The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-05
WROTE THE LETTER HIMSELF.
M, L. Wood Writes Spier Whitaker to
That Effect and Will Write Another
Letter In the Caucasian.


Letter In the Caucasian.
Ex-Judge Whitaker has received the
| following letter:
Lewiston, BERTHE Co, n. C.,
February 1, 1896.
Spier Whitaker, ESQ., Raleigh, n. c..
| Dear Sir: AS you no doubt are aware
| your name has been recently associated
| with mine in connection with a print
| ed circular letter, sent by me to Uni
| ted States Senator Butler on 18th Jan
uary last. / have written commune
cation for publication in his paper this
| week, in answer to an editorial criti-
| cising my circular" letter that APP
| peared in the last Caucasian. You will
confer a favor by seeing Mr. Aver, the
| managing editor of THAT paper, and
| ascertain if he will publish my letter
| of the LIST inst, in this weeks paper,
and telegraph me his answer to "Kel-
| ford" n. G. No one deprecates this,
| what must of necessity be to YOU un-
| pleasant association of names, more
| than ! Co. Just how it occurred, and
| for what purpose, is beyond my ken
| of discernmeut at this time, though /
| sincerely trust That the perusal of
mine Of list inst. viii satisfy Senator
| Butler especially and the public gen
| orally, that YOU are in no way con
nected with the writing of my letters.
| This, my dear sir. is all / can off," by
way of apology for the unpleasant
| circumstance.
| If, my dear sir. YOU have no Ubiec-
| tions YOU will show this commuatca-
| ton to MF. Aver or any person Hao
may be curiously interested in the
matter.
Should you incur any expense at
| tending to the above request, please
forward bill. etc, and will remit at
once. Very truly yours,
NJ. L. WOOD.
NJ. H. Wood has written a long letter
| to the Caucasian in reply to its recent
| editorial. "A Letter and Its Answer"
The Caucasian intimated chat Judge
Whitaker was the author Of the letter,
and designated him as man who
wanted to be Governor.
| But Mr.. Woods latest letter viii
| leave no doubt in the minds of the pub
lie or the mind Of Mr.. Butler that he
| himself On. l.. Wood did write that
| letter with his own hand.
The Caucasian did not have space for
| the letter this week. Editor Aver says,
but it will be published in next weeks
| issue.
| 1t is understood to be Of heating
nature and is a sequel to the first in
| teresting letter addressed to Mr.. But
| Ter. and read by the world ut large.
s Ohio Wilson says the newspapers
were wrong in stating that he went
to see Mr.. Wood regarding the letter,
and therefore that he couldn't have
told Mr.. Wood that the letter-writer
was handling gunpowder. He says
| the nearest ne ever got to Mr.. Wood s
| country was the town of Wilson.
| 4 Populist gave to the papers this
"song and dance" about Otho's visit to
| Berthe, which shows that even a Popu-
| lists mouth is not always a fountain
| of truth.
IN MEMORIAM-JOHN NJ HECK
at matters little at what hour OF the
day
The righteous fall asleep, Death cannot
| come
To him untimely, who is fit to die;
| The less of this cold world, the more
| of heaven;
The briefer life. the EARLIER immor-
tality."
John Martin Heck, son of Col. j. NJ.
| and Matte A. Heck, was born in Raj
eigh, n. c., July IA, 1877, and died in
/ Knoxville, Tenn, January 30, 1896, be-
fore the completion of his 10th year.
With the exception of few months
| in active business, the greater part OF
his life was spent in the duties of the
school room and the college. 1t may
not, therefore, be Inappropriate for
| those whose lives were linked with his
in scholastic duty, TO lay wreath of
remembrance upon his early grave.
For n number of years he gave him
/ self devotedly, as a student of the Raj
egh Male Academy, to the labor of
| preparation for college. Yet more than
| that. in those formative years of char
| acter, his exemplary conduct, atfec-
| tionate heart, and noble devotion to
| duty, won the admiration and love OF
| teachers and associates, and offered
| the fairest promise of usefulness and
| influential manhood.
| He entered Wake Forest College in
| January. 1894, and of his honorable
| position there, Prof. Royal writes:
| '.He was a member of my Senior
| Greek class, and upon repeated contact
| with him, / found myself impressed,
not alone with his mental ability, but
with certain richer and higher endow-
| ments that pertain to the soul.
His work was its own witness of
the honesty with which it was per-
formed. He seemed averse TO creating
any estimate Of himself that was false.
possessing an intellect SO bright as
was his, it is not strange that the
teacher should have been drawn to the
student, and that n genuine affection
for him should have sprung up IN ms
| heart"
At the call of duty he surrendered his
collegiate ambitions when within q
| year of graduation. and in June, 1895,
| proceeded to the responsible work
which circumstances assigned him at
| Coal Creek mines, thirty miles from
| Knoxville Tenn There he nurSued his