The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 26, 1925, Image 5
SAYS JUBOKS TO BLANK
juror* Sny? H ? Tatai So Stock !q
"Spasm" of RJfhUouaneM
Spartanburg June 15.? "If there
ia a lack? in the administration of
the law or a lack of punishment of
criminals* it is the result of len-v
ieru-y in tho kearts aml of
the jurors for the last forty years,
r.nd it is a result, an accumulation,
u growth. I have no patience with
these sudden spasms of v righteous
ness, a spasm only, in tho public
xyiincl. to get somebody and get them
right now. Let those people,, who
now rise in righteous indignation
sometimes search themselves and se.e
whether or not they have not here
tofore sat on juries and turned crimi
nals loose who ought to have been
convicted,'' said Juilgo T. S. Souse, of
Spartanburg in his charge to the
grand jury this morning upon the
convening. of the summer term of the
?djiurt ()f general sessions.
"The judge cannot write a ver
dict 'of guilty, neither can the soli
citor, it is up to you.. Let us do the
work lumestly, squarely and faith
fully and let the consequences take
care of themselves," admonished
.-Judge Sense. ;?
The following is the statement of
the judge's remarks as taken by the
court stenographer: ? .... . ? '
Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of
the- < I rand Jury: We have only one
week at this term of the court and
(here a iot of cases on the* docket
r.iul it looks like about forty or fif
ty more. There is no use for ifily
body to tear their shirts about it.
\\c will just proceed in the orderly
way ?>f administering the law as
best we can, grand jury, petit jury,
solicitor and court. When we have
done that, we have performed our
duty. It makes no difference if
there are other cases on the dock at?
Kvery ease must receive due con
sideration ?t the hands of the grand'
jury, petit jury and the court.
We are here for the purpose of
convicting arid punishing the guilty,
that is to say, those that have? been
prove 'i to be guilty beyond a reason-.
;ible doubt, and we are here to /shield
those that are innocent *nd thQse
?that have not been proven to be guilty
Ofr.vu'hl a reasonable, doubt. 1 have
heard a great deal of criticism by
* laymen, not by the lawyers, of the
jaw of reasonable doubt. That one
word, gentlemen, is the cornerstone.
Sometimes, as you no doubt no
tice now, there is a spasm of right
eousness, a spasm only, in the pub
lic mind, to get somebody, get them
rijjhi now. That is only spasmodic
-in! it dies out soon, and it should
die out soon, because every person
accused of crime, however serious the
.-.barge is or however patent the evi
dence: is of his guilt, has a consti
tutional light to have his case tried
n decorum and in -the orderly ad
ministration of justice. The com
munity gets outraged, and they think
by this spasmodic effort, this spasm
of righteousness, that they can rev
olutionize the matter in a day or a
year or ten years. It can't be done.
Why? Because, if there is a lack
n tho administration of the law or
.? lack of punishment of criminals,
it i> the result of leniency in the
hearts and minds of juries for the
*:a>t 10 years, and it is a result, an
accumulation, a growth. 1
b-t those people who now rise in
righteous ? indignation sometimes
search themselves and see whether or
not they have not heretofore sat on
juries and turnjed criminals loose, who
to have been convicted. Let
'hem search their own hearts. It is
*>ot :he fault, if fault there be, of the
ouri-. The judge cannot write a
? c rdii t of guilty, neither can he write j
?i verdict of not guilty, under our
-titution, and I am glad of it,
ause I would hate to have the re
sponsibility, the enormous responsi
bili?\ on my shoulders to say guilty
? "t guilty. That is for the petit
y and it is the best system we
v. ?. ever had, and those who criti
'? it and criticize its sufficiency
? i effectiveness, let them produce
???UK other 'scheme. I have heard of
. r.u. ^ * .
^ c, we will proceed in the or
?<iiy way of the administration of
-Ustice and eventually we will come
Ait victorious, but if you violate the
?'? by refusing to give a man a
deliberate and impartiaj trial,
>'?u will do no 'good along the line
?>f respect for law and enforcement
' the law. You would therefore be
vio.ating the law itself. I say, gen
' enien, I have no patience - with a
Midden spasm of a desire to enforce
the criminal law. Let it be a long
pull and a steady effort all the time
to that justice is done Hi favor
tho state and to see that the
criminal gets the fair ttlal and de
liberate judgment of the court* ac*
hording to the law and the rule*
n* law Utf tr tip ISngljsh apaaking
P* ople Have- found, best for a thou
s*nd years. I have been preaching
law aad order, gentlemen, for 28
aa4-. torn* times I have become
discouraged but 1 don't get mud
about it and have a spasm over it.
I do my conscientious duty wherever
and whenever I can say a word in
?a proper place for tho enforcement
of law. That is all I can do. Tho
solicitor is not to be criticised, he
can't write a verdict of gijilty or
not guilty, he can't make the evi
dence. If he should attempt it, he
ought to be impeached. So let us
do the work that our handp find tg
do, do it honestly, squarely^nd faith
fully, and let the consequences take
Cafe of themselves.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that L. J.
