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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
McCOWN CASE PRESENTS GRAVE
QUESTION.

The case in re McCown, argued
Yesterday before the Supreme Court,
presents an entirely new question to
North Carolina. When the news was
first received of the assault upon
Judge Ward. it was generally sup
posed that McCown was in contempt
of court and there was no surprise
when it was learned that he had been
summarily ordered to jail 1t now
appears, however, that there is a most
serious doubt as to whether the
statutes framed to specify cases which
court, include a personal assault upon
the Judge, when he is out of the
court house. In fact. the main con-
tention of the State yesterday was,
not that the statute provided for the
offense, but that the contempt was of
a sort which the court was justified
in Furnishing summarily regardless of
the action of the legislature. In
short, the argument of the Attorney
General and Solicitor Brooks was that
the subsection Oh lIle COHIcIlipt
statute absolutely repeating the COM
mon law rights of the courts to at
tach for contempt in cases other
than those specified snouid be de-
clared unconstitutional by the Su-
preme Court as being repugnant to
the principle of the inherent right of
a coordinate department such as the
judiciary to protect its officers and
preserve its dignity.
Realizing the Importance of the
case and the great interest which will
be aroused among lawyers and others
in the close and novel questions pre-
scented, we furnish elsewhere a full,
accurate and detailed report of yes
terday's argument. including the cita-
ton of the principal authorities relied
upon both by the State and the coun-
sci Cor eX-Mayor McCoWn.
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PREFERS A NORTH CAROLINA
JAIL.

The Greensboro Telegram says
that convict who escaped
from the Guilford roads after
serving ten months of his two years
term for trying to pass forged
check, has written to Sheriff Jordan
from Alexandria, Va, where he is in
Jail, requesting to be returned to the
Guilford roads, saying he Jared bet
ter in North Carolina than in Virgin
ia. He hopes the sheriff will lat once
come and get me-" He ought to be ac
commodated, both as an evidence of
appreciation of his love for this State
and because Guilford can use another
road hand very well at this time.
This recalls the story of the North
Carolina sick convict who was par
doned by Governor Aycock on condi-
ton that he would not return to North
Carolina He went to New Mexico
for his health, got well, and then
found that there was no happiness in
life for him outside of North Carolina.
ing permission to return to North
Carolina, stating that he had rather
live in the penitentiary in North Caro-
lima than be a free citizen in New
Mexico! When a man once gets the
tar on his heels, it sticks, no matter
whether he is a good citizen or a bad
one.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
HOW TO PUNISH CONVICTS

The excessive punishment of a
member of the chain-gang in Catawba
county recently caused great indigna-
ton throughout the State. The pun
ishment of the overseer who admins
tered the punishment has been gener-
ally regarded as much too light. At
the session of the Superior court last
week, in it's report the grand jury
said:
1--WE recommend the doing away
with the 'bucking barrel as it seems
to be an inhuman mode of punish
ment.'
That report justified the criticisms
of the State press. for none of the
it ''inhuman.' According to the Con-
cord Times Judge Cooke would not
discharge the grand jury, desiring to
further investigate the 'bucking bar
REL" and therefore the grand jury re-
NAMED in session and presented the
following report:
1--WE, the grand jury wish to sup
plcment our report by stating that we
have investigated the chain gang af-
fair to the best of our ability, and find
that the punishments of conYicts is
not so much the system of methods
now used, but depends on the tenn
permanent of the man administering
the whipping.
1--WE recommend that man of
even temper inf1ict all corporal pun
ishment and only in the presence OF
the chairman of the board of county
commissioners or the road supervisor.
We recommend that the matter now
rest with the punishment board.
Judge Cooke is to be commended for
securing a full investigation of this
"inhuman mode of punishment" The
kennedy proposed by the grand jury
has much In it to be commended, for
no person ..should inflict punishment
except "a man of even temper" and
then the highest county official should
see that it is not ''inhuman." There
are those who claim that all corporal
punishment is brutal and should not
be administered in any case upon men
on chain-gangs or in the penitentiary
To all such the inquiry is; what
would you do with men who stubborn
Nv refuse to work? They are sent tc
the chain-gang to work. Should they
be fed in idleness while they defy the
authorities?
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protection. They have a beautiful
farm and they are fast redeeming the
golden hills and some day in the flu
ture, with Professor Goodwin's man
agement, they will have one of the
incest farms in the State. My only
fears are that Professor Goodwin is
so determined to make everything
under his management a complete
success that he will work himself
down while comparatively a young
man.
l was very sorry Mrs. Goodwin was
so jill while I was at the institution,
for it was great strain upon Mr..
Goodwin. looking after the welfare
for the opening of the fall term Of the
school.
While there I visited the Hospital
under DR.. Murphy's management and
oh! hoW I was delighted with the
scenery around that great institution.
would have been glad to have spent
week there and hear the doctor tell
of the great variety of shade trees and
their origin and how to stick
lawn grass, and the marks by which
you could tell which calf had the
proper marks to make a great mixer,
and, in fact, hear him speak of the
institution and all of it's details. / re-
gard the doctor as being a great man
and in the right place
My enjoyment while at Morganton
was SO complete, and finding the
mountaineers so friendly, l was
tempted to wish l owned a nice little
farm near there and could spend the
balance of my days in and around
Morganton.
JOS. F. BROUGHTON.
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A Trip to MOrganton.

