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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
A MORNING TONIC.
(Rev. John Watson, d. d.

l begin my days work some mornings
perhaps wearied, perhaps annoyed by
multiplicity of trifles which seem too
small to bring great principles to bear
upon them. But do you not think there
would be a strange change wrought in
the petty annoyances of every day and
III the small trfles that all our lives, OF
whatever texture they are, must largely
be composed of, if we began each day
and task with that old prayer: Rise,
Lord, and let thine enemies be scatter
CO.? Do you not think there would
come a quiet in our hearts and victori-
Gus peace to which We are too much
strangers? If we carried the assurance
that there is One that fights for US into
the trifles as well as into the sore strug-
giles of our lives, we should have peace
and victory Most of US will not have
n-any large occasions of trial and con-
flict in our career, and if Gods fighting
for us is not actual in regard to the
small annoyances of home and daily life,
| know not for what it is available.
Many mickles make a muckle,' and
there are more deaths in skirmi3hes than
in the pitched field of great battle.
More Christian people lose their hold of
God by reason of the little enemies that
come on them like a cloud of gnats on a
summers evening, than are defeated by
the shock of a great assault OF a great
temptation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
FULLER LAW BEARS FRUIT.

The Fuller law bears fruit. In less than
one year it gives to two of the leading
cities of the State guarantee of modern
union depots Durham-lons suffering and
prosecuted Durham, whose ills caused the
passage of the law-will get its depot by
mutual agreements between the roads.
But the Fuller law is responsible for the
agreements. The Southern had refused,
year after year, to DO anything until the
loaded Fuller Jaw was drawn on them.
Then The officers, said: Don't shoot.
I'll come down"
Yesterday the Corporation Commission
ordered a union depot at Charlotte. 1t
is greatly needed. The Southern offered
to enlarge its cramped depot, but that
was not satisfactory The seaboard S
depot is not worthy the city. Together
they will build depot that will be credit
to the roads, and convenience alike to
them and to the travelling public.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
CANNOT BE INT!MIDATED.

Greenville is in the throes of a red-hot
campaign for the closing of a dozen or
mere saloons, better known as drunkard-
makers The Reflector of that town,
edited by Mr.. D. ]. Whichard, is making
a courageous fight against the saloon,
In Thursdays paper Mr.. Whichard said
The editor of the Reflector honestly
believes that a dispensary will be a ire
merdous improvement on the open
saloon and from the first agitation OF
the subject has used his influence in
favor of a dispensary for Greenyille. We
have tried to be courteous and just to
all parties in all that has been said or
written still we have been threatened
with personal violence by one Of the bar
keepers of the town. But we arc not in
the least frightened. We know that whom
the gods would destroy they first make
mai"
On the very next day, the following
telegram appeared in the News and OBJ
server, showing that an attempt had
been made to carry the threat into exc
cution:s
Greenvile, N. c., Feb. 25.-The dispen-
sary fight is waxing warm. 1t will be a
hard fight Editor Wichard and Horton,
a saloon man, had some words yesterday
and an encounter followed tonight. The
net results are that Horton struck Which
ard and WhicAard shot Horton, but no
damage was done"
This attempt to intimidate a brave
editor in the discharge of his high duty
will be condemned by all good men in
the State. Whether they favor open
saloons, dispensary or prohihitics every
good citizen will denounce the attempt
to silence the press by thug methods
MIR Whtchard is an editor Of whom
the State is proud. He does not belong
to that class who, in a great moral move
mint, get on the fence and advertise
their straddle by saying I'VE VIII pri0,
articles for both sides for pay, as did
a certain liquor organ in Western North
Carolina that has never been known to
strike blow for civic righteousness or
moral uplift. The State needs more edi-
tors who have Convictions and a will, +"
and who do not put the dollar above
the lives of their own and their neigh
bcIs children
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

That public execution at Whiteville
last week was a reproach to the State.
More than two thousand people, men, wo-
men, children and babes in arms-jostled
each other in crowds totsee the condemned
mar launched into eternity and many had
travelled in wagons all night to see the
show! God pity us, if this is the test
more civilized than our ancestors who
roamed the forests in a naked condition =?
The Legislature ought to forbid public
executions and thus prevent by law so
low an exhibition of morbid curiosity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
SMASHING PRECEDENT.

