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VOLUME XI. ' XENOIIl, N. C, NOVEMBER 13, 1908. NO. 4.
Senator Carmack Killed.
Naa'hevllle, Tenn., Nov. 9. Aj
a sequel to the recent bitter Demo
cratic primary for the gubernatori
al nomination in Tennessee, Hon.
Edward Ward Carmiclc, former
United States Senator from Ten
nessee, was shot and killed in a
Street duel here this afternoon by
?obin Dooper, a young attorney.
Young Cooper was wounded in the
shoulder by a bullet from Car
mack's revolver and is to-night un
der; police surveillance in a local
hospital. His condition is not
serious.
Carmack was wounded three
times, in the neck, the breast and
the left shoulder. Colonel Duncan
B. Cooper, father of the younger
man, was with his son during the
affray but did not fire a shot. It is
said he stood by with pistol in
hand. He is detained to night at
police headquarters. The direct
cause of the killing is a recent ser
ies of editorials in The Tennessean,
a daily paper of which Mr. Car
mack became editor after his de
feat for the nomination for Gover
nor. The editorials in question
had been vigorous in their com
ment on Colonel Cooper and hit
alleged connection with what Mr.
Carmack termed the "Democratic
machine'' and iU methods. Col
onel Cooper, who is well known in
business, newspaper and political
circles in Tennessee and the South,
had, it ii said, notified Mr. Car
mack that the reference to him
must cease. Anothor such editori
al appeared this morning.
It is now said that Governor
Glenn will return to Winston-Sa
lem January 10th, next not to
practice law but to live. He will
become after January 10, traveling
representative of the Home Mission
Board of the Southern Presbyteri
an Church in conjunction with
similar boards of Southern Metho
dist and Baptist churches for the
next six months and would after
wards take the lecture platform lor
four months.
They Like to be Fleeced.
Will Protect City's Trees.
The efforts of the superintend
ent of trees and parking, Truman
H. Lanham, to preserve the trees
and shrubbery of Washington are
receiving the hearty support of the
judges of the police court, as was
shown yesterday, when James
Mulcare, a plumber, was lined 125
by Judge Mullowny for cutting the
roots of trees on Ehode Island ave
nue northwest.
Judge Mullowny said: "It has
taken years to grow some of the
trees which border our streets and
parkings. The District govern
ment and the national government
has spent thousands of dollars in
this class of improvement. A
careless plumber, by working a few
minutes in tearing up the sidewalk
and putting down pipes, can undo
the work which it has taken the
trees aud parking office years to
to do. Washington Post.
secure it. Doctors summoned as
witnesses may be permitted, if the
judge so rules, to qualify as ex
perts and are allowed 110 a day.
Not satisfied with this, however, a
few years ago a special act was
passed for Iredell county giving all
physicians summoned' as witnesses
(5 per day. The business man,
the farmer, the laborer, may be
never so busy and attending court
may mean a serious damage to
their business, but they have to go
and take whatever is handed them.
But this class legislation, which is
indefensible, gives the doctors $5
a day.
Lightening
The way some merchants are
taken in by dead beats, trading
stamps, collection agencies, fake
advertising schemes, and other pes
tiferous "get rich quick" schemes,
shows that some business men! are
are just as simple as the old back
woodsman who endeavored to be
come rich by the easiest possible
methods.
He sent fifty cents to find out
how to raise turnips successfully.
He found out: "Just take hold of
tops and lift."
He wished to i marry and sent
stamps to a Chicago firm for inform
ation as to how to make an impres
sion. The answer was: "Sit down
on a pan of dough."
He learned "How to double your
money in six months," being ad
vised to convert his money into
bills and fold them.
He sent for "twelve useful house
articles," and got a package of
needles.
He sent one dollar to find out
how to getfrich. Work hard and
never spend a cent."
His brother wrote to find out
how to write without pen and ink.
He was told to use a lead pencil .
He paid one dollar to learn how
to live without work, and was told
on a postal: "Fish for easy marks
as we do.
Finally, the old nuvi was driven
to drink, and ho sent five dollars
for a suro cure for driinkr-nnc
Tho reply was to "take the pl"dj:e
and keep it."
Brethren of the trade, it will pay
you to-touch arms with your conir
pet Dor.
Virginia's Constitution Declared
Valid by a Federal Court.
Richmond Dispatch.
