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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22
HON. j. B. FREEMAN,
Member of the House of Represen-
tatives from Henderson Co.

Mr.. Freeman, the Republican member
of the House from Henderson county, is
a typical mountaineer farmer He was
born in Buncombe county in 1919, but
has spent his life in Henderson county,
where he has devoted his best efforts
to stock raising, fruit growing, cereal
and grass crops He has hedn very sue
cessful. He owns three orchards. His
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22

Mason, by avocation, is a fisherman.
Prior to his election to the General AS
sembly in 1902, he served two years as
county oyster inspector. In the House
this term he has served on a number of
important committees being at all times
prompt in attendance, and alert in the
interests of his people. He is young
man of progressive ideas, and is especial
ly interested in the subject of good
roads. and the public school system, and
in the advancement of the temperance
idea He was born in Carteret county
in 1877.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22

duties as a member of the Legislature,
there is said to have been much re-
joicng on the part of the moonshiners
that they may be free from molestation.
While Mr.. Aikens is considered such a
terror among the moonshiners, he is said
to be popular with them all.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22
LOCAL SCHOOL LEGISLATION.
Graded Schools Established, New
Districts Created, and Bond Is
sues Authorized.

Besides the general public acts reprint
ed as digested above, a number of local
bills concerning schools and school af-
fairs were passed. such as acts establish
ing graded schools, new free school dis
tricts, empowering school authorities to
issue bonds. etc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22
SCHOOLS TO ISSUE BONDS.
HON. j. p. MORRIS,
Member of the House of Represen-
tativcs from Polk County.

Representative James Morris, of Nc
Dowell county, was born in Rutherford
county. in 1915, and was educated at Table
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22

Rock Academy under the tutorage of DR..
Alternately. In 1872 he was admitted to
the bar and went to Polk county. In
1874 he moved to Marion. In 1879 he mar
red Miss Mary NJ. Burgin. He was May
or of Marion in the SOS and again from
1891 10 1894 He was elected to the
House as an Independent Democrat and
boasts. that he has voted the Democratic
ticket fer thirty-five years. He is de-
voice of the subject of Good Roads ana
the Public School System. He intro
duced a bill giving dispensary to Old
Fort. He served as a member of the
Committees on Judiciary, Constitutional
Amendment, Salaries and Fees, and Min
iEg.
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been active in politics. motto of
his being: To vote early and late. lie
has served Smithfield as mayor and
Johnston county as chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee and in
the Senate of 1895 and 1897 and in the
House, by choice, in 1908 In 1894 he
was a Cleveland cIector lie is author
of the act of 1897 reducing the rate of
interest from TO 6 per cent. In the
House, 1903, he was chairman of the
Committee on Railroads aud Railroad
Commission and member of the Com
mittees on Salaries and Fees, Counties.
Cities and Towns and Propositions and
Grievances He was watchful and alert
full to the interest of his constituency.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22
GRADED SCHOOLS EsTABLIsHED.