To the Editor: 1 am farmer.
and as you know. very few farmers.
considering the number ever take
Measure trips AS for myself | have
not left my room as much as two
nights at the time in twenty-elght
years, but thinking it would be well
enough for an old farmer like my
self to get out a week or two and
see what was being done in other
sections of the country along the lines
of agriculture left home, went
over to Buffalo Springs, Va, and
there / met people from nearly every
State in the United States. Some
farmers. some lawyers. some preach
| ers, some doctors and a goodly num-
Der os handsome ladies. We had from
Raleigh Mr.. Charles Busbee and
family, Mr.. Brewer Capt. f. Z. Will
| hanson. our county treasurer Ran
some Hinton, Wesley Jones and
family, and others. Right here 1 will
say / thank Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Brewer
and Mr.. Bushee for the interest they
took in my daughters enjoyment by
introducing her to many young LADIES
that were strangers to her, thereby
causing her to enjoy herself so much
While at Buffalo Springs. also myself
Having been one of the Judges
upon farm products at the State Fair
on several occasions. and seeing the
nice exhibits from our Deaf ana
Dumb Institution at Morganton, and
having had a desire for several years
TO visit Morganton and see for my
self the management Of the farm of
the Deaf and Dumb Institution, ! left
Buffalo Springs for Morgauton. There
found the principal, Prof. Nick.
Goodwin and his corps of employees
busily engaged in planting fall crops
and housing the summer crops. and
OH how l was delighted at the sys-
tematic work that was going on
around that institution. The dairy.
the farm, the canning, in fact all of
it's details were so perfect that /
came away saying to myself that |
no longer wondered why they
brought such nice exhibits from that
institution to the State Fair. Never
in my life have I seen a more thor
ough line of work going on than l
found there. To go through
their cold storage rooms and
see them putting away butter for
the winter and the hundreds and
hundreds of cans of fruit and vegeta-
bles all for the poor unfortunate deaf
and dumb, at the first glance, was
almost enough to make man wish
he had been born deaf and dumb and
placed under Professor Goodwin's
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
1T IS WONDERFUL
The Power That Restored
His Lost Will.
Charles Stocks Adds His Testimony IL
That Of Many Who Tell of Cures
Wrought by a Great In
StitutiOn.

1t is a manly thing to confess a
fault especially when It is done to
render merited praise and give aid to
others struggling in the net in which
you yourself were once involved.
Mr. Stocks does this in the following
letter:
| wish to add my testimony to your
list of grateful people for the Wond-
erful power of the Kelley Institute.
had been a hard drinker for twenty
years, and lately neglected my bust
ness on account of drinking, but now
l can positively say that L am COM
pletely cured. My friends are sur
prised at the change in me. l have
no desire nor appetite for liquor of
any kind, and, before taking the
Kelley Treatment at Greensboro, n.
c.. could not let it alone. | think
there is no praise too high for the
Keeley Institute.
CHARLES STOCKS.
Hookerton, n. c.. Oct II. 1904.
Send names and addresses of those
who may be benefited to the Keeley
Institute, Greensboro, n. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
BORE HIMSELF WITH DIGNITY

The press of the State is unanimous
in condemnation of the eX-mayor of
Durham who forgot himself and the
respect due to the judiciary by making
a violent attack upon Judge Ward in
Durham on Saturday night. There
is no excuse or palliation for the as
Sault
Judge Ward bore himself with dig
nifty and in such manner as to win
the approval of the whole State. The
natural impulse, almost too strong to
resist, was to resent the violent words
and the personal assault, but the
Judge remembered the great office to
which he had been called-(the great
est in the, State, with the exception
of the Governor)-and without an
unseemly word withdrew himself
from the presence of his assaliant. II
he had forgotten himself and, in the
moment of righteous indignation, re-
turned railing with railing and blow
with blow, he would have been forgiv-
en-, but he would have shown lack of
the true dignity of the exalted station
to which he has BEEN called.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
BRING KERMIT ALONG.

