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Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10
WOMAN ARRESTED
ON MURDER Charge

Tarboro, N. c. July 7.-Deputy
Sheriff Thomas, Of this city, arrest
ed Mrs. Joe Johnson in Speed. near
here, this afternoon. charged with
killing her husband Saturday night
near Holy Ghost Church, in Martin
county.
Saturday night Johnson, who was
a prominent farmer in Martin coun-
ty, took his wife riding. Shortly
afterwards runaway horse was
stopped at the church, closely fol-
owed by Mrs. Johnson, who said
her husband had been shot from
the roadside not far off.
Investigation proved the man
dead in the road about hundred
yards off. The coroner investigated
and released the woman. Later a
pistol was discovered by the side of
the dead man.
At the time of the shooting the
man was riding on the right side of
a single buggy with his wife on the
left. He was shot in the left tenn
pie and his hair on the left side of
the head was badly burned with
powder. The pistol was new and
only one chamber had been fired.
The woman at the time of the
arrest said: Il wouldn't care bit
about this if it were not for my
baby"
The baby is the only child and is
about six months old. The wife is
22 years old and pretty. The pre-
liminary trial will take piece to-
I morrow at Oak City before Justice
of the Peace R. j. House.-Observer.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10
Low SATURDAY RATES

The Southern Railway has put
into effect some excellent one day
excursion rates to points of inter-
est in Western North Carolina.
On Saturdays the rates are, from
Sylvia to Balsam and return, 80,
to Waynesville and return, SO,
Lake Junaluska and return SIS, to
Asheville and return 1.2O,
These rates are in effect every
Saturday and as they are excep-
tionally low will no doubt prove
very popular with those who wish
to visit these points.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10
SCOTT'S CREEK ROAD,

The work on the up-the-creek
road from Sylvia Ito the Scott's s
Creek township line was commence
ed Monday morning and the force is
moving rapidly on the grading.
There is only about five miles of
road to build up that way, in Syl-
va townships and this can be COM
pleted in short time as the new
road will follow the old
most of the way.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10
COOKE PLAYERS
HERE NEXT WEEK

The School Board of Sylvia have
arranged with the Cooke Players a
tabloid repertoir company, who are
we'll known in North Carolina, to
present six performances in the
auditorium commencing July 13
and ending the 18th, moving pic
lures will be run in conjunction
with the show, the program will be
changed each night, Monday night
the Cook Players will present The
Fool of The Family" a tabloid rural
comedy and three vaudeville acts
also three reels of pictures. Ad-
mission children 15cts. adults 25cts
The folks would do we'll to begin
studying the proposed amendments
to the Constitution. We vote on
them in November. 1t is particu-
larly necessary that every citizen
vote intelligently on these matters.
To do so will necessitate a deal of
hard thinking in North Carolina
Carolina between now and Novem-
Der.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10
WILL The LIGHTS Be WHITE?
BY CY WARMAN

The author, poet and railroad
man who died in Chicago recently.
He was the author of many stories
and poems dealing with railroad
life.
Oft, when feel my engine swerye,
AS ore strange rails we fare.
| strain my eyes around the curve
For what awaits us there.
When swift and free she carries me
Through yards unknown at night,
| look ,long the line to see
That all the lamps are white.
The blue light marks the crippled
car,
The green light signals slow;
The red light is a danger light
The white light, Let her CO."
Again, the open fields we roam,
And when the night is fair,
I look up in the starry dome,
And wonder what's up there.
For who can speak for those who
dwell
Behind the curving sky?
No man has ever lived to fell
Just what it means to die.
Swift toward life's terminal I tren d
The run seems short tonight;
God only knows what's at the end =
hope the lamps are white,
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10
KILLED At saw Mill,