Acts have been passed establishing
graded schools in the following towns
Westfield. Swan Quarter, Roxboro, Ora
ham, Tryon, LaGrange, Fremont, Green
vile, Lenoir, six in various parts of Ala
nance county, a certain territory in Ala
nance and Orange, Hope Mills, William
ston, Weldon, Oxford Plymouth, Cross
Creek township, Cumberland county,
Edenton, Forest City. Spring Hope, Pei
ham graded school in Caswell county,
Louisburg, Roper, Troy, Pigeon town
ship, Haywood county Scotland Neck,
Morganton, Clinton, Elizabeth City, Co
lumbia, Mount Prospect, Surry county
SCHOOL DISTRICTS CREATED.
On line between Moore and Harnett,
Carbonton in Chatham and Moore, Stokes
county, Pike district of Cumberland and
Robson counties. Raeford district of
Cumberland and Robson counties. in
Johnston county, in Richmond and Mont
gomery and Moore counties.
The county line and Macy Grove school
districts were abolished
SCHOOLS TO ISSUE BONDS.
Mount Olive Graded School district.
Enfield Graded School district, Cross
/ Creek township, Wilson Graded Schools,
Spring Hope Graded School.
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ciary. He was punctual in his duties
as a Representative, and introduced a
number of bills of a local character. He
gave his best efforts to securing the de-
feat of the bill affecting the county gov
eminent system.
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Aikens married at his home, in Brevard'
Miss Landlord of that little mountain
city.
1t was said that he was the most sue
cessful Republican to get his measures
through the Legislature.
Mr.. Aiken carries the name of terror
of the dark corner" moonshiners; and
when he left his home to attend to his
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valcdictorian Of his class that of 1928
Reading law under Prof. Gulley he was
admitted to the bar in 1899, and began
the practice of his profession at Lumber
ton He remained there one year, ac-
ccpting the Professorship of English
Literature OF Mercer Uniyors ity, Macon
Georgia. where he spent the years of
1900 aud 1901 On January /, 1902, he
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22
HON. w. p. WHITE,

WemDer OF INC HOuse OF Neprcsen-
tatives from Halifax County.
Mr.. w. p. White, representative from
Halifax county, was born October 5,
1860. He attended the common schools,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
DON'T GIVE AWAY THE HOME
 STEADS

The attention of Advertiser readers Is called to a. communication in this issue tp reference to the public lands and a bill in Congress, which proposes to give those in Alabama to the State for the benefit of the public schools. The com- munication makes the sensible point that if these lands are gobbled up by one or two syndicates they will De taken from She market, and the young men who want to buy cheap land will have to go to other States and sections. Why not do- nate the land for school purposes, but with a proviso that the Federal laws in reference to homesteading shall be ad- herred to and the money arising from such homestead sales be used for the wchools. It would be infinitely better for The future of our State to limit the amount of land such purchaser could get 10 1so acres. than to let two or three men bury it all who would not sell a foot of 1t perhaps in twenty-five years. We want to keep our young men in Alabama. Those of them who may want land in a few years should have the opportunity of getting 1t here. The suggestion of our correspondent is worthy of the seri- pus attention of our representatives in Congress.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17

ruly officers chance to ''vindicate their characters" by court martial trials when they can do so much better and 8 great deal cheaper through the public press.
 A mans character cannot be stained" by living human. and the officers of the Alabama National Guard can preserve and Nndicate their regulations better by good behavior or through the press. If an officer demeans himself well he will obnoxious element and detriment to military efficiency and discipline he should be removed and his successor elected, and the tax payers of the State should not be called upon to pay the expense of a court martial trial to "vindicate his character" when he can have a say through the press and state only one side of the case. Courts look at both the black and white side of any case coming before it and even if an officer should be ''vindicated" he would come out of 1t in rather mottled condition.
 Contingencies have arisen in the past which demonstrate beyond doubt that if the Alabama National Guard is to be what Is expected of 1t. it is to have an official head and a head with the power to command 1t. The commander-in-chief should have power to remove the highest or the lowest officer in the military ser vice of this State for cause satisfactory to himself, and to at all times be in supreme command. and his acts should be beyond question. without reproach and final
 The necessity for the Vener bill being enacted into law Is patent to every think ing citizen of the State and should by all means be passed. Respectfully,
 First Ut Co. M. 8rd. Inf A N. G
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
STRENUOUS LANGUAGE.

