It is a source of much pleasure to us to note how rapidly Mebane Lobacco market is growing, and how much our efforts to please the farmers here succeeded. We keep the prices of tobacco pushed up to tlio top notch, and do all we can to see you have the best possible tioatment. IVE TOBACCO BUYERS On our Warehouse floors guarantees to all a liberal and fair deal , .)n our market, and top prices for the weed. We shall strive in every way posible to deserve your continued pat ronage. The convenience and accessability of Mebane to you en ables you to save time, money and the wear on your team by bring- 'iig your tobacco here. BRiNG YOUR lOBACGO RIGHT ALONG TO OS. % Piedmont Warehouse J. N. WARREN and MURRAY FERGUSON Proprietcrs. Mebane, - - - North Carolina. What** fn V Narrtet Tbe late Mng of Siam had for a fnll lame Phra Bat Somdeth Phra Para- Kdnor Maha Chulalongkorn Phra Chu- ia Chum Klo Chow Yu Hua, and this ioes not include his titles. A wag in Bombay saw it in the paper when the ruler was visiting tiiat city and was being received by the British oflacials »nd passed it over to a young Irish subaltern with the challenge that he pronounce it. The young fellow look- td at it a moment and then handed it back. He said he was not long enough winded, but he was sure lie could play It on the garrison club piano if the in strument were a couple of octaves longer. The king’s uncle, however, who was also a prince high priest, had for one name alone the following col lection of letters: Pawaratsawarlya- longkaun. Any one who can get through this and not flat one of the DOtes has lived a long time where he can look out of the window and see the gilded peak of a temple shimmer ing in the equatorial sun.—Christian Herald. A Pleasing Success My millinery opening was a pleasing success. I have one of the prettiest stocks ever seen in Graham. Everything in the very latest style, and the pret tiest posible to pui’chase. Don't fail to see me, I am sure I can please you in every way. Miss Margaret Clegg Graham, North Carolina WE Make a leader of SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAIKTS because they represent the best paint value on the market. For durabilityr spreading ^ capacity, beauty, easy working 4 qualities, and economy no i better paints can be made. They come In but one quality—the best. I^They are economical, always. Ask for color cards. ^ SOLD BY The time to paint is now. The place to buy your paint is at Tyson-Malone Hardware Co. IF rOU ARE GOING NORTH. TRAVEL VIA. THE CHESAPEAKE LINE DAILY SERVICES INCLUDING SUNDAY The new Steamers just placed in service the ‘‘CITY 01 NORFOLK” the “CITY OF BALTIMORE’^ are the mos^ elegant and up-to-date Steamers between Norfolk and Baltimore. EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS-TELEPHONE IN EACH ROOM. DELICIOUS MEAUQN BOARD - EVERYTHING FOR COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE Steamers Lv. Norfolk (Jackson St) 6:15 PM “ Lv. Old Point Comfort 7:15 PM “ Ar. Baltimore 7:00 PM Connegctinat Baltimore for all points North, North East and West. Cheap Excursion Tickets on sale to Maryland Resorts, Atlantic City and other New Jersey Resorts and Niagara Falls. Reservations made and information cheerfully furnish ed by W. H. PARNELL, T. P. A. Norfolk, Va. HOME COMFORT DID YOU SEE OUR MALEABLE CDDKiNG RANGE last week. We had a demonstration in our store and showed what it could do. It., is scien* tificaly built and will last a life time. It is a great Range. Call at Coble^Br&dshaw, Compay Burlington, N, IEH3: DD demands tribute from many matters connected with a home, but there is none that exacts more though and attention than the furniture that goes into your rooms. It must ap- ' pear elegent and artistic, properly finished, upholstered and constructed, and with all must afford a comfor table resiipg place. These factors are strong points in Green and Mc Clure furniture and our stock is await ing your choice. COPvf?lGH A.psc:c« Green IMcClure Furniture Co. Graham, mmmtmmm Norih Carolina HANDOME INTERIO S. can be finished almost like magic when our mill work is used. In hardly any time a bare room can be converted into an attractive apartment or office, by the use of our paneling columns, arches, fret work, etc. See us before c»mpleting your plans. There are ideas galore here. Many to be saved too. NELSON-CeOPER LUMBER COMPAIIt. Mebane, N. C. Starve a Cold. Nature, as a rule, takes the appetite away when one is coming down with a cold or other infectious disease, and nature is wise. Don’t coax Mary to eat when she has a cold. Don’t allow the neighbors to tempt Johnny with calfs foot jelly or other dainties. When suffering from a cold the diges tive organs are in no condition to care for food. The digestive Juices are al tered or entirely absent. One or two days’ comparative fast will often as sist In averting a severe siege of cold. A. more convenient and enjoyable form of fasting would be to subsist for one or two days upon fruit or fruit Juices perhaps, with the at’ ^ lou of a little toast An exclusive iiuit diet has all the practical advantages of complete fasting, while it satisfies the appetite and supplies sugar from which the liv er can manufacture glycogen to sus tain the white blood corpuscles in their continuous warfare against mi crobes.