Mebane Leader
J, O. POY, Editor and Owner
Sntered as second class matter Feb
ruary 8, 1909» at the Post Office at
Mebane, N. C., under the act of March
1897.
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We wish correspondents in all the
nearby post-offices. Write at on^’o.
The Fleming case looks bad,
but perhaps the next one like it
may be heard by a judge who
will take a different view of th«^
matter. He may not be so ex
acting as to expect preachers to
prove the cupability of the ^ wom
an in the case, or th|iik sh^
siiould have a little more license
in her deportment because she
had a husband who drank.
ITiursday. September 2^. 1911
THE CRY OF ANNEXATION.
It was the artful cry of annex
ation raised by American pro
tectionist during the discussion
of the reciprosity measure in the
last congress reechoing over the
Canadian hills before their elec
tion that frightened the farmers
into opposing the measure. This
cry was accenuated by the lav
ish expenditure of an election
tion corruption fund contributed
toby this favored class in Amer
ica. They did not vvant this
country to tast of the benefits
of equity and equalization in
taxes.
It was the first time that the
people of Canada had seen the
flerpents trail of election cor
ruption fund, but the taste of the
forbidden fruit was as seductive
as was that which tempted our
first parents. Aside from the
defeat of a measure that promis
ed great and lasting good both
to the Dominion and their near
neighbor and friend, America
they have retired in this ave-
lanch of wrong the greatest
statesman that country has pro
duced in an age Sir Wilferd Lau-
rier. But it is not the first
time that wealth has impeeded
progress, or temporarly choked
wholesome measures.
It would seem that some phe-
lanthropist who wanted to do
some real good in this country
would appropriate a fund for
fighting pellagra, a real dan
gerous disease that is spreading
with an allarming rapidity. It
is a thousand times more dan
gerous, and infinity more harm
ful than the hook worm, but
it is not holding out the tempta
tion for men to make money out
of it that the hook worm has. It
reaches them.
It must be a source of serious
regret to many Americans
that the Canadian Reciprosity
bill should have been defeatedi
It is strongly intimated that the
money of American lumbermen
and others on this side of the
border who were interested in
maintaining a high tariff on such
articles as the reciprocity mea-1
sure touchedwas the prime cause
of the defeat of reciprosity in
Canada, and we are inclined to
the opinion that this was true.
It is a pity however.
IF YOU WISH.
You must invite people to
come to your place of business
through a well worded adver
tisement, and then when they
come treat them right, and they
will keep on coming. If you
wish the trade of those splendid
well to do people living in North
ern Alamance, Orange and Cas
well counties then invite them
through a well worded advertis-
ment in the Mebane Leader.
The Hendersonville tragedy
ftill remains a mistery. No light
sufficient to illuminate the party
responsible for the death of
Myrtle Hawkins has yet blazed
up upon this terible crime.Some
even have been simple enough
to suggest suicide as the pro
bable reason for her taking off.
How on earth any rational in
dividual could reconcile the fact
with suicide, when it is known
And acknowleged that although
ker body was found in Oceolo
lake, yet she was not drowned.
That her body was found in the
lake, thrown there after death
is strong evidence
that some one had
a reason, and that reason is very
•uggestive of her murder, of a
erime. Strong circumstance
point to certain parties in Hen
dersonville, and it is very pecu
liar. In our estimation
tha whole thing was a bungling
piece of malpractice, vicious in
Ito ignorance, and criminally, so
Wa are inclined to believe that
officials of Hendersonville,
know, or surmise more than
they have ever confessed, or
alsa they are a very dull set of
gflicials.
Qov. Drummond Was
Hung.
Statesville Landmark.
When Mr. F. A. Linney addressed
the North Carolina editors at Boone a
few weeks ago he referred to an ex-
Governor of North Carolina who was
hanged. The publication of Mr. Lin
ney's address aroused some inquiry on
this point and inquiry has been made
uf The Landmark as to the name of
the Governor who suffered this ig^no-
minious fate. A friend of Hie Land
mark who is studious and of an en
quiring turn of mind, has looked op
the matter and finds that the Ctovemor
was Drummond, the first Governor of
the State. The story is toVd in Urs. '
Spencer’s *1 First Steps in North Car
olina History,” and is as follows:
‘In 1664 the Lords Proprietors ap
pointed the first Governor for Carolina,
or rather for Albemarle country. He
was William Drummond, a Scotchman,
by birth, who came from Virginia and
was a friend of Governor Berkeley.
