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VOL. XXVII.
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AS TO JUiPE SHAW.
Bmnkb uJ Jut, 0· Vu Df
ΙιιΜ by ViriNllltl ot Law·
Tin Wbo DUa't Like HI· Way.
Rl.terlm Lutaut,
Both the Greensboro Record
and Telegram charge that the
defeat of Judge Shaw io the
ninth district ia due to the law·
yen, who didn't like him be
cause they couldn't run court
where he presides. The Record
says:'
"He [Judge Shaw] has treated
every one with uniform kindness
and fed all ont of the aame
spoon ; where an attorney
thought be should be allowed to
run the court he was firm io
showing him that he could not
do it. This causcd the bristles
to rise on tbeir spinal columns
and they " set (or" him. Turned
loose before the people there is
not a man who could have de
feated him at the polls, but the
politicians and a few lawyers
took care that he should get no
such chance. Practically in ev·
cry county m me owe, fl·
peciitly in tbe smaller conn tie»
away from the ceotera, there
have always been a lew 30-cent
Lawyers who took it upon them
selves to run tbe courts w they
deemed proper. With Tom
Shaw tbey could not make it,
hence they decreed that he
should be killed. Had Shaw
been a politician be could have
'knocked' them any way, but he
does not dabble in the airt.
It is doubtless true that Judge
Shaw made enemies among the
lawyers because he would not
allow them to run his courts.
He held court in Statesville
several times and tbe Landmark
ia to aay that he was popu
lar with the Statesville bar. We
have heard several of the lead
ing lawyers here speak of him
personally and they say there is
no fairer judge on tbe bench;
that he is absolutely fair and
without bio in a trial, but when
a jury says guilty and Shaw be
lieves tbe person convicted de
serve· punishment tbe punish
ment will be inflicted* Prom
what he believes to be his duty
he is immovable, and this is
light- A judge who allows him
self to be swerved by clamor, or
bulldoaed or cajoled by lawyers,
ia unfit to be judge. While
Judge Sbaw has a State wide
reputation far being severe in
his. punishments, be ia not hud
hearted '.or harsh. He ia as
kind and as gentle aa a woman.
Bnt it is tbe absolute certainty
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puniahment that will deter that
the criminal clasaea dreaded.
There are other judges—Judge
Council, lot inatance—who are
<eqaally aa tertre, If net more
severe, than Judge Shaw.
Bat if the lawyers defeated
thia lut «ad impartial judge, aa
ia charged, it la time for the
people to take matter· ia band
and aee to it that forever here
"after the lawyen a hall not
dominate the jndgca of oat
coarts. The defeat of Judge
.Shaw ia to bo regretted not alone
for the reaaon that aa honorable
and ηpright judge ia to b« re
moved from toe beacb. Αι
* taocb aa the Landmark admired
Maa oeriotialtv wo kaow there
are others, and otbera who can
do aa wall if th«y will.' Bnt tb«
(evil ioflnence of that defeat will
[be felt for yeara to oome in thii
Cray: It U believed that
[the lawyers defeated Judge
haw, aad other judge* on the
teach who wtab to enforce tb<
aw wkhovt fear or favor aad te
toad act eonrta aa they aboaU
m coodaetad. may ha de<
erred from their coorae through
•ar^that they may faear tbi
■amity of the lawyers aad aaf
ar at their haade aa lodge thas
iaa aaffered, aad the dlaporitiot
rill be to be laaiaat gad lot Um
snio^tis J:
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often U It that we Kt tbirdrate
lawyer·, weak men, named for
judge. Isn't it because tbe
lawyer· want a weak man—one
they can menace? And how
often do we see weak judges
cajoled into turning criminals
loose by lawyers who have de
fended them; cajoled into con·
tiuning cases that should be
tried. The defeat of Judge
Sbaw will tend to increase this
very thine and thus in his de
feat the people of tbe State have
suffered more than they can
realize.
Another thing that The Land
mark has protested against be
fore and it protests again: What
right bas a few counties com
posing a judicial district to name
a man for judge whom the en
tire State must elect and who
will daring his term hold court
in every county in the State?