Harley Orr, a young man employ
ed at w. Kilpatrick's Saw mill
near Calvert, was accidently killed
while at work there last Friday.
1t was about the noon kn0ck-off
hour, and some of the young men
were doing some saving on their
own account, young Orr among
them. The plank he was saving
broke and fell, and in STOPPING to
pick it up he was caught by the
saw. An arm and legs were almost
severed, and internal injuries were
also received.-Sylvan Valley
News.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10
BRYAN comes
TO ASHEVILLE

Secretary of State William Jen-
nings Bryan has leased a home in
Asheville and his family will spend
the summer there. Mr.. Bryan will
be in Asheville as much as possible
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10

Jefferson Henson arrived Wed
nesday from Washington and will
spend a short while with his
mother at Beta.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-10
CAMP JACKSON VS.
CANE 'nER0KEE

The second gar
Jackson team w
afternoon at tn,
when they meet
Camp Cherokee.
The Swain Couz
to have as good OF
ton this year thar
saw the class Of
Jackson kids can
The game prom
cellent one.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
A MUSEUM OF ART FOR NEWARK.

A SUGGESTION by President Hamburg of the Board of
Trade erection building feature of the
celebration anniversary of Newark apropos The
ef should be distinct from other large features of the cee
of its 1t should represent either
the past the the future the that past or that
which begins with the anniversary
certain essential respects city lacking but there
enough that waking them We proud
Schools public library manufactures, public
institutions but unlike many cities of less population Newark has
Shall then fine building in which
displayed during the celebration the best of the
private Newark and which shall remain perma-
With such building erected many of the
donations legacies. The building
will beginning of for city which has
given little recognition encouragement
An exhibition of the owned privately in Newark will
the visitor that the interest the people of Newark
all in material things that while have had public
fine there plenty of and culture
Newark homes 1t will also spirit among the
people the afterward favorite civic
1t will suggest Newark OF works the desirab of
making gifts and providing for such gifts in their wills
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
THE STATES ASSETS IN WATERPoWER.

WATERPOWER OWNERSHIP and development in New Jer-
sew has been left to private enterprise profit Paterson
Passaic Trenton New Me Brdgeton and other
smaller have built developed watepower The
Passac watershed in 1924 horsepower wateower the
Raran 1898 Delaware above Trenton oooo AT Fae-
son there and at Passalc 1850 Inc
Pequannock a Butler had 200.
The estimated developed waterpower in the State
was O87O gross horsepower netted annual IN
come of S9925O Capitalized cent this would be
worth nearly SlOOooOo0
of waterpower is either undeVeoped or I'M
used where developed material interest in the
unused Pequannock above Butler which be-
longs to the city, value of this beyond
DISPUTE and has been made to utilize it, Along
the line of the there valuable waterpower con-
oed by the company of it rented manu-
featuring concerns canal transportation the
ence of many waerpowr sites would manufacture and
build busy communities The wreckng OF the canal o-
bids waterpower Development
Governor Gynn, New York. proposes get S12OOOOO OF
income for the State development horsepower
having this large of wealth private
individual fortunes while the people of the
directly the support of The New
Jersey Legislature sized the idea of making
power of State income
Water Commission in its last for the first
reference State development of waerpowe
body which will translate words into action. The
Legislature Governor appoint ndepend
investigate the whole subject of water
Jersey, using the experts of the State Geological
Survey examining into all the business of the question
pf utilizing the horsepower when developed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE BLIND

the twelve thousand now sightless
from injury had been employed in
factories where safety devices were
installed they would be producers in
stead of dependents.
Granular lids or trachoma is amen
able to treatment, yet twenty-five
hundred persons were allowed to be-
come blind from this cause. 1t must
be a happy thought to all of us to
know that the past two years has
shown a marked diminution In the
number of injuries from Fourth of
July accidents.
The use of wood alcohol, working
in rooms where it is used or drink
ing "power-house whiskey' or some
of the various soft drinks contain
ing wood alcohol, has caused large
number of persons to become totally
blind. There will always be a GER
tain number of cases of blindness,
which cannot be avoided, but it is
appalling to think that the sight of
thirty tousand of those now blind
could have been preserved. How shall
we limit blindness in the future? By
insisting that our children's eyes shall
have proper care. By compelling our
factories to install safety devices. BY
medical inspection of schools. The
child sitting next to your child may
have diphtheria and convey It to your
child's eyes. BY demanding a safe
and sane Fourth Of July in your own
town. By abolishing the roller towel
and by establishing such other hy-
genic measures as will tend to keep
us healthy and free from disease.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16

