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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
The Main Question 1t Stick ?
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
The value of the Cooper verdict to
Tennessee and, in a measure, to the
security OF law and order everywhere
may be summed up in the question
Will it stick?
The same may be said and asked oil
the verdict in the case OF the Reel
foot Lake night riders, who have
been convicted OF and sentenced Tor
the murder of Captain Quentin
Rankin.
With the verdicts rendered in these
two cases which have attracted and
held national attention-cases In
which the defendantss stand almost at
the antipodes of the social scale in
which is involved the common prob
lem of the unfolding OF the law and
the preservation of the peace, Ten
nessee's trial before the nation and
humanity has just begun.
In the preliminaries the State has
well met the issue and, in both cases,
pronounced justice.
But it happens too often, unfort-
unately, that there is a slip between
pronunciation and execution, be-
tween the word and the deed.
The Jury in the case Of the COopers,
tried for the homicide of f. W. Car
mack, has, from whatever standpoint
it may be viewed, rendered justice.
The verdict OF murder in the second
degree, with it's accompanying pun
ishment, accords well with the evil
dence without denying the defend
ants the benefit OF any reasonable
doubt.
The question now is, whether upon
the questionable strength of errors
as the defense is able to dig out OF
this mass of evidence and rulings,
which have in no apparent instance
savOred of Partially or injustice, the
finding of the court is to be reversed.
There is little doubt that the Coop
or verdict will be accorded, excepting
the partisans of the defendants and
OF Senator Carmack, the same weight
ofpublic approval as was given that
pronounced in the case of the Reel
foot Lake assassins.
But before Tennessee can clear her
skirts, she must answerin both these
cases, and answer at the sentiment
OF the law abiding everywhere de-
mands, the question
VIII it stick?
Not only are law and order i'll the
State OF Tennessee on trial, but the
administration of it and even the
jury system itself are in the shadow
from which only affirmative answer
can remove them.
Are the pistol, the knife and the
bludgeOn to remain the means OF set
Element of disputes. individual and
collective, or have we emerged from
the savage state and set up courts OF
equity and law to establish and
maintain public and private rights
and condemn and puni>h wrongs?
Are the just verdicts Of iuries and
sentences of courts to ne upheld in
the interest of the prott ction OF life
and property, or are technicality and
procrastination to be permitted to
undermine the foundations and top
pie Justice herself into the mlre?
Tennessee must answer these ques-
tions to her own people as we'll as to
the nation; and the answer will be
found when she makes response to
that other query, brief but pointed
viii it stick?
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
Values in Southern Cotton.
Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte Observer.
When wheat is ground into flour
| it's ultimate manufactured value is
| reached; so with corn and other re-
| lated products. But when cotton
has been spun or woven into simple
| fabrics the least of it's values has
been reached. The cotton crop il
capable of being so manipulated by
manufacture us to be worth three
times, five times. fifty times, and
even one hundred times its value in
IL raw state. There are cotton
fabrics which sell at the rate OF forty
dollars a pound.
Until recently the South was con-
tent to raise the raw cotton. 1t re-
duced the competition in production
to II cut-throat basis, leaving the
manufacture to other people. MAN.
chester, England, lived and lives
upon cotton. 1t takes only II portion
of our crop and turns it into values
far exceeding those which the South
get for the whole. Happily, this
section has IL new resource. The
manufacture of cotton at home
stimulates the price of raw material.
Every new factory at home il for the
advantage OF the cotton producer.
Ii helps the producer in many ways.
1t reduces the competition i'll pro-
ductiOn by giving profitable employ
mrnt to some OF the farming element
in the factory. The factory popula-
| ton bpcOm. consumers OF p"IlShable
/ farm products. The factory becomes
consumer OF cotton and we have
seen the price increase under these
influences from five cents to ten
cents II pound.
Thus it transpires that the interest
of the farmer and the manufacturer
is IDENTICAL They should work to-
9ether. We have not vet more than
touched the great wealth there is in
cotton. Our present factory system
has reached only the simplest forms
of manufacture; barely made a be-
ginning. But having made d little
start We must next develop the
knowledge and skill to make the
higher grades of goods. bringing
more money. and by further reduc-
ton in competition on the farms in
sure better prices for the staple.
They are blind or unthinking or
misled who ask what tariff which
fosters industrial development can
| do for the Southern farmer
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
Tennessee's New Unwritten Law
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
Is Tennessee developing Il new I'M
written law which makes newspaper
criticism Justification for assault and
even homicide?
The case of the Coopers and the
killing of Carmack is familiar history.
Current dispatches bring the report
that Speaker Kinney, of the Tennes-
see House of Representatives,, has
committed an assault on Editor
John r. Green, of the States Graphic
at Brownsville, because the lattpr's
paper charged him with making a
combination with the Republicans to
accomplish prohibition legislation,
Editor Green, who is IS years old, is
said to be in serious condition.
There is no statute and nothing in
the common law that we have ever
heard to Justify personal violence as
a soothing balm to feelings wounded
by editorial criticism of public acts.
Yet we find one of the ATTORNEYS
for the defense in the Cooper case, in
his speech to the jury. boldly advo-
eating such justification.
Then follows the assault upon
Editor Green, of the merits of which
we can Judge only through the brief
facts stated in the dispatch.
If not "unwritten law, then what?
1t would seem that Tennessee is de-
velOping a new and dangerous form
of it.
But such is the tendency of inclina-
ton to so-called ''unwritten law -
The offended party scorns the pro-
lection which statute and common
law throw about him. and proceeds
with fists, bludgeon or pistols t O take
it out upon the offender.
If "unwritten law" in this case.
why not in every other? or, why any
law at all?
Isn't it about time to reduce the
unwritten law to writing and have
done with lawlessness?
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
Had More Sense than They Were
Given Credit For.
Statewide L Landmark.

