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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
THE NEWSPAPERS AND THE LAW

Some jurist was commended the other
DAY Tor his opinion that the publication
OF the crimes of the day by the news
papers was itself a provoking cause of
CRIME. The retort could have been easily
made, that If the newspapers were gra-
clously permitted to publish punishment
OF crime as invariably connected with
the commission of crime, the publication
OF the whole news would be a wholesome
deterrent of crime itself.
There were published in the News the
other day the details OF horrible and
unnatural crime committed in this city.
We hated to publish them, as much as
We believe IN the saving virtue of publi-
city. We hated for young people to
imagine that there was such crime
But the second thought was that per.
haps some other human beast may be
deferred from such criminality by the
news of the swift and terrible punish
ment that will be meted out
Well, the court met. We speak as a
layman, who is yet thankful for the
theory which has been expounded to him,
that the law is common sense The soil
tor decided that there was not enough
evidence to convict of the most horrible
part OF the crime for which the penalty
is death.
Then since the facts have been pub.
llshed and the news of the crime has
gone forth, the following news, that the
man was sentenced to five years at hard
labor tor his helnouS offence, the limit of
the law, is really an encouragement to
the imitation of the crime by beasts who
are hke-minded.
So another important duty of the press
is the pointing out of the defects in the
law as it stands. The very facts that a
father can live in incest with his daugh-
ter, for two years. the illicit relation be-
ginning when the child was twelve years
old, and that unless an assault can be
proved in the first instance the maximum
punishment is five years in the peniten-
tiary, are proof enough to right thinking
men that the law should be changed. The
age of consent ought to be raised in
North Carolina from fourteen to sixteen
years, and the age when the crime is
punishable with death should be raised
from ten to twelve or fourteen. The
publication of this one case ought to
bring the pressure of public opinion to
bear upon the next Legislature to revise
the law.
So there are two sides to that question
of publicity. Frequently it is about the
only punishment that is meted out. PuGt
ger, with all the imperfections of his
style of journalism, did accomplish the
teeIc1lng of that lesson to reputable
journalism, everywhere. But if the
courts will do their full duty and en-
able the papers to give the news of ade-
quate punishment of the offenses which
they have already published, then the
press will become still mightier agency
for good. But when the courts do not
punish the crimes that the papers pub
lish, the scoundrels of the criminal class
es are encouraged to the commission of
crime
And when the law-books are not abreast
of public opinion in the matter of ade-
quate punishment for crime, then even
the publication Of the punishment with
the crime is an encouragement to evil
doors.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

we have i'll North Carolina an almost
imitless amount of water power that is
pouring embarrassed to the sea. Between
the great Bluett Falls, which, if harnessed,
would furnish power enough to make this
and other near by towns veritable centers
of manufacturing industry, or we might
see spring up on the banks of the Pee
Dee city equal to Fall River or Lowell
as manufacturing centre. We are in
formed that the party of engineers who
have been surveying the Bluett Falls
property have completed their work and
that their report is now with the pro-
moters. They are observing strict Sc
crecy as to the result of the survey, but
it is thought that it showed a vast
amount of power capable of easy develop
ment. We would not be surprised to see
something doing there in the near future
Rockingham Anglo-Sax
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

There will be deep and genuine regret
among a large circle of friends at the
death of Mr. Charles T. Luther member
of the House of Representatives from
Montgomery county. He was every inch
man-genune, sterling, sincere, true to
his friends and true to his convictions.
He was a useful legislator and patriotic
leader in his county. He was on the
threshold of successful career in the law
and in politics.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

1t seems now clear that the trans-con-
tinental railroads have won out again LII
was charged that they switched the gov
eminent over from the Nicaragua to the
Panama canal in order to postpone or
defeat any canal. 1t looks like the charge
had foundation. Mr.. Roosevelt can dis
prove it by going ahead and building the
Nicaragua canal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
IT'S MOST PAINFUL ASPECT.

