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i t ia a source of much pleasure to us to note how rapidly Mebane
i. iviceo market isgrowmg, and how much our efforts to please the
,ii iners Iktg succeeded. We keep the prices of tobacco pushed up to
top notch, and do all we can to see you have the best possible
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On our Warehouse floors guarantees to all a liberal and fair deal
i in 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-
:ii)los you to save time, money and the wear on your team by bring-
■ng your tobacco here.
BRING YOUR lOBAGCO RIGHT ALONG TO OS.
Piedmont Warehouse
J. N. WARREN and MURRAY FERGUSON
Proprietors.
Mebane, - - - North Carolina.
ust The Hat
For you is what I have, but I have a lot of
thpm, and they are all pretty and attract
ive. Come and let me select you a hat be-
c( niing your complexion and beauty. I
always strive to please.
OF
Miss Margaret Oegg
Graham, N. C.
We Make
a leader of SHEBWIM'WlLLIAIHS
PAIMTS because they represent
the best paint value on the
market.
For durability," spreading
capacity, beauty, easy working
qualities, and economy n o
better paints can be made.
They come in but one
quality—-the best. They are
economical, always.
Ask for .Lolor cards.
IF rOO ARE GOINC 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^
I elegant and up-to-date Steamers between Norfolk and
: Baltimore.
: EQUIPPED WITH WiRELESS-TELEPHONE IN EACH ROOM. DELICIOUS MEAL CN
BOARD - EVERYTHING FOR COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE
6:15 PM
7:15 PM
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.
Steamers Lv. Norfolk (Jackson St)
“ Lv. Old Point Comfort
“ Ar. Baltimore
ITHE GOODNESS OF GOOD
FURNITURE
ne to p aint is now. The place to buy your
V is at
r
yson-Malone
Hardware Co.
DID YOU SEE
OUR MALEARLE COOKING
last week. We had a
demonstration in our
store and showed what
it could do. It isscien-
ti"^ caly built and will
last a life time. It is a
great Range. Call at
ble-Bra dsliav/, Com pay
BurUngton, N. C.
Graham,
is distinctly shown in our new stock
of the latest style of most artistic de
signs. Every piece possesses that per
fect finish which is only given to the
most substantial and thoroughly dur
able line of goods If you need a new
set for your dining room, parlor, etc.,
we assure you that it will be impos
sible for you to be as well well suited
at any store in town as is now offered
Green McClure
Furniture Co.
North Carolina
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HAN DOME INTERIOKS.
ran finished almost like magic when
our null work is used. In l ardly any
time a bare room can be converted
into an attractive apartment or office,
by the use of our paneh'ng columns,
arches, fret work, etc. See us before
c^*mpl»*tinfir your plans. There are
ideag galore here. Many to be saved
too.
NELSON-COOPER LUMBER COMPANY
Mebane, N. C.
MYSTERIOUS MEKRAN.
A Deseltft# Land, D*tiooated by Nature
and 8hunn«d by Man.
"A mysterious veil has always hunir
over the land of Mekran,” says the
Loiidon Times. “Mekran is the name
given to the long coastal region
sti-etehing almost from the Indus to
the entrance to the Persian gulf. Sail
ors have coasted along its white shores
from time immemorial, but few In
modern days have ever penetrated the
ranges of hUls which lie beyond. The
greater part of Meklan is desolate and
forsaken, a land desiccated by nature
and shunned by man. The few tribes
which linger there are the Jetsam of
history, stray wreckage which has
drifted Into this obscure comer of the
w’orld in the backwash of great events.
It is even believed that the Dravldians
passed through Mekran on their way
to southern India and left stragglers,
whose descendants have dwelt there
ever since. There are patches of Mon
gols from the days of Jenghiz Khan;
colonels of half breed Arabs from the
time when an Arab dynasty held Sind;
unmistakable Rajputs, who were there
before Alexander; African negroes, the
offshoots of medieval slavery, and
traces of stli! older peoples whose
origins are lost in the mists of time.
“Yet Mekran cannot always have
been either so dry or so deserted.