As he was our first Governor, it is
pleasant to know that he was a man
of good character and highly estearoed
and of good family. We know v«ry
little of the years in which he ruled the
Albemarle county. He returned to
Virginia afterward, and ten years lat
er he became engaged in a serious re
bellion of the Virginia people against
their Governor. Berkeley was getting
old and very hard and tyrannical, and
odious to the colonists after having
been a popular and excellent Governor
for more than 30 years. They rose
against him in 1676 in what is called
Bacon’s Rebellion/ and were beaten
and forced to submit, and Berkeley
took a base revenge by hanging all
the leaders who came into his hands.
Among them was ex-Governor Drum
mond who had been his friend, but
who felt it his duty to oppose his ty
ranny. The vindictive old man showed
no mercy. He made a low bow to
his prisoner and with cruel words of
hatred told him he should be hung in
half an hour. And so he was, as soon
as a gallows could be built, Drummond
died calmly and full of courage, be
lieving that he died in good cause. This
was the sad end of the man who had
been the first Governor in our State.
But for all that, he was a good and
a brave man and his name stands much
higher than Bereley’s. It is of no con
sequence how a man dies if he haa
lived well. Berkeley died within that
same year in England, where he had
gone to explain away his barbarous
conduct, but the King refused to see
him or to forgive him for his cruelty.
He is said to have died of a broken
heart, ’ but it is not likely that he had
much heart to break. The take In the
Great Dismal swamp between North
Carolina and Virginia was named in
honor of Governor Drummond.
So it will be seen that while the first
Governor of Nortn Carolina met death
by hanging, he was victim of a tjrrant.
By all accounts he was a good man
and guility of no crime.
prepared a table showing how one may
live on $82.88 a year But let as hope
that in the United States the problem
of living will never resolve itself into
anything like that.
New Goods!
New Goods!
Fall and winter stock of fall line of
dry goods, shoes, hats, caps, and no
tions now constantly arriving. Don^t
fail to call and see stock.
A nice line of Owl Brand of neck wear just received.
Mebane Store, Co.
Mebane, N. C.
Panacea Spring Co
Littleton, N. C.
Have you tried PANACEA MINERAL
SPRING WATER yet for NAGGING cases
of INDIGESTION?
If you wish to eat an old-time satisfact-
torymeal andfeel no discomfort thereafter
get a case of this water, drink it acx^rding
to directions and gladly tell your neighbor
of your good fortune.
Panacea Spring Co.
Littleton, N. C.
it Dissolved.
Jack—So yoo broke your engage
ment with Mies Xspensive?
John—Neither she nor 1 broke it.
Jack—Well, why arenl the cards
out?
John—Why, she tokl me what her
clothing cost, and 1 tokt her what my
income was. Then out engagement
gently dissolved.
Happiuess The Gauge Of
Success.
(Galveeton Daily News.)
‘'The magnificent ^lectacle of human
happiness.**—Sydney Smith. '
The real quest of life is hapi^ness.
There ia very little difference of opin
ion as to this, but there is much dis
agreement as to what constitutes hap
piness, and possibly more aaild as to
how it is to be attained. Brought down
to its lest analysis there can t>e no dis
puting the fact that true happinese is
in proportioa to the righteousuess—the
love, the purity^ of heart and hmesty
of purpose—of the individual. Indeed
love for homaidty ie the secret ef a
happj life, for he who has love for
others haa a desire to make them
ban>y, and hie own peace and tran
quility are oommensurate with his lov
ing kindness. As Amiel says, he must
have a *^heart that never hardens, a
never hurts.'* Consideration for
others, **charity that auffer^h long
and is kind,** is the most potent factor
in the making of a happy life. To
him it frere weD to
‘‘Count tint day lost whose low de-
■ceodfan sun
Views at thy hands no kindly action
done.'*
T» the h>re and conskleiation of
one dfyends to greater or less
the iMpi^eaa ot others. Bynki haa
tdd oa Uutt
. . . **He who joy w^d win
llusi share it; haK^ioess was bom a
twin.**
in Texas Too.