John Temple Graves.
We are assured by those well qualified
to speak that in the days of slavery such
forms of crime were unknown; especially
IN the period when the Southern white
men were away from farms and planta
tons taking part in the war; the white
women at home were without the slightest
lear OF violence or wrong from the ne
groes round about them. Why do not
the scholars and agitators of the negro
race give more attention to the new
phases of negro criminology? Why do
they bother themselves so much about
the lynching of negro criminals. and 50
little about the hideousness of negro
crime? This, to be perfectly frank. is the
most painful aspect of the whole pro-
blem.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

Why not prohibit Southern preachers
going to the State of Ohio unless they can
be successfully vaccinated against taking
Southern preachers who have offended
most in public speech in this decade had
previously lived in Ohio. There seems
something in the atmosphere there that
poisons the mind of preachers. If they
cannot be vaccinated against it we had
better keep them at home.-Rhamkatte
Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
A REFRESHING EXAMPLE
Lumberton Robesonian.

Lum bertOn RObeSOnlan.
Ex-Sheriff B. F. Scott, of Wayne, has
made an assignment for the benefit of
his creditors Not a transfer of part of
his assets, but an unconditional surrender
of all his property of any and every ma
ture which he possessed. 1t is said that
he will not be worth a penny when his
affairs are settled up. 1t is refreshing in
this day when so many who fail make
assignments with reservations, and screen
themselves behind bankrupt and home
stead laws, that there are those who
prize honesty as above all price, and a
good name as more to be desired than
wealth fraudulently acquired.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
NO ROOM FOR A me TOO De
| MOCRACY.
Norfolk Pilot-Virginian.

The Raleigh News and Observer re-
marks that "there are powerful influ-
ences at work to make it (the Democratic
partly me too to the Republican attitude
on the trust question:
The News and Observer is eminently
correct, as far it goes, but it stops a
long way this side of all the facts. The
influences in question by no means aim
to make the Democratic party merely a
me too on the trust question-their
purpose is to make it me too on all
questions now of moment-upon the
trusts, the tariff and the currency.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

Capt. Ashe is fertile this summer. while
enjoying the cool mountain breezes, In
asking questions and propounding con-
undrums. His latest is: What causes a
cloud-burst? This query is respectfully
referred to Rev DR.. McKelway, who
denies that there is such thing as a
cloud-burst.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

The Washington Star facetiously sug-
gests that John Temple Graves is working
for the ship subsidy by advocating the
deportation of the negroes Sure enough,
if they are deported it will require big
ship subsidy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
A rather daring stand is taken II
! L l.. IyI.rIc,

A rather daring stand is taken ii
September st. Nicholas by Klyda
ardson Steege when she urges the
and girls to begin making friends WITH
Robert Browning right away Yes, the
great Robert Browning, the Browning
thought TO be above the heads of most
grownups, except when banded together
in clubs! The writer is the mother of
several little ones. SO her words carry
weight:
Of course, no very young person could
appreciate or understand properly the
larger part of Browning's writings but
still, he has written many things simple
enough to give real pleasure even to
young folks A glimpse into a beautiful
country is often worth while, even if one
can explore only a very little way into
its wonders. 1t seems to me, then. that
you young people might enjoy beginning
to read and study the great poems Of
Browning now, just as you study the
musical compositions of Bach and Bee
thoven, only taking the easiest and sim
plest of them. By doing this you will.
after while, be able to enjoy the more
subtle poems, just as in music you will
later appreciate symphonies and con-
certos that at present are too difficult
for you.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
A MORNING TONIC.
professor Drummond.)