The extravaganza of language some times indulged in by the defenders, as we'll as the critics of the President is al-
 mes. amusing. For example. a paper published at McAllester, in Indian Terri tory, has this paragraph:
 As Toothful Teddy has displayed such a fondness for "culled sassiety' here. re- gently. he should by all means remove to the Brazos bottom in Texas where he will find no other variety. The greatest mistake made by our most puissant Pres ident seems to have been his marriage to white lady.
 It Is easy enough to say that a news paper shouldn't speak so disrespectfully of the head of the government. but hum dreds of them are doing 1t every day. The American people have precious little reverence for those in power, and the average newspaper is as ready to guy or satirize a President as 1t would be to poke fun at a policeman. In most cases there Is no malice in it. The writer Is either repeating the idea or suggestions of some one else or he wants to turn a paragraph for the amusement of his readers. He doesn't mean any harm. but the little paragraph above quoted brought this burst from The Muskogee Phenix:
 The hand that could Den such an arti- cle as this should wither with the arm above it in its socket and no American citizen should ever grasp 1t in friendli- ness or in fellowship.
 Wouldn't that jar you? Suppose our contemporary's anathema should be lit- orally fulfilled in the case of every news paper man who has written disrespect- fully or sarcastically of the President wouldn't there be large crop of withered arms in the journalistic world? We sus- pect that The Phenix itself has at times published equally severe remarks about public men, some of whom should be treated with as much respect as even a President of the United States.
 The truth is the average newspaper writer cares very little for that divinity (which doth hedge king" or a President either. for that matter. And there is not a doubt but that many of them indulge in latitude beyond the legitimate limits of newspaper criticism. No President escapes. MT. Cleveland has been abused. ridiculed and caricatured as much as
 Mir. Roosevelt has and we have not heard of any withered arms in conse- auence. And we wonder if The Phenix never feels any twinges in it's own right arm,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
RAILROAD LEorsLAr1oN.

The Georgia Railroad Commission law For many years has been held up as a model by those who have desired more Legislation fin the way of railroad con trol. The measure. however. now under consideration in the Alabama House of Representatives goes far beyond that law in many particulars. This is particularly the case as to the mode of selection Over there the Commissioners are ap- pointed by the Governor and under the law which controls their action there has been but little complaint on part of the people or friction with the railroads.
 The throwing of the election of Com missioners into the political arena is a very risky piece of business. There is no special call for such a radical step and it ought not to be taken. The power which it is deemed proper for the Com nissioners to have can be conferred on them and still leave the appointment to the Governor with confirmation by the Senate. We have enough issues in Ala bama and We ought not to make more if it can be avoided.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IF, lsos.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of nswspaperdom which comes under its notice. and one of thess signs is the mystic symbol Ol dsnoting ',golden." which stands for high quality. and is thus explained:
 "Advsrtiseru value this paper more for ths slass and quality of dts circulation than for tho mere number of copies printed.''
 Such papers are credited with a single Sym- bol: but there is a higher grade. according tc this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL Vv to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol C00l and is the onI, paper 90 distinguished in this section of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
GOOD CATTLE.
The Interest Is Increasing and
 Augurs Well for the Future.

