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/ peopMknow They May Not Be Quite So Wu- merous as You Imagine. guess as to their number. Aldrichs Banking System Some of the salient features of the Aldrich banking bill are as follows. It provides for a great central bank. “If some of the features of his plan are correctly reported, it is not, in fact, one great central bank—it is more dan gerous—it is the creation by act of congress of one of the greatest, most powerful currency or money trusts that ever existed in any country in all his tory, the old Bank of Venice, the Bank of England nor any other imperial bank excepted. It provides for the bringing of every national tank in the United States un der one central control and manage ment—that is, “a federation of local associations formecl by all of the nat ional banks,” to be under the control and management of a central board of directors, consisting of forty directors, one governor, two deputy governors, tha secretary of the treasury, the secretary of commerce and labor and the comptroller of the currency, all of these latter being appointed by the President of the United States, the other directors to be selected from the fifteen banking districts, into which the whole of the United States is to be divided, with a provision that a “pro portion of the directors are to be sel ected from men representing interests other than banks”—that is, from the owners of railroads, from the owners of oil and fuel companies, from the owners of tariff-protected industries, from the owners of tobacco trusts, steel trusts, packing house companies, etc. The government to abdicate its pow er and authority to furnish the people currency ard vest this power in the central association, the currency issued may be based on “prime commercial paper” as surety, instead of United States government bonds; the central association with its branches to be the exclusive fiscal agent of the United States and the exclusive depository of all government’s funds or money and with power to prescribe the rates of discount and exchange. This is. In brief, the banking “ma chine” which Mr. Aldrich and his as sociation would wind about and impose on ninety million people, and yet he brazenly states that this bcheme could not be “dominated by political influence nor controlled by amitions monetary interests.” Then Do Some Thinking and Figuring and See How Far From Your Guess You Ct>me and Incidentally Learn How Many Folks You Don't Know. Did you ever have the experience of svftlking down Main street with a man who is running for oflSce? All the time lie is bowing right and left to people vou meet Several times in a block he will stop to sliake hands with an ac- iiuaiutauce. “You seem to know every one,” you Buy to him almost enviously. “That’s right,” he replies, not •with out s->uie pride. “I guess I do know everybody worth knowing.” Vet how many people does he know? How many people do you know your self? l‘id you ever try to figure it out? What proiH)rtion of the people in the L’uiied States do you know? Certainly vou don't know the one-hundreth part of them. Even the president of the Vuiteii States doesn’t and couldn’t if he kept traveling all the time, making n host of new acQuaintanees every day. To know the one-hundredth part of the people in this country would be to tnow in the neighborhood of a million jkmsous. No; it is perfectly safe to say tliat there Is no person in the whole world that knows a million other per sons well enough to call each of them name. Think what a million means! Suppose you said the names of all tiie people you know as fast as you could. If you could enunciate twenty names a minute you would be doing marvel ously V^ ell. Even at that rate, working steadily eight hours a day, it would take you nearly four months just to name the people you know There isn’t a memory in existence that would bold a million names. Well, do you suppose you kuow a huudr^ thousand? Let’s see; that would be about one-fifth of the popu lation of Rhode Island. Imagine your self sitting In the railroad station at Providence watching the people come through. No; that is hardly a fair test, for unless you live in Providence you do not know as many people there ns in the city in which you live. Sit In your own railway station and count the people coming through. No matter how well known you are or how many people you know, you cannot help but be impressed with the fact of how many people there are that you do not know. If you know one In a hundred persons you know far more than the average. Let us try to get at It in anotlier way. You make on the average, say, two new acquaintances a week. Of course there are weeks and weeks that you make no new acquaintances at all, and then there are times, such as pic- Dic week and vacation week and church fair week, when you meet a lot of people, so that two a week Is a tali’ average. You have been meeting people, say. for twenty-five years. That’s 2.500, Isn’t It? Is It possible that you know only 2,500 people? You thought the num ber would be far more than that? But hold on. You don’t know nearly that many. There are lots and lots of people whom you knew twenty years ago that you don’t know now. You cannot even remember