The whole people of the State
have to elect the Superior Court
judges, have to pay their sal
aiiea and come in contact with
IIHUI. 1UCU 11 1a UUI ju»l met
the wbo'.e people should have ■
band in naming all tbe judges.
The Greensboro Record says
that turned loose before tbe peo
ple of tbe district no man could
nave defeated Judge Shaw; and
it is certain as anything can be
tnat if tbe people of the «bole
State bad bad a say he' would
not have been retired from the
bench, for while it is not always
apparent, the law-abiding peo
ple, the people who believe that
laws were made to be enforced
aud.should be enforced without
respect to persons, are greatly
in the majority in North Caro
lina; and if these coo Id have ex
pressed their wills Judge Shaw
would have remained on the
bench.
"Tka Glorious Foarth."
Wilmlacto· Ueamtogn.
The Fourth of July is coming
to be a big day in tbe south.
In "the times before tbe war"
our people need to celebrate thia
day with barbecues, militia drills
and country gatherings, but in
immediate post-bellum clays this
custom fell into disuse. We are
glad to see that the celebration
of the day is being revived. la
many sectiona of the south "Tbe
Glorious Fourth" is becoming ·
big dsy in the cities and towns.
Its observance ia becoming more
general and developing greater
enthusiasm ou the part of tbe
Dcople each year.
Toe Charlotte News acknowl
edges receipt of programmes for
tbe Fourth celebration in Qas*
tonia, Salisbury, Hickory and
llouroe. These are (our 6f tbe
leading towns in that immediate
section to appropriately observe
the dsy, which have seat out
KivKmuiiac·. ajici I DC ΓΟΠΠΟ
report· will ednc la from other
MCtiou of th« fUt· o! the In
dependence Day observance·.
The people all over the United
States art preparing to cele
brate the day, bat we venture
the prediction that no where
will ft be celebrated with treat·
er patriotic fervor, than in the
statea which once Boated the
Star* and Bars over their public
buildings.
It cannot be denied that we
sre train a united people with
ilie love of country u great nod
as genuine in one section as in
another, and H would have been
SO long ago if it bad not been
for the politic!ana and the office·
seekers. These are the men
who ate responsible for the
strained relatioae and the sec·
tlonal feelings which, but for
then, would baVe pasted away
with Grant's noble exhortation :
"Let us have peace."
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I will teed Thk Qakuttn
a week from now until
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WHEN IS A NAN TVENTY*ORE.
A QinUta Not m Eut ·· An·
ι*·Γ ι· It May Appear m the
Surface.
Hew York |u.
"It is often said that law 1·
applied tu common mmc," said
l'rof. John Wartt of the Yale
Law school, the otlierday, wbeu
in town. "While ilia true that
law piinciplcs origiuiited in
cotnuion sense, the law itself is
the combiucd experience of many
men; for no two men unin
atructed in law will agree as to
what is applied common sense.
"Then there axe many rules of
law which undoubtedly bave a
common sense origin; bnt con
ditions having changed history
fails to disclose - tnis origin ;
Yet these very rule» must be re
tained in order not to shake
personal and property rights.
Therefore no man can depend
on his own nninstrncted com
mon sense to know the law.
"To drive this statement
home, I have freaneatly put to
an incoming law class the ques
tion, 'When does an infant be
come of age?' The answer is
always unanimous: 'When be
Is twenty-one years old.'
"The next question appears
ridiculous to some, and makes
tbera laugh, while others aet
their alleged common sense at
work, and never with correct
result: 'When is a man twenty·
Am* wart nM)·
"Ône » hide at says: 'On bis
twenty-first birthday,' bnt of
course he does not mean it, for
be is abont a year out of the
way. Another ventures: "On
the twenty-first anniversary of
bis· birthday.' This sounds
better, but even if correct, is
not specific enough. 'When be
has completed his tw;nty-firat
anniversary' ; 'At the beginning
of that day:' 'On his twenty
first anniversary'; 'At the be
ginning of that day'; Όα his
twenty-first anniversary, at the
precise hour of his birth.'iate
other answers.
