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ii.. V ,i VOL. XXVII BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, THURSDAY, September 9, 1915. NO. 6 i ii mm n ii I 'TTil iii"!! mil in n'. Thi til Bidgi if Chivalry So, again our traditions have been lived up to. Southerners are truetothemfelves. Womanhood has been protected. Let it not again be said that we will not rise in our glory and might and virtue and just indignation and punish to the last horrible detail when a crime has been committed. Our. women must be protected ! Also our mules! On Tuesday a noble band of pa, triots, moved Bolely by the desii-e for single minded justice rigor ous but necessary contemptu ously handcuffed the lawful off! cials of Georgia and took from them the prisoner who was even then serving the sentence which the orderly processes of the con stitution had said he should suf fer, and gallantly hanged him to a tree. The other bands of gal lant patriots who assembled to view the work after it had been done, with marked self restraint and virtue, refrained; at the sug gestions of prominent citizens, from jumping upon the corpse and gouging out the eyeballs and carrying them off as souvenirs and mementoes of justice trium phant. Let it be forever known our women shall be protected ! On Wednesday another gallant band assembled in a Southern State and put to death three hu man beings who were suspicioned of having poisoned some mules. Southern chivalry ascendant ! Our mules shall be protected ! On Sunday morning, in this good State, which of late years has been all too lax in the duty of administering safe and sane midnight justice, a band of pat in-otlc'gnardiaoft&e'.piitlMweal,-shot an unaccused man and an innocent little girl for the crime of having let a couple of negro women stop in the house while seeking to escape the justice of the gallant gentlemen who were righteously seeking to adminis ter it. , Our morals shall be protected ! Every barroom bum and brain less scallawag in the State has sworn a mighty oath to do it Let there be no mistake. The world is on notice. Women, mules and morals are safe in the Souths We are progressive people. We started out by hanging negroes caught red handed in the crime against women. Then we began hanging those who happened to be in the neighborhood when the crime was committed, hanging first and afterwards determining that then was no need of inves tigation. Mark the progress. Then we began to bang and burn when there was a suspicion that a crime had been committed Justice shall be done. Now we don't take the trouble to go at night to execute justice. We go into the court room and dominate .that, and when the constitutional processes have said that a prisoner may suffer a life sentence, we take him out and tie a rope into the quivering gash of an unhealed wound and string him up. Also we look after those who are suspicioned of poisoning our mules. Southern chivalry I Contempt ible hypocrisy I Avenge the death of Mary Phagan ! Was it that? Only the blind believe it. Every member of the howling mobs that have dogged this case would have seen the little factory girl bedrag gled in the ditch of .povery and sin without extending a hand to help her. They would have seen her virtue betrayed and despoiled by any Georgia buck of social standing, then kicked bef to the Daway house ana snieiaea mm But ignorance and passion and pwjiidiceand savagry stirred into the hellish broth of murder and Wilson-A Principli " Contending with Germany for a principle, asking only that law and civilization prevail, Presi dent Woodrpw Wilson has won what Chief Justice White declares to be "the greatest diplomatic achievement of the United States in ageneration." Itismorethan a diplomatic victory which has been won by the President in se curing from Germany its pledge to keep within the bounds of in ternational law in its submarine warfare, it is a victory for world wide humanity. The developments of the past few days have been such as to forecast the position which Ger many has now definitely taken, and it comes as the expected. Its pledge to this country is that no longer will passenger ships be sunk without warning and with out safety of the lives of non combatants provided that the liners do not attempt to escape or offer resistance. The formal note from Berlin pledging this has not reached this country, but both oral and written assurances have been given by Count yon Bernstorff, the German Ambas sador, to Secretary of State Lan sing. This position taken by the Ger man Government, so the Ambas sador declares, is that determin ed upon as its policy before the sinking