Whitaker, administrator of the es
tate of M. L. McLeod, deceased, hath
this day made application unto me for <
a final discharge as said adm\nistra- .
tor, and that Mpnday, tho 20th day
of June, 1925, at 11 o'clock a. m? at
tho Probate office in Camden, South
Carolina, has been set as the time '
and place for the hearing of the said
application.
All parties, if any, having claims -
against the said estate will present'
them duly attested on or before that
date or be forever burred. .
VV. L. MvDOWKLL,
* Judge of Probate Kershaw Co.
Camden, S. C,, May 21st, 1 925.
"Happy. As Can Be"
"I can work as well as ever, and am
as happy as Can be, for my life has ?
been given back to me," writes J. It.
Bryant who says he went to special- .
ists who told him he had Brights
Disease and they could do nothing for
him.
He took eight bottle.^ of Hobo Kid
ney and Bladder Remedy and is en
tirely satisfied.
"Hobo" is a. powerful vivifying
balm ? made from an herb that con
tains no alcohol, no opiate**,- no habit
forming drugs.
V*bv sale by all druggists. Price
$1.20 per bottle, or a full treatment !
of six bottles for $li.00.' This full
treatment is recommended and guar
anteed to give entire satisfaction or ?
money refunded. r* .
Hobo Medicine CO., Beaumont, Texas.!
VA? ?? ?? -> <* V I
JOHN J. FOLSOM I>EAI)
Was Prominent Citizen of Tiller's
Ferry Section
The news of the death of John J.
Folspmj which occurred at the honvj
of his son J. L. Folsom in the Tiller's.
Ferry section of Lee county in his
79th year last Saturday moaning was
received ? witk profound ^ regret, al
though^ not unexpected. Mr. Folsom
had been sick about two weeks with
pneumonia, but was thought to haVo
been some better the day before the
final summons came.
John James Folsom was born May
1, 181G, in the Tiller's Ferry section ?
of \vhat is now Lee county, and liveJ
all his long and useful life in the
same neighborhood. He was a man
of strong character, a determined
will and an even disposition. T1U__
life, hhd been so sperifr that when ho
must 'Have realized that his time on
ejirth was drawing n?ar to a close,
he prayed/ that he he relieved of fur
ther earthly responsibilities. This
jptJlVer was answered, and death eaiho
peacefully ami quiet and his life had
lu'i n apfillt among* his fellowmen.
Mr. Fol#om was one of the few old
Confederate soldiers that have been
spared to live in this age. When \
mere lad In* entered t.he cause of his
native state and served with distinc
tion In Company K, of Hrown's Bat
talion. ' ? .
Forty-six years aj?o he was nappily
married to Miss Mary Jane Clements
of Darlington county, who with six
children survive him, as follows; Mrs.
hula Oaughntan and Mrs. Maggie
.Kelley, #W. H. Folsom, E. W. Folsom,
S. L, Folsom and J. I. Folsom.
Also two brothers, Z. T. and J. K.
Folsom and two sifters, Mrs. Lizzie
Kelley, and Mrs. Lydia Parham of
Orlandy, Fla., and' several grand
children and great grand children.
The funeral services were held Sun
day morning at Bethany Methodist
church, of which the deceased had
been a member for many year*. In
terment followed in the church ceme
tery, services .being conducted by his
pastor, Kov. German. The floral of
ferings were laicge and beautiful. ?
Kishopville Messenger.
Last Cruise of the Oregon
Oregon for the Oregon. The most
famous of American battleships since
the Constitution has found her final
resting place in Portland harbor,
where the local pride of the Pacific
Coast will see that the slow processes
of decay ure as tyn? us possible re
sisted and that no impious hand
shall, "tear her tattered ensign down"
says the New York World.
The Spanish war- -we know now
that it Wtffe a little onejebut it was our
own ? 'found the Oregon upon the Pa
cific, where she had been built and
passed her few years afloat. The
Isthmian canal was not yet; Captuin
Clark had to bring her home down
and up the two coasts of the New
World, threading meanwhile Magel
lan's tortuous straits, visited, from
point to point in the general imagina
tion by dire perils from foe and sea.
She was on hand when needed not
the least of the ships that took part
in the, defeat yf Cervera at Santiago.
From the day of her ljVunching the
Oregon's home has been in the Pa
cific. Disarmed under the Washing
ton conference treaty, she will doze
out her Ihst. days' among friends.
Peace to her plates!
Florence Hoy Cleared of Charge
Florence, June 19. ? Aleck Pitts, ltf
year-old boy charged with the mur
der of his father, T. K. Pitts, promi
nent farmer near Florence, was ac
quitted this morning. The case went
to the jury without arguments on the
state's testimony. Young Pitts' de
fense was that he shot to save his
-mother V life. The jury wijs out only
a few minutes.