Put seal upon your lips, and forget
what you have done After you have
been kind, after love has stolen forth into
the world and done its beautiful work, go
back into the shade again and say moth
ing about it, Love hides even from itself.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

The Washington Gazette Messenger
pays high tribute to Rev. Nathaniel
Harding and urges his fitness for Coad-
jutor Bishop to be elected at Goldsboro
on the tenth of October He is worthy
of the high tribute paid him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

of private stockholders, and those whose
business interests are closely identified
with the Atlantic and North Carolina
road.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
LITERARY NOTES
Behold

Behold
The Critic, bold and cold
Who sits in judgment on
The twilight and the dawn
OF literature.
And eminently sure,
Informs his age
What printed page
Is destined to be great.
His word is Fate,
And what he writes
Is greater far
Than all the books
He writes of are.
His pen
Is dipped in boom
Or doom:
And when
He says one book is rot
And that another's not,
That ends it. He
Is pure infallibility,
And any book he judges must
Be blessed or cussed
BY all mankind,
Except the blind
Who will not see
The masters modest mastery.
His fiat stands
Against the uplifted hands
Of thousands who protest
And buy the books
That they like best;
But what of that?
He knows what he is at,
And they don't. And why
Shouldn't he be high
Above them as the clouds
Are high above the brooks,
For God, He made the Critic,
And man, he makes the books.
See?
Gee whiz,
What puissant potentate the Critic
William j. hampton, in the Critic
September.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
Spirit of the Press.

THE DO-sOMETHINGs AND BLOOD
SUCKERS
Gaffney, S. c., Ledger.
1t beats Bobtail how people who do
something are cussed and discussed by
those, who vampire-ike, endeavor to suck
the blood out of everything they come in
contact with.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

The Hobart Company, ia Fifth Avenue
New York, announce that Gen. Charles
Kings latest novel can Apache Princess
will appear on September 25th. 1t will
be illustrated by Frederic Remington and
Edwin Willard Denning, the same artists
who illustrated Gen. Kings Let book "a
Daughter of the Sioux" which has had
the largest sale of any book by this IA
nous author for many years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

Many man thinks he is reasoning with
you when he is merely arguing.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

Sir Thomas Upton, in an article in the
September Cosmopolitan on my Efforts
to Win the Americas Cup" draws at
tention to the personal danger attending
the sailing of the modern racing yacht.
In addition to being a menace, these
racing machines, he declares, are practi-
cally useless When the races are ended,
they are worth only as much as the metal
within them will bring.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

Rev. Lyman Abbott opens the Septem-
Der Atlantic with an able and suggestive
article on why Women do not Wish the
Suffrage" an attitude which he claims
results not from any inferiority of woman
to man, but from her essential difference,
bodily and mentally. Herbert w. Hor-
VIII follows with a paper on the question
of the Bible in Public Schools, anda he
discusses as pertaining thereto the IN
creasing and generally acknowledged
Biblical ignorance of the rising genera
ton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
THE DECISION "A WISE ON.

New Bern Journal
This decision is wise one. and meets
the hearty approval of the great majority
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

Mr.. Alfred Henry Lewis, whose intimate
knowledge of inner political life in New
York qualities him peculiarly for revela-
tiohs of the mysteries of politics, has
written a novel entitled 1.-THE Boss"
which has for its subtitle "How He
Came To Rule New York" This story
which offers obvious opportunities for dis
closures of the dramatic and unexpected,
and for answers to the practical questions
provoked by the sudden prosperity of
THE Boss" will be published this autumn
by A. S. Barnes & Co.
Mr. Lewis wrote a biography few
years ago of Richard Croker, lauding the
former Tammany boss to the skies. AT
forwards Lewis fell out with Croker. 1t
may be that his study of Croker, on both
his good and bad side, has given him the
material for political story that will
be welcomed on the eve of another n2N
tional campaign.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

We regard 1.-THE One Woman by
Thomas Dixon, Jr., as a work of high
merit. From a literary standpoint it is
far superior to his 'Leopard's Spots" 1t
is intensely interesting throughout, the
story of love, sin, sorrow and pathos flow
ing in tumultuous rapidity from the first
chapter to the last The dangers of social
ism and evils of divorce are brought be
fore the reader in characters of living fire.
We venture the prediction that this cratic
young North Carolinian will go down in
history as the greatest literary genius of
his Rockingham Anglo-Saxon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06