of the Arabic, and this had been understood by Presi dent Wilson, to whom the disas ter befalling the Arabic came as a distinct shock. The statement of the German government that before the sinking of that vessel orders had been given its subma rine commanders to sink no more passenger shipi-wiliiQufrifm is regarded as being a disavowal of that act. As the reports are that the submarine which sank the Arabic has been destroyed by a British patrol boat the expla nation of its commander as to his actions is buried in the deep. The position taken by Germany is felt to be in complete compli ance with the demands of the United States. It gives to this country every point for which it has been contending: that peace ful merchantmen must not be sunk without warning, or with out visit? and search and oppor tunity for non-combatants to es cape. Germany s agreement to comply with the demands of the United States is a victory of the most complete kind for President Wilson. Patiently, calmly, the President has dealt with the sit uation as it arose following the sinking of the Lusitania. Insist ently he has pressed the demands of this country upon Germany. "Without cost and at any price" anarchy plumes itself as Southern chivalry! One step yet remains in the . . progressive development of the protection of society and morals and mules. Let no man of crim inal instinct kick our yaller dog. If he does let us "take the law in our own hands" and string him up. UOgs ougniw ne pruwwtcu They must be protected. i 1 i a 1 .-t,3 Tom Watson is due a special issue of The Jeffersonian telling the patriots just what to do in case their yaller dogs are mo lested. And the Thing now called the Mayor of Atlanta is due to make another speech and tell the guar. dians of publio morals howpatrt otic it would be to hang a gov- ernor who exercised the right which their constitution placed in his hands.' The Thing says that Georgia is the leading State in the South from which bad eminence letall other SouthernStatesdrawback, Monroe Journal Moonshine Enterprisi A feature in the news reports of the capture of blockade stills that doubtless has struck the public mind is that in the majority of cases these outlawed plants were located close to a school house or church. This condition of af fairs is explained on the supposi tion that the moonshiners have a crude notion that the vicinity of a church or school house affords a measure of protection from the suspecting eyes of the official raid ers. But how are we to explain the processes of reasoning that indicated the shelter of the Tem ple of Justice, itself, as a refuge for dispensers of the illicit stuff? Yet the Sylvan Valley News last week carried an entertaining sto ry of the discovery of a bar room in the court house at Brevard, Transylvania county. More than that, the saloon was running in full blast while court was in ses sion. In fact, "court week" seem ed to have been selected as a time when business would be brisk. The "counter" was located in an alcove just off the court room, while the "dispensary" was hid den in the belfry. There a barrel of liquor was found. "A certain signal given in the alcove," says The News, "would be answered by a lowering of a string through the hole in the trap door when a bottle and the proper amount of coin could be sent up, the bottle to be returned in a few moments filled with whiskey." The plant was accidentally discovered by a workman who had been spntup to repair a leak in the roof, even while "a number of court attend-, ants could be seen with a self- contented look on their faces and The bottles, string and barrel were captured, but the operators were not "ketched." Charlotte Observer. Kbit tbi Gurffi Outrage Did The Georgia outrage has done the South more damage than a million dollars in printer's ink can overcome, ueiore we inviie people to the South we must guarantee them protection. Georgia hasn't made good this guarantee. Everything. There are 35,000 in the soldiers' homes supported by the govern ment This is independen t of the State homes. he has declared emphatically he would contend for theriehts of the United States and its citizens, and that to "a strict accounta bility" would be held those who contravened those rights. Be has acted for humanity and for civilization, and he has won. It is a victory for President Wilson of the most conspicuous It gives him place as the foremost citizen of the world. America can but rejoice and be glad that he is in the White House and hu manity can but lift up its head in that it hassuchachampion. His position buttressed upon right, and justice, and law, and civiliza tion, and