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BKOAT) STREET.
The resolution proposed by Mr. Morgan M i 1. s
»o appropriate $A<V»00 for the proper paving
of Broad Street is exactly along th« lines edt
| toriallv suggested by I he Richmond \ irginiati
jwme months ago. It has suggested from time to
time that no improvement in this city could
give more general satisfaction or '» ol more
general use to the whole people than the proper
paving and proper lighting of Broad Street.
This street can lie made one of the tine streets of
America, find ’in- «■ ity owe- it t<> tin- nn rehants
along this thoroughfare, who pay a large portion
of its faxes, to make it so. The proposed improve
ment should lie carried out a^ matter of ‘"ity
pride and enterprise. It likewise will contribute
largelv to the reduction of unnecessary traffic
noises, and " ill la' a step towards better sanitary
condition^, l.et the Mills proposition in detail
be made a reality a- speedily us possible.
Apart from the more practical improieincnt*
of asphalt paving and adequate lighting, the
project of parking the center of the street is
}»* commended. Tne natural ten
ineciaily to .
dene' of citv congestion toward lanes of towering
mason rv and manntomous severity of si net de
tail is now a recognized vice. In most, cities it
is a tjfiw-arv line. Broad Street, however,
peculiarly lends itself to lioant ideation. A
gracious climate is ready to do its part. I rop*
erlv improved. Broad Street. in conned ion with
the parking idea, would afford the unique sight, of
a busv, modem street, divided by a ribljon of
green for nine months in the year.
Not the least of the advantages of this beauti
ftil consummation is the lovely inexpensiveness
of the nieans neeessary to bring it als»ut.
DANGEROUS PEANUT POLITICS.
| At ive hop'd anil expected would !*■ the ease.
I the United States Senate, in passing the sundry
V civil appropriation hill, applied the pruning hook
| to the demagogic provision inserted b\ the
r House. l.v which the Department of dnstiee was
' enjoined from using any part ol the sum ap
£ pro}»riat<-d for the enforcement of the Sherman
law for the prosecution of any labor or agrieni
r tural combination in restraint of trade.
As pointed otif when the amendment was
adoptdJ. its effect, even if it had been constitu
tional. would have l>oon that of class legislation
of the most indefensible character. No law will
. stand the test of justice unless it lie equally en
forced. And to make a law which Itears equally
and then by artificial means make its application
partial is no less than encouragement v> anarchy.
| For the verv basis of the cry against all law. is
l that the law is a thing of favor and not a thing
P of right.
U The humiliating feature of the performance,
however, was that the members of the Mouse that
indulged in it knew la tter than anyone else ihat
the Senate would defeat it. Otherwise, we do
| not believe that they would have voted for it.
1 .talked at in this light, it was action at once
insincere and cowardly: insincere, iiei-atisc it was
taken «s laving: the foundation of demogogie
campaign s|**cches. and for the purpose of get
ting into the record votes and speeches in favor
of a revolutioiiarv act which it- auppirters would
Hot have countenanced had it had chance of ulti
mate passage : cowardly, 1m cause of the shifting
of the onus of performing St clear duty upon
the shoulders of the Senate. Particularly short
sighted. it seems to us, was the action of the
Democrat* in giving practically solid support to
such a measure. < hie tenet which the Democracy
1 cannot abandon and survive is animosity to class
3egi-la»ion. It is that unanimity of protest
which ha- held the party together through trial
and travail. It courts destruction when, for
any cause, it permits itself to lie lured from that
principle.
After Mr. Jinan'- experience with flirtation
will) (jumpers and (lie “Labor vote". Democratic
^“representatives in < ongress ought to have learn
ed at least this 1< -.-on, so admirably illustrated in
that instance; ihat the rebuke 1o nn appeal to
class is all the more crushing a- the support of
the class appealed to D worth having.
Because Mr. <- .supers agreed with Bryan to
deliv* r the Lal>or tore, Thousands voted against
fa tb<- Democratic tii k*-r.
