RADOl; NOT
RE6KIESS
Prediction Tliat Demo
crats Will Not Squander
Their Estate.
(From the New York Times, Ind. Dem)
Intrusted with power because of the
people’s hope and belief that by tlu8
transfer they may once again enjoy
the blessing of peace and tranquility,
those who deplore the result of the
election arg^e against knowledge and
experince and probability when they
insist that the Democrats will by radi
cal and reckless courses squander the
great estate of political power that has
been commited to them. The Demo^
crats, of course, will not be under the
slightest enticement to incur popular
displeasure by bestowing undue favors
upon priveleged interests. That has
been the specialty of the Republicans.
On the other hand, they will under
their present leadership be as little in
danger of adopting the repudiatid poli
cies of radical Republicanism, of
Rooseveltism, the policy of continually
harassing the country’s business interest
and of tormenting honest men with
alarms through a pretended pursuit of
malefactors. Obedience to the mandate
they have received demands of the
Democrats fair play for all unfair
privileges for none. The great mass of
the people ask for nothing more.
there
Burning Wealth*
Underwriter experts place the yw-
Iv property loss by fire in the United
States at two hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars. The same experts com
pute the average annual cost of fire
insurance, water protection, fire de-
oartments and safeguards privately un
dertaken at four hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars. They estimated that, un
der conditions similar to those prevail
ing in European countries, this cost
would be but ninety million dollars.
This means that fire and the maintro-
ance against fire of safeguards which
do not safeguard are entailing an ex
penditure of something over six hun
dred million dollars a yesu— a sum
which would suffice to cover the total
cost of the country's building opera
tions. So far as the direct losses by
fire are concerned, they represent a
total destruction of values which
leaves the country poorer every year
by the sum of a quarter of a billion
dollars. This is a drain upon its re
sources which no country could stand
indefinitely, no matter how rich it
might be or how bountifully supplied
with natural wealth. That it ought to
be checked goes without saying. That
it can be materially lessened is abun
dantly demonstrated by tne experienc
of European couutries in which flre-
losses, figured upon a per capita basis,
rai.ge from one-forth to one-seventh of
those obtaining in the United States.
All that is necessary to that end is to
cease the earless building and to remedy
the faulty measures of prevention
which the experts tell us are together
responsible for almost all the fire-waste
Expert Says Peary Was
Within Mile Of The
Pole.
The house committee on naval af
fairs completed their examination of
Capt. Robert EL Peary last Wednesday
on his claim to attainment of the North
Pole, and Hugh C. Mitchell a skilled
computer of the coast and geodetic
survey, testified that he had handled
Peary's obi>ervations. Mr. Mitcheil
said that he had figured that Peary
when he made his furthermost camp
was less than five miles from this pole
and that in his marches on that day of
the climax of his trip he passed within
one and one-sixteenth miles of the ac
tual pde. He did not fix Peary exact
ly at the bole. Mr. Mitchell believed
that Peary’s observations could not
be faked.
The committee will hear Admiral
Chester and review the testimony in
the case at an early executive meeting
with a view to passing on the bill pro
posing Peary's retirement as a rear-
admiral.
Nor in respect to the tariff is
the slightest probability-theie is, indeed I in the States of this Union.—Va. Pilot
no possibility-that the Democrats wil
misuse ther opportunity by a disturbing
radicalism in revision. When the
Republicans put forth their platform in
1908 it was at once said, using the old
simile if Disraeli’s time, that they had
stolen the Democrats’ clothes. What
the Democrats should have years before
the Republicans then promised. I'hey
broke their promise, and it was in part,
not wholly, because of that broken
promise that they suffered disaster. The
revision downward which the Repub
licans promised would have peen sat
isfactory to the country. It promised
that the guiding principle of that
revision should be the difference in
production cost here and abroad. If
such a revison honestly enacted at the
time the Payne-Aldrich bill was passed
would then have satisfied the country
the princple then professed will not be
found unsatifactsry when the Democrati
House takes up the work. There are
Democrats who talk of a tariff for
revenue only. That is b time-honored
Democratic princple, but it must be
rememberd that it does not mean now
what it meant when proclaimed by Mr.