humanity, xie deserved to win. And having won this dis tinct victory upon the matter of the principle of warfare at sea we may well feel confident that he will press forward till there is put behind him in honor the other matters which have arisen from the sinking of the Lusitania, the Arabic, and other vessels, and there is a recognition from all na tions of the' freedom of the seas, and of the rights of neutrals in their commercial dealings with the world. All civilization may well rejoice because of the man who stands as the head of the American people in the great counsels of the nations. News & Observer. Bleasi Right and Wrong ' The Landraaik has little re spect for ex-Gov. Blease of South Carolina, and usually gives little publicity to what he has to say ; but it is today printing some ex tracts from the ex-Governor's re marks before the Governors' Con ference in Boston, to commend what he said about the "third degree" and cruelty to prisoners generally. The inhumane treat mentof prisoners have never been given the attention it deserves; and by inhumane treatment is meant cruel treatment; it is not meant that criminals who fall into the hands of the law should be petted and coddled and have better treatment, simply because they are prisoners, than would be given free laborers under like conditions; but it does mean that tbey should be treated as human beings; not be made so uncom fortable and treated so brutally, simply because they are prison ers, as to impose punishment in addition to that imposed by the confinement and labor required. ' The "third degree," which Gov. Blease properly denounces, means torturing a prisoner to force him to confess or implicate others. The anarchist Holt, whose case Gbv. Blease mentions, was prob ably either killed or forced to c6mmit suicide by this method of the Dark Ages. And yet newspa pers in the cities of the North and West, who pass over the third de gree without criticism, are horri fied when a lynching occurs in the South. Neither is to be defended, but of the two the lynching is less barbarous. In thelattercasethe victim's life is usually quickly ta ken, while death would often be a relief to the tortured victims ' of the "third degree." ! The Landmark has no patience with Gov. Blease's defence of lynching and it regrets that a man who commends mob law can be elected Governorof aSouthern State; but his remarks about the cruelty to prisoners men pre- sumably under the protection of law are timely and just. Statjss- ville Landmark. i City Point I Bad Place Mr. Ike Hunnicutt returned a few days ago from City Point, Va., where he worked three weeks at carpentry at the DupontPow der Plant. He made as high as five and a quarter dollars a day. ''Why did you not stay where work was so plentiful and wages so high?" he was asked. "Would a decent man stay in hell for five dollars a day if he could get out?" asked Mr. Hunni cutt in return. He says that the devil has that place so securely devoted to his own purposes that he no longer finds it necessary to watch it at all and has gone about his busi ness at other places. Twenty- eight thousand men gathered from all quarters of the earth, two hundred beer saloons, two thou sand lewd women, and innumera ble gambling houses, are Mr. Hunnicutt's estimates of the devil's devices in that place, There is neither law nor on there, he says. Even there wl for a while a fake court. This court arrested men, fined the: took their money if they had a: and if they had none, remani them to. prison, which was me an inclosure staked off by ropes. Here tbey were kept till a big rain set in and everybody then scam, pered. By and by real officers o! the law came along and arrested the whole court outfit. The com pany put up a building to be used' as a chapel, but it was promptly turned into adancehal! and a bawdy house. Monroe Journal What a Rial Homi Meats There is no picture which touch es the hearts of men more closely than the figure of the tired man or woman going home at the end of the day. The fierce heat of the sun has passed, the intense high light of midday has softened into a restful glow, the strain of effort is over and the passion of work has given place to the peace of deserted fields and streets. It was a normal instinct which sent the worker forth, eager and alert, in the morning; it is the response to a deep craving which sends him home at nightfall. The re ward of labor is the rest which it achieves and the joy of resHs the sense that it has been earned. The alternation of day and night is a symbol of the order of life in which work and rest suc ceed one another in a beautiful and