North Carolina Newspapers

BECAUSE RIGHT IS RIGHT WE DARE t>0 IT. Vol MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 13 1911 NO. 8 personal and local briefs people WHO COME AND GO Items of interest Gathered by Our Reookter. Mr. Will Bason spent Sunday in Meb- ane. Misses Boon, and Sudie Cook went up to Builington Friday. Miss Jennie Laahley went up to Bur- linRton Saturdny. Mr. J. Edwin White returned Sun day afternoon from a trip up the road. Miss Lula Holmes went up to Bur lington Thursday to speiid the day. Mrs. M. C. Millender of Ashville is visiting her mother, Mrs. S. A, White. Miss F. V. Andrews arrived here Wednepday, and is visiting at the White House. Misa Smithy Ham spent a few days at home returning to Raleigh Monday. Miss Mary McCauley returned home Monday from Hillsboro where she has been teaching tirs. L. A. Crawford and son Frank spent a few days in Burlington with her sister Mrs. Claud Cates. Mrs. John .Chandler who has been visiting here returned Saturday to her home in Durham. Rev. W. H. McMaster, field secretary Lords day Alliance, is in Mebane and may possibly hold a meeting while here Mr. Jim Robinson, has again retired from the Durham Sun. His last work was on Saturday’s after-noon paper. Rev. Mr. Hawley will address the Y. M. C. Asssciation Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock p. m. April 16th, every one invited. Sales of tobacco on the Mebane Warehouse floors did not fall very far below Burlington's two warehouses for March. Burlington, 54,188. Mebane, 43,486. Winston does not want any of the commission form of city government in “hern” having defeated the meas ure Monday by a majority vote of 105. Green and McClure of Graham Deal ers in Furniture change their ad in to days issue. Don’t fail to see them. You will find it a pleasure to deal with this clever firm. They carry what you want in furniture. Did you see the beautiful display of millinery at Misses Morrow-Bason and Greens at Burlington this week? If not you missed something that would have been decideiy pleasing to you. See change of ad. into days Leader, and do not forget them. Our Mayor, Mr. Shaw, heard some suspicious noise about his premises Monday night, and went out and shot off his pistol. He said it might have been dogs, but if it was they were wearing heavy shoes. Don’t forget to see Dr. N. Rosenstein, the eye specialist of Durham about your eyes next week, Tuesday at Burlington at the Burlington Drug Company., and Wednesday April the 19th, at Mebane, at the White house, for the purpose of examining eyes and fitting glasses. Hia work is all guaranteed, and his prices are very retsonable. Mr. R. L. Fletcher, of Durham, has been associated with Snider-Wilcox, under the firms name of ,Snider-Wilcox Fletcher, Co. Jewelers formaly Snider Umstead and Co. Mr. Fletcher, we learn seme years past lived in the country north of Mebane. We know all of these ’gentlemen comprising this firm, and they are all excelent, clever men. Good News. To the Editor, Mebane Leader. Dear Sir:- You asked in your last issue of the Leader, where o'where is the money for the Mebane Street improve ment bDnds. I wish to inform you that the money is now in the Commercial and Farmers Bank of Mebane, N. C. Subject to the orders of the street commission. Very truly yours, J. T. Shaw, Mayor. Wish We Had Enquired Sooner This is surely very gratifying new?, and the Leader makes it public with much pleasure. While it has been nearly a year since it was thought these bonds were sold. We are quite glad that Mr. Shaw, was able to make a prompt response to the Leaders enquiry. A Good Trade Mr. V. T. Kirby a prominent farmer of Rfd Cedar Grove sold a pair of mules to Mr. J. S. Warren Tuesday for $500. Mr. Kirby made a profit on his original purchase of ^75, besides getting three years service out of the mules. People who know someth ing of horse dealing regard this as a splendid trade. Mr. Kirby is a reader of the Leader. Decides Race Question. President Jacob G. Shurman of Cornell University Monday brought to an end the controversy which has been in progress for a few weeks over ad mitting neerro women students to Sage College dormitory. In a statement is sued to Mrs. G. S. Martin of the wo men’s advisory council, he says that all negro women students are to be ad mitted to the privileges of the women’s dormitories if the}' request admission. Good Men Wanted There is a call meeting for citizens in Mebane. next Friday night to nominate a ticket for officials to serve the munici pality of Mebane