their names or what they looked like. Just sit down and try to remember the names of all the boys and girls that were In the same room In the public school with you. You cannot remember half of them or a third of them or a fifth of them. It Is safe to say that of every tw’o persons you met In all your life you have forgotten one. The chances are that the num ber of people you ^ow by name Is nearer 1,000 than it Is 2,000. Of course a preacher with a thou sand members In his church Is expect ed to know them all by name. But nil the same you will find him saying to his wife: “My dear, who was that young lady who spoke to us just know’?” It is business, too, for a merchant to remember all of his thousand custom ers, but very few merchants are able to “My wife wanted me to take our boy do it Possibly some of the politicians j to the doctor to cure an ugly boil,” and public lecturers may know a cou- i writes D. Frankel, of Stroud, Okla, H. STEINWffiTZ FLORIST RALEIOH . - N. C. Roses, Carnations, Violets Other Fnie Seasonable Cut Flowers, Flowers For Weddings, Enterta inments. FIX)RAL designs at SHORT NOTICE Ferns Palms and all kinds of out door bedding plaats. THE BEST PLACE IN GREENSBORO To get the BEST TO EAT is at THE NENNESSEE CAFE OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT 34a SOUTH KL.M STRKET, OREENSBORO. N. C\ w.c. SMITH JR. MGR BANKRUPT SALE Entire Stock doomed, and must go. The stock of THE PEOPLE STORE of Durham, must be sold in the next ten days. IT IS THE PLACE TO SAVE MONEY. $4.98 $9.98 $10.00 $10 Men Suits $20 Men Suits $25 Men Suits BOY SUITS $4, and $5 Suits $2.50 A full line of dry goods. SHOES! SHOES! A big line of $3.50, and $4 shoes at $2.98. Every pair warranted. 700 pair of pat ent leather shoes worth $3.50 going at $2.98. A full line of ladie^s and children's shoes ranging from 49cto to $4. A fine opportunity is offered to retail merchants to buy stock for less than wholesale cost. JOHN H. VERNON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, BURMNOTON, N.C. OflFice over Bradley’s Drug Store ’Phone, 65. Life Death’s Saved At Door. “I never felt so near my grave," writes W. R. Patterson ,of W elHrgton Tex., as when a frightful cough and lung trouble pulled me down to 100 pounds, in spite of doctor’s treatment for two years. My father, mother and two sisters died of consumption, and that I am alive today is due solely to Dr. King's New Discovery, which completely cured me. Now I weigh 187 pounds and have been well and strong for years.” Quick, safe, sure, its the best remedy on earth for coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, and all throat and lung troubles. 50c & $1,00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Mebane, Drug Co. CORBINTON INN HILLSBORO, N. C. Now Under Management of MRS. J. A, BRADY Delightful Summer Resorts Service The Best. RATES REASONABLE. PEOPLES STORE NO. 113 MAIN STR^T. DURI-IAM, - - - N. C. The Church Street Hotel Durham, N. C. MRS. L. N. HOLLEMAN, Proprietress One Block From Union Staiov. Good Table Board and Comfortabe Rooms Rates Reasonable Mister Winter. Stay here. Mister Winter, I don’t keer how you blow! Want ter hear de fiddle. See de w’hite sand on de flo’! Stay here. Mister Winter, Singin’ of yo’ sleet! De jimmy John is temptin’ De cider’s mighty sweet! Stay here. Mister Winter, Fling yo, toe an’ heel! An’ here’s a Georgy breakdown An’ de ol’ Ferginny Reel! —Frank L_ Stonton, in the Atlanta Constitution. THE VESTAL AN UP-TO DATE HOTEL Comfortably Furnished Table Supplies with the best that market a fords. W. C. TRIPP, Proprietor. Graham, N. C. Z. T. HADLEY, OPTOMETRIST Eyes, Examined and glasses fitted. Graham, N. C* Wife Got Tip Top Advice. pie of thousand persons by name, but very few other persons know that many. If this estimate seems too low it Is easily disproved. All you have to do Is to take pencil and paper and begin putting down the names of your ac quaintances. Start with your own family and then put down your cousins and your second cousins and your wire’s relations. Then put down the names of the people you know in the town you used to live in and the peo ple you know socially. Follow that up with the people you know in business, theur^ But you can’t dispute these figures. It Is too much trouble to think of all the people you know. You’ll never do it -New York World. A Hat and a Head. “Now, If you follow my advice,” Bald one business man to another as the wind caught the hat of the latter from his head—‘‘if you follow my ad vice your derby will stay on in any wind that New York can produce, ^hen I buy a new hat I heat it over the gas Jet, and while it is still warm * put It on and let it cool on my bead. The result is a perfect fit. Try it and Bee.”~New York Sun. “I said 'put Bucklen’s Arrica Salve on it. She did so, and it cured the boil in a short time. ” Quickest healei of Burns, Scalds, Cuts, Corns, Bruises Sprains, Swellings. Best Pile cure on earth. Try it. Only 25c at Mebane Drug Co, A Few Remarks Twain. By Mark Mbane Undertaking Go Mebane N, C.' The only wealth v tfty is knowledge.