The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30

road excursion, the Sunday newspa-
per, the Sunday working Presbyterian,
and every form of activity which is
not in harmony with the literal Near
ing of the Fourth Commandment was
condemned.
Judge John II Baker, of the United
States District Court, has rendered a
decision, in which he holds that the
heirs of Marion Tyler, who was lynched
at Scottsburg, Ill, several months ago,
have a cause of action for damages
against the sheriff of the county and
bis bondsmen. In holding that a shelf
is responsible for the prisoners in his
care, the court said: IF the law i'm
poses a duty of are in respect to mi
mails and goods which he has taken
into his possession by virtue Of his of
fee, why should not the law impose
the duty of care on him in respect to
human beings who are in his custody
by virtue of his Chce7 Is a helpless
prisoner in the custody Of sheriff less
entitled to his care than a bale of goods
or a dumb beastG The law is not sub
ject to any such reproach."
The Southern Baptists, in the wind
up of Whitsett agitation, by the resig
nation of the doctor have gotten an
elephant off their hands. 1t is a ques
ton whether the Ep;scopalians, by
the admission of DR.. Brigg into their
Church, have not gotten an elephant
upon their hands. DR.. Whitsett S
heresy was concerned merely with a
question of Church history. DR. Briggs
her 81, for which he was deprived of
ministerial privileges by the Presby
terrain Church, touched the very foun.
dation of faith. 1t rejects the COM
plete inspiration of the Scriptures The
Southern Methodists are not yet salts
fed with the settlement Of the Bar
bee and Smith trouble, and the North
ern Presbyterians are likely to hear it
thunder again before the McGifert
case ia ended, says an exchange.
The movement for the election OF
United States Senators by the people
is making more rapid Roadway, appar
emily, in Mississippi than it is in VIr
ginia. Thirty eight counties Of the
former State have ordered primary
elections to express their preferences
for United States Senators and to IN
struct their representatives in the
legislature to vote their choice. 1t g
Stated that there will probably be at
least 100 instructed in the next legis-
lature, out of of a total of 1919 on joint
ballot. Two United States Senators are
thus to be elected by the Mississippi
legislature. Governor McLaurin and
CONGRESSMAN John Allen are the con
testants for the long term. Senator
Sullivan is now filling the short term
bv appointment of the Governor, and
it is not proba able that he will have any
opposition.
The Presbyterian General Assembly,
in session in Richmond, Va, last week
adopted this resolution: The General
Assembly takes occasion to express ltt
strongest condemnation of the laWlesE
spirit abroad in the land, manitesting
itself in many ways, but notably II
scenes of mob violence and the taking
of human life in case Of supposed o.
proven crime, without due process o
law. involving the awful danger OF in
ficsing death upon an innocent person
while the real criminal goes free tend
ing also to cheaper human life, to IN
SETTLE the social order, and to weaker
or destroy that reverence for law AM
constituted authority which the Scrip
lures r. lire all to uphold. We there
fore urge all our people and ministers
. in all scriptual ways, to do their III
most toward cultivatipg and mair
, tanning that order aud reverence 70
authority which are enjoined by th
word Of God"
e The National Convention OF Cha
: tiles and Corrections held in CinciE
g natl last week was addressed by Gaorg
r Torrance, OF Pontiac, Ill. Superinten'
:. ent of the Illinois State Reformatory
on 1.-The relation of the cigarette
: crime" After reciting his experienC
y with boys coming to his institution
Mr.. Torrance said: II an sure ciga
cites are destroying more boys, an
> making mere crimina s than the 8
. looms. I'm his reformatory now thereal
. 278 boys. OF So, averaging II yeal
of age, So were cigarette smokers. {
y 133. averaging IA years of age, L
were cigarette smokers. O! 50, ave
aging Is years, q were cigaretl
smokers. This demonstrates that