Betause Mr. Guinpeis bad the presumption ■ >
contract to deliver it. the Labor vote did the same
tiling.
an umofth xapoi.kox.
'i hi- usually fair ami accurate Virginian-Pilot
k*. we tear, lost its bearings in denouncing as
ft demagogue of tin Jeffrie* lJavi* type ex-<io\
erxi *r Broward, of Florida, recently nominated
for the Senate over Senator Taliaferro. Noting
the outcome of the primary. The Virginian-Pilot
•ay-:
‘‘This result of the primary will
add to the South’s representation in
( ..ntrr—- another eliara.-ter of the ty)*e
to which l>avis, of Arkansas, belong*.
Broward is ignorant, self-willed, as
sertive and uncouth, but not lacking in
native strength of mind tior without,
]K>litieal ‘adroitness. The defeat of
Broward by Fletcher two year* ago
had induced the hope in other South
ern States tlutt Florida had revolted
against radical and demagogic leader
ship, but after all it is the concern of
Floridonions what manner of spokes
men they shall have in tho national
council. De gustibus non esi di-*pv<an
dunu"
X-jfct is true that Broward—Napoleor. Bonaparte
ward, in fact—is uncouth, unlettered and,
We an expressive manufacture, uanice. He
born a ‘'cracker ’, and all that ho has ac
V
eomplished ha* been won bv hard knocks and
stem lighting against big odds. His career has
Ixfn picturesque in the extreme—the career of;
a coarse, dominant personality thut sought its
: goals directly. forcefully and regardless of amen
ities. I luring tbe last rebellion in Cuba, be was
the owner and captain of the “Three Friends .
the filibustering tug thai gave both Spain and,
the Cnited States more trouble than hII other
attempts in this country to aid the eause of
"Cuba Libre”. It was out of the profits and
reputation acquired in ibis hazardous work that
this humble Napoleon found the path cleared
for his political preferment.
As Governor of Florida, Broward was any
thing but the slave of precedent. He did not
-it in his chair and attempt, to learn the graces
which go with the honor. Instead, he launched
hi* State upon a vast, and wlwr looked at first
•to lie a chimerical, enterprise. This was no less,
a project than the drainage of the vast, areas of'
swamp lands of Southern Florida-—lauds, in
fact, which were the counterparts of the famous,
Kverglades. He reasoned that, millions upon!
millions of dollars worth of highly productive;
lands were waiting the <-x pen it, lire of only a
tithe of lheir value to lw brought under oultiva-j
lion. He brought hi* own personal knowledge of;
the simpler mechanics to hear on the problem. He
devised and invented the great dredges to do the
work. And he actually organized and put into
such successful operation as i.o prove his theory
a work that, will ultimately transform a great
portion of his State. That, he did this against
the advice of competent, engineers and in spite
of all the ancient modes of thought proves, in
our estimation, that there is a deal more of the
Napoleon in his cosmos than is usually met with
in the ease of those whose parents have so ineon-j
isiderately dubbed them.
Jn the Senate of the T ruled States, Broward
will, of course, not '‘shine*’. For a time, cer
tainly, lie will lie laughed at and caricatured..
But we predict, of him that the combination of
virtue and judgment that put tlie “Three.
Friends*’ into danger time and time again, and
, then brought her safe to port ', that prompted him
as Governor to grapple with a constructive policy
that he understood, instead of lending himself to
ridiculous attempts at things of which he had no
experience, will save Napoleon Bonaparte
Broward—name and all—-even in the Senate of
the Fnited States. He is no wind-bag eater of
false fire, as Jiavis; no man to court a tight, and
then flee the encounter: no hvpocrit. no poseur.
And, for all its traditions of form and etiquette,
for all its careful culture and elegancies, the
Fnited States Senate is not, yet so lost to l)em
locratio, instincts that it fails lor long to make a
j welcome for a man, no matter in what guise he
! comes, in what apparel, nor with what, homely
| burr upon his longue.