The correspondents are remarking upon
the fact that new Senator'S have smashed
Senatorial traditions. Formerly "a new
Senator rarely did more than present ne
titions introduce bills, answer to roll call,
or announce his pair. Those who keep up
with senatorial proceedings now see that
new Senators are too sensible to remain
dumb in conformity with an out-worn
tradition. Men who are chosen to the
Senate are supposed to have won their
position by ability in other positions of
trust. Why should they suddenly become
dumb because their arena is changed?
North Cardinals Senators have helped to
bust tht tradition and we applaud them
Tor 1t. The young Senator who tries to
lead too soon destroys his influence. The
dumb or timid man rarely gains any in
nuence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
Mr.. HOBSON'S MISTAKE.

Mr.. Hobson made a magnificent record
for scholarship and all round ability at
the Naval Academy. His career IN The
Navy was brilliant His deed at Santiago
showed bravery of the highest order. Why
will a man, who has mastered an hon
orable calling, suddenly desire to abandon
it and enter a field in which he has had
no training? 1t is like soldier giving up
a fort to invite death in the open plains.
Mr.. Hobson is candidate for Congress
in Alabama His chief platform is an
appropriation of fifty million dollars to
make a great navy. Speaking of his plans
he is quoted as saying:
Send me to Congress; let me crystalze
this movement-give me five years, and
1 will put it through
He said that in the first two sessions
he would ascertain who were the oppon-
ents of the bill. and in the next cam
paign go before their constituents and
have such opponents defeated
The proper plan is to gradually INCREASE
the Navy rather than in the Hobson man
ner. and Alabama Democrats are not apt
to warm up to the extravagant and hasty
increase. Hobson admits he can do moth
ing for four years, and his plan then
would be rather to dominate the voters in
many districts than to win by argument
Imagine an Alabama Congressman, com
ing for example, into the Fifth district
to defeat Mr.. Kitchin, member of the
Naval Committee, because he opposes Hob
sons bill! Don Quixote never undertook
so absurd an army contract. The voters
would lose no time in telling Mr.. Hobson
that they could attend to their affairs
without outside interference We know
that the Democrats of the Fourth district
would say this if Mr. Hobson came here
demanding Mr. Pou's scalp He would
soon find himself on a wild goose chase
when he attempted to secure the defeat
of all the Congressman who opposed his
gigantic scheme. We believe in strong
navy. in yearly additions. but the increase
proposed by Mr.. Hobson is beyond all the
proper needs.
This all shows that "a shoemaker ouehi
to stick to lis last"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
WHO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON?

For long time there was a profound
terson?" The answer has not yet been
obtained.
The absorbing question today in North
Carolina is: ''Who is K. S. Finch, this
man whose simple word has caused
property worth nearly two million dollars
to be put into the hands of a receiver,
without so much as word to the owners
of the property?
Who is X. S. Finch?
Is a bigger man than Old Grant?
Who is X. S. Finch?
And who was Alexander pa, that PEG.
pie called him create"
Who is X S. Finch?
Is he a new j. Pierpont Morgan,
Colossus who doth bestrde the railroad
world?
Who is K S. Finch?
Has he some hypnotic spell by which
he works a charm on Federal Judges and
causes them to put property of other
folks into the hands of his confederate
without notice to the owners?
Who is X. S. Finch?
There is more interest in this new
dynamic individual than there ever was
in discussing the whereabouts of Charley
| Ross or tie name of the person who had
tie temer.ty to strike Billy Patterson
Who is X. S. Finch?
After long and patient investigation
these facts have been ascertained: He at
one time was agent of the Seaboard Air
Line at Charlotte-and that accounts for
the "cahoot" between him and Capt.
McBee
Later he was an agent for the sale of
swamp lands.
Today he has an office in New York
where he is interested in the promotion OF
LIQUID Air and Wireless Telegraphy cor
Ircrations-and this accounts for his hyp-
nctic power over Federal Judges. A man
who can sell Liquid Air and Wireless
Telegraphy is the sort of man, with not
dollar of his own money invested, to
secure the control through his confederate
OF a corporation worth $1,S00,OO0 The
whole thing can be explained upon no
other theory than through Liquid Air and
and Wireless Telcgraphy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
DIVORCES WHILE YOU WAIT.