for the next two years These officials will have the disbuse- ment of the $15,000 cash realized from thp sale of town bonds. It is important that a good board of alderman be secured, men who have opinions of their own, and who will deal justly by all interest. Tom L. Johnson Dead. TomL. Johnson, twice Congressman from the twenty-first Ohio district, four times mayor of Cleveland, champion of three -cent street railway fare and pro minent advocate of the single tax the ories of the late Henry George, died in his apartments in the Whitehall East One Hundred and Seventh street at 8:45 o’clock Monday night Cleveland Ohio after a long illness. Death was caused by cirrhosis of the liver. He was 57 years old. Llppincott Dead; Bullet inj His Head With a 32 caliber revolver clutched in his right hand, Craige Lippfncott, presi dent of the publishing firm of J. B. Lippincott and company of Philadelphia art patron and society man of pi omin- ence, was found dead in his bedroom in his fashionable West Rittenhouse Square home Friday last. He had died almost instantly from a bullet wound in his right temple. big Time Easter Monday. The Oneida Band of Graham, N. C., will hold their annual pi-'nic at Cook’s Mill, two miles North oi' Mebane, N. C. Easter Monday. Everybody is invited, to come out and hear lots of good music and eat a goo 1 dinner. Free carriages from Graham for all the ladies who will take small lunch I along, leave Graham, at 8 o’clock A. M. ' They will have a ^guessing contest, {and the lucky person will receive a hondsome present. Come out and have one more good time in your life. Auction Sale of A Car Load of Mules And Horses. We will sell at public auction at Hillsboro on Saturday, April 15, 1911, at 2 o’clock p. m., a Car Load of Valuable Mules and Horses, from the Burlington, N. C. Live Stock Company, Fine stock just from the Valley of Virginia. We have more stock than we care to carry over this season, and we are taking this means of giving the public an opportunity to buy a good Horse or Mule. Stock goes to the highest bidder. Cash or good not3. H. T. Wright, Manager. Another Warehouse. An effort is on foot to build an other tobacco warehouse for Mebane. A meeting held this week resulted in rasing nearly two thousand dollars for its construction in a short while. There seems no doubt but what the warehouse will be built in ample time for the fall business. Half-Million-Dollar Pain tings Measured in products of the farm or in daylaborers’ wages, $500,000, which P. A. B. Widener of Philadelphia paid for “The Mill,” by Rembrandt, is an enormous sum to give for a painting. A painting by Titian, “La Schiavona," has just been secured by a dealer abroad, and presumably the hunt for an American traction magnate or cap tain of industry capable of purchasing it a a considerable advance will be re sumed. Only a few days ago a pain ting by Turner, “Pas de Calais,” was sold in this city for “approximately $200,000” to a wealthy American col lector.—New York World. Base Ball Game. The Bingham school will play a game of ball here in Mebane with Whit?ett Institute on Saturday April 22nd. Much interest attaches to this game as these teams tied last year with a score of 7 to 7. Whitsett defeated Bingham on her growns last Monday the 3rd by a score of 5 to 3. Whitsett has also this year defeated Elon Col lege, Burlingrton Hieh School, and has a sensational pitcher who has struck out 75 men this year in six games. The contest the 22nd will be a warm struggle worth seeing. And It Does. It does not require a lady, or a gen tleman to wreck a train, the most mis erable tramp that ever trod a cross tie may do it. It does not require a preacher to cut a mans throat, the vilest vagabond on earth may do it. It does not require a good citizen to touch the encendiarys torch to a fac tory, and burn down the means that hundreds have for earning the support for themselves, and family, the most worth’ess character conceivable may do it. It does not require the members of a young mens Christian Association to rob a bank, the basest, and most brutal wretch can better do the job. It does not require a conscientions high minded lady, or gentleman to invent and utter some vile malicious slander, a miserable libelous lie. Any low down filthy, diseased professional profligate may do it, but it ought to require a class of people that make no pretention to decency and respectability to repeat them, and give them the apparent stamp of their approval, and it does. Toney Notes Skull Crushed With Rock. John