North Carolina Newspapers

AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BEJ'DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE SIN. VOL. 2 MEBANE, N. C., THlItCSDAY. SEBnBMBl^ 28 1911 NO. 29 personal and lijual briefs |.|.;i)l‘LE WH!> COME AND GO l( hh of interest Gathered by i)iir lleDOEt#***. ;\1,-. iomThook is quite sick. spoilt few ;i i.i Mrs. Hrannok l>r. York’s. Ali'v T'n Fitch and with Mrs. A. H. hi'-'*.' mother speiit Fitch. Vi, K:t:i Compton will leave Fri- ; , ‘ I'r si‘>’ool at Harmony. , sor Lor (^^oper, spent Satur- ,Mh hi.-^ homo people in Graham. M; ivt’ •' -Mobane i.-^ vi-iitlng Miss liil’ 't\i' at Meredith Collepe Ral- r'Jl- ya\ h* Frank Mebane of Spray Sti'ulay with his mother Mrs. P. Ml'. S. .\rtlinr White returned from Hi> ru«'=;il;\y, where she had been hi'i' aunt. iwards Williamson i i.MU'st in Mrs. F. ■1' Tuosdav. of Worth- L. Meb- A Spirituous Editor. Mr. T. J. Henderson, who is Well known in Caswell, and throughout the State, as a fearless and spirituous young editor, one who writes what he thinks, after a sojourn in town with his parents. Col. and Mrs. A. E. Hen derson, has gone to Chatham to take charge of a growing weekly which has recently been established.—Yan- ceville Sentinal. Popular Merchant. The Whitted Brothers, L. B. ai d J. D. Whitted are very popular N».rth of here, where they are we’l known. They have a large well packed store full of dry goods, notions, shoes, hats, millinery etc. in Burlington. They have the right goods, and sell at the right prices. See their ad in this weeks Leader. Ice Cream and Cake. There will be a lawn party given in Gfland Saturday evening Sept. 30th, by the ladies Aid Society of the Pres byterian church. All are cordially in vited. A pleasant time, promised ice cream and cake. Ml'. ,1 Mr?. Jas. bi';:' am sp(Mit Sunday :.• !!!'tluT, Mrs. F. n. Mebane of with Mr. Meb- L. Mefcane. ■l!'. V .1., .\rthur White our post mas- , i. d Saturday from Ashville b hail spent a \veek in attend- Stato Post Masters Convention I'l (’o.)pi r Lumber Co. are kept 1 !h.' Lino funishing nice niat- r : ' ', t' who are huiUling in this Tiiov ilo p^ood asul treat you r; lit. ..h. Sam White has ju.^t received the h-'.'k d'tiiroo hundred and fifty dol- lir-, i-uranro for the burning of Mr. j .'^iuith homo which occurred re- \V." ill n.(t all wear diamonds around .• ■ n*. 5 there is much jewelry sold •t ' ' t'class anil an other, and we are ar. : • a small jewelry store would I'.iv hrr‘. Tho ;’hilltors tobacco Warehouse had a •.tist'aotori’opo!'.inpr sale this week Thtn :iro iu>\v in Kf»od shape in their : V. warehoiiso and will be f^lad to see :!i t.iliaoco farmers. See change of -. '.iiittiis week issue. M >: ro v-l’ason and Green Inc,, of direct attertion to their r.ilii r; y oj)oninj? in this week issue v.liiih takes place, beginning Monday rveiii;;w ;;nd continuing to Tuesday c •: They have a beautiful stock ■ i ;nii.i!irry of every description. Lost. Lost, on the streets of Mebane a pocket book containing $10 in gold and 25 cents and 10 cents in silver. The finder will be rewarded by delivering the same to the Church Grocery Co, Mr. Tobacco Farmers. Mr. Tobacco farmers we want to im press you witn the fact that the sec ond anniversary sale of the Piedmont Warehouse will be held next Thursday October 5th Reatl the list of valuable prizes offered in the r big adyertiament appear in)} in this issue of the Leader There is something in there for you will you come and get it, (You better had. To The Southern Railway Officials. The Southern railroad officials should get a move on them at once and have the embankment on either side -of the railroad in front of the Mebane Bedding Co. removed. The street on either side of the railroad has been graded down at the expence of the taivn, and this work was done on railroad pro perty at much cost to the town, now it would seem a small matter for the railroad to do the remainder of the work, especially as they are improving there own property, as all of this work Is paralled to a switch which can not be approached except for a very short distance, and this should be (tone aside from a dispc^tion to be :^r to Mebana, which we do noit think^ should be wanting. This work is in the heart of Mebane, and it would be difficult to find work that would more mutually benefit the railroad and Meb ane, than this work to which we refer. The people of Mebane are struggling to get to the front, they are helping them selvjes as best they can. What helps ftlebane helps the railroad, a big ger town will make more freight, more