"In computing time it is a
general rule that the law dis
regards part of a day. In ap
plying this rale, suppose a man
was born just one mintite before
midnight on January 2. 1880.
"At midnight be had lived bnt
one minute, yet the day on
wbicb he was born was ended,
and the law considered bim one
day old. So in computing lb ρ
twenty-one years which a man
must live in order to reach his
majority we do not begin with
the moment of his birth, bnt
with the commencement of tbe
day of his birth..
'Now, since we must start
with the first moment of January
2, I860, it is perhaps natural to
say that this man did not be
come twenty-one years old until
tbe close of January 1, 1901.
Mathematically speaking this is
true.
"Twenty-one years in that
sense requires that the last
moment of January 1, 1901,
ahould bave arrived in order to
make the man of age, and
obviously, he was of age at that
point of time. Bnt here again
tbe rule is applied.
"As the man was of age on
the last moment of January 1,
10Λ1 -1 1J' t · · ·
order to make the man of ip,
and obvioutly. be wa« of ace at
that point of time. lint here
again the rule is applied.
"As the man waa of age on
the last moment of January 1,
the laar disregards the entire
part of the day intervening be
tween the first moment and the
last, and coase<iaently be be
came in law twenty-ooe years
old on the first moment of
Jannary 1, 1901, the day pre
ceding the twenty-first anni
versary of bis birthday.
"This rale is a part of what
ia known aa the common law
and is applied in this country in
all state# where the common lew
of Boglaad has been adopted,
and remains unchanged by
statnte. A man may vote or
maha a valid will on the day
preceding the twenty-first anni
versary of his birthday, although
the right in the one case and thv
capacity ia the other ia given
only to persons who have
reached (be age of twenty-one
years."
'Ύ.
Special Law lata*.
The C. ft N.-W. Railway
Company has isaned the follow·
not ice as Joint circular No. 11
'o All Agents:
Upon application and sufl·
dent notice to this office, Spec
ial Round Trip Rates will be
quoted parties of Twenty-five to
Fifty people on one ticaet, on
regular trains, between any two
points, on these lines.
Effective on and after April
1st, 1906. 8. F. RaiD,
General Passenger Agent
COLME0 " BEVCIERD "
MT8 A PLOOOINO.
Call.4 · Brother a LUr Ateot a
Mal· Trait aatf
Tnukii M Oaca.
Rock nui Honte.
"Rev." Allvn Workman, a col
ored divine who liven near the
city aud who 1· very earaot in
1*1» Admonition* to bit member»
to » flee from the «ruth to come,"
wu made to led the nccetaity ol
fleeing himself the other day—
not from the wrath he has been
preaching to hit people about,
but from the fiery wrath of one
of hit "bretbereu" whose anger
the " Reverend" kindled by call·
tag him a liar. Vat aa the
preacbcr bad often warned bis
people that they would aome
day wake up aqd find it wu
too late to cscape from the
wrath of the Lord, just ao be
fouod that he could not escape
from bis angry brother after
calling him a liar, for no sooaer
than bad the words left bis
lip· the other fellow knocked
him down and began to pound
him aamercifnlly.
it nappenea iota way: Aict
Smith, who works for Mr. W. H.
Dnolap in the Ogden neigbor
hood, sold Worknan a mule and
buggy on credit and took a mort*
gage on the property to secure
the debt. Workman became dis
pleased witb the trade, claiming
that the mole was not sound, as
Smith bad represented it to be,
aad he went over to Mr. Dan·
lap's last Tuesday to see Smith,
who was in the field at work
whea he got there. They talked
and wrangled of the matter for
some time and finally Mr. Don·
lap was seat (or, and it was
shortly after he arrived that the
lie was passed, and Smith west
after the preacher witb blood is
his eye. He pounded Workman
for some time and tbea reaching
for bis knife, said, "111 just cat
his throat." It was then that
the man underneath cried oat
for help in the aame earnest
tones that he pleads with bis
colored brothers to flee from the.
wrath to come. Smith, however,
was merciful enough not to ose
his knife, and wbeo Workman
found himself free again, be
brushed up aad weat to 'Squire
Nunnery snd had a warrant
taken out for Smith, charging
him witb assault and battery.