) And, whatever else he may Ik*. Napokon Bona-;
'parte Broward is, physically, mentally and
(courageously, “considerable of a man".
A VARIANT OF “MY POLICIES”.
The conviction of Charles TL TTeiko, seero-1
tarv of the Sugar Trust, of frauds against the!
government want- in only one particular of giv-1
incomplete nation-wide satisfaction. Were it j
uol^hat the defendant is an aged man. white-,
haired and already broken by the strain of his |
indictment and triad there would 'tx' every reason I
in the unusual outcome to take hope of the long
deferred impartial application of the laws.
Ileike faces a prison sentence of two years and
a fine of $10,000. Already he is suffering a
I disgrace to which such a punishment can add
little. If lie goes to prison, the circumstance!
of his ago would justify a pardon, should the
President see tit to grant it. If he is permitted
to pay a tine, tdie same circumstance will justify
the discretion of his judge to show mercy. In
any e-vent, his conviction sets a new standard in
the application of the criminal laws to men dig
nified with the power of wealth.
The fact cannot he blinked that there lias been i
throughout every department a dispirit ion on]
the part of prosecuting officers to draw distinc-!
tions between classes of violators of criminal
statutes. There has been the evident inclination
to proceed against the corporation, rather than
against the men through whom the corporate
animus to wrong-doing is derived. No less a
, personage than ex President Roosevelt gave, in
the ca.-e of Paul Morion, open sanction io this
sort of pernicious discrimination. 1 he whole
force of criminal prosecutions for corporate
wrong-doing has l>ecn directed either against the
corporation, which i- not susceptible of im
prisonment, or against the obscure too|« ot the
more responsible criminal principals. The con
viction of lb-ike is a cheering variation of a rule
which is not only vicious in itself, but which
has found application in the hypocritical prac
tice of feigning to move in the public inter
,est and yet saving to further violation of the law
the individuals whose acts are inimical thereto.
The fining of a corporation, like the police court
iribuLc wrung fn>in illegal resort,?, is nothing
.more than a license exacted for the continued
j violation of the law. By some legerdemain of,
the moral sense the violation of a law is no dis- i
grace unless it is complicated with actual im
prisonment, ’[he part of the government, if it
. sincerely desires to repress fraud and secure ]
obedience to statutes, is to imjxise on these moral
blind men the only sort of punishment they fear.
Mr. Iloospvelt talked a great deal of the
“square deal”. It is a decided variation on'
“my policies” that, a Federal court in this day
of grace should apply it against one of the higher
I officials of one of the strongest and most im
jpudent trusts.
j The Democrats have repented of the small
i policy of refusing to let the President draw
(ahead on hie expense account.
i
TI1E SEVENTEEN-Y EAR LOCUST.
The seventeen-year locust was last here in the
rear 18P4, just in time <<> add emphasis to the
panic of 1893. Before that be came along just
as the country was preparing with foreboding to
enter upon the Hayes administration, which had
rafted the Presidency from I ilden, who had been
elected by the countrv. Before that he came in
18ti0, foreboding of the ffing and bloody M ar
between the States, the *‘M on his wings clear
ly marked, tuid true prophecy of the evil that lay
in wait for those parlous times.
According to all the rules of his birth, life his
tory and habits, the seventeen-year locust ought
not, therefore, to put, in hi-1 appearance until the
summer of 1911. It is a significant tact or
otherwise, as vou choose,— that, lie has concluded
i not to wait his proper cycle, and L* already here.
The Virginian has a boxful of him, sent from’
Blue Ilidge Mountain by a friend, who says
that he is there, “by the million ’. I he shells dis
close a cicada of about three quarters the size of
the familiar annual “July fly” or Harvest lime
cicada, on the tip of whose gauzy wings are the
distinct black markings which, when the insect
is inverted, form a well-nigh perfect "M , which
the superstitions say indicate “war .