passen{;er traffic and ofcour«e a more profitable station here. We shall hope by next issue at least to be able to state something definite about this work. 40G Men Killed French War Ship b m Up. « The battleship Liberte at Toulon Fran ce was torn apart and destroyed by an explosion of her magazine Monday. Between 350 and 400 office^ and men were killqd. The battleship Republi- que was %dly dai^aged and the battle ships Democratic'and Vertie also suf fered severely :^om the ' masses ^f twisted iron and armor plate that were hurled upon their decks. This is the greatest disaster that has ever fallen upon the Frence inavy and in magnitu^ almost without prece dent in the aitnals of thb world’s fight ing ships. The grief which prostrates the fletean d nation is made more in tense by the memory of the recent re view here, a notable display of Frances naval greatness, in which the doomed ship was one of the finest figures. A Source of Gratification. To a Mebane man who feels a pride in his town, and the prosperty of its institutions it should be a source of much gratification to him to note the Leaders present condition. Today it is enlarged to an 8 page 6 col umn paper 48 columns and carries 375 inches of live advertisment, from people who appreciate the trade of Mebane and the farmers living in Northern Alamance, Caswell, and Orange Counties. The Leader does not cover the earth, but it has a large circulation in one of the best and most prosperous sections of North Carolina. Po wel 1-S tei n m itz. Married at the home of Mrs. M. E. White of Mebane Wednesday evening. Miss Minnie Stemmitz to Mr, Jimmy Powell, both of Raleigh. Miss Stein- mitz is the daughter of Raleigh’s lead ing florest, Mr. H. Steinmitz. She is a popular young lady and very attrac tive. They will make their home in Raleigh. Mr. H. Steinmitz her father was present at the ceremony. The Alamance Fair. County ha.r a, *•: ■.■t I- ‘ ‘ill Fo Build. Hrrithers who contemplated up a feed store in a few days ■iil'Hl III wait until they can I thrrnselvos a building which !!«»se doing at once. They i.. liuild on Clay street. A Lar^e Stock. B. Si'llars and son of Burhngton ai: attractive advertisment in thi> w, I K^^ Leader, This firm carry ck in their double store They things for ladies, men and :i!v full '■hiidr.-i hoar tlui' >.:-o th The Alamance County Fair promises to be of unusual interest this year. Capt. J. H. Harden is a live wire, and he has been pushing Ihe Fair with all his might. They are expecting an un usual large attendance, with an exhibit that is worth seeing. Make your ar rangements to take the whole family. The fair is next week. Don’t forget it. Senator Simmons will deliver the opening address. Taft The Humorist. When the President tells the jKJople of Michigan, as he is reported as hav ing done at Grand Rapids on Friday, that revision of the impost duties with blacksmith’s tools” (so he character ized Democratic attempts in that di rection. at the extraordinary session of Congress) would inevitably entail a return to the “old high tariff” system, he writes himself down as a humorist of no mean quality. The tariff law now in force, which Mr. Taft himself signed and afterward, lauded as “the best law ever enacted by a Republican Corgress,” levies an average of duties higher than any that has ever before o'^tained in the history of the country They couldn’t well be raised without rendering prohibitive all along the line impost charges which are already practicAlty prohibitive in not a few in stances,—^Va. Pilot. More About Pellagra. Clinton Chronicle. Now comes the sto^ from old Ken tucky that a govenment expert has dis covered that the Buffalo gnat, what ever that may be, is the pureveyor or carrier or cause of pellagra. Just how the gnat communicates the dread dis ease is not giyen out. We of this part of the pellagra-infested belt are at a loss to know if there is any such pest as the iiuffalo gnat hereabouts, If not, where is the pellagra that threatens to depopulate the country comer from? Kentucky being famous for its “corn juice” fails to take note of the suppos ed fact that pellagra is down this way charged up to or laid at the door of “bad corn,” and as a rule these late days it puts a South Carolinian to his trumps to get a little “corn,” good, bad or middling. W ell, we have no gnat of any kind around Clinton, yet now and then a case of pellagra is reported. So, may we ask, how can there be any pellagra where there are no gnats of either the Buffalo or the scrub species? Let the government trot out another hoss”from