike England or New England when a man reaches sixty he is set aside and with it his wisdom, his experience, his ripened ability, his stores of learning and knowledge. The Messen ger will be glad (indeed if it is true, as affirmed by our Raleigh contemporary, that the young men. who "stick," and are. at home at work helping to build the state and - "to develop the indus tries." God bless and prosper the youth of our land. They are the state's hope and safety. In proportion as they are pure men, honorable men, noble men, with lofty ideals and due diligence, loving the old Commonwealth and glorying in its traditions, muniments, ancestral faiths and giat deed so will they prove blessings and supports to its prosperity, stability, free insti tutions and good order. " There are some youth, like some of older age, who are of no value to a state, and when they go there is no loss if not a destructive gain. But for a youth of high aspirations and prin ciples, - with all the ebullient hopes of life'.5? young spring, while "joy wings his feet and joy lifts him from the ground," it is a clear loss to have him working elsewhere having left kindred and neighbors and friends and the needs of the state behind him forever. v He may improve his chances, better has expectations, win laurels of other people's bestowment but his own people and his own native home are the loser. A wise, In genuous youth is a treasure, the greatest Roman orator Cicero.saidV'As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, so I am less pleased with an old man that has not something of the youth." He is a wise old man who tries to keep his life green and his heart young by constant association with youth who are En the very "May pf life," and who wear with so much -of ease and attractiveness . that ' which Shakespeare describes as "the light and caresless living." ' We began merely proposing to say a few words in reply to the Times, when lo! we have in dulged in an unexpected glorification of the-youth of a land. MA2TOT ACT OTHERS AXD ORGAN FIGHTING FOR THE CIGARETTE The Winston Tobacco journal attacks the cigarette bill before the legislature. It says the planters oppose. . We do not credit this but if true they are selfish. If it injures and kills youth to make the deadly cigarette then the benevo lent and merciful farmer will not de sire its manufacture. All along the news has come to farmers had been us that Granville well nigh ruined by the American Tobacco trust. We be lieve it Is tme. The Reidsville Weekly, editorially one of the ablest of the North , Carolina craft, by Colonel John R. Webster, a few idays ago said this: "The trouble with the cigarette is that there is no such thing as mod eration in its use. The poison is drawn into the lungs and poisons the blood. All cigarette smokers inhale the smoke that is the distinctive fea ture of the habit. ! "Reid ille is a tobacco town, and public sentiment is overwhelmingly in favor of the passage of an act prohib iting the sale of cigarettes. We believe it is the same all over the state save two places where perhaps in one "or they are manufactured." Of the cry like that in the above or gan, that is sent out, that a law to shut out the cigarettes will seriously injure the farmers, Colonel Webster says this: :" j . "But we hear the plea that to pro hibit the sale of cigarettes in North Carolina will injure the farmers of the bright , tobacco belt. Yes, every ; lob byist at Raleigh is working in the in terest of the farmer. The bill will not hurt the manufacturer. Oh, no. Well, if the manufacturer makes as many cigarettes as ever, he will need as much leaf as ever, if we can see straight. The fact is that the farmers have little to fear, on this score." Be not deceived. The cigarette kills and men get rich but of it. That the boys -all over the state are being very much injured by the deadly poison is true and patent to all but selfish people interested. Rev Dr. Crawford who edits the organ of the Methodist Wes tern North Carolina conference, and is a minister of high character and good abilities, lately wrote for his paper this in part: . j - i - ' . "Almost every week articles, pam phlets and books reach us purporting to give the evil effects of cigarettes on the human system; and setting forth the sure disastrous results that will certainly follow their constant use. Yet everywhere we go we see boys from 5 to 6 yars old, up, in groups and alone, pulling away on cigarettes. On the streets, around railway lines, at the churches, going to: anl coming from school at all hours of the day and night they are drinking in the poison. "Every day we are grieved at what we see and ask ourselves the question, is there any way to remedy this evil? Is there no way to save our boys from a habit that will certainly blight their lives and blast the ! hopes of fond par ents." What he says hundreds of good people all about know to be unqualifiedly true. When leading railroads in self -protec tion are compelled to shut out from all employment. all cigarette smokers it was plain that even men were being sorely injured and! rendered unsafe and incompetent. The Baptists have a well edited weekly published at the Thomasville Children's Home, called, Charity and Children": We get the following from the ! Reidsville Weekly as from the paper mentioned: "We have no doubt in the world that the cigarettes destroy five boys where whiskey kills one. One reason for this is that it is unpopular for a youth to drink whiskey, but quite the thing for him to smoke a cigarette." We notice that out in Wisconsin a Mrs. Tracy sues for divorce and her contention is that her man, Roily, is a "cigarette fiend." .A good cause if the Bible is to be shut out and the husband is really that sort of fellow. The judge granted the plea as Roily confessed his sins and plead guilty. It is a fact that all about the cigarette is becom ing popular with some women. The Jacksonville. Times-r Union is disposed to get fun out of this incident, and thinks the law ought to forbid ; marriage1 with a ' "cigarette fiend." It I urges if it is ground for divorce why not make ground to forbid marriage. It says in a jocular spirit: ."Now, if the legisla ture will forbid a license to the fiend the girls will frown upon the habit; then it follows as a consequence ' that the cigarette must go. She will see to this when it behooves her own inter ests, even though she be careless of the THE JOY OF THE house is the baby. No matte; how many have come betor, . the latest arrival brings joy t ail. A'y " When the little one talc ? his first glimpse of the world, he is in, it is a minute of keen est joy. Father is proud, mother is fond, brother is eager, sisters are tender, nurse is devoted: ,i ' ...1. 