Three things had brought Private
Frank Smith, a detected, shivering
wretch, along with half dozen other
similarly detected, shivering wretches,
to trial as a deserter, before the
court-martial, says Harry f. kohr,
in Technical World Magazine. Smith
hadn't meant to desert. Few men
honestly mean to, to begin, but ne
had got drunk and when empty peck
cts enabled sobriety to return, he
found he had overstayed his leave Oh
absence.
And fear gripped him. Once be-
fore he had overstayed his leave anu
was given ten and ten which means
$40 loss of pay and ten days in the
guard house; now he would get
Twenty and twenty" That would be
the highest penalty to be expected.
But even at that he would have re-
turned to face the music, but ne hao
been sick for some time pasta SICK
ness that did not incapacltate MIN
for duty, but which, nevertheless
filed him at times with melancholy
At least his superiors supposed ne
was fit for duty, but his despondency
had led to reprimands for disclpn-
nary elapses. He had imagined as a
consequence that every one was PICK
ing on him. His poor, muddled rae
ulties saw but one way out-that
was desertion.
Whatever it may be, desertion from
the army in time of peace certainly
shouldn't be a crime. In civil law
II is nothing more than breach OF
contract for service. No more crlml-
nal are half a dozen other military
expenses for which soldiers have been
sent to the military prison. And yet
year after year courts MARTA! have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
ARMY DESERTERS A PROBLEM

condemned from 500 to 700 men to
Fort Leavenworth to be branded as
convicts, treated as convicts and
taught the arts of crime for which
every prison--civil or military-ls Il
training school--a recruiting ground
for the underworld
From a chronological point of view
system which yearly places any
where from 500 to 700 men In a posi-
ton where they must struggle upf
ward from criminal career is in
defensible, and 1t is equally indefen-
sible from a humanitarian standpoint.
Or, take the more practical view,
that thus the army is robbing its
own store of fighting material. 1t is
a huge waste to the army and a loss
and danger to society.
But how can we check this
waste?" the army asked. How can
we eliminate this danger to society,"
1t has been asking these questions
ever since there was an army. Deser-
ton always has been the army's
problem-a proportionately greater
problem in the United States than
American War nearly $4,000 men
have deserted the service This is
close to 1000 men a year, sometimes
more and sometimes less, but too
great percentage of its fighting
strength to be passed over without
an attempt to stop it. I
The severity of the law never has
stopped murder, and punishment
never has and never will stop deser-
ton. The army has long realized
that. 'fBut what can we do?" the
army has asked again and again.
I'VE must do something or we shall
have no army at all"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Governor Hill Revealed His knowledge of the Law