Why the seventeen-year locust should change
his habit, and become a sixteen year old visitor
instead, wo will have to leave to those versed in
portents. Perhaps it is the home coming of
Teddy that varies all rules. Mayhap, for the
want of something better in prospect* it is the
JefTrios-Iohnson prize-light which is the nearest
Ithing on the boards approximating strife. It
imay be that, some echo of Insurgent declamation
i has stirred the slnmherer from his sleep, or it,
may l<o that, to take no chances, he has come this
ivear and will come next year also. At any rate,
itho locust as hero-—in this office—-now. Me regard
ihim as we write—and wonder a: the destiny he
may foretell.
As matter oi tact, the ’ seven teen-year locust
is not. a locust at all, but a cicada. The mark of
.locusts, like that of bull-frogs, is long hind logs.
If you want to see a locust, look at a grasshopper;
ho it. is who. on migration, descends upon the
land, even as the A1idianites descended upon Is
rael, coming “as grasshoppers for multitude":
.he it was of whom Moses -poke unto Hharaoh
that they should “cover the face of the earth,
that one cannot he able to the see the earth:
mid they shall eat the residue of that which
, is escaped, which remaino.th unto you from
the hail, ami shall cat every tree which groweth
for you out of the field’'. Beside these plagues
the cicada is comparatively harmless. He is
•■ailed “locust", but. hr is the short-legged j
species, as little destructive by comparison
with his long-legged cousins as the molly-cotton
jtail is when compared to the Australian jack
I rabbit. There should l>e comfort in this thought,
even though the “locust" be upon us.
The seventeen-year cicada is the product of
i eggs laid in trees, which, utter hatching into
nymphs, drop to the ground and bore under the
i roots, where their long period of development
jis passed before they develop wings and proceed
I to perpetuate their species. Their adult life is
j brief, only a few weeks. The presence of the ;
! locusts in the seventeenth, instead ot the eigh
teenth year, is due to overlapping broods. They;
will return next season, and will then slumber;
through at least several war-scares in Europe.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon and “Sunny Jim" Sher
man will have to follow the lead-of the common-;
altv and pay the piper for their joy rides.
I It may an outrage that Russia -houhl rc
: fuse, admission to (Bear Hainmerstein, Amer
ican citizen, hut why -hould a Jew want to get
, back into Russia
The administration wishes an appropriation
to permit, its participation in The International
Opium Conference. Have we not already had
dope in sufficient quantity and variety from that,
I source f
i It will probably he a great disappointment to;
i Brodio Duke that a sqm-amieh parson prevented
his catching up mt tf.e last matrimonial lap1
with .Vat Goodwin.
I The government, V convicting the Secretary
•of the Sugar Trust, o at last touched one of
i those “higher tip".
i Policeman Drolimky. of New York, under
itook 1o arrest a suffragette for disturbing a
[suffragist meeting, only to be reminded by his
sergeant that in America rhe right of woman to
free speech is one of ■; things in which, mere
man dare not interior,
.Mexico is said to he alarmed otter “whooping
Indians". The whooping red man is now not
nearly so fatal as the whooping cough.
( olonel Boosrveit .icelines to make a “key
note speech" until he has titled the key to the
lock.
THOSE N. C. BONDS
Quietus on John Q.
The action of the American Tobacco Company, one of j
the biggest business organizations In Ian country, In
taking a million North Carolina bonds and offerelng fu
take the whole Issue I? necessary Is calculated to put
a quietus on the latest manipulations of John U,
Carlisle.—Raleigh Evening Times.
The Dukes to the Front.
The Dukee showed up prominently In yesterday’s
news, taking a million state bonds and giving a hundred
thousand dollars to Trinity College. Whatever may he
said about the Dukes It cannot be said that prosperity
makes them forget the folks hack home.—Raleigh Even
ing Times.
No Legislsture, A Considsratlon.
