The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

banker two manufacturers, and two
mechanics as talismen at $3.50 O'clock
Sheriff Page remarked that prominent
business men had a "cGte" way of be-
ing excused from service but the Judge.
quickly replied that he would attend
to their "cuteness." He ordered that
not a single person in the court house
at that hour should be summoned
He then ordered that Raymon d. By
mum, charged with murder, be brought
before him at 1880 o'clock.
Judge Neafs Charge.
The moral. educational, or CONNER
cial condition of our people can never
be solved until the question of trans
portation and locomOtion is settled No
people can move forward until they
have first solved the problem of in
teTcourse with each other, and this
question depends in the main upon
the public road question. The pub
lie road bears the same relation to
the people in the rural districts that
the railroad does to the people who
live in the towns. The problem which
the public men of today must solve
must be to make the rural commune
ties as attractive to its people as the
cities are to it's inhabitants. The chill
dren must be able to go to school,
the entire family must have then
course of those who live in the couu-
try must be as good as those who i've
in the thickly populated Centerg There
are three great agencies that have con-
tributed to the development OF a
splendid citizenship. The pulpit the
press, and lately the country.
The judge then in fletting terms
described the power of the pulpit fog
the upbuilding of the people, the en-
nobling influence of the press, and the
strength of the courts He spoke in
most laudatory terms of the rural free
delivery system and how families were
built UP by coming in contact With
the best thought of the day aid read
inf refined literature from the HoUG
newspapers of the State.
wise men who studied the Situa-
ton" he said, saw that the problem
which we had before us for solution
was to contrive plan which W WOULD
make the country as attractive as the
town and cities. That very many peo-
pie were leaving the country aud go
ing to the towns. That hundreds Of
years ago people resided chiefly in
cities but in that day and time Their
men sought protection from robbers
and that protection could only be
found in the walled towns. They went
out to work in the morning and re-
turned to their protected environ
mentS at night. After while law and
order was established and men Jeff
the town protected by walls and want
to their farms. But today the order is
reversed and men are leaving the
farms and going to the cities From
1880 to 1890 city and town population
in the United States increased G1 Ter
cent while rural population increased
only II per cent. This is so became
of the allurements of city life. This
condition must be met and counter
acted and the onlv way to do it is by
building such q splendid system O.
highways and public roads that our
country folk will have all the pleas
ures and cOnVenienceS of town life.
There is one feature of this situation
which ought to appeal to the spleldid
yeomanly of North Carolina. 1t l. the
condition of the women in the state
who do not have the pleasures of life
enjoyed by their fathers and sons.
The father and the son must needs
go to the market town to buy all the
household supplies. many times dur
ing the month, go to the market after
the harvest to sell the rewards of their
industry and in the meanwhile tHey
go to the political gatherings, circus
church, school gatherings, while the
mother and daughters of the house
hold remain at home, washing, cook
ing, sewing, singing the song of the
shirt, not seeing anything of the out
side world, living all the while life
of introspection and seldom seeing
to make life brighter and
happier. That is to say the idea which
the judge sought to present to the jury
was that men and boys in house
hold in the country had SO much more
to divert their minds than the women
and the girls that it was telling upon
the mental condition of the brothers
and the daughters. This he showed
from statistics of the hospitals of the
State. He said that before coming
to consent he had interviewed DR..
James Mckee, of the Central Hospital,
and that DR.. Mckee, one of the most
eminent specialists in the South, had
said to him that life of isolation and
introspection had decided tendency
to mental impairment.
/ The point made was that the good
women of the State were too much
isolated and did not see enough to
change the current of thought from
self to the happier things of life.
Dealing in Futures.
Judge Neal explained in detail to the
jury the laws of this State relating to
dealing IN futures. He said, after Civ
ing verbatum recital of the Statutes,
the law of 1889, and the act passed
by the last General Assembly, that i'm
North Carolina it was against the law
to keep a house in which business of
that KIND was conducted and that any
person who bought or sold a contract
was indictable
The lawmakers in their wisdom
had so framed the last Statute as to
make the law of 1889 effective, and ii
was the law today that any person
whose name was endorsed on the bill
of Indictment was compelled to testi-
fly.