Editor The Advertiser.
 The sale of Hereford and Short Horns that occurred at Montgomery on the 10th of February was an event or more than passing interest to the farmers or Alabama. That ninete n registered full bIooded cattle and thirty grades could be sold in Alabama at auction and all bringing good prices. with spirited and rapid bidding in the sale ring, surprised more than few of the buyers.
 The nineteen registered Herefords and average of sl42 per head; the highest price was SEQ for a Hereford heifer. The prices of the grades ranged from 80 to $s0 each. Why this rush for blooded beef cattle? It shows that there is strong demand for wish to enter into profitable beef produc- ton. These cattle sold we'll because they were wanted and because they were guar anteed to be immune to Texas and tick fever. The man who sold the cattle guar anteed them to live until October 1. 1908. I believe every man who bought one or more of the registered Herefords or Short Horns has made good investment, pro- viding he Judiciously handles his blooded animals. But the man who buys grade bull to head his herd makes a mistake. Why is it that in 1899 the average price of a yearling in Alabama was $6s4; in Tennessee, $12S; in Kentucky, go? The variation in prices Is due to quality of the yearling (breeding), the care of feeding. A grade bull at the head of a herd will mean that yearlings from that herd may sell for about $6 each, while yearlings in herd headed by good registered bull will be worth from $10 to go. But some one says registered cattle are too high in price. Possibly they are when you pay for a guaranteed immunity. But every farmer or stockman who expectes to have twenty to sixty cows 70 his herd can af- ford to pay from s100 to $500 for a good bull that will stamp himself upon every calf he gets making 1t worth about twice as much as the average scrub calf; Sup. pose the bull adds $6 to the value of thirty calves. In other words he makes for his owner $1s0 in one season and thus pays for himself.
 By getting young bulls or sucking calves in the North and having them ship ped into Alabama any time from the last of November to the first of March, they can be safely inoculated, the risk of death from fever being less than 10 per cent. So far I have not lost an animal from tnoc- ulation, but the average loss for all inoc- ulations that been made have not exceed ed 10 per cent. Many times sucking calves pass through the fever when ticks infest them without much danger. have inoculated and now offer to inoculate an- imals for farmers in any part of Alabama charging only my travelling expenses for the work.
 The best time to buy in the North Is in the spring or summer and have the ami mals shipped South in the fall or winter. Alabama must of necessity become a stock growing State in order to redeem her worn out soils and maintain the fer tility of her good soils, C. A. Cary, Auburn. Ala. Alabama Experiment Station.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
PLAGUE AMONG DOGS.
Peculiar Disease Raging Among the
 Canines in Eufaula.

EufauIa, Feb. 1s.-(Special.)-Some dis ease has broken out among the dogs of the city and within the past month not less than a dozen valuable pointers and settlers have been afflicted. Of these half have died and several are now afflicted and the owners have very little hope of their recovery. John A. Henry, L.. M. Shealley and others have lost fine bird dogs in this way recently and say they have never seen any thing like the dis ease before. The dogs break out in small sores which soon spread and cover the entire body. Their throats then become inflamed and they refuse to eat.
 The question of dispensary or no dis pensary Is still agitating the citizens. Petitions were circulated several days last week and are still being circulated asking the signatures of those who op- pose the measure and are being signed quite as freely as the others.
 The library commission met Friday af- ternoon and perfected a formal organiza- tion when the following officers were elected: Dr. J. B. Whitlocl. President Prof. F. L. Mccoy, Secretary; John P. Foy. Treasurer.
 Governor Jelks's home is fast approach ing completion and will be ready for oo- cupancy sometime this spring.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17

The Postmaster General is continually imposing new. restrictions on the poor Congressman who are trying to skimp along on $500 year and perquisites. His latest innovation Is an order that mem- bers who send mail-sacks full of things home without paying postage must re- turn the sacks. This is the way a free government expresses its citizens. The aristocraic P. M. c. has no conception of the many uses to which government mall sack can be put on farm. They would be excellent for holding grain potatoes and the like. they can be made into back-bands for the blow horse, and on a pinch the careful mother could build some very durable brooches out of them for the young kids. They can be turned to account in many ways and the gov. ernment is real mean to deprive states men of this perquisite.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
THE STATES REvENuE.

From present indications the Legsla- ture will recess until September without enacting a revenue law. This is to be deeply regretted, because if there are any new sources of income the State should get the benefit of them and at once. The Constitution has fixed the tax limit at 6 1-2 mills which on assessment of s29O, GOO, GOO, means a reduction of income of $2sO, ,OOO That is a serious proposition and the legislators ought to face 1t and al once. The taxes have been collected at the 1-2 mill rate, because 1t was in the statute and in force at least until Leg islature could meet. This matter of re- ducing to 65 cents at least will have to be attended to whether or not any way of making up the loss is adopted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17