Holton, the 13-year-old son of District Attorney Holton, js in the ^ Twin City hospital at Winston with a i crushed skull, the result of being hit | with a rock by a negro boy. His con dition is regarded as very serious. | Young Holton was in a wagon with | another boy Austin Newsom, who had j for some time been worrying the negro, when the negro threw at him, hitting Holton instead. Young Holton, in Oc tober, 1909, was accidentally shot by his brother, Frank, the wound being so serious that his leg was amputated, and fora while his life was despaired ol. Entitled To Support. It is indeed a roflection on the peo ple of any county and community when they fail to back with all th3ir might the local newspaper, which gives local news which larger papers cannot pos sibly give and informs the outside world of the progress and pros peri ty of the locality in which the paper is published. When the local is not sup ported, there is unquestionably absent ^ in the community that spirit which j makes communities thrive and swells I villages into towns and towns into j cities. Public spirit ought to be be- I hind the local press, for the local news- I paper is the chief anil, often, the sole advertising asset of the community in which it is published. Any man who has the courage and the energy and the constructive purpose to start a local newspaper ought to have at least the loyalty and material assistance of the people in the midst of whom he lives and works for a mere pittance.—West ern Publisher. Just Wait And See Dont Forget Them Attention is directed to the advertis- ment of J. D. and D. B. Whitted,' They announce that their spring stock 1* now complete, and includes many of Oie most attractive offerings, in light ^wght white and figured goods in the brightest and most attractive weaves, Dont forget when you go to Burlingtor| Derailed Cars The derailing of three heavy loaded freight cars at one of the maine street crossings in Mebane Tuesday evening delayed an East bound freight train for several haurs. At this particular place there has been at least six separate accidents of this character in the past twelve months including the derail ment of A heavy freight engine. The trouble would have stoped after the first derailment if the track had of been put in proper repair, and good sound'cross ties put under the rails. -T^iesday evenings tear up of the track Webb Introduces Anti- Whiskey Shipping Bill. JSl^resentative Webb of North Car olina has introduced a bill in Congress unlawful the shipment of in toxicants of any kind from one State w Territory into another State or Ter- ntory, provided such shipment is con trary to the law of the State or Terri tory into which it is made. revealed the fact that the cross were as rotton as punk. ties! No 51 distributing Station. The Southern Power Company has purchased a lot of four acres in Duiham Brodie L. Duke, upon which it will build its distributing station when 1^ Wgh voltage reach Durham, site is near the Pearl cotton mill from that there will run lines to *®v©ral sub-stations. Friendship Council D. Of L. Meets every Saturday night in Wil kinsons Hall, visiting members of the order welcomed. G. E. Newman, Council, J. M. Rimmer, R. S, Notice of Meeting There will be a meeting of the citi zens of Mebane next Friday night at the Club room to select c«ndU«te8 suitable tor town ofTicials, maj^OT, *Bd board of Alderman. Time and tide waits for no man, this is an infallible aphorism Then fortune knocks at your door, if you admit him, success upuilly follows, deny him ad- mitance and he passes on. Its the op portunity. It comes to indviduals, and it comes to communities.There are towns in North Carolina that are struggling commercial grave yards,that permited, their opportunity to pass. There is one not a great way from Mebane, where the principal real estate was held by a wealthy old arristocratic class that were indifferent; about the future of their town. They had enough, and did not care, and so they 'et things jog on, and the town went to decay while other places near grew and prospered. | This old eleanent is fast dying out 1 and a new, younger and more progres- j siye spirit is dominating conditions. Digressing just a moment. Whether admited, or not, an article is worth just what it will bring upon the mar ket. When you can not sell, there is either, no demand for the article, or the price put upon it so high it is prohibitory, and a man with practica sense refuses to wast money in an ex tortionate price. One of the most