—Jj will not -d. 1 advise all college girla to marry— but not to excess. ' Chief among the burglar’s good qualities is his great care in avoiding disturbing people’s sleep while doing business. A man came to me for treatment once. I cut him open and found him all dark inside. I concluded he was an infidel. Once I stole—I mean removed—a w'atermelson from a wagon while the owner was attending to another cus tomer. I crawled off to a secluded spot and found it was green. I took the melon back to the man and told to reform. Caskets, Coffins, burrial robes and all kind of fuheral supplies. Embalming done by a licensed embalmer. Prompt Service on brief notice. Agent for Cut Flowers For All Purpose Prompt Delivery. THE McAI^OO him Falls Victim ToThieves. s. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala., has a justifiable grievance. Two thieves stole his health for twelve years. They were a liver and kidney trouble. Then Kintr’s New Life Pills throttled them. He’s well now. Unrivaled for Constipation. Malaria, Headache, ^yspei sia. 25c Mebane Drug Co. Tortured For 15 Years by a cure-defying stomach trouble that baffled doctors, and resisted all remedies he tried, John W. M^niders, of Moddersville, Mich., seemed doomed. He had to sell his farm and give up work. His neighbors said, *‘he can't live much longer.” “Whatever I ate distressed me,” he wrote, “till I tried Electric Bitters, which worked such wonders for me that I can now eat things I could not take for years, [ts surely a grand remedy for stomach trouble.” Just as good for the liver ani kidneys. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50c at Meban* Drug Co. M. W. STERNE, Proprietor. Greensboro, N.C. A Strlctty First Class HOTEXi. Electric Bitters Succeed when everything else fdls. In nervous prostration and female weaknesses they are the supreme remedyy as thousands have testified. FOR KIDNEYA.IVERAND STOMACH TROUBLE . ft is the best medicine ever told over a druggist’s counter. REAL COMFORT —G'l HCan be saken when your rooms are covered witk handsome rugs, which can bejchosen from our sur- perb stock. If you want real value for your fmon- ey—carpets and rugs that will wear well and look well—examine the values that we are'^now offering GREEN & MCcLURl? Graham, N. G.' COPYRigHXX SEND THE YOUNGSTER. for the paint you are short of and you’ll get just as good as if you came yourself. Just tell him the exact col or you are using and that’ll be enough We carry a full assortment of colors, tmta and shades and can always match what you are using. TYSON-MALONE, Hdw. Co. Mebane, N. C. WE ARE OFFERING The Pittsburg perfect field fence, the best made, the strongest, and most sub stantial. Nothing better. A line of har rows selected from the best makes, prices to suit the times. A full line of Bug gies, Pheatons, and harness, and gen eral builders supplies. Paints etc. LIME AND CEMENT, FARM MACHINERY COBLE-BRADSHAW, COMPANY BURLINGTON, N. C. ANTICaPATING A CALL. from your friends, generally makes busy times in the kitchen, and is the occasion that the housewife likes to show her skill at culinary trivunphs in light, breads, flaky pies, rich and de licious cakes, and bakestuffa of all kinds. If you don’t want to make a failure of your baking use our super ior Sweet Sampson flour. It' is pure and made from the best Maryland wheat. Dixie Milling Co. Burlington N. C. J. D. & L. B. WHITTED, BURLINGTON. GREAT LADIES DRESS GOODS EMPORIUM 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. D. J. a L. B. WHITTED, BURLINGTON, N. C. NSURANCE I carry a full line of Companies, including Fire, Life, Acciden ani'iailth Insurance, In fact, anjrthing the Insurance line. When in need of an thinj? in this line call on me. Rates reasi ble. S- G. MORGAN mm HE HNISHING ES. TOUCH- to a house aften give the most trou ble. You can avoid it by having us supply the mill work. Then you will find the sashes, blinds, doors, mould ing etc., just right. They will fit with little or no labor, because they are all true to size and made accurate in every detail. NELSON-COOPER LUMBER COMPAY, Mebane, N. C. FOUNDRY All classes of high grade iron, and brass cas tings, Machine molded pulleys. Guaranteed repair work, special machinery built to order. RUSH JOBS Givins^ Special Attention. COOK LEW'IS FOUNDRY CO. GPvEENSBORO N. C. WINSTON-SALEM N. C 15,000) CLOSING OUT ($15,000 Fifteen thousand dollars worth of Mens Youth, and dren clothing!:, Ovea Coats, and Rain Coats chil- $24. Mens suits latest stile $12 $20. Mans and yoting mens suits $10, $18. Mens and young mens suits $9, $16 Mens and young mens suits $8, $22,50 Mens suits $11,25 $15. Mens suits $7,50 $14. Suits “ 7 $12. Suits “ 6 $10. Suits “ 5 Rain Coats and over Coats at i price. Big lot of ladies Coat suits, ladies ready-to-wear and trimmed hats, ladies jdoaks.and wool weaters. Dress-goods less than Mfg. cost. Take off a day and come to GLADSTEINS, BIG CLOSEING OUT SALE NO 108 E, MAIN ST, NO 108 o DURHAA1, N.C. ALAMANCE PHARMACY Keep on hand a complete line of pure fresh drugs, and up to date assortment of toilet articles, perfumes brushes etc. All kinds of DRUGGIST ACCESSORIES. With each purchase we give you a cash register tic ket, when you have purchased $5. return tickets and get 25cts in merchandise. It is free, it is yours for the asking. Keep them, they count up. ALAMANCE PHARMACY J.C. SIMMONS, Prop. GRAHAM, N. C.
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