Many of hills are closely covered
with little stone houses, mostly square
at the base, narrowing upward like
tnjncated pyramids, and with dome
shaped interiors. They are tombs, and
among the rubbish found within them
are fragments of light green pottery
of fine quality, which no one seems
able to identify. Then there are vast
masonry dams, obviously built to catch
the water in the hills, just as engl*
neers are making dams In the Indian
ghauts to-day.
“Sometimes the hills are terraced
for cultivation, after the fashion of
hills in southern Japan and elsewhere,
only in Mekran the terraces are dry
and bare, and not even a blade of
grass remains. The crumbling ruins
of whole cities, the very names of
which are forgotten, lie concealed be
tween the serrated ridges.”
STAGE REALISM.
FEATHERED POLICE.
Birds Do a Wonderful Amount of
Work For tho Farnfwr.
Birds work more in conjuncUea with
man to help him than does any other
form of outdoor life, according to an
article in Success Magazine. They
police the earth and air, and wlthont
their services the farmer woukl be
helpless. Larks, wrens and thrashes
search the ground for grubs and In
sects. The food of the meadow lark
consists of 75 per cent of Injurious
insects and 12 per cent of weed seed,
showing it to be a bird of great eco
nomic valne. Sparrows, finches and
quail eat a large amount of weed seed.
Practically all the food of the tree
sparrow consists of seed. Examina
tions by Professor F. E. L. Beal of the
biological survey of the department of
agriculture show that a single
sparrow will eat a quarter of an oance
of weed seed dqjly. In a state the
size of Iowa tree sparrows alone will
consume more than 800 tons of weed
seed annually. This, with the work
of other seed eating birds, saves the
farmer an immense amount of work.
Nuthatches and chickadees scan
every part of the tninks and limbs of
trees for Insect eggs. lu a day's time
a chickadee has been known to eat
hundreds of insect eggs and worms
that are very harmful to our tvees
and vegetables. Warblers and vireos
hunt the leaves and buds for moths
and millers. Flycatchers, swallows and
night hawks are busy day and night
catching flies that bother man and
beast Hawks and owls are working
silently in daylight and darkness to
catch moles, mice, gophers and eqtiir'
r^.
Insulted.
A traveler relates a story lllnstratlTe
of life in Spain. Alighting at the ioor
of an inn. a man extended his hand,
and, naturally supposing him to 1M a
porter, the traveler offered him bis va
lise.
Vhe man stepped back, tossed his
head and frowned scornfully.
“Do you take me for a porter?” he
demanded. “I would have you under
stand that I am no porter."
“Indeed!” said the traveler apologet
ically. “Then may I ask. senor, what
you are?”
“I am a beggar, sir, and asked yoa
for alms!”
Making Suro.
An electric wire had fallea under its
heavy weight of snow. The lineaeo
found a crowd around the grounded
copper and an inquisitive Irishman
lifting one end from the ground.
“Man, alive, don’t yoa know what
a risk you’re takingt That might be
a live wire!” he ejaculated.
“Sure an’ Oi thought of that meseif,
an’ 01 flit of the wire good before 01
picked it up at ail.”—Everybody’s.
Making Him Happy.
Marks— I know your wife didn’t like
it becunse you took me home unex
pectedly to dinner last night. Packs—
Nonsense! Why, you hadn’t been
gone two minutes before she remaric-
ed that she was glad it was no one
jdlae but yoa—Boston Transcript
A Qifted Barber.
**The barber told me a very Interest
ing story as he shaved me.”
“Indeed?”
“Yes, and also Illustrated it with
cits.”—Washington Herald.
The usual fortune of complaint is to
excite contempt more than pity.—
Johnson.
Clara Morris' Study of a Victim of
Hoart Di»oas«.
No actress ever surpassed Clara Mor
ris In the care with which she studied
tor a part. W^hen she was studying
the part of Cora in “Article 47” she
Visited an insane asylum in order to
learn the signs of insanity. Cora was
not only insane, but she was disfig
ured by a hideous scar as well. Miss
Morris spent weeks in trying to se
cure a correct representation, and one
iay she saw in a street car a woman
who had exactly that kind of disfigure
ment. She studied it and reproduced
it but her kindness of heart shrank
from reproducing it In such fashion
that the sufferer might recognize it if
she ever saw the play. So she work
ed over It until she made enough al
terations to feei certain that tio one,
not even the owner of the original
8car^ could ever suspect the imitation.
When she was studying the part of
Miss Moulton, M'ho was to die of heart
disease, she fisited a specialist who
had a numb^ of patients suffering
from that trouble. He showed her
one of his patients and then, to her
surprise and horror, ran the suffwer
up a flight of stairs that Miss Morris
might see the symptoms as produced
after an excitement of the heart. Miss
Morris was filled with pain and pity.
She made the poor patient a present
of a bank bill as she was leaving.
The woman accepted it and then as
she was stuffing it Uito her .glove
caught sight of the figure on the’note.
The sise was so large that it brought
on a recurrence of all the symptoms—
the starting eyes, the gasping breath,
the widening nostrils. This time the
heart excitement was caused J>7 Joy,
not pain, but Miss Morris was so over-
2ome with horror and sympathy that
she hurriedly left the house.-Ladles’
Home Journal.
HIS FIRST WIG.
John D. Rookofoller Was Timid About
Wearing It In Public.
When Jehn D. Rockefeller first
donned a wig he was apparently some
what timid about showing himself
with it in public. H. M. Briggs, who
was for a number of years very close
ly connected with Mr. Rockefeller as
his personal bodyguard, writes In the
Amerlean Magazine*of the oil king’s
debut in his new hirsute adornment:
“One morning Mr. Rockefeller came
to church In a wig for the first time.
As he arrived some time before the
services very, few were present. Dr.
Eaton, the pastor of the church, laugh
ingly said, ‘Mr. Rockefeller, we love
you with or without it’ I went with
him into the Sunday school, and we
passed a reporter, who did not recog-
niae him. I told Mr. Rockefeller of
this, and he said, ‘You surprise me.’
He Inquired If there was a mirror in
the church, and I took him Into Dr.
Eaton’s oAce. Be stood in front of
the glass, and, finally getting It ad
justed, he asked me if It looked all
right. I asked him if It was cemfort-
able. 1 really did think the wig made
a great improvement in his appear
ance. He said that it was going to be
quite an ordeal to enter the church for
the service. I said, THr. Rockefeller,
you have gone through worse.’ He
shrugged his shoulders, and we passed
Into the church together, if his pres
ence on previous occasions never fail
ed to attract attention the stir that
followed hte entrance on this particu
lar morning must be left to the imagi
nation. After the service, when the
‘ordeal’ was ovw, he seemed as tic
kled with his wig as a boy with a new
pair of red topped boots.”
Pirate’s Coins.
The doubloon, that famous coin of
romance, is still in circulation. The
Isabella doubloon, worth $5, still re
mains current in Cuba. Tlie doubloon
is so called because when Srat coined
it was double the value of a pistole—
that is, It was worth $8. The name
was given later to a double doubloon
current in the West Indies. Pieces of
eight, with which every reader of
“Robinson Crusoe” is familiar, are also
in circulation. They are simply Span
ish dollars of eight reals. A doubloon
dated 1787—there are said to l>e only
six of that date in existence—sold a
year or six ago for $6,200.—New York
Press.
A Condition, Not a Theory.
A sociologist in conversation with a
practical person from the middle west
concerning the labor proWem in her
part of the countrj’ thereby learned the
lesson of the situation.
“Are there many out of work?*'
he asked.
The lady admitted that there were
quite a number.
“What," said he then, “do the nn
employed do?”
“Nothing,” sahl the lady. “That’s
the trouble.”—Youth’s Companion.
His Only Hope.
A lawyer of New Orleans tells this
Story: An old negro was brought up
before the judge charged with chick
en stealing, and when the usual ques
tion was propounded, “Ouilty or not
guilty?” he said, “I don’t know^, boss;
I jest throw myself on the ignorance
the court.”—Case and Comment.
Her Title.
**He married her fMr her title.”
“You mean the other way about,
don*t you?”
' “No; her title to a lot of valuable
leal estate.”—Boston Transcript.
A Pretzel.
“Paw, whafs a pretzel?*'
“A cracker with cramps, my son
Now go St. Joseph Ne'
Press.