Tilden 35 years ago. The expenses of
the Goverment have enormously increase
demanding a corresponding incrase in
revenue. Reprsentatiye Underwood, of
the Birmingham district in Alabama,
who, as ranking minority member of
the Committee on ways and Means, is
spoken of as the probable chairman of
that committee when the Democratic
House is organized, declares that he
favors "a tariff for revenue only, ” but
the adds significantly: “I belive that
the difference in labor cost of production
of most manufactured articles at home
and abroad would be covered by a
tariff that raised sufficent reynue to
support the Government economically
administered, ” Of course, a Democratic
House will not adopt the policy
proclaimed in the Republican platform
of “guaranteeing reasonable profits to
American manufacturers.’ That curious
piece of State socialism could find no
place in a Democratic program of action
The country will demand of a Demo
cratic House, as it has, in fact, a
downward revision, a reasonable revison
that shall provide the revenues of the
Government without, upon the one hand
making burdersome additions to the
cost of living, or upon the other, issuing
licenses of extortion to favored interes
as the Payne-Aldrich tariff does issue
such licenses to manufacturers of
woolens and cottons, for instance. In
such a revision it is very likely that
the Democrats will be able to secure
the assistence of the so-cailed Insurgent
Republicans if they shall need it. Tha
they would have the assistance and co
operation of all the Democratic Rep-
resentaives and Senators in a radical
oili-considered and disturbng revison
to the last degress improbable. The
Republicans have rejoiced at the growth
of what they call the protectionis
spirit in the South. That spirit was
manifested when some Democratic
Representatives and Senators voted for
some of the protective provisions of
the Payne-Aldrich tariff. But the South
is Democratic. The Representatives of
Southern opinion in Congress will be
found to favor an honest downward
revision of the tariff. No “free trade"
revision such as our Republican friends
have always professed to believe to be
at all times the secret intent of the
Democracy will be attempted or can
be enacted. The Wilson act was pretty
far from a free trade tariff. The
Republicans are fond of pointing out
that the average of the duties it impo
sed exceeded those now collected under
the Payne-Aldrich act Governor-elect
Wilson, of New Jersey, has stated a
principle of tariff revision that the
people of this country would find
satisfactory when he said that tKe
princepie observed should be “an honest
seeking of the things which would
yield the most revenue with the least
burden to the people. ’ ’
Old Soldier Tortued.
' ‘For 'years I suffered unspeaKable
tortue from indigestion, constipation
and liver trouble,” wrote A. K. Smith,
a war veteran at Erie, Pa., “but Dr.
King’s New Life Pills fixed me all
right. They’re simply great,” Try
them for any stomach, liver or kidney
trouble. Only 25c at Mebane Drag Co.'
All Roads That Leads To
God Good.
All roads that iMtd to God are good;
What matters it, your faith, or mind;
Both center at the goal devine
Of love’s eternal Brotherhood.
The kindly life in house or street;
The life of prayer, and mystic rite;
The studen’t sei^rch for truth a»d
light;
These paths at one great junction meet
Before the oldest book was writ.
Full many a prehistoric soul
Arrived at this unchanging goal.
Though changeless love, that led to it.
What matters that one found his Christ
In rising sun. or burning fire;
If faith within him did not tire.
His longing for the truth sufficed.
Before our modem hell was brought
To edify a modem world,
Full many a hate-filled soul was hur^
led
In lakes of fire by its own thought.
A thousand creeds have come and gone
But what is that to you or me?
Creeds are but branches of tree.
The root of love lives on and on.
Though branch by branch proves with
ered wood.
The root is warm with precious wine
Then keep your faith, and leave me
mine;
All roads that lead to God are good.
Solves A Deep Mystery.
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of Lewisburg, W. Va., “for the
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severe case of stomach trouble and of
rheumatism, from which I had been an
almost helpless suffer for ten years. It
suited my case as though made just
for me.” For dyspepsia, indigertion,
jaundice and to rid t^e system of kidney
poisons that cause rheumatism, Electzic
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It Is Time.
The man who starts out to help
himself is most likely to get help along
the way from others. If he sits down
and waits for things to come his way,
they do not bother about coming. The
same is true of a town. If a town is
composed of active, hustling citizens
who are not afraid to invest their own
mcmey, it is likely to attract others to
come in and invest with them. But the
town that ntsstill and waits tor out
siders to come in and build it up, will
not get built. Capital does not go
around looking for a dead town.