That poor woman. Mrs. Carrie Nation If she uses her hatchet she gets into trouble. If she gets busy with her mouth she has some more trouble and now the authorities of California town jerk her up and fine her for footing a horn In the streets What Is the poor thing to do? She hasn't sense enough to keep quiet, and even If she should go way back and sit down she would probably get in somebody's way and be fined for 1t. Why doesn't she go out as a missionary to Bulgaria? Then if she got into trouble there would be sympathy and money for her. As it is she seems to always get the hot end of the poker.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17

included within the publications of any textbook publishing house. Truth will never suffer from a diversity of opinions or of textbooks.
 We are persuaded that neither the plea of saving in cost nor the too fair prom ises of uniformity win prove a valid ar- people, in books as we'll as in stocks and bonds have the inalienable right of local government and control. It is pro- foundly and eternally true that without freedom-without the liberty to choose, to reject, and, where need is, to innovate there can be no health in the moral and intellectual life, either of the individual or the nation." H. O. Murfee.
 Marion Military Institute.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17

The --~'dwin Standard credits The Ad- vertiser with the question. Would you sleep in a haunted house one night for $500?" and adds:
 Yes, and we will be willing to contract for longer time at reduced rates What is 1t that is troubling The Advertiser?
 Well, We might reply that great many things are troubling me Advertiser. VI but 1t isn't afraid of ghosts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17

Referring to the fact that the Legisla- ture of Pennsylvania Is hesitatlng about approprlating money for the Lee statue at Gettysburg. The Chattanooga Times says:
 It matters very little whether the funds be appropriated now or not-they will be appropriated in good time. The pension patriots who are baking the movement and venality with them to the tomb. and . new generation proud of the valor gal lantry and heroism of American soldiery whether in the blue or the gray gaIb,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
First It. Co. M. srd. Inf. M A. N. G
Inspection of Books of Certain ofi-
 cials

Huntsville, Ala, Feb. 14, 1903. Editor The Advertiser.
 While the Legislature is considering the enactment of a law to authorize the in spection of banks in the State, I think there are two other inspections that should be made mandatory, viz: those of city officials books in all towns above 2,000 population and the books of Superin- tendents of Education. Why not have these inspected and reports made thereon as we'll as other State and county off, cials?
 finnacial affairs of many towns in this State are not made public This, 1t seems to me, has a tendency ta engender ap- prehensions in regard to their monetary matters, Very truly,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17

It may be interesting to our readers. if any of them want to have shoveis, tongs, etc.. made of the new metal ra- dium, to know that the price of 1t has been marked down from $1OOO. 900 to $SOo, . GOO pound. It will soon be as cheap as hard coal at that rate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17

islature is not wise in making the Rail- road Commission elective. Mark what we say: It will introduce an element info State politics that will cause continual turmoil without being productive of any good effect that an appointive Commits sion could not bring about if given the needful powers
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-17
A GOOD PROJECT,

Prof. R. H. Dabney of the University of Virginia, is going to write a history of reconstruction days and he ought to have the assistance of all who have any personal or other knowledge of that pe- riod. In all the Southern States there are men and women who not only have vivid recollection of the scenes and events which made of the South almost hell on earth, but who are competent to assist in the work of getting the mat ter into shape, and they should do so cheerfully.
 Professor Dabney's object is not to rake up the fast dying embers of sectionalism or to revive the bitter feelings associated with the reconstruction period, but to write history. There are some things which the people of the South ought not to forget. and should not desire to forget, and among them are the events which attended the saturnalia of vice and crime and corruption incident to reconstruction. AS our posterity, should be truthfully and liberally taught the brave deeds and he- roic devotion of the Confederate soldiers, even so should they know the truth about the years following the war.
 There have been few. if any, instances in modern times and among civilized peo- pie where a crushed and almost helpless people were subjected to more cruel wrongs and indignitles. more heartless and unbushing robbery and more inhu- man oppression than was visited on the Southern people during those days, and 1t will he well if all the truth can be pat on record for instruction of future gen. erations, not only South but elsewhere. It is good work and should have the