Unless North Carolina had quickly sold II.Sll.OOO
more of bonds* It would have been necessary to bold
V
a special session of the Legislature. The Governor's
call for the ape rial session caused the bond# to be taken
up In a Jiffy. Patriotism was the principal Inspiration,
of course, but the avoidance of an extra sitting of the
legislature was a secondarv desideratum that was
cheap at the price.—Norfolk Landmark.
“Coals of Firs."
t\> are surprised that the American Tobacco Com
pany will come to the State’s aid after all those trust -
busting speeches that Governor Kltohin made a couple
of years ago.—New Bern Sun.
What Else Did It Purchase?
No special session of the legislature. Maybe the
American Tobacco Co. had reason for buying the State
bonds"—New Bern Sun.
“Friends of th# Mammon.”
It is sometimes a good thing to have friends among
the rich men of the country, even If we do cuss 'em j
.black and blue between times.-Durham Sun.
A Good Wind Fails.
Some nf the campaign slanderers who wanted to
make political capital out of an extra session of the
: legislature have had the wind taken out of their sails.— .
j Durham Sun.
HIS FORTUNE
By CLARISSA MACKIE.
(Copyright. 1910. by Associated Literary Press.)
Bees Purdy and her father watched the four young
men ride away from the house and then their eyes
met In a look of loving sympathy.
"I do hope they'll make a strike this time, dad.”
sbid Bess earnestly. "Jim said they were to ride away
. over to Hattlesnake Mountain and separate at the base
-each one prospecting for himself. Seems as it they
hadn’t had much luck so far, this year"
"So more they haven't.” admitted John Purdy, sitt
ing down on the. steps and filling his pipe; "but they’re
all young, honey—and you don’t And gold every day.
Mostly, you find It Just once in all your prospecting."
; "Perhaps this will be the one day for each of them,”
smiled Bess rumpling her father's mop of curly gray i
hair. "Dad. you're positively growing old!"
Mr. Purdy laughed the low rumpling bass notes that i
> his daughter loved to hear.
"I’ve got enough on my mind—and conscience—to ■
' make my hair as white as snow,” he remarked rucfuly.
"What Is it, father” Something Is worrying you and
| you have not told me!" Bess dropped down on her
knees beside her father and lifted his chin in one brown
, little hand. "l>ook me in the eyes, dad!” she cora
I manded.
Mr. Purdy turned mirthful gray eyes upon hers, so
j like his own. "I'm looking—eh?”
! "What is the matter?"
Her father removed his pipe from between his
lips and looked Into the bowl, then he squinted down
'lie stem, and Anally knocked the contents out and
dropped the pipe In his pocket, with an air of deter
mination.
“You saw those four chaps ride away, Bess?” he
asked seriously.
"Yes,” said the girl, with interest.
"Bill Melvin, Owen Ransom, Bert Clayton and Jim
my Alvin—four as nice fellows as over catne into the
gold country to seek their fortunes—eh?"
"Yes." Bess was blushing faintly now but her dear
glance still held her father's gray eyes.
"Well, last night, one time or another, every dad
blamcd one of those boys came and usked me If—If—”
Tie paused and looked away down the crooked street
of the little mining town, and this time Bess did not
say anything but the flush on her cheek grew deeper.
"Every one of those boys came and asked me If he
! could come and court my daughter—provided be made
some sort of a lucky strike this trip.”
Th*-re was a little silence and then Bess asked faint
ly, "What did you say, dad?"
“I said they could come whether they'd made their
fortunes or not—and that I didn't know what your
; mind was about it- and that they better run ahead and
i locate their claims.”
"They all asked you that question, dad?”
“Yes, honey—and I don't know which one of 'em it
is—but it's one of the four—eh?”
Bhe nodded.
Purdy sighed and got upon his feet "I reckon
it’ll be Bert Clayton—he's a handsome rascal and has
rare good luck at everything."