Divorce proceedings In North Carolina
chine-you drop nickel in the slot and
out comes what you want. There is lit.
tie formally in the trial, little investi-
cation, the hearing is only from the party
applying for the divorce, and the whole
procedure is often a travesty upon JUS
tice In certain county in North Caro-
lima in December this writer saw a di-
! vorce granted inside of five minutes. The
hearing was nothing short of farce. The
judge seemed to have no power to stop
the mill, the Legislature having let down
the bars to such an extent as to make
it easier in some cases to get divorce
| in North Carolina than in South Dakota.
The Greensboro Record has this editorial
paragraph showing how divorces arc
g. IND CIT while you wait:
Superior Court has divorce for des-
! sert every afternoon. WheE time for ad-
/ jCUrnment approaches some attorney
racks in case, the jury is sworn, the
woman or man-mostly womar-tels
her tale of woe, the bans are broken in
side or five minutes and court takes a
recess until next morning. Such is law,
though dessert of this kind no doubt
leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
The Record is right in saying that such
things leave bad taste in the mouth. .
They are a reproach to the State, a dis
grace to our civilization and threaten the
safety of our homes. Is there not virtue
enough in North Carolina to elect legisla-
tors who will repeal the bad laws and
not at every session let the gap d3wn j
little lower? This is matter th?t calls
for the concerted actior of ministers and
all other teachers WhD believe that he
safety of socl9ty depends on the Ireser-
walton Of the home.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

Curing the French Revolution, when
a man first opened his eyes in the morn
ing he would say to his wife MY dear,
please see if my head is on No mans
head was safely attached to his shoulders
then. In North Carolina today, when the
head of a corporation rises in the morn
ing, he says to his wife My dear,
please look in the paper and see if my
company was put in the hands of re-
ceiver last night by a Federal Judge"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

Of the smaner churches. the summary
for 1903, shows that the Unitarians had
$40 ministers. 452 churches and 71,OOO
COMMITMENTS; the Universalists 734 min
listers, 1856 churches and 53.58S cOmmuni-
cants, showing a decrease Of 16 in the
number of ministers. IA in churches and
594 in communicates. The Christian
Scientists of 81 churches and S,675 COM
municants, the totals being $50 and 60,2S3
respectively.
The net gain in church membership was
smaner than for the previous year, though
the increase in ministers was over fitey
per cent and the increase in the number
of churches one hundred per cent.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
BROUGHT TO COMPEL A LEASE.


AS is we'll known in North Carolina,
Capt. McBee recently made a proposition
to lease the A. and N. G. R. R While
the Governor was considering the matter
that other parties would make bid
to lease the road. (They have lsince
done SOL Without waiting for the Gov
ernor to reach conclusion, Capt. McBee
and his associates, through one Finch,
dealer in liquid air and wire
less telegraphy, applied to Judge
Purnell for receiver for the
road and the Judge granted the
application and appointed McBee as re-
ceiver-the same McBee who had an ap-
plication pending few days previous
10 lease the road To show the haste
about this matter Judge Purnell signed
the order while he was in Virginia. 1t
is doubtful if the order was legal. At
any rate, upon his return to Raleigh
Judge Purnell donned his official robe,
assembled the bench in Raleigh, rescinded
his Norfolk order, and made a new rul-
ing putting McBee in as receiver under
Finch's application. Wasn't that rather
remarkable?
The strangest thing about the ap-
plication is that Finch in his petition
prayed THAT THE PROPERTY OF
THE CORPORATION DEFENDANT MAY
BE LEASED UPON SUCH FAVORABLE
TERMS AS TO YOUR HONOR MAY
SEEM PROPER" Did you ever dream
that you would live to see the day when
without hearing, Federal Judge would
srant such a petition? That he would
consider taking property out of the hands
OF its owners and leasing it as the court
might please, independent of what the
we believe, the first case on record where
a receiver has been appointed to take
charge of property upon specific apph-
cation that the property be leased. Evil
IDENTIFY McBees whole scheme was to get
in as receiver and then to induce the
Judge to lease it to him, thinking that
as he was in possession he would be
able to have a better standing 20 secure
the lease than as an outside bidder upon
equal terms with all others desiring to
lease the property.
BUt-men and brethren-if a Federal
judge, upon the application of straw
man, who does not own a share Of stock
legally transferred on the books, can put
q railroad into the hands as receiver of a
person interested in leasing the road for
great syndicate, and can lease such prop
erty worth $1.S0O.O0O owned under a
States charter, independent of the
will of the owners of the property-if
a Federal Judge can do this, then can
any property owner feel safe whose prop
erty rights consist of stock in corpora
what's the use of a State administration,
a General Assembly, director, or any
thing else? Is he not a new Car, with
power to injure and destroy any corpora
ton if he should be so minded? And
could not any Federal Judge destroy any
corporation if he had some friends who
asked him to do so in order to make him
receiver and then to lease the property
/ to him?
Can such things be and overcome us like
! a summer cloud,
And not excite our special wonder?''
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
ON SOLID GROUND.