!
The Landmark and other papers
criticised the ignorance OF the jury Lin
the Cooper trial land it was prop
er subject for criticism-but IN view
of the result the criticism is With
drawn. The jurors may not be edu-
Gated in books, as was represented,
but they are evidently intelligent
men. 1t is remarked that the case
was either murder in the first degree
or nothing; that the Coopers should
have received the death penalty or
been acquitted Maybe SO, but it
must be remembered that the MAORI
| ty Of verdicts are a compromise OF
conflicting views, and this was a COM
promise verdict. Six of the jurors
from the first stood for murder in the
first degree, five for murder in the
second degree and one for acquittal.
Hence the compromise to arrive at
verdict
As the Landmark sees it, the verdict
does substantial Justice, provided the
COOpers ever do time in the peniten-
tiary. which is doubtful. Ii the case
is affirmed on appeal Governor Pat
terson. who is their friend, may par
don them or commute the sentence
to a short term. In an editorial pub
lished on the I'd of March, the Land
mark took the ground that Editor
Carmack was not blameless; that he
had his share in provoking the diff
Guilty; but that the Coopers were by
no means excusable and their plea OF
self-defeEce was absurd Holding this
view. the Landmark is very we'll sat
isfed with the result. 1t is a great
triumph for law and justice when the
Tremendous influence brought to bear
for the acquittal of the Coopers is
considered.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08

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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
Woman's Home Companion for
April.

The Woman's Home Companion for
April is full of Easter suggestions, spring
fashions. Easter entertainments and
Easter dishes. Grace Margaret Gould
describes and illustrates the new styles
in gowns, shirt waists, hats and in dress
accessories. Fannie Merritt Farmer. the
greatest cook in America, gives the
recipes for many delightful spring dishes.
1t is a big magazine, crammed full of
interesting articles, stories, Illustrations
and valuable Information
Cyrus Townsend Brady's new novel,
Hearts and the Highway" is begun in
this issue of the Companion. and there
are stories by Nellie L. McClung. Laura
Spencer Portor. lola Forester and
Florence Morse Kingsley The illustra-
tons as usual with Woman's Home
Companion. are by weli-known artists.
and are OF the very best.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08

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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08

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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
kidnapping Capital Offense in Vir.
ginia.
Richmond Times Dispatch.

Richmond Times Dispatch
Efforts on the part of the police
authorities of the United States to
locate the abductors of Willie Whitla,
the eight-year-old son of Attorney
James p. Whitla, of Sharon, Pa,
who was kidnapped and held for a
ransom of $4,000, have caused a
widespread discussion of the various
State statutes against the crime of
kidnapping.
The case at issue gave promise of
being another Charlie Ross affair,
and it is probable that in many
States the penalties for kidnapping
will be made more severe.
The crime itself is almost unknown
in Virginia, and but few people are
aware that a conviction would prob
ably lead the perpetrator to the
electric chair, the offense being one OF
those which still retains capital pun
ishment as its penalty, or an impris-
onment in the penitentiarv, at the
option OF the jury.
Section 1915 OF the Code of Vir-
ginia relates exclusively to "kidnap-
ing with intent to extort money"
and the punishment, and reads as
follows:
IF any person seize. take or secrete
any other person with intent to ex-
tort money, or pecuniary benefit, he
shall be punished with death; or, in
the discretion of the jury, be confined
in the penitentiary not less than
eight nor more than eighteen years. -
Since the famous Cudahy kidnapping
case some years ago, many Western
States have adopted statutes modelled
on the Virginia law, making the of
Tense punishable by death.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
Talks ON ADVERTISING
u.-Mail Order VS..
Home Trading
By Henry Herbert Huff