Bess made no reply but turned and ran into the house
and up to her little room with shining eyes and hot
| cheeks.
Several weeks passed slowly while the hot sun
poured down out of a brassy sky and the little town
blistered under the scorching blaze. John Purdy, down
in the assay office, thought of the four young men grub- |
bing hopelessly around Rattlesnake Mountain- Its
scarred hillsides had been vainly prospected for years. !
What would these youths get out of the burning j
ground save hit tor suffering and untold harsh exper- :
lences? It was a curious situation—four of them
friends and all suitors for Bess Purdy's little brown
hand! .
* Bess, working away at her household tasks in the
motherless home, grew more dreamy-eyed and wistful
as the days faded one Into the other and no word came
| from the prospectors.
And then one night, aftpr supper, when the whole
town sat gasping upon the doorsteps, a messenger
whirled madly down the main street on a dripping
pony.
"A strike—a strike!" ran from lip to lip and then'
it was learned that the prospectors had indeed struck
gold in Rattlesnake Mountain.
“The richest vein hereabouts—queerest thing that j
ever happened. They was all four working at different
points and three of ’em struck the vein—I guess il
run clean through the mountain; the other fellow ;
didn't get a blamed thing for his digging!” related the i
messenger.
"1 reckon the other chaps will let the unlucky fellow :
in on the claim ' remarked Purdy casually.
I "Like enough,” said the other, proceeding on his
exciting Journey dow n the street. "I didn’t ask which !
ones made the find—they was all excitement. They'll
he here to-morrow. Purdy, witli some stuff for you to
assay." *
Bess nnd her father sat motionless a long time. At
last the girl spoke. "I wonder who it was—the one
who didn't And anything.” she murmured half to
I herself.
i ”] was asking myself that question." said Mr. Purdy
i thoughtfully.
The next day. Just John Purdy reached his house
at dinner time, there was the sound of hoof-beats
dow n the sunny street. Bess came to the Inside of :
'the green-shuttered door snd, quite unseen, saw three
i young men gallop to the porch and greet her father 1
with boyish excitement.
There were BUI Melvin and Owen Ransom and Bert
1 Clayton—but the fourth, where was he? Bess leaned
against the doof, pale and still.
The men were talking fast—all together—and John i
Purdy was asking sharp, pointed questions regarding 1
the reputed And. The assayer nodded approval of the
samples of ore they displayed.
| “Where's Jimmy Alvin?" he asked tersely.
The three looked at each other and Clayton pointed i
a thumb In the direction front which they had come. '
"Alvin acted that mulish.” complained the young pros- |
pec-tor In an Injured tone: "he was Just ns near lo<»t- .
ing the claim as the rest of us—but Just because he ;
didn't happen to scratch pay dirt and we did. he won't |
touch a thing! He rode on with us to Horseshoe Rock !
and said he'd be along later. We argued with hint j
till he started to fight the crowd and so we came
jon!" i
"He's right, boys," said Purdy gravely. "You three ■
; made the strike—that's all square—and it belongs to ;
you. I Just guess Alvin's unlucky. Maybe he'll strike
i next time!” |
j "He says he's going back home and settle down |
in the grocery business alongside of his dad,'" remark- 1
ed Melvin ruefully, and then as the three lucky pros
pectors moved reluctantly away, he called back over his
shoulder and voiced the unspoken words of his com
rades "I hope Miss Bess is well, Mr. Purdy."
"Elrst rate,thank you,” said Purdy, watching them I
ride down the street with a brooding look In his
l eyes.
He was still gazing when his daughter's white |
pony pounded around the side of the house and on ,
his back was Bess, her face pale under a flapping hat.
"Dinner's all ready for you. father. I'll be home by1
und by—I’m being after—Jim!”
Hhe flew up the street und his eyes followed the
cloud of dust In her wake until horse and rider blurred ,
Into the gray trail. ”1 knew It." he muttered with a
satisfied amlle. *i knew It was Jimmy—and he'* the I
cream of a good lot!”
lac ter, at the assay office. John Purdy reported on
the samples of ore that the prospectors had brought !