Hon John Sharpe Williams
1 base my opposition on the fact that I
10 not intend. if can help it, that we
shall hold the Philippine Islands I do not
intend to poison the citizen body of the
United States with the infltration Of this
alien, unfriendly and unruly blood zap
clause on the Democratic side). Nor do
propose that my children shall be raised
with the idea that one people of one COM
munity has right to govern another
community with the indefinite colonialism
IF absolute government
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

IN exchange asks: shall we take
cho2ge ol t'3c Dominican Republic" Why
MT u y -malics than W. ar ar nobody
Is looking? We seem TO be In the nusi-
ness OF footing from those who cannot
defend themselves and Why should the
DomInlcans cacaue' We need more no.
Eroes in our business. thinks tIa White
houtn Emperor lpd here. "a soHi yhhue'
Gee ei them "lusuepf FaIfurss to lhe
WtUhH rhv hatr plaYad oWt
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

Judge Charles NJ Cooke evidently be-
ltves that cleanliness is next to God
illness" for be roasted Guilford officials
for the dirty condition of the court
house, and declared he would not hold
April court there unless the DIRT and
germs were removed. A strenuous judge,
hv gum
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
VAUDEVILLE SHOW TO BE PULLED
OFF AT WlLKESBORO.

There is, except among the few close
friends of the gubernatorial candidates,
little interest in politics in North Caro-
lima just now, the great body of the peo-
pie preferring TO wait until the conven-
lions are called before giving much
thought to politics. But there IS one ex-
ception-in "de Ate where two pictures
que politicians are furnishing daily vaud-
the fun-loving residents of that district.
and to the square inch you will find as
many folks in that district who love cir
Gus tricks in politics as anywhere out
side OF Tupelo, Miss.
Two celebrated trick horses of the Re-
publican party, Romulus Zig-Zag Linney
Beat-A-Retreat Blackburn of Washington
City, jefferson, Statesville, Greensboro,
Wilkesboro and other places, are aspir-
ants for the Republican nomination for
Congress, and they are pursuing the
Empty honor in a way to add greatly to
gaity of nations and to the particular
amusement of the people in "the State
of Wilkes They are running no cut
and-dried campaign. Linney is a unique
citizen, of original personality, and can
entertain crowd, whether in the White
House or at an abandoned still house
with his quaint sayings and antique an
tics. In all around vaudeville talent he
is as far ahead of Spencer as the Penn
sylvania Railroad is ahead of the June
bug road by means of which Linney first
rushed under the limelight. But Spencer
IS more theatrical and adventurous He
has devoted fifteen solid years to declaim-
ing that pretty Napoleonic story Il Can
not-Beat- A-Retreat' until he can say it in
way SO dramatic as to rouse the highest
enthusiasm, especially when delivered
near a government still 1t is understood
that his chief objection to the Watts law
is that 1T threatens to cut off much of
the enthusiasm that heretofore permeated
his ''sow-paw" house audience. News comes
from Wilkes that the people of the county
town of that noted state" are on tip-toe
of expectancy of great treat they are
shortly to enjoy. The town and county
are flooded with posters that on February
27tn, 1904, at 8 p. M, in Wilkesboro Hon.
and Intellectual Character of Senator
Hanna" On one of the posters some wag
has written
AT same time and place j. f. Hender-
son. Esq. will make a few remarks con-
corning the life, character and virtues of
Spencer Blackburn from the standpoint of
in 2se holding office in the Eighth Con-
gressional District
In view of the fact that the combat is
going on in earnest between the friends of
Linney and Blackburn this is considered
a good joke in Wilkesboro on both the
aspirants.
Nothing is hazarded in making the pre-
diction that there will be standing room
only when this show is pulled off. aud
that front seats win command the nighest
prices. Next to Zig-Zag and Spencer,
there Is no greater circus under one can
vass than the aforesaid Ruff Henderson.
There viii be something doing az
Wiikeshoro on the 21th n the managers
of fhc lfow would make tout 81 the
State they'd myo bigger crowds than
eyer attended, loaa Rohlnsaas elrruses
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