—Carolina Farmer
Coastipation is the cause of many ail
ments and disorders that make life
miserable. Take Chamberlain’s Stomach
and Liver Tablets, keep your bowels
regular and you will avoid these diseases
For sale by All Dealers,
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cough appears Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy will ward off an attack of
croup and prevent all danger and cause
anxiety. Thousands of mothers use it
ucce.^fiilly Sold by All Dealefs,
Carnegie Gives Deed to
$10,000,000 For World
Peace.
Andrew Carnegie last Wednesday
transferred to a board of trustees $10,-
000,000 in five per cent, first mortgage
bonds the revenue of which will be
used to “hasten the abolition of in
ternational war” and establish a last
ing world peace.
The formal transfer was made at a
meeting in the rooms of the Carnegie
Research Foundation. The trustees
organized by choosing a president,
United States Senator Elihu Root, the
permanent representative of the
United States at The Hague peace
tribunal,
President Taft has consented to be
honorary president of the foundation.
The method by which the annual in
come of halt a million dollars shall be
expended is left by Mr. Carnegie en
tirely in the hands of the trustees.
The foundation is to be perpetual,
and when the establishment of univer
sal peace is attained, the donor pro
vides that the revenue shall be devoted
to the banishment of the “next most
degrading eyil or evils,” the suppres,
Bion of which would most advance the
progress, elevation and happiness of
man.”—News Leader.
A Happy New Year.
By Beatrice Fairfax, in Richmond
Leader.
A happy New Year to you all, dear
friends, and may your heart’s desires
be yours.
If the old vear brought you joy, may
the New Year continue to do so.
If the old year brought sorrow, turn
your back to it and bravely and hope
fully face the New Year.
If yoa hf ve been a failure, perhaps
now is the turning of the tide and the
future may bring you success.
Don’t waste time making a number
of resolves whose enthusiam will die
within the week; make one resolve
and stick to it.
Don’t start the New Year hampered
by hard feelings toward any one.
Start out with a clean slate and the
determination to treat all mankind
fairly and kindly.
If you have done well the past year,
do better during the coming year.
The making or marring of your life
lies largely in your own hands.
If you are brava and true and earnest
half the battle is won.
To all my dear girls, especially, I
hope the New Year will bring happiness.
I hope they find contentment in con
genial work; in love and in friendship.
May the coming year and all the
succeeding years bring peace and
happiness to you all.
THE STAR
(A Fragment from Plato)
Star of me, watching the mother skies
Where thine elder sisters be,
Would I were heaven with all its eyes-
All of its eyes on thee!
-^By Charles F. Lummis
When buying a cough medicine for
children bear in mind [that Chamber
lain’s Cough Remedy is most effectual
for colds, croup and whooping cough
and that it contains no harmful drug,
For sale by All Dealers,
Between 3 and 4 hundred barrels of
com for sale, and also Bats prolific
seed com $2 per bushel.
Mrs. Z. D. Momford,
at MUr^Hill farrt,
viehide, N. a
Do you know that fully nine out of
every ten cases of rheumatism are
simply rheumatism of the mucles due
to cold or damp, or chronic rheumatism,
•nd require no internal treatment
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Man.
Mysterious thought of God, ard part of
all
Framed in a double mould, so finely
dressed
And yet so feeble and so prone to fall
His heart the kingdom ot love’s holi-
iest rest ^
Or tom with passion and unending
throes.
Playing with life as children plays
with toys
Not caring whence he comes nor where
he goes.
Yet conscious of a call beyond the
stars;
Immortal, mortal man, who then can
paint
Or read him, who can measure his do
main?
Though pinned to earth, his soul brooks
no restraint.
But leaps from world to world -come
peace or pain:
A blot or smile upon the face of God,
He clings to Heaven while earth piles
high her sod.
^Wililim drdwiiiy Partridge, Home
Jouhial,
Consider This Well!
When you are in need of DRY GOODS of any kind, Gents Furnishings,
Hats, Shoes, etc., remember that our stock is always complete, and of
the very best quality.