—William S. Sadler in Designer. Giving Him Carte Blanche. A few years ago John Kendrick Bangs, the humorist, told a number of his Broadway literary confreres that he felt particularly elated over an or der he had Just received from Henry W. Savage, the theatrical producer,, for the libretto of a musical comedy. The play was produced a few months later. During the long period of rer hearsals so much of Bangs’ material was eliminated and so much other ma terial inserted In its stead that when! the curtain went up on the first night not more than half a dozen of the original lines remained. About a week later a friend, meet ing Bangs, asked him if he was writ ing any more plays for Savage. “Yes,” replied Bangs. “Only an hour ago I sent him 500 blank sheets of paper and told him to go as far as he liked.”—Irvin Cobb to New York Tribune. Anthony Trollope’s First Earnings. A literary man recalls Anthony Trol lope’s little gloat over the first fruits of his pen. “I send you a copy of "The Warden,’ ” he wrote to Lord Houghton in 1866, “which Mr. Longman assures me is the last of the first edition. There were, I think, only 750 printed, and they have been over ten years in hand. But I regard the book with af fection, as I” made £9 2s. 6d. by the first year’s sales, having previously writ ten and published for ten years with out any such golden result. Since then I have Improved even upon that.” Trollope, of course, “improved upon that” in no uncertain fashion.—West minster Gazette. It Was Real. “My, this must have been excltingr’ says Mrs. Bilmers, who is reading the paper. “A twenty foot boa constrictor escaped from the zoo yesterday and was captured after it had climbed halfway up a telegraph pole.” “And I swore off when I saw it as I went downtown!” growled Mr. Bil mers disgustedly. “What are you muttering?” she asked. “Nothing. I just said it must have been a ticklish job.”—Chicago Post this As Good as Lost. “You’re sure you can spare fiver, are yiu, Shadbolt?” “Dlnguss, If I had not been perfect ly sure that 1 can get along without It I never would have lent it to you.” —Chicago Tribune. BREAKING A CUSTOM. ' How the Salt Shaker Was Introduced to the Spaniard. Until a few years ago no Spaniard had on his dining table any other re ceptacle for salt than the old style opeih cellar. An enterprising Briton saw this, noted that the salt was al ways dirty and gummy and deter mined to introduce a certain famous salt shaker from which clean salt would run freely in the dampest weather. Bravely he started to tour Spain for the company. “No, senor; no est costumbre usar mas quo esto” (“No, sir; it^s not cus tomary to use more than that”—the old cellar), was the answer of every dealer to whom he presented the nov elty. Again and again he was re buffed. He began to despair when, standing one day gazing Into a Jew eler’s window, a brilliant idea struck him. He entered. Realizing the child like curiosity and Impressionable char acter of his quarry, he persuaded the Jeweler to display a shaker Hi his window and coached him about sell ing it A Spaniard came along, look ed in the window, saw the curious ob ject, Investigated. “It is very pretty for the toilet ta ble,” he remarked after prolonged scrutiny, “perhaps useful for the chil dren. What goes In It—perfume?” Indifferently the Jeweler glanced np from some scribbling. “No, sir; only aol^ “Man, salt!” “Yes. Possibly I could get you a lit tle—the kind that doesn’t get sticky— to try. But 1 don’t know.” The simple gentleman was amazed, angry, affronted, by the novelty, but he took it and an ounce or two of the special salt home with him. The Jew eler ordered another shaker and more samples of salt. By and by the gen tleman had used all his salt and want ed more of the same kind. The busi ness of that company today Is worth many figures In Spain every year, and, more than that, as it is “costumbre” now to use that particular sort of shaker and brand of salt there is vir tually no competition.