fatal affects to a towns future growth, and prosperity is for its real property to be held out of reach of people who would buy and hijild there-shutting off the increase of population, the most vital matter concerning any communities prosperity. Some time railroads go around a town and saps its, vitality. It neglected its opportunity and did not grow when it could. We would like to see any place pros per, but you must start somewhere, Holding property for higher prices, some times means that you are wait ing for your execetor,or administrator Of glasess you wear is of the utmost j ^ lower figure. Just importance, as improperly adjusted 1 j^jjg enough and they will do it. ones are sure to do your eyes more} There was quite a hail and wind storm through this comm. iity Friday night. It did much damage blowing down a chimney on Mr. Allen Warrens resi dence, which fell through, damaging his house very much. It also blowed a tree across his feed barn, blowed the roof off his buggy house of and broke out abcut a dozen window lights for Mr. L. A. Miles, tore up his plant bed canvas. Rev. 0. F. Durant, filled his regular appointment at Prospect Sitiday. Misse« Viola Sallie and Essie Florance Messrs. F. T. Fitch. Wallace Bowland, James and Willie Florance, Sidney Stanfield, Coy Dillard, and S. C. Wal ker, visited Misses Mary and Daisy Miles Sunday. John Baynes, visited Miss Pearl Warren Sunday. John Barnwell, and T. W. Smith, visited Miss Leah Miles Sunday. Messrs. Sidney, Charlie, and Clyde Stanfield, attended the commencment at Sidney Institute Friday night they reporta pleasant time. Mrs. A. M. Warren, is spending some time in Graham, with her dangh ter Mrs. J. P. McAdams. L. A. Miles, went to Pleasant Grove Monday morning on business* Master Oscar Stanfield, spent the day with his sister Mrs. L. A. Miles, Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Stanfield, visited her uncle W. W. Miles, Sunday P. M. Masters Thomas Bowland, Walter King, Claude Harrelson, Charlie Vaughn, and Grady Hooper, visited Charlie and Clyde Stanfield, Sunday. Miss Mabel Murphey, and brother Charlie visited Miss Bera Motley Sunday Messrs. Moss Miles, and Walter Vaughn, visited on No 1 Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Miles, and Misa Vera Bowland, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stanfield, Sunday after-noon. Miss Ruth Bowland, visited Miss Maggie King, recently. Mr. and Mrs. B. Smith, visited her mother in Burlington Sunday. V. M. Miles, visited his neice Mrs. G. C Saterfield, Thursday. Captain Jack Miles, visited T. W. Smith, recently. Brown Eyes. Cedar Grove Items Mr. Lambert Jordan, was buried here Monday after-noon Rev. Mr. Ross, conducted the bnrial services. D. C. B. Hall, has been a pleasant visitor in our village for a wedc. Mrs. W. H. Morris, who has been visiting her parents at Jamestown, returned to Orange Saturday. Have You Registered? The Registration Booic for election of a Mayor and Five Coi^misioners of the Town of Mebane, N C., to be elected on Tuesday. May 2nd, 1911, will be opened on r rilay the 14th day of |April, 1911, and remain open for seven days (Sundays excepted) pro ceeding the day for closing the Regist ration Books, between hours of 9 o’clock a. m and 5 o’clock p m. On Saturday {April 15th, and Saturday, April 22d, 1911, the day for closing the books, the Registration Book will be kept open from 9 o’clock a m until 9 o’clock p m at Johnstons Store. A new registration is not required, and those who voted in the town election two years ago will not be required to register again but all persons who have become qualified to vote in the town election since that time must register before they can vote in the approaching election. This April the 12. 1911. L. T. Johnston, Registrar. The Extra Train Now On. The suggestions by the last State Legfislature coupled with a threat to make it imperative that the Southern railway put on an extra train between Raleigh and Greensboro, has born fruit that must be gratifying even to the Southern people. We note it as it passes our office each morning at 830 o’clock and there really does not seem to be much difference, if any in the number of passengers it carries than in the other eleven o’clock train. To par ties going East it has decided advan tages, and it is to be hoped that the Southern will extend the service to Goldsboro, at least in time to accommo- di^te the summer trafic to the coast watering resorts. Notice. There will be a meeting of citizens interested in the extenson of Mebane, Hawfields »nd Swepsonville road held in Mebane Saturday afternoon April 23nd, to consider ways and means. Every one interested is urged to at tend. R. W. Scott, D. A. White, W. A. Murray. Myrtle Lodge No 111 in great lorrow followed an honored member, John Brown, to bis last resting place Apnl the 7th. Tom Roberts, J. C. McDade, John Banner, Tom Watkins, W. Harris and J. P. Hughes, were pallbeariers, Roy Rogers. James Sharpe, W. H McDade, Henry Woods, Olive Wright, and A. Ellis, floral bearers. Their ceremony was simple yet touching and impressive, Mr. Finley, continues very feeble, though slightly improved. Mr. C. Anderoon, and others attended the Virginia and North Carolina ball game Satuiday. Misses Dorsie Vaughn, ard Lucile Dillard visited at Mrs. Thomas Watkins Saturday and Sunday. The man that shot Billy Patterson, in the breast hasent been found. Miss Dollie McDade, is still shopping, so much finery means something. Listen for the wedding bells soon white satin and brussels net with a few other things completes a wedding. TWO GRAND PRENI- Efland Items M.. C. A, Boggs is very ill of pneu monia at Mebane, we are sorry to learn. Mrs. James Pratt still continues very sick at her home near Efland. Misses Sallie and Maud Efland and Bessi^aylor went on a shopping ex pedition down to Hillsboro Friday. Mrs. Bayard Ackerman, and little son Jttdson of Waysville S. C. are vis iting her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Compton^ Careful Scientific Adjust ment. NE6R0 REGIMENT WILL NOT BE SENT TO THE FRON TIER. Mrs. Joe Murray and Mrs. E . D. Thompson visited relatives near New Sharon Monday. Mr. and Mrs. H D. Brown, Messrs J. B. Baity and Frank Boggs, attended the bed-side of C. A. Boggs, at Meb- and Monday night. Rev. Bryans of C. R. I. visited at lirs. Alice Pratts Monday. Miss Nora Pratt who has been visi ting relatives near Efland returned to Raleigh Monday. After spending several week with his family, T. R. Fitzpatrick left Mon day for Wilmingfton to be at his work. Messrs. J. H. Cambell and M. Pratt noade a flying trip to Saxapahaw Sun day. There must be quite an attrac tion in that direction for some foks. Mrs. J. A. Forrest attended the fun eral of her uncle, Mr. Lambert Jordan at Cedar Grove Monday. Mr. Robert Shoope Jr. called at Mr. Georgd Crutchfields Saturday night. Mr. Edg^r Mays visited at Mr. John Baitys Sunday afternoon. Master Minick Miller spent Saturday night with his cousin Harry Fitzpat rick. Mr. Vestal Mayse called at Mrs. M. E. Jordans Sunday night. The remains of John Brown was sent down from St. Leo’s Hospital last Thursday morning and taken to the borne of his mothers, north of Ef land. The interment took place Fri day in Fair Fields church yard. He had been a member of Fair Fields church for a long number of years and was an unusually good boy. His mother, sis ters and brother ha? the sympathy of the entire neighborhood in the loss of son, and their brother. Mr. D. S. Mayse and S. P. Kirkpat rick and Vernon Forrest are all on the sick list this week. Mrs Lonnie Albert and little dau ghter left Monday night for Mebane to visit her uncle Mr. Frank Carden. Rev. Homer Casto will preach a special Easter sermon at the methodist ^urch Sunday at 11 o’clock, and also there will be Easter exercises at same church Sunday night, commenceing at 8 o’clock p. m. The public cordially in vited to attend.] So I will say “Aurevoir.” ‘ ‘Pa w-pa-queise. ’ ’ A PIANO AND RUBBER TIRED BU66Y. Our subscription contest is now nearing its close. There will be two more is sues of the Leader, and then we shall know who wins out. Put your best efforts in from now until the end. You have enlisted, don^tlook back but press forward. The rubber tired buggy goes in as the second prize, it will be val uable lor any of the contest ants, and makes an adition- al chance to win something valuable. Each annual sub scription paid in will entitle the contestant to 2000 votes Run up the list as fast as possible. Remember it is only a lit tle more than two week from now to the end of the contest, and every moment should be used possible to build up your list. The mat ter now is in the hands of the contestants. It has been surprising how close they have kept together in get ting votes. Candidates In Plano Contest. The following is the standing of the candidates in the Leader con^^ test for the piano and diamond rings. You should be pushing all you can. It will pay you. “ Myrtle Bowland. Corbett, 4000 Vera McAdams, Rfd No 3, 4000 “ Bessie Allen, Cedar Grove 6000 “ Maggie