The September number of the Metro
poltan Magazine shows the mark of it's
new publishers. They did not take the
Metropolitan until way into June. and
as it usually takes several months to
get up each issue of magazine the
great results expected were hardly looked
for until later in the fall. However, the
September number is very excellent
one The entire new dress is pleasing
and much more readable. The number
contains no less than ten short stories,
and several illustrated articles, besides the
continuation of Maurice Hewlett's (who
wrote Forest Lovers) 'The Queens
QUAR-" and Howell's Letters Home"
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umphant shouts and laughter OF the
boy ana the complacent smiles on the
faces of Jack and the half breed stirred
my wrath. | tore of the cape and. hav-
ing got the saddle put right. seized
Jacks riding whip. and. disregarding
his Inconsistencies. sprabg on my steed
once more. and before he could make
us his mind as 10 his line OF action piled
him So vigorously with the rawhide
that he set of over the prairie at full
gallop and in a few minutes came
round 10 the camp quite subdued. &c
the boys great disappointment aud 10
my own great surprise. Jack was high
ly pleased, and even the Stolid face CT
the half breed showed satisfaction.
Don't think | put this up on YOU"
Jack said. 1t was that cape. Ht
rin't used to such frills. But it was a
circus" he added, going of into a 1T
Of laughter. worth IS any day"
You bet!" said the half breed. Oats
make pretty beeg fun, ehY'
1t seemed to me that it depended
somewhat upon the point OF view. but
l merely agreed with him. only too
glad to be so we'll out Of the fight.
All day we followed the trail that
wound along the shoulders OF the round
topped hills or down their long slopes
into the wide, grassy valleys Here
and there the valleys were cut through
by cOulees through which ran swift.
blue gray rivers. clear and icy cold.
while from the hilltOps we caught
glimpses of little lakes covered with
wild fowl that shrieked and squawked
and splashed, careless of danger. Now
and then we saw what made a black
spot against the green of the prairie.
and Jack told me ii was rancher's
shack. How remote from the great
world, and how lonely ii seemed-thiS
little black shack among these multi.
tudinous hills!
shall never forget the summer even
ing when Jack and rCdc into Swan
Greek. | say into. hut the village was
almost entirely one of Imagination. in
that il consisted of the stopping Place
q long log building. story and a half
high, with stables behind. and the store
In which the post Office was ke,.t and
over which the owner dwclt But the
situation was one Of great beauty. ON
one side the prairie Eamb Il down
from The hills and then stretched away
TN tawny levels into the misty purple
at the horizon; on the other il clamher-
ed over the round. sunny tops 10 the
dim blue OF the mountains beyo~d
In this world, where II is impossible
10 reach absolute values. we are forced
to hold things relatively. and in con
trast with the long. lonely miles Of our
ride during the day these two houses,
with their outbuildings. seemed Il CEN
ter of life. Some horses were tied to
the rail that ran along In front of the
Stopping Place.
Hello" said Jack. Il guess the No
bic Seven are in town"
And who are they?" | asked.
ooh" he replied. with shrug. "they
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THE SCHOOLMASTER.
Public school
Swan Greek.
Alberta

There WAS altogether n fine mir about
the letter. The writing was i'm Gnr.
small hand. the tone was fine. ana h,r2
was something fine in the sigma 20
Arthur Wellington Moore" IL was
glad 10 know that there was a school
and 4 teacher in Swan Creek. ra~ a
school meant children. in whom his
soul delighted. and in the teacher he
would ind friend and without Il
friend he could not live. He tooS me
into his confidence. telling me that
though he had volunteered FOR this ian
away mission field n was not much OF
preacher and he was not at ali sure
that he would succeed. But he meant
10 try. and he was charmed at the pros
pect OF having one sympathizer ut ler ST
Would be kind enough to put in some
conspicuous place the inclOsed notice.
filling In the blanks as | thought best?
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- CoAnNa 81 - no