—Arthur Stanley Riggs in Century. ALASKAN MOSQUITOES. They Are Small and Silent, but Work With Fire Tipped Stings. Mosquitoes in this icebound north ern country, Alaska, are a plague be yond relief. They come to life about the middle of May, before the ground is thawed out and while many feet of Ice still cover the lakes and all but the swiftest rivers. Stagnant sun heated water is not in the least necessary. They breed in the glaciers wherever a bit of earth or manure has melted a little pool. TBeir wrigglers are seen in running ice water. By the 1st of June it is uncomfortable to sleep with out protection, and from that time on until September, when the first frosts have benumbed them, especially dur ing the warm, rainy season of July and August, they become a never ceas ing scourge, swarming In thousaude. The Alaskan mosquito Is small, brown, silent and very much in ear nest. He never sings a warning nor fools about selecting a spoft to hla taste, but comes In a bee line with his probe and gets into action. EJvery inch of your clothing is industriously bored, so that you look like an ani mated brown cocoon, and the slightest exposed spot on wrist or neck is promptly set on fire. I experimented with a small hole in my glove. After the first mosqifito had found the open ing others came in quick succession to the spot He left some microscopic “kind lady and no dog” sign there. If I killed the first and left his carcase It served as a warning not at all. The others came the faster, and the nvore I killed the more eager the survivors be came, perching quite unmoved on the remains of their confreres.—World To day. EUGENIE’S ESCAPE. INSULTED THE KING. Skeptical. Teacher—Now, Johnny, what is the shape of the earth? Small Johnny—I dunno. Teacher—Why, I told you yes^ terday It was round. Small Johnny— Yes, I know, but I don’t believe every* thing I hear.—Chicago News. Not So Brave. “He was certainly brave to crawl under the bed and engage in a life and death struggle with that burglar.** “When he crawled under the bed he thought the burglar was In the basement.”—Houston Post For Good of the Community. “Have you ever done anything for the good of the community?” asked the solid citizen of the weary way farer. “Yes,’' replied the weary wayfarer. “I’ve Just done a month.” Sensible Man. Crawford—Do you really like to please your wife? Crabshaw—I can’t say that I do, but Tve found out it’s the best plan. —Smart Set There are some who bear a gmdge even to those that do them good.—PH- paj. The Joke a Printer Turned on Louit Philippe and M. Thiers. One morning during the reign of Louis Philippe there appeared In the Constitutionnel the following startling paragraph: “His majesty the king received M. Thiers yesterday at the Tuilerles and charged lilm with the formation of a new cabinet The distinguished states man hastened to reply to the king: “ ‘I have only one regret, which Is that I cannot wring your neck like a turkey’s.’ ” A few lines lower down there was another paragraph running to the fol lowing effect: “The efforts of Justice have been promptly crowned with success. The murderer of the Rue du Pot-de-Fer has been arrested in a house of bad reputa tion. Led at once before the judge of Instruction, the wretch had the hardi hood to address the magistrate In terms of coarse insult winding up with the following words, which amply show that there remains not a spark of con science or right feeling in this hard ened soul: “ ‘God and man are my witnesses that I have never had any other am bition than to serve your august per son and my country loyally to the best of my ability.’ ” The printer had just cleverly managed to interchange the two addresses. The cream of the joke was that it was uni versally known how very little love there was lost between the king and the minister.—Strauss’ Reminiscences Last of the Old Orators. The late Senator John Warw’ick Daniel of Virginia may be said to have been the last of the old fash ioned orators in the house of the con script fathers. His fame will rest not on his lawbooks, which were excel lent; not on his speeches In house and senate, which were strong, but on two masterly orations on Lee and Stone wall Jackson dellvortMl before his en trance into congresf-' It may well be doubted whether anything superior to them, considered simply as orations, can be found In the literature of the world. They would have delighted Cicero himself.