In.
“You're rich men—every one of you, boys. Here's
my hand on it—you deserve all of it!” he said heart
ily. .. —
•1 wish you could argue with Jim und make him
come In on this—there’s no use In him being poor,”
Said Melvin.
“Jim Alvin's made a luckier strike than any of you,
boys." said Purdy cooly. "He's the richest man in
town this minute!”
“How? When?” they demanded eagerly,
“Look!" said Purdy pointing out of .the window.
Coning down the street the head* of their ponies
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i close together, and with the unmistakable air of
; those who are above all earthly considerations, were
1 tw” rluers; one was Benn Purdy, Hushed and lovely
j under her flapping hat, and the other was Jim Alvin—>
I * unlucky prospector.
B strike—pure gold," murmured Purdy,
i without looking at the three young men.
One by one they stole away, and saddled their horses
and disappeared; and there was not one who would
not gladly have exchanged places with Jim Alvin at
• hat moment.
Virginia Comment
Labor 8avinf Devica.
i , .. n ,c,x<'han*rp advocates a plan whereby young ladieg
l a,u"hdlng church in the evening can register their
names in the church vestibule, ao that the young men
; who are in the habit of lingering around the church
door can see whether or not their beat girl ia present
f K.u".,,et1_a ,roubled br“ln »< rest. The plan would
undoubtedly be a great convenience for a eertair clasa
I,ou‘'K,,mpn H“d would work well in many place*,—.
Bedford Bulletin.
Just Try ’Em!
Southern farmers .ore poor traders' in the title of
an article going the rounds of the newspapers. Ws
wonder If the writer of it ever tried to negotiate with
one who happened to be in a bad humor for pulling a
broken down automobile out of a hole or got caught
In an egg squeeze and undertook to do business with
the producer.—Hoanoke Times.
Lawyer Couneilmen.
i Tl10 Investigation in Richmond of the two lswyef*
couneilmen who uccepted a fee of 9£0<i to appear before
| certain city boardB. and who were alleged to have in*
i “benoed the passage of an ordinance accomplishing
, what their clients sought, has resulted in the exonera
j tion of the two men.
The committee conducting the hearing has recoin*
j bonded an ordinance, however, that ia designed to pre
vent Couneilmen. whether lawyer or layman, front
appearing for compensation before the Council, or any!
< ommittee thereof, or an department municipal board,
bureau or officer thereof in relation to “any proceed
ing. contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation,
prosecution, arrest or other matter or thing In which the
city Is a party, or ts directly or Indirectly lnteresled.'*
While this ordinance overshoots the mark it blazes
the way for some much needed refe>rms in such matters,
. Barring councilman!.: lawyer* from the rourts is toa
drastic to be seriously considered, arid vet in Rich
mond se\ erul of the couneilmen have been so eon
i epicuous as police court attorneys that it is not stir.
| to sec this provision in the ordinance, although
; it is doubtful if li is adopted w ith that provision,
j in the Richmond care the two lawyers requested tor
1 e excused from voting on the ordinance that bene
fltted their clients, but tire committee appreciated
, the influence that a member exerts on a measure that
h announces to Ids colleagues he is too much Interested
In to vote upon; that often gets it more votes than if
1 he had silently gone along and cast his vote for it.
i wep. if he wa.i paid to do it.
These, however, are not matters to be met by citj*
, ordinances, the voters can take care of the situation
w hen they w ant It changed.—Norfolk ledger - Dispatch.
Ths Season of Shrinking Values.
j A contemporary feelingly remarks that this Is ths
season for tall swearing—even so. brother, and the
j open season for liars. When the tax lists are passed
i around there is a marvelous shrinkage in real estate
and personal property values. A two hundred dollar
mule goes on the list as a fifty dollar “plug.” but if said
c mule should stray on a railroad track and be killed.