QII1T8 BENCH TO TURN HOBO
Judge Kinsell of California Hndu
Freedom of Souf in I.ong Hike
By fate ? jurist, sitting in judgment
upon his follow mart; by instinct a
nomadic wayfarer along- life's high
ways, seeking the .sun. Such was the
irreconcilable complex two months
ago of former Superior Court Judge
of Oakland, Cal., eminent lawyer and
eitiaen. Bound l>y the tenacious con
ventionalities of life, Judge Kinsell
threw aside the judicial togH, he said,
because no sun shone into his court
room. ?
But those who knew him, says an
Oakland dispatch, knew that it was
more than the sun in the skies abovo.
that, the austere personage upon the
bench found barred from his windows.
To him the dark things of life that
came across his Vision at the bar of
justice barred from tin- windows of
his own soul the light of happiness*
ami mental freedom.
One day Judge Kinsell dropped
completely from sight. At his Oaklan 1"
home it was said he had "gone away
for a rest.'" lie had. (Mad in appro
priate hiking to^s. Knapsaek slung
jauntily over his: shoulder and soft hat
pulled low over his eyes, the abdicat
ing jurist had set forlh along the
highways and byways of man, seek
ing the- freedom his spirit had craved,
Today .Judge Kinsell is back home",
bronzed and hardened after a vagrant,
journey in which# ho tramped and
"hummed" his wa.V from the. shores of
the l^cifie to the Atlantic, at. Jack
sonville, Fla. He is back (home with
a new aspecjl on life, a vision as broad
as the country he traveled.
Judge Kinsell's hike from ocean to
ocean included what "lifts? could bo
had along the highways that he fol
lowed, but his actual walking averag
ed from f> *to 20 miles a day. But
there were mf paid fares, nor were
there hotel bills to mock derisively at ""
a weakened purpose. Nightly the sky
was the wanderer's blanket, the earth
his pillow. "True," he says, "I did
reach the Atlantic, but that was just
because I kept going, in that direc
tion. It was cfiaiice guiding my foot
stens. -I- started out without any dofi
nite goal. Too many goals quickly be
come obligations, and it was freedom
that I sought ? and found. Sometimes
riding* with wayside friends I even
retraced my route." 1
Human nature, Judge Kinsell es
tablished as one of his prime discov
eries, is quite universally the same the
length of the road, "whether it rjdes
in the tapestried tonneau of a lijrnou
sine or aboard the rough-riding rear
seat of a flivver. People are natur
ally suspicious, but likewise they are
readily responsive flo the clean-cut
appearance of the man who holds his
head high. I say that figuratively as.
well as literally. If a man walks
alone and -is clean and neat in his
appearance, trudging along about his
business in a self-respecting way, he
will find the high and the low ready
to stand by and give him a lift. That
is life."
One thing stands forth iti Judge
Kinsell's mind %s the supreme lesson
taught him by his wanderings ? that
is, time devoted to getting simple joys
out of life pays far greater dividends
thari that devoted to quest after*
money returns. ; "Money," he said, "is
essential, but Clod pity the man or
woman who subserves all else to jthe
pursuit of it. You cannot buy hap
piness with gold, but you can have
it for the asking if you seek it 'Hi
freedom *of mind and body through
communion with nature. The man
?who cooks his evening meal over a
campfire along the railroad track is
often happier than the man who
whirls past him on the upper road
in his limousine, going home to his
fine dinner."
The hospitality of the country ?
that type of hospitality that opens
the door without questioning to take
one in ? is found in the "open coun-,
try," Judge Kinsell declared. "I used
to think of it as I lay beneath the
stars on the floor of the Arizona des-,
ert. I used to reflect on the infinite
advantages of living in the open
country 'as compared with the mod
ern stress of city life. It has al- ^
ways my observation that dwellers
in remote country sections havo the
ways of open hospitality, frank andf(
generous impulsiveness, which, the
city man, in ,the struggle to ;ikeep
abreast of life-upon-the-installment
plan, and the bill ^collector, must
forego.
"Go anywhere ? anywhere where
life runs by the wayside, free ant)
untrammeled where the voice of datv
and convention never calls; where
simplicity is the keynote of existence,
'knd the sunshine and free breezes en
fold both body and soul in a healing
embrace ? that is life." ^
A new illuminating ffa*K
said* to be non-nsphy*iating and to
have double the heat value and candle
power of ordinary manufactured g?b
rs said to have- been* invented by Dr.
O. U. Bean, the inventor of tbe Bun
! Mn
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__
All Expense, Personally Conducted
TO
NIAGARA FALLS, TORONTO, CANADA, NEW
YORK. CITY AND WASHINGTON
August 5th to August 16th
From
Various South Carolina Points
Most economical. A wonderful vacation tour without worry.
Everything pre-arranged. Splendid chance for parents to give
their children an educational trip during this vacation period.
(^Vrit? for descriptive folder, showing cost, etc.
S. H. M/cLEAN *
y, D. P. A., Southern Railway Company
Columbia, S. C.