health-giving rhythm. The worker goes out of himself when he takes up his tools; he returns to himself when he lays them down at the end of the day. He pours out his vitality as the wa ter pours out of a hidden spring; if he is a real worker and not a mere drudge, he gives himself in the toil of his hand and his brain, and when night falls his weari ness is not mere fatigue of body, it is depletion of vitality. Before he can give himself again he must find himself; and when one goes home he finds himself. To a vast multitude of men the thought of going home makes the heaviest burdens bearable, the most crushing responsibili ties a spur to effort, the most complete surrender of ease and pleasure not a sacrifice, but a price gladly paid for a happiness whi&isfceyttid price. The strain of the day is forgotten at the door which opens into the peace of perfect understanding, the pressure of hours and tasks is re laxed by the sound of a voice which is musical with love and faith and peace. In such a home coming there is not only the su preme reward for the work of the day that is ended; there is also the renewal of the strength and courage for the day that is to bring new strife and toil. The joy of going home is not in the ease and comfort that are waiting there. It is in the peace that flows from love, the stillness that follows in the tumult of storm, the clear atmosphere in which the dust of the highway is aid and the worker sees again the ends for which he is striving.; in the quietness of such a home the toil of life is not only sweet ened but its spiritual meaning shines clear again after the con fusion of details has vanished. Under the heat and burden of the day the strongest man sometimes wonders if life means anything but prolonged strain of muscle and brain; in the stillness of home its blurred ends, its ultimate achievements, shine like the stars above the highway when the dust has been laid. The home is not primarily a place for work, but tor life ; work lies below and beyond it, but the companionship which transforms a house into a home is a sharing of the rewards of work; freedom, respose, refreshment, visions. There are houses full of conven iences and luxuries in which no one is at home; the men and wo men who live in them are home less. To such men and women as to the men and women to whom'toarriage is a mere Bccial contract and the family a mere social arrangement, there is no iroinz home, no refuge for the spirit, no piace oi understanding and vision. There are no more pathetic figures in the world today than these homeless men and women; restless, discontent ed, and unhappy and utterly blind to the tragedy of a life in which there is no going home TneuutiooK. . ROFESSIONAL. R.H. HARDIN, M.D. Physician And Surgeon. BOONE, N. C. Office oyer Wink ) Phone Central or Winklen. ler'i store. ) All Calls Promptly attended. Office hours, 9 to 11, a. m. 3 to 6, p. m Dr. G. M. Peavler, Treats Diseases of the Eye, Ear Nose and Throat BRISTOL. TENN., IS '14 ly, T. . Bingham, Lawyer BOONE N.C r Prompt attention ei?en to nil matters of a legal nature Collections a specialty. Office with Solicitor F. A. Lin. ney 29, ly. pd Silas M. Greene, JEWELER Mabel, N. C. All kinds of repair work done under a positive guar antee. When in need of any thing in my line give me a call and get honest work at honest prices. Watch Rpaikino A Specialty VETERINARY SURGERY. I have been patting much tdr on this subject; have reeeiyed my diploma, and am now well equipped ror the practice of veterinary 8tur gery in all its bransbts, and am th only one in the ooonty. all on or address me at Vilas, N. . K. 1. D.l . e. H. HATES, Veterinary Surgeon. 5-17-'ll. E. S. COFFEY. -AT10RMA1LAW,- BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. Abstracting titles and onection oi claims a special tv. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney - SPECIALIST - EYE, EAR; NOSE, THROAT AND CEE8T YES EXAMINED FOR GLASSES FOURTH STREET Eristol. Tenn.-Va. EDMUND JONE8 LAWYER---LENOIK. N. C,- Will Practice Regularly in the Courts oi Wattfvga, 5.1 'ii. I. D.LOWE T. A. LOVE, Ptaeola, N. C, Banntr Elk, N. C. tOWE & LOVE ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Practice in the courts of jAvery and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to.all matters of a legal nature. 7-6-12. P. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BOONE, n. c, Will practice in the courts of the 13th Judicial District in all matters of a civil nature. 6-11-1911. B. F. LotIII. W. R. Lotiy; Lovill & Lovill -Attorneys At Lat BOONE, N. C Special attention given to' all business entrusted to their care. " 'A,