Today in the United States Cir
cuit Court Judge Uoff handed
down an opinion in the case of
John W. Brickhouse, a negro,
against William Jesup, an election
judge of Norfolk county, in which
the validity of the new Virginia
constitution was attacked, owing
to the failure of the members of
the constitutional convention to
take an oath to uphold the Federal
constitution.
Brickhouse contended that the
old constitution stood, and there
fore he had been illegally depriv
ed of his right to vote. The court
held that Brick house's contention
was without merit, and that as the
new constitution had been declared
valid by the Legislature and the
Governor of Virginia it was in fact
the constitution of Virginia.
The opiniou savs that whether
or not the constitution is the con
stitution of the State of Virginia,
it is a political question not to be
disposed of by the court, but by
the legislature department of the
State. These departments having
declared it valid and in force, it is
therefore the fundamental law o
the State and will so remain unti
changed by the people of the State
or overthrown, not by the courts,
but by revolution.
Flash Photographs
Victim.
Decatur, Ala., Nov. 6. A mod
el little two-story frame residence
over in New Decatur is now at
tracting the attention of hundreds
of people on account of the strange
things that have taken place there
during the last few weeks. The
house is located in Ninth avenue,
near the city cemetery.
Late in the afternoon of August
last, at which time the house
was occupied by S. W. Goree and
family, lightning struck the room
and ran down and struck Mr
Goree on the head, killing him in
stantly. Mrs. Goree was badly
shocked.
It has just been discovered that
the lightening that killed Mr.Goree
photographed the man and his wife
and a number of other objects on
the glass which was in the front
door, where they were standing.
Ia the picture Mr. Goree is seen
smoking a pipe, and his head is
turned slightly upward, as if he
were watching the cloud. Mrs
Goree's mouth is slightly open as
if in the act of speaking. Her
teeth show plainly in the picture
Bushes in the yard, the front fence
and two telephone poles are plain
ly seen in the picture as are also a
house and a skirt woods fully a
quarter of a mile away. Strange
to say, the flash of lightening which
killed Mr. Goree and made the pic
ture is itself photographed on the
glass. The glass' is now in the
posession of Walter M. Grubbs,
editor of the Decatur News.
Soon as Mr. Goree was killed
the family vacated the house and
it has been without a tenent ever
since. no one will rent tne piace
now, as the neighbors say it is in
fested with ghosts.
Give Your Preacher More.
The Statesville "Landmark in
speaking about the salaries of
preachers says:
The clergy is greatly hampered
in the matter of salaries. Min
isters of the right stripe do not
preach as a matter of business to
make a living or make money!
Their calling is above the ordinary
business. Yet they must live and
support a family! They should
receive enough to make themselves
aud their families comfortable, to
educate their children aud to pro
vide for the future. What is more
pitiable than a half-starved
preacher, run down at the heel and
constantly pressed to meet his fi
nancial obligations! Or one facing
old age, broken down, without auy
provision for the future: m want
and dependent!
Men and brethren, it should not
be so. Some of the preachejs are
of course poor managers and would
save nothing, no matter how large
the salary. Others could not make
as much iu any other calling or
business and may not be worth
what they are paid; but so long as
they are recognized as ministers
and in the service they should be
paid enough to keep them comfort
able. They can't organize unions
and put themselves on a strictly
business basis. That would hurt
their influeuce, for it would be
charged that they are thinking
more of the money than of the
souls of men. Neither should the
preacher and his family expect to
live extravajrantlv and above the
average of their charges.
HARDWARE
AND
The Pay of Witnesses.
Our good State pays some of
those who serve it well, but not
the mau who is called as a witness
in court. A witness is called from
his work to attend court and he
must attend or take the conse
quences. The witness mayor may
not have ready cash in hand to pay
board bills while in attendance t
court, but he must attend just the
same. When the witness is dis
charged from service he is given a
ticket on which he will probably
at some date away iu the future
realize its face value. Eor his ser
vices Mr. Witness gets barely
enough to keep himself at the
cheapest fried meat house if he gets
all his pay, but often he serves for
nothing. There is but one job,
yea, two jobs, m the State meaner
than serving the State as a witness
and those two jobs are working the
public roads and serving as a pub
lie school committeeman when
there is a little two by four neigh
borhood school row on. Monroe
F.n q uircr.
The Landmark has often thought
of this injustice to witnesses, hut
so few men are elected to the a
isla ure who seem to jive much
thought to the jreneral weluire.
that the injustice stands.
There are always, however, spe
cial privileges for a favored Tew
because they have the inilnence to
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