the stables where the na tion's experts are groomed at the pub- 1 c exgense. Meet The Boys. Bring your tobacco to the anniver sary sale of the Piedmont Warehouse and get one of the valuable prizes of fered, There is something in there worth working for. The Mebane peo ple have set up a liberal proposition Meet the boys at the Piedmont. Mur ry wants to shake your hand. Orange Qrove Items. Owing to a very short corn crop good many oats will be sown this sea son. A large number of the Orange Grove people attended the protracted services at the Ridge Sunday. They enjoyed two excellent sermons by the pastor. Miss Ava Crawford leaves this week to take charge ot her school near Roanoke Va. She is to be principal of a graded school. Mr. Samuel P. Sykes died very sud den last Saturday evening of heart failure, and was buried Sunday even ing at Cane Creek. Mr. Sykes has been nearly blind for several years. A good man and useful citizen has gone to receive his record Mr. Vance Cates and John Crawford of Mebane spent Saturday night at their resp>ective homes. Mr. Crawford will soon come home and enter the Orange Grove school. The school at Orange Grove will soon open and prospects are good for a splendid school. There will be a good baseball team as an incentive to good work. Miss Beatrice Wood of Durham is visiting relatives near Teer. Everything to wear from | 't, Don’t fail to see ad. aid Enables You to Well. Dress Weil if Its clothing you want the W, A. Sluter ('lothing Company have a k ' irficient in quantity and variety It > I rom, prices that always pleasf. itri a mans furnishing establi- 'hmoiit where you can find what ever nmy wish to enable you to dress '' til. Sec ad in this issue. liist of Letters Homaininp unclaimed at this office tl),> week ending Sept. 23rd 1911. 1 I-‘ ttf r for Mrs, Charlotte Boones 1 I.' ttor for Mr. Isaiah Carter ^ !’• (’. for Mrs. Nice Eving 1 I/ 'tcr for Miss C. D. Lee 1 l-eiter for Mr. Odiest Morrow 1 1*. ('. for Miss Nettie Seites 1 l .' ttcrfor Miss Emma Wilson 1 i t tier for Mrs, Della Williams i.,.tter Office Oct. 7th 1911. callefl for before. Jncallinfr for the above please if say Adv( rti ;od” giving date of ad. list. Respectfully, S. Arthur White, P. M. Kead What the Sheriff Says. Sheriff R. N. Cook of Graham has a notice in this weeks Leader calling on delinquents to settle their taxes. The Sheriff has an abundance of pa tience, and he is a pretty clever fellow but he has reached the point where patience has ceased to be a virtue, and we are much inclined to the opinion that he means what he says in his no tice. When Noah Was a Boy. Noah asked his mother what a lie bill was, she answered him that it was when some cheap skit of a liar was caught red handed with the goods upon him and compelled to sign a lie bill acknowledging that he had Uedi Noah my boy this fellow is a common pest, a grievous affliction to' any com* munity that may be cursed with his paesence, and he trots along with the old goat who quotes his cooks friends and other characters, who l^ve wol- lowed in fllttv and detilement, a taint and an abomination in the eyes of every one who lays the slightest claim to decency, a stench in the. nostrel of good people. Thirty Dollars Free. in Cash “The Unwritten Law. Florence Times. We often wonder if it ever is a good thing or a f^iir one to the rest of the community to allow a man whe has violated the law of the land escape with out punishment. In this case in Ornge- burg, if the man felt that h* was so far justified in taking the law in his own hanbs, he ought to be willing to stand the penelty of the law. It is a most presu.Tiptious thine to sin against organized society and then expect to escape the qenalty therefor by saying that you have your own private reasons and in such cases, the juries ought al ways to convict and leave the rest to the pardoning power, but it is no rea son to shame justic and declare a man not guilty when he is most patently guilty. We do not think that it is ever right to allow a person to go unwhipp ed of justice; for sentiment's Sc;ke. It encourages other crime, and society must.protect itself against crime or be swallowed ud by it. Evils of Idle Gossip. Omaha Bee, It is one of the foibles of humanity to believe and carry evil report. It may be one manifestation «f the sel fishness of the race, for a wise man who lived centuries ago said that “Love thinketh no evil.” The wag ging tongue is a dixngerous weapon and a two-edged one, since it brings woe to its owner as well as its victim. Idle gossip breeds many kind of ill consequ ence, yet how common a fault it is with most of us. The law sets a good example in pre suming every man arraigned for wrong to be innocent until proved guilty and it gives him only upon the most con clusive evidence. So individual in their private social intercourse should prefer to believe good of each other rather than evil. They could do well to adopt the maxim of law, either of the Paul ine doctrine of thinking no evil, or the modern statue of holding e\ery man innocent until proved guilty. Such a precept put in practice would tend to offset the evil of idle gossip It is always possible to hoar bad things of good men, but no good can come of repeating them. The Mosaic code set the example by forbidding “false wittness against thy neighbor” and in this it has never been improved up. But when a preacher goes out and peddles the slanderous lies of a filthy black wench the limit is reached. The Leader offers a cash prize of $15.00 for any person telling nearest the number of nails it has in a glass which will be on exhibition at the Piedmont Warehouse. It will give $10 for the one guessing the next nearest and five dollars for the person gues sing the third nearest. The only con dition required is that you pay one dol lar on your subscription to the Leader either as an old or new subscriber. Report at the office and we will record your name and the number you guess. These are valuable prizes, and they will be in hard cash, valuable to any one. Don't forget this when you bring your tobacco to the anniversary sale Don't forget it when you come to Mebane, Don’t foi^et it while at home. It will be a quart Mason jar filled with 10 penny, 8 penny, 6 penny and 4 penny nails. You know just as near what this jar will contain as any one. Simple and easy conditions. The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spefttre bark. Perplexitie. Greenville Daily News. The road through life of the conscie- ntous layman is beset with scientific perplexities. No sooner has he chang ed the habit of a lifetime in obedience to some new scientific warning than a still later investigator rises to unsettle his newly acquired faith. Take the case of the housefly, for instance. Sanitarians conducted for several years a campaign of education against the little pest that left it not a contamina ting foot to stand on and culminate this spring in a determined lay cam paign for its extermination. The news paper poets even enlisted and sang our duty toward ourselves and the commun ity in which verses of the housewife, “Swat that flv,” and “Ten wicked houseflies sitting in a row” variety. A flyless hygienic millenium was in prospect. Now arises the inevitable unsettler of our new belief and bids us pause. The mission of the house-fiy, he reasons, scavenger. Therefore, if we kill it in the house while providing work for it behind the bam, we may upset the balance of nature, which sounds omin ous and means that, lacking the insect appointed by nature, the horsefly with its sting, may make our last hygienic state worse than our first. Therefore it behooves us, before proceeding with our hunt’ to remove the scavenging spots, which are also breeding places, behind our barns, in stables and wher ever else, in city and country, we un- hygienically throw refuse dirt. The Tariff Board. Here is some tariff board history that the president will probably not refer to: The tariff board was created Sept. 26th, 1809. On June 7,1911. 21 months later, congress call«d for wh»tever data the board had collected on wool, and was informed the board had no thing to rep>ort. What was the tariff board doing during these 21 months? Soon afer the appointment of the board, its chairman, Henry C, Emery established head quarters in the pri vate residence of Frederick Hale, son of Senator Eugene Ha^e of Maine, who has been known for years as one of the most powerful defenders of ultra protection. In October, 1910 it was announced that “the work of the tariff board” was to be boomed at a series of ban quets. For thr*e months the ban queting campaign occupied the time and attention of the board. Among the hosts was the Arkwright club, the leading association of high pro tection of manufacturers of the coun try. Then on Feb. 1, 1911, Chairman Emery was the guest of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, the wards of Schedule K., with the William H. Wood on one side and Vice-President F. C. Clark on the other. The plan finally adopted for esti mating cost is the plan which, at this dinner, Emery was advised to adopt. The Wool Bill. A Washington