The gold leaf., 1901-08-01
OUR RALEIGH LETTER.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT At
THE CAPITAL.
More Room for Pauper Lunatics-
"Father" Worth an Honest lan-
Adjusting the Matter of martins
Stealirgs-Other Matters.
From Cur Regular Correspondent.

FROM CuI hcRu1dI SOlI
RALEIGH, n. C., July 20. 1901.
1t was announced on Saturday that
Governor Aycock had effected an agree
ment with Superintendent Mckee and
the Directors of the Central Hospital for
the Insane, at Raleigh, to not accommo-
date either pay patients, or ''inebriates'
in the future. and to require those now in
this institution to clear Quito go else
where" Where they can go is not
stated BY this action it is hoped to
make room for certain pauper lunatic
which Johnston county has tired OF car
ing for, and some Others perhaps.
Some of the craziest and most danger
ously insane men | ever heard of were
''inebriates' in a majority of cases good
men who cant stand liquor and are
crazed by it whenever they drink it. BY
proper and prompt treatment at these
asylums many of them have been saved
from destruction and death, and are now
citizens of influence and high standing.
But hereafter they go to the "demni-
ton bOw-wows,' it seems, and if Gov.
Aycock has insisted on such course ard
the Superintendent has consented to 1t,
both have made a mistake. and a cruel
and unjust one If the cause and origin
of the unbalanced mentality OF the insane
are to count in securing admission, it
should be applied to all alike. Because
the insane man (whOse mind can be re-
stored and that's the main Inject OF
these asylums; they are not pr. rarly
prison houses) was made by liquor,
makes him no less a proper object OF the
States attention. Even the thieves and
murderers of the dangerous insane de-
partment receive medical care at the
hands of the State. The asylum, and not
a hospital. is the place for the class OF
':inebriates'' | have named--and so be
cause they are crazy.
AN HONEST MAN
The POpulistp party was unquestlOnably
top-heavy with designing political trick
sters and included among its leaders
many erratic and some b-a-a-d men-nO
doubt of that But it certainly included
some good and capable and honest men
in it's personnel For instance, Secretary
of State Cy Thompson was one of the
most efficient men that has filled that
office, and now comes the proof that the
late State Treasurer "Father' Worth is
an honest man. as he was an honest
official.
He has called meeting of his bonds
men and placed at their disposal his
entire private property, to recoup them
for the loss they will sustain by payment
of the SIT 900 stolen by his fusion clerk,
Major W. H. Martin. an ''old issue Re-
publican,' who came down here with
Shermans army in the COS, and honestly
and capably held office regularly for a
quarter of a century under State and
Federal administrations-only to slip up
at last.
Martin was bonded in the United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Company,
but that company has given notice that
it will fight the claim and suit in court
will result. In the meantime DR.. Worth
is called on by the present Treasurer to
make good the defalcatiOn, and hence his
action His bOndsmen will meet here
this week.
The good old Quaker did not make
over his property to his wife, or any one
else, to escape payment, and he has not
hunted up any technicalities or legal
bubbles to delay settlement. He is
worth the amount and will repay the
stealngs of his subordinate, if it bank
rupts and beggars him. Aye, "Father"
Worth is an honest man. Let the fact be
recorded.
VARIOUS MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Commissioner Patterson, the new Pro
fessors of Agriculture and of Botany at
the A. & NJ. College and the new State
Veterinarian. and others, will begin the
holding of Farmers Institutes August
10, at Kings, Stokes county, thence pro-
ceeding as follows: Elkin, August 13;
Yadkinville, Il, Pennington, Is and 16;
Mooresville, II; Stanley Creek, Is; Lin
colnton, 20 and 21; Newton, 23 and "a;
Brevard, 26; Columbus, 2S; Rutherford
ton, 30; Shelby, 80.
At the State firemen's tournament at
Charlotte last Wednesday and Thursday
the old officers were reelected for another
year. This tournament was a great sue
cess, the Goldsboro, Winston, Green's
boro and Charlotte companies all won
prizes Asheville was selected as place of