New Orleans Times Union.
Mr.. Roosevelt has by word and deed
held out to the negro hopes which oever
can be realized, unless we silk to the
social depths of Hayti or San Domingo.
The challenge should De accepted with
cut the shadow of reserve. The Demo-
cracy should decare in trumpet tones
that this is white mans country, and
IS destined to remain so to the end Of
tine
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
BANK, BRAINS OR oRAToRY.
Madison Record.

A correspondent from Morganton says
that L. L. jenkins, of CASTOR. and Mike
Whitaker, of Catawba, are being talked
'or the Congressional nomination on the
Republican ticket. This correspondent
says that Mr.. Jenkins has bank and
brains, while Mike Whitener, perhaps has
some brains and a smattering of oratory.
Upon being asked if he knew the can
idate from Madison, DR.. Frank Roberts,
'Oh! yes" he replied, but the Doctor
hasn't either bank, brains or oratory, and
there's no use to count him."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

1t had come to be rare these days until
Whitney and Hanna died, for a rich man
to omit all charitable and educational in
situations from his viii. But both these
rich men, who had figured large in the
public. gave all their fortune to their
own family. Did they feel that in life
they had done all that their duty required
for charity and education?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
For the World Fair.

tLcuuir T0plc1
ar, NHariIr Vttvr uvut 40 6uirlrn ilai
week 20 bo shipped OF with tho stat.
eshibita az the &c. Louis exposition. az
nne centre tablv. The table IS madn 5.
fourteen different Muda ut wuu8 aHl
loaialua a8ua hundred pmN p.er
.lt q hfautlful p'euo Ul Hefk u HHHh
NllIul workmanship d HmN08
doubt BE- Hl attract mHNH attention Ed
lNe hle Mf
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

Readers Of The Roastcr will observe that
today's edition contains me- advertisement
Of X s Finch, 81 New York and north
Carolina, offering bargains 10 hH special
ties og Liquid Air and Wireless rcloemphy
lt F sald thal be- met judge rufnfl Boz
Virginia ftw aafs ano and .aid hlm his
tallfe supply a warranted 90 te sne.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

1t is probable that the reason why K.
is. Finch has not had his stock trans
ferred to him on the books of the At
lantic and North Carolina Railroad. is
that the man who furnished it to him is
ashamed to let the people of North Car
DINA know that he is party to any
sucn injurious and wrongful proceeding
as that brought by Finch.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
ATMOSPHERE OF FEDERAL INTER
FERENCE.
Goldsboro Argus.

But this order of Judge Purrel, and
this atmosphere of federal interference
that is prevalent and widening, is in
keeping with Republican tendency to-
wards Capitalization of power and pater-
nalism of government, and it is up to
he people in the coming national cleo
ton to reinstate Democracy. which is
the bulwark and safeguard of the per-
petuity of our free institutions.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
AND STILL HE is A CANDIDATE FOR
THE SENATE.
Ex-Governor Taylor.

Y
Every honest man who runs for office as
candidate for trouble. foB political vic
tory turns to ashes on the lips. To me
there IS nothing in this world so pathetic
rs a candidate. He is like a mariner
without a compass, drifting on the temp
est tossed waves of uncertainty between
The smiling cliffs of hope and the frown-
ing crags Of fear. He is a walking petit
ton and a living prayer. He is a pack
horse Of sentiment, he is a dromeaary Of
politics, and even if he reaches the goul
OF his ambition he win soon feel the
beak Of the vulturc in his heart aul the
langs of the serpent in bis SOU,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28

II is a hard thing for a big man TO
make Will Tildon's viii was broken
and now wo are told that whitney,
younger children who were given only
one-tenth Of his vast estate. win try A.
break hia VIII often BE- Is ths patt OF
Wisdom ior usn io be- hh own executor.