L. Fletcher Watson 3000 “ Annie Paris, Saxapahaw, 1000 “ Maud Walker, Cedar Grove 1000 “ Maggie L. Mitchel Watson 79,100 “ Daisy Miles, Corbett “ Annie Hurdle, Union Novella Warren “ Ida Wilkerson, Mebane, “ Lelia McAdams “ Maie Reynolds, Hillsboro, 69,000 “ Rosa Walker, Union Ridge 1000 85,000 Ridge,’ 6000 4000 38,700 25,00 Nettie Oliver, Jerico, Nina Warren, Corbett, Ida Hughes Watson, Essie Florance, Mebane, Fannie Vincent, Mebane, Mabel Murphy, Corbett, Lottie Satterfield, Vivian Oakley, Cedar 3000 7000 1000 IQOQ 1000 3000 Mebane, 76,975 Grove, 90,000 harm than «ood. Therefore a reliable (9>tician is an absokrte essential to the preservation of your eye-sight. By dealing with Dr. N. Rosenstein, you Tun no risks. D. N. Rosenstein will be at Burlington, Tuesday April the 18th, j(t ti»e Bariington Drug Company, and ^^ednesday, «t Mebane, April I9th, at the White house, for the purpose of examining eyes and fitting glasses. Rhode Island Red polific layers, 15 eggs to J. H. LASHLEY chickens, for $100, apply An Iowa preacher boasts that he can put babies to sleep. That’s nothing, most! We have seen preichers with sufficent soothing and soporific influence to put to fleep a whole congregation of adults^ Advertising List List of letters remaining unclaimed at this office for the week ending April 8th, 1911. 1 Letter for Mr. J. E. Chester 1 “ “ 0. D. Deems, ' 1 “ “ Miss Nellie Forbra 1 “ “ Mrs. James Hastings, 1 P. C. “ Mr. W. K. Kimbell. These letters will be sent to the Dead Letter Office April 22th 1911, if not claimed before. In calling for the above please say advertised giving date of ad list. Respectfully, S. Arthur White, P.‘ Mr Order Transferring Regiment of Maneuver Division to the Border is Rescinded. The order transferring the Ninth Cavalry, the negro regiment of the maneuver division, from San Antonio, Texas, to the Mexican border for pat rol duty, was rescinded late this after noon by the War Department. This action followed a conference at the White House in which President Taft, Major General Leonard Wo^d., chief of staff of the army, and Representa tive Garner of Texas participated’ Dont Read This Dr. N. Rosenstein, the eye specialist of Durham will be at Burlington Tues day April the 18th, an the Burlington Drug Concpany., and Wednesday April the 19th, at Mebane, stopping at the White house to examine eyea ifod fitting glasses. msnilOTSATISFI- ED Cottpn Bagging And Tie Combines Plans To In crease Levy That the cotton bagging and tie trusts, not satisfied with robbing the American cot^R jdanters of nearly one million dtdlankftnnualiy through unjust tariff placed upon bagging and ties under the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, are planning to increase their levy on the cotton crop to $2,800,000 annually is declared in resolutions adopted by the New Orleans cotton exchange. The resoluti(Mis appeal to Congress to place bagging and ties on the free list and urge the enactment of the necessary legislation at tte present extra session of Congress. President W. B. Thomp son of the cott^'exchange, in a letter which he addressed to each member of Congress, tells of the great importance to the Smth tothis allied tariff steal. Says Its Easy to Pack Jury in New Hanover County Suprising Spiril of Law lessness Exists Murder Cases Removed to Pen der County Grand Jury Report Creates Quite a Little Excitement* There was plenty of excitement in superior court at Wilmington Saturday even though the court was in session but a very small part of the day. A part of this excitement was furnished by the grand jury in making present ments and returning true bills in cases not heard of until during the present week. W’hen court convened it was thot^ht that the trial of Dick Gause, colored, for murder, would be entered into, but Judge Peebles said he never expected to try another murder case in New Hanover county; that there was no trouble in packing a jury so as to acquit a defendant no’matter what might be the charge. Later in the day, upon affidavit of the solicitor, the cases of Dick Gause and Garfield, charged with murder, and J. E. Tisdale, indicted as an accomplice in connection with the Gause case, were removed to Pender county. This action was brought about by the Stephens verdict Saturday night. How They Compromised. Billy—Hello, Jimmie! How’s it yd didn’t come fishin’ yesterd&y, like ye promised? Jimmie—I couldn’t agree wid dad on it. He insisted dat I go to to school and I insisted dat I go fishin’, an’ we compromised on a lickin’.—Philadelphia Times.