After hearing the evidence in
the case, the inagiatratc said he
thought the wrong party had
been prosecuted, aad dismissed
the case.
Workman bas laid himself
liable to prosecution by raising
a disturbance oa Mr. Dunlap's
place aad interfering with his
hands, and if the matter ta
pushed there is more trouble
ahead for him.
Beliglea m Cxcih.
Htrpert Wccklr.
A certain theatrical manager
of Chicago te U of w Iriak po
liceman in that city possessing
Dogberry-like traita.
On one occasion, at midnight,
the custodian of the law over
hauled a sleep-walker who waa
promenading a principal thor
oughfare clad only in bia night
robea. When the officer had
awakened the unfortunate nia·,
placed him under arrest and
was hustling him oS to tba st#
tion, tha sleep-walker exclaimed,
with indignation;
"Surely yon are not going to
lock me up?"
"Surest thing yon know I* air
ily responded the bluecoat.
"Why. man, I can't be held
responsible for tke predicament
jrou find me in! I am η somnsm■
boli st IM
"Sure, it roalcea ao difference
what church re belong to,"
sharply retained the officer; "ye
can't parade the streets of Chi
cago in your nighty I·
J add· Beyle'· Battle Baa.
ClmlsW Cl»r—UU.
John A. Boyle, a Massa
chusetts man, took part la the
civil war and liked to tall about
his experience. At a meeting
one evening be told about the
experience ne had at the battle
of Boll Ron as follows: ■
"I aaw tha men drop their
guns snd run, so I dropped
mine and ran. too,' but I we*
chased by one of the enemy,
who bad bis gnn in bead. 1 raa
the poor fellow a good race two
miles, aad then 1 atumbled and
fell and waa expectiag him to
eoma up and shoot ma. He
didnt com* up, ao ! looked
aronad to see «here be was
and to my lurprise aaw him
■prawled ont oa the groaad
about two yard* from tne. I
got up aad looked at him aad
saw that ha died from apt»·
pl CHjPa
Boyle'· hearers asked what he
did aext, aad he replied, "1 wept
for the maa that I had ma to
death."
SAMBUJI· Ul OKLAHOMA tTOL
Today there arc not ftve town
is Oklahoma οI ear importance
where Ktmblot is conducted
openly aa Η was six years ago.
As late as three years uo the
biggest runes ever seen in tbc
territory were runoiog In Okla
home City, though confined to
tipper floors or basements. Dur
ing the last two months all the
boss gamblers in Oklahoma City
upon whom the lew con Id lay its
hands have been pot in iail and
kept there. They had violated
injunctions prohibiting (hem
(rem using certain buildings for
gambling lor gambling purposes.
Guthrie 1ms bean without its big
games for more than s year..
The change Is due to activity
among religious organizations,
a public sentiment that rests
upon practical o* well as moral
grounds and to' tbc displace·
menc of certain adventurous
pioneer dtisens by more con
servative mes and women from
older communities. The ex·
planalion of aa old time boa·
nimbler η man who came In
Oklahoma at the opening, may
not be without. interest. He
said:
"in my town in earner y can.
when gambling was seder fall
headway, the "producer*" «en
■only far were. These fanner·
were WlUil men who bad been
with tbe van nan) of attira
sentiment all their Uvea. They
had bo autre hesitancy in gam
btlag than they had in smoking
a cfrar or takine- a drink of
whiskey. They bad baen ac
cnstooKd to it all their Uvea.
When oae came to town with a
load of wheat be pot the aioaejr
ia bis pocket, took his team to a
livery stable and went to a
restaurant or a hotel. Usually
be would stay ia town all aigbt.
After tapper be would take a
few drinks and then saaater
around to a laabHnc boute,
always within easy reacts and
without danger of raids. Ia
assay instances he went home
broke.
