The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-21
Views and Interviews.

met a man last night who had been
reading Buffers advice TO his followers
to drive the White Supremacy adyo-
Gates out of the State. Il have been
thinking about it all day" he said, and
have asked myself the question:
where will the red shirts and anar-
chsts' be while Col. Young and Mai
Butler are marching their forces ro
whip them out of the State?' If they
are the reckless men represented. will
they sit still and let the negroes and
pap-suckerS whip them out of the
State?' There is a story--it is old, bu,
it illustrates-that will answer this in
quiry. Once upon a time clustering
man strobe into a barber shop unbuck-
led two pistols from his waist. took on,
TWO bowie knives, and other deadly weu.
ponS, from his person and said: I
want shave, but before any barber
shaveS me, | want TO say that | will
kill the barber that cuts me enough
TO shed one drop of blood Most Of the
BARRIERS declined to shave him. being
frightened by the threats. Finally one
mildmannered tonsorial artist motioned
the blood-thirsty man TO take n seat In
his chair. He shaved him without any
evidence of nervousness. When he had
finished. the blustercr said "Werc you
not afraid you would cur me? How
could you shave me when you knew that
if YOU cut mo even enough 10 bring one
drop of blood that ] would kill YOU?
You must he the braveSt man in the
world The barber calmly replied. Il am
not Il brave man. ] was In no danger
When you got in the chair | made up
my mind that if | saw drop of blood
| would cut Your throat before yon
knew it.
DIR. W. Il. Capchart the owner of the
most successful shad fishery in the colm-
try, who was in Raleigh last week with
his wife en- route to Cuba. says that
shad have been caught earlier this sea-
son than heretofore. probably due 10 the
mild fail and winter Shipments are
now made to New York of shad daily.
They bring high prices and none but
folks with big income can yet eat the
Succulcnt shad. The fish are. so far
caught with gill nets. The seines will
not begin To he operated for some weeks.
The prevalence of small pox in
cause general vaccination throughout The
State. If n man has his life insured. the
first question asked is. Have you boon
successfully vaccinated. There is
safety in nothing else.
THE only possible way to stamp our
the disease" says DR.. r. III. Lewis,
Secretary of the State Board Of Health
lis to enforce compulsory vaccination.
There is no hope for the people in an
infected district unless they submit 10
vaccination
Most of the trouble SO far expert
enced i'll stamping out the disease comes
from kicking physicians says DIR.
Lewis, who deny the diagnosis. In
many instances these doctors declare the
disease chickenpox. 1t is seldom that
chickenroX attacks adults. The kicking
physicians generally cause all the trcu.
bic. If one physician in a community
denies the diagnosis in a case of small
poX, there are hundreds of people ready
10 espouse his views. Where the profess
sion is united in the diagnosing of the
disease there is no trouble whatever"
Il think your notice of the appointment
of Mr.. Walker as ianitor of the Supreme
court may have left a misapprehension,"
said Marshal Bradley "He is appointed
ny the keeper of pubic buildings and not
by the Supreme court He served for
two years after the present court came
in and until Mr.. Rurns was appointed
keeper of public buildings and was re-
moved against the protest of the court
When Mr.. Burns announced his intention
CT removing Mr.. Walker the court sent
fer him and urged that he be retained.
The court has uniformly opposed any re-
m0valS ON account of politics
Speaking of early Shad. the Elizabeth
City Economist says: "Tyrrell county is
not loud i'll it's demonstrations OF self
praise. but nature has been bounteois to
it i'm its favorS of locality and climate.
1t always gets there with the first white
shad and its first truck. green peas. The
first white shad steals its way cautiously
along the southern shore of Albemalle
Sound, seeking his breeding grounds at
,Avoca or upper Roanoke. The first shad
takcn on the TNyrrell shore this season
was ON Saturday before Christmas and
during the week school of thirty, not
having heard the news of the capture of
their predecessors Of the Saturday before,
came leisurely and the whole flock OF 30
fell INTO the tolls of a fishermen and were
made to do duty ON a millonaire's table.