-Champ Clark in Cen tury. Flogged For Bathing. On an Island in the Cam. nt Grnnt- chester, is a mill pond known as “By ron’s pool” because it was here that the poet as an undergraduate enjoyed his favorite recreation. Even in his day Edward Conybeare tells us in “Highways and Byways In Cam bridge” bathing was a practice some what frowned on by the academic au thorities. A century or so earlier any student found guilty of it was publicly flogged In the hall of his college and was again flogged on the morrow in the university schools by the proctors. A second offense meant expnlslon from the university. How the Empress Got Out of France After Sedan. As soon as the hot headed citizens of Paris learned in September, 1870, that their emperor, Napoleon III., had sur rendered to the Prussians at Sedan these Parisians rose in a riotous mob and made posthaste for the Tuilerles. They were armed and after royal blood and plunder. The empress bad to flee for her life. Assisted by the Austrian and Italian ministers, she made a hurried flight from the palace, but found the mob ahead of her in the garden; back again and then out by a secret way into a side street, where they entered a carriage. A street gamin recognized the empress here, but the shouting of the mob was so great that the boy’s cry of warning was not heeded. Once the carriage was stopped by a mob, but the party alighted and man aged to escape. Finding themselves near the residence of Dr. Evans, the American dentist, they took refuge there, and the doctor took upon him self the responsibility of Empress Eu genie’s safety. The empress put on a dress belonging to Mrs. Evans and, with Mme. Breton, her friend, was driven by Dr. Evans to the suburbs. Dr. Evans explained that the women were a patient and her attendant whom he was taking to a sanitarium. Two days later the fugitives reached a coast town, whence they escaped to England. Novelty For New Yorkers, “That sunrise effect Is all wrong!” said the stage manager of a New York musical show. “What’s the difference?” replied the scene painter. “Nobody who goes to a musical comedy in New York knows what a sunrise looks like.”—Washing ton Star. Probably: The Orator—I arsk yer. Wot Is this We we 'old so dear? Soon I’ll be lyin’ with me forefathers. The Voice—An’ gJvln' them points at the game too!— London Skctch. Plants That Shoot Arrows. The arrows are crystal needles of oxalate of lime. They are of naicroscop- ic domensions, and they are shot from minute capsule shaped bodies found In the tissues of such plants as the Indian turnip and the Polynesian taro. An extraordinary spectacle may be viewed In the field of the microscope when the "bonds” contained in a drop of taro pulp begin to discharge their arrows. Sometimes only one or two needles and sometimes grou];>s of four to ten were discharged at once, the bomb recoiling as the projectiles left It. It has been suggested that the intense burning and pricking sensa tions experienced In chewing soch plants as those Just mentioned are due to the release and discharge of these crystal arrows when the plant tissues are crushed in the mouth.—Harper’s Weekly. A Fine Distinotion. Sometimes a small boy can draw a fine distinction. Two fishermen of the sportsman type, equipped with all the latest appliances for angling, were walking a mountain road when they met a barefooted boy with a tin can in his hand and a carelessly trimmed branch of a tree slung over his shoal- der. "Hello, sonny!” exclaimed one of the men. “Going fishing?” “No,” drawled the youngster, with only a glance at the splendid ontflts, “I ain’t goin’ fishin’. I’m just goln* down to the crick to ketch some fish.** Alp In the Lungs. In one minute, In a state of rest, the average man takes into his lungs about 48.8 cubic inches of air. In walking he needs 07.0 cubic Inches; In climb ing, 140.3 inches; in riding at a trot, 201.3 cubic inches, and In long dis tance running, 847.7 cubic Inches. An Optical Delusion. Affable Stranger—I beg your par don, but isn’t this Miss Greenleaf? The Lady—No; I am Miss Redpath. A. S.—Ah, excuse me! I must be cof/ or blind.—Boston Transcript Revenge. She—You ask me to marry yoa. Cai yon not see your answer In my faee? He (absently)—Yes—er—er—it’s rerj plain.—Life. Gives Aid To Strikers. Common sense is the genius of out age.—Greeley. Take a good book slowly. Yoa sef mnch finer country in fc mover's on than yon do fium a ^ar windoc To Delinquent Tax Payers KILLTHbCOUCH lANOCUREmulNOS W- , 'mm Sometimes liver, kidneys and bowels seem to go on a strike and refuse to work right. Then you need those r c a- sant little strike-breakers—Dr. Ki 'sj New Life Pills—to give them natural I aid and gently compel proper action. Excellent health soon follows. Try them. 25c at Mebane Drug Co. mk Delinquent tax papers of the town of Mebane will please take “Notice" This is to give you fair warning thf-.t tinless your Town Tax for the > l ar 1910» is paid on or before October 20. h, 1911, I will proceed to collect the same aoeoriing to law. This 9th day of Oct. 1911. Roy Thompson, Town Tax Collector, ivnaMJQiiSS ilDiSCOVEIV 50«&$U)0 TIMiM.BOmirRg AMD AUTHftOII AMD lyUCTROUBliS e(MPAJ^££0 SAr/SFACrO/fy^

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