3fBack again, Mr. Business MANI
"Glad to you. Have chair Do you know Tn any; l
learn how advertising going fix those mail order hou
'Pardon me, but do not like your expression The ~,
order house has much do business Brown r
peor the street You cannot hope have
mated by law boycott other unfair The only way
solve this problem meet its prices. You can do this
cash basis, and that is the only sensible way Be m
telling the public about your store goods and p
that the mail order houses do appear trouble Won in Il
least Quote the mail order houses prices beside yours to SID
that you business Do attack their integrity They
not all frauds, merchants would represent them
'But people should be loyal to their home merchants
VERY true but this argument has been abused Stories
patron who got cheated of the dollar that did much
community before sent the theory of paying taxes
all weak lacking logic be
to pull customers from the catalogue houses WI
with proof that you sell equally low not by satire abuse
to be not forced Them merchants who
too high inexperienced and the least fitted
their business dealers who gossip unfrendy and
dating who cheat mistreat their patrons all claim the supp
OF the community the loyalty to home industries plea To
to seek charity not business Even charity such
Now honestly do expect patronage merely because
merchant in this town."
"Wha grounds then, should asking patronage"
Put it thus You buy where you buy cheapest and
do the Remember when making comparisons with c
logue prices to add something for transportation the delay
trouble and expense of ordering and the like furnish
because it will help to build the town That is all ask
what thing do the catalogue houses their growth
"I must confess it is good advertising"
eyes, their whole existence due to It, They cannot live
They unnatural instutionscouh have a
local merchants had realized the possibilities of advertising
it not too late against them this instrument that
been their making And that the only successful comb
the mail order evi-advertise."
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-04-08
"l'd Rather Die. Doctor.

than have my feet cut off," said NJ. l..
Bingham, of Princevile. H. But you'll die
from gangrene (which had eaten away
eight toes) ii you DON'T" said all doctors.
Instead, he used Bucklen's Arnica Salve tin
wholly cured Its cures of Eczema. Fever,
Sores, Boils, Burns and Piles astound the
world. 25c. at Melville Dorsey's drug store.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11

leased in Boston, the first continu- ous show ever seen on any stage. He paid his performers twenty dol lars a week for single turn and forty for double, and required them to give eight or nine turns a day. His "top-liner," or chief attraction. was a pound and a half baby. The doors of his playhouse were thrown open at noon, and from that time until half-past ten at night the per fOrmance went on without interrup ton. Patrons were allowed to spend the entire day in the theater, and at first so many availed themselves of this opportunity to get a substan- tial filling of amusement at small cost, that Mir. Keith realized that he must either abandon the idea of a continuous entertainment or else in vent some method by which the au- dience could be driven out of the building and place made for those outside who were waiting for ad
 mittance. Necessity is the mother of invention, especially when it is mated with sharp Yankee wit, and it was thus that what is known as the chaser came into the world.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11

Ford, Colo, arrived in Phoenix Tues day night. They will remain here for about six months Dr. Pollock is a practicing dentist of Rocky Ford and is the owner of several tracts of land on which the famous canteloupes are grown. While in the valley he will look over the canteloupe industry in the Glendale district and will have ample oppor- tunity of testing the Salt River brand of this fruit. He said yes terday that he was remarkably i'm pressed with the valley and particu- larly with the climate.
 VISITATION AT THE PLATH HOME3ast evening there arrived at the home of pr. and Mrs. O. E. Plath, a fine baby girl weighing nine and one-quarter pounds. This is the fourth child in the family, the other children being two girls and a boy The physician attending, is of the opinion that Dr. Plath will be breathing again by this afternoon and probably able to be about.
 HARVESTER VS. BURSON-The civil suit of Bannister versus Burson was heard by jury in Judge Park CTS court yesterday, resulting in verdict for the plaintiff for s5s.7O and the costs assessed against the de- fendant. The matter got into court through a discussion of over pay ment for work done on MT. Burson's ranch about six miles northwest of the city Bannister had been em- ployed to blow, disc and harrow a piece of land. For the blowing an agreement was made that the work
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11
THE WOOL CENTER
 OF WHOLE WORLD
The Position to Which Chicago is Aspiring.
March 12
 and March Is