When the President visits Raleigh
next month, we hope he will bring his
son. Kermit, with him. In sleeping
car the other day the Presidents son
surrendered his lower berth to an
aged gentleman and his wife who
would have had difficulty in reaching
an upper berth which the book took.
1t was simple act of courtesy indi-
eating what we call good raising.
There are plenty of well-trained boys
who would have done the same thing,
but in an age when chivalry is ridi-
motto with many men and boys, the
thoughtful courtesy has been widely
commented upon. 1t shows that being
the son of the President has not turned
the head of the bow and that he shows
the same consideration for age that all
right thinking parents try to instill in
their sons. Really the thing that has
won for Mr.. Roosevelt SO much OF
popular regard is his ideal home life
typical of the simple and happy home
life that makes America great.
In spite, however, of good instruc-
ton at home. too many boys are lack
ing in the courtesies and gentlel
amenities of life. and we find too many
boorish men in the world. Some writ
ers have gravely asked. in view of the
decadence of old time chivalry, if. az
nation. we are losing the good man
ners of the past generation 1t is be
cause of this loss of courtesy that thS
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06

act of Kirmet Roosevelt has been so
widely applauded. Using it as text
the Baltimore Sun makes these SEN
sible observations:
Nowhere else are bad manners
more conspicuous and common than
on the railroad cars. In entering the
cars there is usually a rush to secure
the best place, and in that rush the
aged, the infirm, women and chlldren
are apt to be elbowed aside. Women are
generally as inconsiderate of the rights
and comforts of others as the men, and
there is a general disposition to let the
devil take the hindmost. One of the
cowboys from the far West who came
to the inauguration of President
Roosevelt last spring was amazed to
see men dressed up as gentlemen lin
gering over their cigars and VINE in
the dining car between washington
and New York while long line OF
ladies were standing and waiting for
their places. Our cowboy friend cali
ed these men "sheep faces" which
seems to indicate that they excited his
contempt, and he could not under
stand how people guilty of such be-
havior have the effrontery to boast of
better manners than those of the cow
bows who treat their women with de-
ference.
KERMIT Roosevelt in being polite
while travelling set a good example OF
unselfishness to other travellers, and it
is to be hoped that other Americans
young and old will find some profit in
it,
Raleigh hereby invites Kermit to ac-
company his father to Raleigh on
October 10th. as the guest of the city.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
spirit of the Press.
Upheld the Law.
Winston Journal.

Winston Journal.
There is d natural revulsion among
the people of North Carolina at the
assault upon a Superior Court judge
by a man of Durham who was melted
to the deed because he was displeased
with a sentence the judge imposed
upon a negro who shot a kinsman of
the man. The fact that the killing
was provoked by the man who died,
and that fair-minded persons gener-
ally say that the negro got at least as
much as he deserved, does not alter
the gravity of the assault upon MEM
Der of the judiciary. The principle in
volved is of course the main thing and
it will be an i'll day for North Caro-
lima if the sophistry of clever lawyers
tends to abate one jot or title the SER
iousness of their clients offense or the
penalty he should pay The law is not
any too rigid in North Carolina today
and such an attack as that upon Judge
Ward at Durham should not be pal
lated in any measure.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
WHAT is A dub?

What is a dub? Lit. Governor
Sherman. of Illinois, recently said that
a contest in the Senate between Cullom
and Yates would be "a race between
an antique and d dub" We all know
what an antique" is, put the word
dub was new word in politics AT
first it was interpreted as meaning
the same thing as a ''chump, but
some friends of Yates went to the die
tiorary Cit is a safe thing to go to that
book often, for oliver Wendell Holmes
says it is more interesting than any
volume of poems). and found that
dub" is a verb, meaning ito invest
with any dignity or new character. >
They have therefore turned what was
intended as an epithet into term OF
praise.
But still it might not be safe in al
sections to call a man dub" He
might ont be acquainted with the au-
thorities and might lick you before you
could produce dictionary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
CHINESE BOYCOTT CHECKED.

The news from China that the boy
colt against American goods has been
checked is good news. We have never
been of that number who supposed it
was as bad as represented or that it
seriously threatened the sale OF
American made textiles. There is an
influential portion of the great capital
lists who wish to secure cheap Chinese
la Dor in this country. They know that
the coming of cheap labor of any kind
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
\ "Gross Miscarriage"
kinstOn Free Press.


Brother II. A. London, of the Chat
ham Record, always a Staunch sup
porter and jealous defender of the
rights and prerogatives of the press
has this to say of the recent decision
rendered in Guilford county against
NJ. r. Leach and the News and Obser-
yer:
Here follows the editorial from the
Free Press, already copied in these
columns-Ed.1
Especially is it intolerable, as Ma
jor London points out, that conSiderl-
tons of financial responsibility should
enter into the jury box and influence
the verdict rendered. Such u thing
suggests that something other than
a strict sense of Justice had weight
in the case and that the jury took this
method of evening up with paper
that speaks out in meetin'."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
Was Without PrOvOcatiOn.
Durham Herald.