correspondent says: The wool bill of the last Congress was far from receiving the full ap proval of the genuine tariff reformers in Congres and out of Congress. It teemed with protection and at least three Republican congressmen defended it as a “revision down” on Republican lines, and their arguments were simply invincible. William H. Taft’s heart would have leaped with joy had sched ule K of the Payne-Aldrich monstrosity been word for word the Underwood wool bill of 1911. Therefore, he vetoed the bill because it was of Democratic origin, though it was charged, and by many believed, that Senator Boise Pen rose held in pledge the Presidential con science on the tariff question as collat eral for the loan of his influance and his vote for Canadian reciprocity. The most famous stump speach Mr. Taft has made was that at Winona Minn , in which he condemned schedule K of the Payne bill, which imposes a duty of 44 per cent, on unmanufactured wools, and an average duty of 90 per cent, on woolens. It taxes yarns 159 per cent. It taxes blankets 68 percent to 136 per cent . and the cheaper the blanket, the higher the rate of duty. Woolen goods for women’s children’s clothing was taxed from 93 per cent, to 137 per cent,, and the finer the fabric the less the rate of duty. It taxes carpets from 50 per cent, to 9O per cent and the poorer the carpet the richer the tax. It taxes worsteds from 96 to 144 per cent. It taxes flannels from 87 to 121 per cent. It taxes knit goods from 61 per cent, for the rich to 123 per cent, for the poor. It taxes ready made clothing for either s«k from 65 per cent, to 96 per cent. And [other articles in like monstrous degree. Well, Mr. Taft assailed that, though it was an infamy of his own party.The bill he vetoed reduced the duty on raw wool from 44 per cent, to 29 per cent., and there were corresponding reductions on the finished product. His excuse is that Congress did not know what it was doing, that its work was not ac- cerding to Gunter. But, then, the Con gress which made the Payne-Aldrich law, which he signed, was just as igno rant, and certainly it did not operate on Gunter lines, Mr. Taft lays down the rule that it is impossible for any body to knew anything about the tariff except a tariff “board” that he created that is composed of three standpat Re publicans, one Randall Democrat, and an expert who is a nondescript politi cally. The secretary of this board amuses himself writing: letters to stand pat newspapers, in which he seeks to maintain that it is immoral to assail a protective tariff. Now, that is the fount of wisdom whence Congress is admonished to drink deep and learn something about the tar iff. The real mission of this board is to do just what it has done—defeat a charge of the Payne law. Having ac- compiwhed that, its next move will be to delay a change of that law. They are on a wild goose junket somewhere at public expense to find out the differ ence between the cost of production at home and abroad, something that can not be done at all, it would take years to do it. Suppose this board appear in a great woolen manufactory at Leeds and call for the boss, who greets them. They say, “Mr. Tweeds, what does it cost you to make a yard of serge?”Mr. Tweeds would answer in a diplomatic way. “You go to the devil.” Would you, who read this, tell somebody for publication the secret of your business, if you are a business man? If you go out proclaiming that from the housetops how long before you would make a pro gress through a bankrupt court? Now it is possible that these people that Taft has appointed to get information will come back chock full of it—it is certain that they will; but there will not be a grain of fact in the bushel of gusses it will contain. I dont say the “board” will seek to deceive; but what they learn will be misleading, for the manufacturers of England. France, Germany and Holland are not going to open their books to them or to anybody else and they can get the intormation from nobody but the manufacturers. JNotice. All persons are forbidden to hunt, fish, or trap on my place without re gard to race, color or previous con ditions. The law will be riggedly en forced against all trespasses. C. F. Harris. A really great man is known by three signs—generosity in the design humanity in the execution and moder ation in success.—Bismarck. How About Myrtle Haw kins Murderers r» Those Hendersonville negroes went about killing each other find before it is over that there certain privileges to which they are not entitled. r-Durham Herald. who may are