In conversation which l had with
John Clinton Gray just before he
sailed for Europe, early in January,
for six months rest. | asked him
what on the whole was the most i'm
pressive experience he had, speaking
from the point of view of lawyer,
in all his service of twenty-five
years as associate justice of the high
est court of New York State.
Judge Gray was silent for a mo-
ment as though he Were turning
over in his mind some of his expert
ences while serving as Court of
Appeals justice. 1t should be said in
passing that Judge Gray has gained
very high rank as a jurist. His name
is known favorably to leading law
yers all over the United States and to
many in Great Britain. His opinions
az recorded in the reports of the
Court of Appeal cases carry very
great authority.
Il think" replied Judge Gray,
sDeaI5ing somewhat slowly, as though
he were Weighing two or three in
stances which had made great i'm
preston upon him, that, take 1T all
in all. the sudden reveal ton made by
David B. Hill of his mastery intel
Iectual equipment as lawyer was
the most TEIndIhdbit Vi III tLlc mani
interesting incidents which came I'm
der my observation.
~ first knew of Governor Hill when
he was a member of the Legislature.
| had heard that he had served az
Mayor of Elmira when a young man.
| know that he had gained the con-
fidence of Samuel ]. Tilden and that
was by no means an easy thing for q
man to do. He became Lieutenant
Governor in 1888, succeeding Grover
Cleveland when the latter resigned
the Governorship to become Presi-
dent. and was twice reelected Gov
ernor. He retired from the Gov
ernors office at Albany to enter the
United States Senate in 1893.
Il became pleasantly acquainted
with Governor Hill after 1 began ser
vice on the bench Of the Court OF
Appeals. 1t was just after his SECOND
election as Governor, though tn
state had gone Republican on tn
Presidential vote. | never though
of Hill as a lawyer especially nor
I am sure. did any of my associates
on the Court of Appeals bench. W.
looked upon him as a very astut
politician who was mastered by al
ambition to be nomina ted by tn
| Democracy for President We az
| hear that in his private life he wa
| of unimpeachable conduct, not haV1n
any small vices. such as smoking. I'll
was known to be of absolute In
| tegrity in his personal none
matters.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
OLD RIVER CUSTOM SURVIVES

and Hans Wagner in the head Of the
average small boy.
The cookhouse is also the source
of all the steamboat news, and an
unestablished rumor is always brand
ed "cookhouse talk" which means
that something about to happen is
being talked about by steamboat
men.
The custom is kept up. even when
the boat is in port. On towboats
the cookhouse is more of an insti-
tuition than on the packets, because
the men have less to divert them
than on a passenger carrying boat.
A passenger very seldom gets an
invitation back to the cookhouse, and
it Is not good form to go unless ac-
companied by one of the crew. The
steamboat fraternity is very tenacious
about holding on to certain customs
and traditions, but the o'clock cof-
fee hour has lasted longer than any
of the others.
Steamboat coffee Is different, too,
from the beverage as it is known
on land. Owing to the fact that it
Is not practical to carry cows on
board, steamboat men generally pre-
fer to take it black, in great IRON
stone cups, which hold little less
than a quart. 1t helps to keep away
malaria, they say.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Remarkable Career as Financier

he loves most to recount IS MS Iorc-
ing of Thomas f. Ryan, the KING OF
frenzied financiers, to return $1,000
600 which he had received for some
very watery stock of the Metropolis
tan Life.
So powerful has Schiff become, in
deed-so silent and impenetrable his
ways and workings-that 1t has
seemed almost as though he were an
impersonal force governing mys-
teriously the finances of the country,
rather than a human being working
in ordinary human ways. Yet, on
occasions, he has spoken out straight
to the public with very personal en-
phasis. Such was his stern attack,
several years ago, on the currency
system of the United States. And
it was this attack which set going
the banking reform movement and
brought us our much heralded new
currency law.
Those who know Schiff as friend
or relative see him not at all as an
impersonal force, but as very Iowa
bic and human companion, sincerely
interested in the philanthropic and
social problems and in matters OF
character and religion.
The one maxim of his business life
hints much of this kindly, straight
forward nature of the great finan-
cier. 1t runs:
81 never believe a man dishonest
until he has been proven so!''
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
PARTIsANsHIP THEN AND NOW.

