Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-11-13
ITEMS OF ALL KINDS.
General and State News, Current Comment
and Other Items of Interest.

J. Wiley Shook, the well-known
Republican politician [and attor-
ney, died at the State Hospital
here last Wednesday evening, and
the body was shipped to his old
home at Clyde for interment.
Mr.. Shook in hissday of reasoning
powers was a prominent man in
the western section of the State
and was held high in the councils
of his party. A little less than
a year ago his mind became cloud
ed and he was brought here for
treatment, but he did not improve
and death finally ended his suf-
ferings.
The chairman of the prohibl-
ton executive committee of Ashe.
vile hasI filed a sworn itemized
statement of the receipts and ex-
penditures incident to the recent
successful prohibition campaign
in Asheville. The statement
shows that the prohibitionists ex-
pended approximately four thou
sand dollars, the exact amount
being So, 1882.
The House of Deputies of the
Episcopal Convention, while in
session at Richmond, proclaimed
its adherence to the King James
version of the Scriptures. By all
overwhelming vote they refused to
permit the use of the revised ver-
sion in the Church services, and
also by a great majority adopted
an amendment to the constitution
declaring the King James, or au-
thorized version, to be the stand
ard Bible Statesville Landmark.
When Wall street calls for
money. the republican admins
~tration carts over any number of
millions. When the great south
ern country with a billion dollar
cotton crop needs a few millions
to keep from being sold at q sac
rifce, the republican administra-
ton turns a deaf ear to the ap-
peal. And yet our cheerful re-
publican friends boast in every
campaign that they are friends of
the south. They have never been
fri ends Of the south and never
will be, A southern man cannot
vote for any such party and be
true to his country.-Lexington
Dispatch.
The Asheville board of alder
men has directed an ordinance to
be prepared prohibiting the smok-
ing of cigarettes by minors, and
if 1t can be legal, the city will en-
deavor to stop the evil among
boys. It is stated that cigarette
smoking among minors has III
creased alarmingly. So it has,
not only in Asheville, but in Lex
ington, and everywhere else. Wise
and thoughtful men do not hest
tate to declare that cigarettes are
doing more harm to the young
men of the country than whiskey
Is. But the authorities ought not
to be forced to take such a matter
up. 1t is a subject for parents to
handle. Parents, however, do
not seem to care anything about
it. "What will become of the
next generation?" asked a man
who stood looking at a knee-pant
boy putting a cofin tack. ether
amt going to be any," responded
a wag.
Ellis Hlghtower was one who
held that a man has a right to
make and to sell liquor, that the
law which provides for the sup.
preston of the liquor traffic is I'M
just and takes away mans ''per-
sonal liberty" He held, too, that
a man has a ri light to drink ard
make liquor and no man has a right
to deny himthe privilege of buying
it on open market like flour and
meat is bought. Poor fellow, his
life could have been an honor to
himself and the pride of his old
mother, but he would not have it
30. By his own hand he sent his
soul into eternity, after he had
killed his old mother. To lie
down in the grave of a murderer,
a suicide and a drunkard; the
tragedy is unspeakable. Whiskey
is the one, the only cause of it
all, for Ellis H%ightower, when not
under the influence of liquor,
nauar lif4nd hin hail -