Houston Pos^
it ia down hiU to Christmas now, but
thete are a number of pleasareaUe
stops on the way—the chriu^ the fair,
Thankigiviqg, and a hogkilUng snap
betng ^akwi4y achedoled.—Chartotte
Observer.
Tea, and we are preparing for the
^ter roasts and the real chiU con
oame weather.
Thousands of Chickens
Die From Shock of Big
Guns on Battleships.
Fully half of the chickens on the
entire Eastern Shore of Maryland are
dead as a result of shock occasioned
by the terrific concussion and booming
of big guns from the Atlantic fleet
while engaged in target practice with
the outworn battleship Texas,** ia the
report which Dr. Douglas S. Freeman
State tax commissioner, bnngfs back
from that section of the State.
‘*It is hard to understand the fright
ful effect of the guns upon the fowls,*
he said soon after his return to Rich
mond. “Just before leaving Ca{>e
Charles, I saw a very large rooster
strutting about the town absolutely
nude. Believing that the fowl had had
its feathers plucked from its body by
some unfeeling or thoughtless child. I
spoke of the outrage.
“What was my surprise when in
formed that nearly all the chickens in
Cape Charles were in a similar state of
nakedness. Their feathers had been
jolted out by concussion from the big
guns off the cost.'*
Dr. Freeman found the mortality
greatest among the hens in cases where
death ensued. In many instances, he
said, there are no longer any hens to
be found. Frequently, hens laid half
a dozen eggs in thirty minutes and
then toppled over and died.
Dr. Freeman regards the Eastern
Shore situation, so far as the fowls
are concerned, the most remarkable he
has ever encountered.
Diarrhoea is always more or less pre
valent during S^[)tember. Be prepar*
ed for it. Chamtwrlatn*s C^e, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy is prompt and
effectual. It can always he depended
upon and is pleasant to take. For
! sale by All Dealers.
The Infesting Agents.
Conway Field.
If our Shell correspondent of last
wedr will permit us, we would like to
auggetit that doobtless that c»nmun-
itys patronage of the tree agent, sew
ing machine agent, picture dealer, etc.
about which he wrote, ia largely re-
spmimble for the presmce of the tax
eKecution collector thereabouts. The
sconer the people of the rural cHn-
munities learn to steer clear of the
various agents that infest the country,
and purchase their wares from a rq;>-'
livable home merchant, who can and
win make good losses, and sooner will
the smile of prosperity inyade their
tenitoiy.
This Is Why
OUR SALES 6R0W GREATER EACH SUCCEEDING WEft
BECAUSE WE ARE* PLEASING OUR TRADE
We are recklessly throwing on our bargain
counters at great sacrafice sales some of
the prettiest, best and most attractive dry
goods seen in this market. We are not wait
ing for the fall to give you the advantage
of cut prices on summer goods, but now
while there is more than two month wear
for them, goods good the year round.Come
and see us, we pay your railroad faie from
any point between Haw River and Durham
when you purchase $15 worth of goods.
Ellis-Stone & Co!
Durham, N. C.
New Separate Skirtii
Made of Panamas an^’ Voiles tha
are all wool. Special vai es at $4.9
and $5.95.
BATH TOWELS AND MATS.
Large Bleached Turkish Towel
10c. Extra large and Heavy Turkis
Towels, 25c. Bath mats, 48c, 98c an
$1.19.
Brown-Belk Co.,
Greensboro, N. C.
The AdvanceShowing
Fall Si^s
Is a splendid index to the many new crea
tions of Women’s Apparel to be worn this
fall. There's more here ready for your in- i|
spection tnan the usual preliminary showing;:
at this stage of the season, and you can form \
some idea of the new styles by looking over
the line of Coat Suits the new stook repres
ents.
Chas. H. Dorsett,
\ ^
Greensboro, N.C.
THE PUREST AND TH
1 have recently installed in my Drug Store one of the latest
improved Lippencott Soda Fountains, its sanatary arrangement
can not be excelled. I carry constantly a well selected stork of
up-toHiate pure Drugs. My fall stock of notions and fancy gotxis
will be the largest and beat selected I have every carried. IVr-
scriptions filled with accuracy and prompness.
Mebane Drug Co.
MEBANE, N. C.