Chicago, March 1O.-The election of officers of the Warehouse and Storeage company and the laying of the corner stone of an immense warehouse which, when completed, will accommodate 25,OOO,O0O pounds of wool, were two steps taken today in a movement to make this city the wool center of the world.
 J. E. COsgriff of Rawlins. Wyo.. was chosen president; A. G. Leonard of Chicago vice president; R. B. Thompson of Chicago, secretary and treasurer. The building will occupy nearly two acres of ground and be ready for occupancy May 15, in ample time to take care of this years clip of wool. It is proposed to store at least 25,OOO,OOO pounds of wool each season and arrangements are under way to increase the amount to 5O,OOO, 900 the second year.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11
Friday
 and Saturday

be done for g. an acre. No ar engagement for the narrowing or discing was made and Bannister sought to charge for this work by the day. MT Burson wanted to make the settlement by the acre, neither one of them being able to agree on how many days work had been done A proposition was made to arbitrate, but before this could be arranged for, Bannister had filed suit The matter will be taken to the district court according to a aotice given by the attorney for MT. Burson.
 GATHERING EVOENcE-Frank H.Horn and S. II. Kinsley of Kan sas City arrived in the city yester- day morning and will remain here for several days on business con- nected with court proceedings now pending in the federal court at Kan sas City MT. Horn it will be re- called, is connected with the Two Queens property in the Winkleman district and also the Mansfield Smelling and Mining company at Patagonia. With several other pro- motors who had to do with the sale of stock in the first named company MT Horn was last November in dicted for misuse of. the mails. The claim of the government was that the money received from sale of stock was spent in other than proper manner and was generally wasted It is for the purposes of taking dispositions of miners who have been working at 'the Two Queens that the trip west is made
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11
TARIFF CHANGES.

Washington, D. C., March 10.-It was learned authoritatively tonight that the new tariff bill, which will be submitted to the house at the special session by the ways and means com mittee, will contain these recommend ations:
 Lead and copper, no change; sugar, no change; iron ore, one free list; pigiron. 25 per cent reduction; tex tiles. a graduated tariff on high grade cotton and silk products, an increased tax; medium grade, no change; low grade, reduced tariff.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11
# OF LOCAL INTEREST

4 BUILDER COMING BAcK-A. T. Bonne, who has spent several win ters in Phoenix, left yesterday for his home in Seattle, Wash. During the year it is his intention to return and arrange for the construction of several flats of apartment houses.
 VISITING DENTlST-Dr. s. H. Pollock and Mrs. Pollock of Rocky
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11
RIVER ON RAMPAGE.

Montgomery, Ala, March 10.-Five are dead as result of the floods of the Alabama river. Last night was the heaviest rain in twenty years. Three
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11
NARROWED IN eLoBE-The party

Mrs. DePew announces the arrival of a choice assortment of Gage hats. which are now on display. Also a fine line of untrimmed hats, flowers, feath- CTS and braid. Remodeling speciality. S21 North First St.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11
The First Continuous Performance

(James L. Ford in McClure's Magazine.)
 It was in the month of January. 1883, that MT B. r. Keith, who had been studying the show business with far-seeing eyes for many years, presented, in a store that he had
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11

whites and a negro were drowned from the ferry. The white boy was playing and fell in the stream.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11

at this time. The hearing will like ly be held the early part of next month.
 ELKS FRoLIc TONIGHT - The standing room, maybe" sign will be out tonight at the Elks' theater for the first performance and annual frOlic of the local lodge of the B. P O. r., and you will be lucky to get that from the way the seats have been gobbled up since they were put on sale. But those who will not find accommoda ton at the first performance, will be able probably, to squeeze in at the second.
 NARROWED IN GLoBE-The party of motorists, consisting of Mr.and Mrs. Frank Hilderbran, C. :. Scott and Hughie Hughes. which left Phoenix last Sunday for Globe, are marooned in the latter city. The storms of the last feV days have left the roads in bad condition for autOmobiling and the party finds itself stranded in Globe and surrounded by a sea of mud. They will, however, start on the return trip today The following telegram was received at The Republican office last night: Globe, March 10.IRain, snow. mud for two days. Leave Thursday morning, regardless.-C. s. Scott"
Arizona republican., 1909-03-11

at this time The hearing will like ly be held the early part of next month.
The Meeker herald., 1909-09-18
GOOD, CHEAP
FRAME LUMBER
Cedar Trees Cen BE Used Ar
D1AkAAG Farm DuiIdinSs.

At the present time lumber is SO
high that II 10 out of the question for
the poor or common class of farmers
to build al the buildings they need,
and 20 they have to do without. OF
course. near the sawmill lumber 10
always cheap. but for the benefit of
those that do not have these advan.
tages will tell how framed several
buildings on our farm.
We got some straight cedar trees
and Strengthened them as follows:
Stills and plates on three sides, the
floor timbers on one side. When ready
to lay in place We hewed the top ends
ali Of Q thickness where they were to
rest on the sill. then hewed the butts,
which viii be much larger, down to
the same thickness, but did not hew
any more than was necessary to get
the ends all Of . thickness, and the
tops will be ~ level as any joist. II
any one il . little lower than the rest
Just put . single under the ends. The
posts We hewed on two sides Just to
get one square corner. The studdins
and rafters We hewed on one side tust
enough to get q straight line to nail
70. We peeled all the bark OF a.
frame ID then much lighter and looks
far better. We halved the frame to.
gether. which saves lots Of time, and
y tust - strong.