THE RIDER the postofce appropriation bill intended to
2o0 seconds poStmasers of the classified civil
vice is President
afts right after the election in 1912 which threw him of
Office suddenly placing 10000 Republican pacehoders in
list And this without any relevancy merit
fitness while known that least 10 per of these
were incompetent unfit.
The Republicans Congress who denouncng the
appropriation rider commended Mr. Taft
partsanshp To them virtue the civil
mantle protect 10000 paisans good bad and
different by incoming administration
leave 10 of the number open possible dis
missa for any whatsoever
In point of fact of the 10000 posmasters protected by
Mr. Tas order violated the law in the presidential campaign
doing campaign Taft. In Ohio posmasters
in his interest while pooces especially
used openly for partisan In strict justice
delinquent posmaster should have been removed but they
have generally remained undisturbed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Walters Tips Are a Necessity, Chicago
Club Decides.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-An immi-
grant from Germany at the age of
eighteen; clothing merchant on a
modest scale in Cincinnati; later
head of an immense banking firm,
successor to j.. H. Hartman, rec
ognized leader of American Judaism,
and now j. P. Morgan's successor
as car of Wall Street.
That summarizes the life of Jacob
Henry Schiff, head of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co., the great banking concern
which, it is said, has now become the
dominating leader in Wall Street,
since the Morgan people have taken
the startling course of withdrawing
from their interlocking directorates.
Jacob H. Schiff, though a kindly
man, famed as a philanthropist and
lover of children and flowers. is
we'll used to the job of being car.
Fortified in his inner office, behind
many guardian doors and ante
rooms, for years he has ruled the
affairs of his firm with an iron hand
And throughout those years he has
maintained unbroken an imposing
silence. A European monarch is
more easily interviewed than Jacob
H. Schiff.
Gear of his own firm, he has now
made that firm almost undisputed
car of the money trust. Kuhn, Loeb
& Co. are, next to ]. P. Morgan &
Co., the most powerful banking
house in America. The senior part
ner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. died years
ago, and James Loeb retired to a
life of ease. Since then Schiff has
been the firm.
In many battle of stocks and
bonds, Schiff led his firm to tri-
umph over foes famous on the
field of high finance. The victory
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16

"A year or two after Governor Hill
became United States Senator the in
come tax bill, which had been framed
originally by the lower House of Con-
gress, was before the Senate, which
at that time was a Democratic bodv.
unexpectedly Hill announced that
he would address the Senate In OBJ
position to the income tax law. say
ing that he based his opposition en-
tirely upon constitutional rounds.
Il have no doubt it seemed to all
lawyers almost presumptous that this
Senator, who had for twenty years
been known as an active politician
in New York State. should venture
to address the Senate not upon po-
litical but upon a constitutional
question.
But as Hill delivered the address
we lawyers began to look at one an
other with establishment. Here was
man who was revealing himself
as master, not only of constitu-
tional principles, but Of the presen-
tation of them to a body which con-
tanned SO able a group Of lawyers
as did the United States Senate at
that day
IT think from that time my as
sociates upon the bench and many
of the leading lawyers of New York
State realized that If Governor Hill
had devoted himself to the law in
stead Of to politics he would have
ranked as one of the great leaders
| of the American bar.
Now I will tell you something
which came within my personal
| knowledge Among the lawyers who
were retained to argue before the
| Supreme Court at Washington in sup
| port of the claim that the income
tax law of 1894 provided for a levy
| ing OF that tax in a manner which
was unconstitutional. was Clarence
H. Seward, one of the leaders of the
New York bar. Mr.. Stewards brief
followed substantially the line of
argument made by Governor Hill in
the United States Senate and it was
Mr.. Stewards brief upon which the
Supreme Court based its opinion that
the income tax law of 1894 provided
for an unconstitut ional method OF
levying taxes.
Il think all lawyers of New York
state are satisfied that Governor
Il Hill from the time when he gained
that great triumph as a lawyer be.
gan to subordinate political ambi.
j ton, supplantlng that with the am
bition to succeed greatly as a lawyer
Before his death he must have beer
gratified to know that this later am
, billion had been rapidly realized"
u Copyright, 1914, by e. ]. Edwards
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