THE COMING or THE PILOT.
HE was the first missionary ever
i seen in the country. and il
Ec4UsN was the old Timer who named
HdfsW him. The Old Timers advent
10 the foothin country was pre-
historic. and his influence was in
consequence immense No one ven
tured 10 disagree with him. FOR 10 dis
agree with the old Timer was 10 write
yourself down tenderfoot. which no
one. Of course. cared 10 do. Ii was a
misfortune which only time could re
pair 10 be a newcomer. and il was
every newcomers aim 10 assume With
all possible speed the style and Gus
toms OF the aristocratic old timers and
10 forget as soon rs possible the date
OF his own arrival. SO il was as the
Sky Pilot Familiarity the Pilot-that
the missionary went FOR many "a day
In the Swan Creek country
l had become schOOlmaSter Of swan
Creek, for in the spring a Kind Provi-
dence sent I'm the Muirs and the Bre-
mans with houSefulS Of children. 10 the
anohers' disgust. for they fOrcSaw
plOwed fields and barOed wire fences
cramping their unlimited ranges. y
school became necessary. ~ little log
building was erected. and l was aD-
pointed SchoolmaSter. Ii was rs school
master that l first came 10 touch the
Pilot. for the letter which the Hudson
Bay freighterS brought me early one
summer evening bore the inscription,
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vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

the thing was SO unexpected had
fancied myself n fair rider. having had
experience OF farmers colts OF divers
kinds. but this was something quite
new. The half breed stood looking on.
mildly Interested; Jack was smiling.
but the boy was grinning with delight.
I'll take the little beast" said Jack.
But the grinniug boy braced me up and
| replied as carelessly as my shaking
voice would allow:
"Oh. / guess I'll manage him" and
once more got into position. But no
sooner had ] got into the saddle than
the pony sprang straight ny into the
air and lit with HIS back curved into n
bow. his four legs gathered together
and so absolutely rigid that the shock
made my teeth rattle. IL was my first
experience OF "bucking" Then the lit
lie brute went seriously 10 work to get
rid OF the rustlIng. tapping thing on
his back. He would back steadily for
some seconds. then. with two or three
forward plunges. he would stop as il
shot and spring straight into the upper
air. lighting with back curved and legs
rigid as iron. Then lac would walk on
his hind legs for few steps. then
throw himself with amazing rapidity
10 one side and again proceed to buci,
with vicious diligence.
'Stick TO hint" yelled Jack through
shouts OF laughter. You'll make him
sick before longr'
l remember thinking that unless his
insides were somewhat more delicately
organized than his external appearance
would lead one to suppose the chances
were that the little brute would be the
last Ia succumb 10 sickness. To make
matters worse. 4 wilder jump than
ordinary threw my cape up over my
head. so that I was in complete dark
ness. And now lac had me at his mercy.
and he knew no pity. He kicked and
plunged and reared and bucked. now
on his front legs. now on his hind legs.
often on his knees. while i'm darkness
could only cling 20 the horn OF the sad
die.
1T last. in one OF the gicams Of light
that penetrated the folds Of my cnveI-
oping cape. / found that the horn had
slipped 10 his SIDE. so the next time he
came TO his knees I threw myself or.
! am anxious 10 make this point clear.
for from the expression of triumph on
the face OF the grinniDg boy and his
encomiums OF the pony 1 gathered that
he scored win FOR the cayuse With
out pause that little brute continued
for some seconds 10 buck and plunge
even after my dismounting as II he
We're some piece OF mechanism that
must run down before it could stop.
BY this time | was sick enough and
badly shaken in my nerve. but the trl-
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To Land Buyers.
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are the elite or Swan Creek. and. DIV
Jove.' he added. this must be n per.
NIT night"
What does that mean7" i asked. as
we rode mp toward the tie rail.
Well said Jack I'm low tone. for
some men were standing about the
ooor, you see. this Is n prohibition
country. but when one of the boys feels
as IL he were going to have a spell OF
sickness he gets permit to bring I'm n
rev gallons for medicinal purposes.
and. or course. the other boys being
similarly exposed. he invites them 10
assist him In taking preventive meas
ures. and" added Jack. with a solemn
wink. 1T Is remarkable. in a healthy
country Ike this. how many epldemics
come near catching US"
And with this mystifying explanat ion
we joined the mysterious Company OF
the Noble Seven.