I nothing less than three hundred dollars would replace
! lb the owner's frezied plea for damages from a
"soulless corporation." it Is a serious reflection upon
!B Christian people that a very inadequate idea of the
roa! property values of our country can be obtained
from the tax books —Tidewater News. .
Gavs A Hasty Reputation.
That reputable Republican organ, the Bristol News,
was. it seems, too previous in attributing to Its party
, colleagues In the Ninth District an amount of re
spectability which would restrain them from seeking
to make political capital out of the embarrassing situa
tion in which Mr Henry Stuart, through no fault of
, his own. was placed by the New York customs officials,
1 Two Republican canvassers in the Southwest are re.
j ported to be making the occurence a campaign Issue.
The voluntary statement of Mr. I.oeb, Collector of tha
: I’ort of New York, completely exonerating Mr. Stuart
| in the mutter, ought of itself to he sufficient to remova
all suspicion from the inind* of those who do not know
! Mr. Stuart well enough to know that he could not hava
; been guilty of anything even appiezimatlng wrong.
We note the incident only to show the depths of
■ desperation to which the followers of Mr. Slemp aro
driven in the fight to maintain the supremacy of their
! leader.—Virginian-Pilot.
The Talk “Down Home
A Landing.
A contemporary inquire*. "When will Roosevelt
land’" lie may land a few or Taft’s breadbasket for
going to sleep on "my pedicle*."—Wilmington (N. C.J
Star.
After State Lands
In the city yesterday was ex-Judgo Jacob Rattle, of
i ttocky Mount, who waa here In the matter of securing
from the State certain land* in Columbus county.
With him were Mr. L. F. Tilley, cashier of the Bank
of Rocky Mount, and Mr. W. L. Groom, of Rocky Mount,
head of the Tar River Lumber Company, who desire to
i secure the lands, there being about ten thousand acres
1 on the Waccamaw River. The matter was presented to
the State Board of Education. which postponed conatd
oration of the matter until to-day, when Attorney
General Blekett will be back in the city, as his oplnloa
Is desired in the matter.—Raleigh News and Observetv
Early Men on the Mountains.
Reports from the resorts In the mountains of North
Carolina are to the effect that more people have gone
to the mountains than ever before this early In the
season. The Improvement of many of the mountain
roads and the coming Into general use of the auto
mobile are largely responsible for the increase In the
patronage of the resorts, and when the Charlotte-Ashe
ville- Knoxville highway and others that are contem
plated are completed, western North Carolina will be
come In fact the playground for the South and a great
part of the East.—Charlotte Chronicle.
Trinity’s Latest Gift.
Mr. R. X. Duke ha* made another gift of one hun
dred thousand dollars to Trinity College. This car
ries the benefactions of the Duke f&mlty to the col
lege far above the million dollar murk. As a result of
such benefactions Trinity Is one of the best equipped
colleges In the entire country and Its endowment la
surpassed by that of only one educational Institution In
the South.—Twin-City SentlneL
Songbest At Bond 8ais.
The hankers and State officials, realizing that vic
tory was won and that the bond Issue had been sub
scribed adjourned by singing "The Old North State.”
They were filled with the spirit of patriotism and gavt
vent to their feeling In the State song, it was really an
Inspiring sight. North Carolina will never suffer from
humiliation so long as her people are filled with such
spirit as manifested yesterday. And that spirit will
always be uppermost In the hearts of true North Caro
linians.—Raleigh Evening Times.
Monument to a Litarary Stepson.
The movement to erect some sort of tablet to tha
memory of Bill Nye, the adopted Tar Heel humorist,
will meet with state-wide favor. It was In Nortk
Carolina that this eon of Maine developed those qual
ities that made his writings so popular, and it is fit
ting that he be honored.—Charlotte News.
The President's new private secretary will keep n*
card-Index of hospitality. The former secretary will
bind his In Morocco.—Norfolk Landmark.