The affair Saturday night in which
Judge Ward was assaulted by Mr.. NJ.
E McCown is deplorablc and is to be
regretted particularly because of tn"
kind of notoriety it gives the town.
The assault was without provocation
of excuse and what Mr.. Gown could
have been thinking about his friends
do not pretend to say. We wish that
it could be understood outside that
the people of this town have little SYM
pathy for Mr.. McCown. We be-
lieve it to be the opinion of large
ma ority of our people that the negro
Haskins was punished as greatly as
he deserved and that the sentence
passed upon Mr.. Gown is none too
great.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

COLLEGE OF MUSIC,
325 McMechen ST., BALTIC, Md, re-
opens September 18th. Courses
Elementary, College and Normal
teacher course i'm all branches of
Music. Dept. Execution, Dramatic,
Art, Languages. Terms moderate.
For catalogue address, AlIEONS
w. SCHENUTT Director.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
Narrow Escape From Drowning.

Parties returning from MOrehead
Sunday night tell another case where
a drowning came near occurring at
the same place on the beach, where
10 or II persons came near to being
drowned some time ago. This time it
was a Morehead lady who got into
deep water and was rescued by her
husband and another man after hard
work. There has been no life line or
protection to bathers put at the place
yet.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
objectionable Insult and Outrage.
Wilmington Star.

The offense of the man McCoWn is
little short of hoinous and it were hard
ly; to be conceived that there was in
North Carolina q man so lost to re-
spect and honor for his State as to
have assaulted, maltreated and wound
ed an honored citizen upon whom the
people had placed the duty of inter
preting and administering the laws of
the State It was not only a monstrous
violation of the laws of North Carolina
but an objectionable insult and out
rage upon the judiciary for which the
people of North Carolina rightly have
such deep respect and reverence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
Special Rates to Raleigh Via S. A. L.
Railway.

On account of the A. and M. College
Farmers Convention, Raleigh, Aug.
31st to Sept. End, the Seaboard will
sell round-trip tickets from all points
in North Carolina. including Ports
mouth, Suffolk and Boykins for one
and one-third first class fares, plus
Is cents. Tickets sold August 80, 81
and September list, final limit Septem-
Der 4th. For information apply to
c. III. GATTIS, T. p. a.,
Raleigh, n. G.
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No Room for difference of Opinion.

Greensboro Telegram.
There is nothing but condemnation
for the. ex-mayor of Durham who bru-
tally attacked Judge Ward in Durham
Saturday night. For once the North
Carolina press is united There is alb
solutely no room for difference Of
ODiniOn.
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No Vacation.
THE FRANCIS billiard SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA.


Arteslan
lights 2o00O
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
MORNING TONIC.
(PIatO.)

(PlatO,)
He who endures to the end of every
action and occasion of his entire life
has a good report, and carries off the
prize which men bestow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06

This is a day when the old lead in
feats of strength. A New Rochelle
man, seventy-eight years old, recently
drove a tally-ho on a thousand mile
trip. He has been driving sixty years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06

In his annual report to the winston
Tobacco Association, President Stero
ling Smith. shows that lh495,9 50
pounds of tobacco were sold on that
market during the past year. IL
brought $1,392,42O.20, or an average
of $I.95. The increase in price over
the previous year was three-quarters
of cent per pound. The crop was a
of leaf tobacco sold for seven years
has been 100000 pounds. In
marked contrast is the record OF the
manufacture of pIag For Iike pc
riod the records shows the increase
to be in round numbers 15,O0O,oOO
pounds, or 100 per cent.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06

The man who was hanged in Win
ston for killing his wife in cold blood
gave this piece of advice that the
doubt wishes he had taken: Don't
marry hastily. especially one who has
been another mans wife. unless you
are sure she has accepted Jesus as
her guide"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
The Baltimore Medical COLLEGE

Liberal teaching facilities; modern college buildings
lecture hall and amptheatres. Large and completely
equipped laboratories Capacious hospitals and dis
pensary. Send for catalogue. Address .
DAVID STRETT. NJ. D., DEAN. az PARk AVE. BALTIMORE. ND.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06
TOBACCO AND COTTON.

President Mosely. of the Danville
(Va.,) Board of Trade, says
'The 1904 crop has proven to be
a short one in quantity as compared
with past years and as natural con-
sequence the amount sold on the Dan
vile market shows decrease IN
pounds of 4.879.447 as compared WIN
crop of 1903. hut the average price
is sixty-one cents higher per hundred
pounds"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-06

The growth of WinstonSalem is
marvellous During the past year its
taxable property increased one million
dollars and its growth is both solid
and rapid.
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Total

controlling through his own per-
sonal holdings of Coast Line Company
of Connecticut this 12,197 miles OF
railroad, Henry Walters is perhaps
better entitled to be designated the
railroad king than is any other man
in America"