"The agricultural prosperity
in Oklahoma ia the last tea
years brought a «eat advance
ia tbe value o! farm properfar.
Firmer* from eaatera aad oorta·
em states began cornier to Ok
lahoma with bank accounts.
Tbe original settler.was offered
*3,000, $5,000 and sometimes as
higb as $10,000 for bis quarter
section of land, which to him
seemed mote than the land was
worth, aad he .sold it and moved
to other localities. Tbe aew
owners bad practised eoonomy
all their lives. They had lived
ia eommuaitie* where gambling
was dot tolerated.
"Whsa these fanners coam to
town they bring produce with
their wbeat or con. and a baa·
ket of laacb to save going to a
restasrsat. Thev deposit their
money in a bank. Instead of
takiag their boms to a livery
s ta Me, unless the weather fa
bad, they feed them from a
wagon boa. This kind of thing
is not profitable foc the gam·
bliag business, but it baa hap
pened ia my portions of tbe ter
ritory and" I believe that it has
happeaed elsewfrere.*
T. G.l lid of The Ny.
Stm YoATIbh.
Le ICatia of Perl» ku offered
■ pnke for tbe best method of
getting rid of house flies. The
ofler hu drawn forth as essay
entitled "Delcwda Muses,"
which professes to give a
method by which the pest may
be destroyed. The wmody fa
not sought In fly papers or ir
traps ofany kind. Tbe breed
ing places of the lasect mast
be sought out asd the evil dealt
with there.
The writer of tbe essay triad a
mixture of sods and chloride of
xiac, asintr 11 poonds to SS
cabic feet oi material. This
was ioood effective, a ad la
recommended lor closed teaks,
bnt not for places where the
poisonous solution coald drefa
away. Petroleum at the rata of
•bout a quart to every J1 square
feet of surface was also tried,
bnt tbe effect was found sot ta
be lufflcieutly lasting. Coal tar
was foand to ghw hotter results.
Raw petrelia m or raw scklef
oil—tbe residue la diatillstioa—
wit found to givatbe beat re·
mil*. About two quarts of this
mixed with water want used foe
every If square feet of nrfac*.
Thia forma a stratum of oil I· tbe
drain or oyer I be surface of the
eoHd, which eflactuaihr prevaats
tbe dcvelopmeot of toe en o«
frab. And this protective cost
of oil, it la further pointed out,
facilitetea the deyelopment of
aaaerobtc bacteria. which
Uqnlfy the solids, sad so reste
tbam unfit breeding places for
_■
Due West Female
Gastonla, N. C.
TdMDt 1
The guttering kuioMltr
the GuoUkid'i new depot.
It wmJ4 be ««ht |co4Mea
to limit the mmA of train·
through Yorkvillé
The «alary of (ho pwfMtir
ml YorkvlOe has bees raiaed
from ll.eoo to $1.700 par en
am.
Trade was very good loat Sat
urday, moat ol the dry good· —d
otioDs oeoole. enedauv. be
quite bur.
Dr. J. B. AIHoob baa
officially informed tbat
Clrmaoa Itutitote ear will be
mi YorkvJUo Jaly 20th.
Gaatoaia, M. C., ia p.vvwws
to auke a big blow-out oa the
Poortfa of July. A·
and iutereating putiMM haa
been arranged. aad the ψ
pecta are _ tbat there
»|e erowda ia
th
the
A borae belonging to Mr. I- W
Jobaaoa waa killed by the Sovtb
ern'a
1 , ,| fT,, — A mm ,
I ASK 9u1KXAy
war at a poiat where the
pawn through Mr. Jobs
pnalaci aad tfaodatib
ftinat M it waa turning to
off the track. The hone
thrown agafaut aa
aad dieo witbla
minute*.
children : Meter·. Jum It. mm
John JK. Cjmon, Ma. Ida C*r·
•on mad Min Laura Carat·. ·
At · Mtcdav of tW lawn
council la* Pndatâ aigW ac
tion wai taken that HMtaa Ike
practical T»-ceganl«*ti0n at the
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