^GROCERIES^
When in need of anything in this line, you will always find our Gro
cery Department well stocked, with the VERY^ FRESHEST and BEST
of every thing to eat.
— HIGHERANDHIGHER—
We are building our trade every day on account of our service to cus
tomers.
“SATISFIED CUSTOMER’’ IS OUR WATCHWARD
-THE STORE OF QUALITY-
Holmes-Warren, Co.
Mebane, N. C.
J. D. & L B. WHIHED, BURUNGTON.
GREAT LADIES DRESS GOODS
ElVIPORIUIVI
We are closing out all coat suits, and winter
dress goods at a greatly reduced figure. In
order to convince you of this fact we only ask
you to call and we will name a price so low it
will startle you. Come early and get a choice
of the best, and save the dollar.
Yours to please,
J. D. & L. B. WHITTED,
BURLINGTON, N. C.
Judge Robert Worth Bing
ham.
The Kentucky papers announce that
Hon. Robert Worth Bingham, former
mayor of Louisville, Ky., had been
appointed judge of the Chancery Court
of Jefferson county, succeeding Hon.
Shackelford Miller, resigned.
In making the appointment the Gov-
enor wrote Mr. Bingham:
“Yeur distinguished public services
as citizen and officer, your courageous
and zealous devotion to honor and duty
and your ability and diligence as a
lawyer, have led the people to expect
the Govemor to choose you for this
great ofiiee, and it gives me great
pleasure to fulfill that expectation.”
The appointment of Mr. Bingham,
will be heard with pecular gratifica
tion in North Carolina where Mr.
Bingham, was born and educated.
He is the son of Col. Robert Bing
ham, who is )the distinguished head of
Bingham School, and comes from a
line of great teachers who have had no
superiors in all of the teachers of the
South.
Fifteen years ago Mr. Bingham
moved to Louisville where he has since
practiced law. He has been county
attorney and in a crisis in Louisville
affairs m 1907 he was made mayor of
the city and his brilliant administration
as mayor gave him a high reputation.
Mr. Bingham is regarded as one of
the ablest attomys in Kentucky. His
many friends in North Carolina, par
ticularly his associates at the Univer
sity of North Carolina, from Which he
graduated with honor’ will rejoice in
this distinctive honor that has come
to him.
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H. STEINMETZ
FLORIST
RALEIGH - - N. C.
Roses, Carnations,
Violets
^Otner Fnie Seasonable
Cut Flowers, Flowers
For Weddings, Enterta
inments.
FLORAL DESIGNS AT
SHORT NOTICED
Ferns Palms and all kinds
of out door bedding
plants.
YOU SEE OUR WAY!
of weighing shows you to “cut'' a fraction of an ounce
the quantity of coffee, sugar, stc., you are getting—vVhen
you get the groceries home wei^h them on your own
scales and you’ll find we have given you full weight in
every mstance. You
get what you pay for
here both in quantity
and quality—The SAME
GOODS for LESS money
BOYS SHOES are not a
side issue with us—we
have the kind that wear
well and keep their feet
dry. Bring yours here
for a pair.
1
Yours for business
H. E. Wilkinson, Co.
THE MEBANE BARGAIN HOUSE”
A Dubious Treat,
Ih honor of the eventful day of grad
uation from the cooking school she got
up a little spread.
“Yes, I’ve got the loveliest diplo
mat!” cried the fair graduate. “It’s
on sheepskin parchment, with a big
gold seal. I cooked that dish you are
eating. Now just guess what it is?”
“Is it er”—the young cynic paused
impressively, “is it the diploma, Peg
gie?”—Success Magazine.
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OUR WHIIE SALE NOW IN FULL BLAST
CONTINUES ALL NEXT WEEK
Laces, Embroideries, White Goods.
CLEARANCE SALE OF
WOMEN^S SUITS, COATS AND DRESSES!
Big counter men's and women's shoes at re
duced prices. Men's heavy winter suits
and overcoats reduced.
CHILDRENS SCHOOL DRESSES.
New spring line now on display.
Ladies Tailored Waist, New Styles.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW 6000S HERE.
GLAD TO HAVE YOU LOOK AND COM-
PARE PRICES.
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Greensboro, N. C.
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