1 i j S tne wnoie iiuiiiciii wunu is kiiiu. There is another, an under, world with enemies in it. When baby gets into its shadow, be quick with Scott's emulsion oi coa-iiver -.on ne is sure to get into its shadow; let him get no futher than into the edge of it Health is th baby's life. Well send yon a little to try, if yoa Cite. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl street, New Yorfc.v interests of r . the . - community. Minors friend who will buy the abomination for them. Society smiles upon the habit in, season and out; but make all marriages with the. fiend illegal and the evil will die immediately and very dead. We only encourage the habit when we make it the evidence of man hood and the proof of manliness when all other signs faiLf Since writing the above a dispatch sent 'from New Tork of the 7th instant, ; shows further how the railroad war on the cigarette pro ceedeth. We copy for it enlightens:- i "Following the example of the Chic ago, Burlington and Quincy and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the conservative New York, New Haven and Hartford raibroad 1 has issued thts flat that the cigarette; smokers must go. This anti-cigarette movement on the part of railroads is one of business not sentiment. Smoking has been found to lead to color blindness and this leads to a wrong reading of the signals, ; a matter of great importance in railroad ing." :,o '.; .111;.'.. -'M M HOME FOLKS. The Raleigh News ; and Obesrver called attention to the fact that no por trait of Senator Vance was in the Con federate Museum, j It announces that the Daughters of 'the Confederacy have taken the matter in hand and will have one" of other great! Confederates placed there. , It adds ithat "it is the purpose of ithe ladies to have portraits of Ransom, Vance. Hoke and a number of other great Confederates." That is right. General -Bob Ransom, Ptti grew, Pender, Ramseur. Daniel and some others should jail have a place. ; It was pur old friend Jenkins of Gran ville who so thrill ejd the- members of the house and brought out their re peated applause aiid the fine compli ment from Mr. Rountree. The News and Observer says of the "effort that the venerable member-f-oldest in the house and more than : seventy "in a magnificently eloquent speech pictured the misery resulting from disregard of the sacredness of the marriage itie. It was a grand piece of oratory, abound ing in vivid pictures and historical al lusions." Here 'are a few of the thoughts: 'Truth is simple, unique, indivisible, and it is the truth we are after. Mar riage is not an institution merely. It was ordained by God. even before the fall of man. . . When St. John was banished to the rocky isle of Patmos, and was shown the great truths of Revelation, he wasiold. He that keep eth the, commandments shall enter the pearly gates, but without are the sort cerers and the unclean ones. Socrates had his Xanthippe, but he never ; left her. No great manl ever left his wife. (Wild applause.) . L Napoleon Bona parte deserted the only ! woman Ithat ever loved him. We see him at Auster litz, Marengo, Egypt, grand little Cor sican that he was, a great man. The star otf his greatness ascended the heavens like some baleful light shed-, ding its rays over all the countries of Europe. Then red with! blood and dim med with clouds it sank'in the depths of the trackless sea. He had torn from him the only woman who ever loved him. (Applause). Let 1 us get hack to the old ways of the Anglo-Sa?on he roes. "Let us set the example." j It appears that Judge Connor opposes impeachment, hut favors disapproval of the conduct of the .two supreme court judges, lurches? and Douglas, in strong terms. , 1 1 A HINT IT MIGHT BE. , If the legislators did not have; so much on hand to tax their ability and industry the Messenger would venture to give a hand as to one: thing much needed in behalf of North Carolina his tory and our brave men who fought at Gettysburg, and particularly on the third day. It would be highly becoming? ffl the legislature should 'appropriate a sunt sufficient to have a full, clear, corrplete history written of the art taken by North Carolina in the great, three days' ' battle of Gettysburg. The complete evidence as to the Third Day should be included. History as thus far written of that dav is! false,; partial,; unjust. There were other troops in the fateful and famous charge than Vir ginians, and as brave. It is a simple; fact that of Heth's division, command-; ed by General Pettigrew, (General Heth being incapacitated from a wound) composed of four brigades; jtr only one that 'behaved badly was (the Virginia brigade known, as Brocken bo rough's . There was but one brigade of North Carolinians (Pettigrew's own) and there was never a better body of soldiers on any battle field. It lost im mensely, its gallant colonel, young Harry Burgwyn, being killed. Let jthe book be written. Mr. Justice Clark or Mr. Bond would do the work most! ef fectively, most thoroughly. We have so often written of the; Third Day, and once within a year, that" we have but glanced at the subject -in the above. The slanders have gone for enough. A Virginia paper that ! publishes such baseless slanders as have often appear ed about men who braved everything on , that insanguined filed, is engaged in a shabby assault. : j Cold Steel or Death. "Tir Ss hut one small chance! to save your life and that is throughi an operation," was the lawful prospect! set before Mrs. L B. Hunt, of Lime Ridges Wis., by her doctor after vainly try ing to cure her of a frightful lease of stomach trouble and yellow jaundice. He didn't count on the , marvellous power of Electric Bitters to cure Stom ach and Liver troubles, but she heard of ' it, took seven bottles, was wholly cured, avoided surgeon's knife, now weighs more and feels better than eyer. 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