“There could be no better medicine
than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
My children were all sick with whoop
ing c^ugh. One of them was in bed,
had a high fever and was eou^^hing up
blood. Our doctor gave them Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy and the first
dose eased them, and three bottles
cured them,” says Mrs. R, A. Donakl-
son, of Lexington, Miss. For sale by
All Dealers.
Z. T. HADLEY
OPTOMETRIST
Eyes, Examined and glas. os
fittei
f Oraham* N. C.
DEFfED THE COMMODORE.
Pinkham Was Insubordinate, but He
Saved Vessel and Grew.
Reuben Pinkham, a native of Nan
tucket, made his first ttip as third lieu
tenant on the ship Potomac, which
crossed the north Pacific, a region lit
tle known to naval vessels in the early
thirties. Pinkham had been on sev
eral whaling voyages and was famil
iar with those waters. The author of
“The Island of Nantucket” says that
one day, near sunset, he had the
watch, while the commodore was pac
ing up and down the deck.
Suddenly Pinkham gave the order,
"Man the weather braces r
“What’s that for?” aake^ '&e com
modore.
“We shall hare wind te a moment”
The commodOTe weol to the lee rail
and soamied the sea and sky. “I see
no signs of wlndt” he returned. “Let
the men leave the braces.”
The crew dropped the ropes.
“Keep hold of the braees, ev^ man
of you!*’ called out Piakham, and the
men resumed their grasp. The com
modore flushed with anger and ex
claimed in peremptory tones:
“Let the men leave the braces!” and
again the braces were dropped.
“Don’t any of you dare to drop the
ropes!” shouted Pinkham, shaking his
trumpet at the crew, who once more
took hold. Just then the wind dropped
entirely; .not a breath stirred.
“Taut taut! Haul, all of you!” call
ed Pinkham, and the ponderous yards
swung to reversed position. The wind
came out of the opposite quarter and
struck the ship like a sledge hammer.
The vessel staggered, shook the spray
from her bows and dashed ahead. The
commodore disappeared Inte his cabin
without saying a wori.
Presently he sent the flnt Ileoteoant
to relieve PIskham, leqneatlns to see
the latter Immediately. When Pink
ham entered the cabin the cHnmod(x«
said:
“I consider that I am indebted to you
for all of our lives, but I will tell yoa
frankly if that wind hadn’t come I
should have put you in iroos Id two
minutes.”
FEES FOB ITS PUSHES.
San Salvador Usee a Live Voloano as
a Llghthoussb
The republic of Sen Salvador is the
only govemmeaiC on terth that collects
lighthouse fees on account of a volca
no that It owns &nd without tke (light
est cost of upkeep..
The volcanic beacon Is about eight
miles inland from the port of Acajutia,
and Its pillar of cloud by day azMl Its
fire sky by night are visible for many
miles out at sea. It bursts forth every
seven minutes and Is just as accurate,
as any revolving light that wiaaa;
UMiriners of danger In any part of the
world.
This volcano has been beeping up
this seven minute series of eruptions
even since anfr one can remember. It
is a favorite amuseixMnt of visitors to
sit by the bevr dviing the hmy 'after
noons and, watch in h*sdt to time the
eruptions till they tire of the occupa-
tlon and fall asleep. Mo one has ever
caught the volcano m^ppiae, bewever.
Every veaeel that puts In at Aoajutla
has to pay Its lighthouse lee. There
is no other lighthouse than the vol
cano, but that Is a suiBMsnt escuse for
the government of Salvador to make
a charge for Its wen ices. The explo
sions that aceompMi^ the eroptlons
sound 1^ detonations of heavy
charge oi dynamite, bu(| iortunately
they are not soiSelent sbakse the
ground perceptibly move thim about a
mile or two from the sommlt of the
crater.—Peafson’s Weekly.
The Fountain at the Oerner.
Beranger Is best known for his bac
chanalian soBgs. One nigkt he was
at supper with Domas the ^er. The
younger Dumas, who was present,
was passing through his college coarse
and at that period was exhibiting
those characteristics whkh unfortu
nately developed in later Ufa Notic
ing that Beranger bad drunk only wa
ter, he somewhat Indiscreetly asked,
"Where do you obtain, M. Granger,
all the wine which we find In your
songs?**
The poet’s reply was, •’Prom the
fountain at the comer, my boy, and
you would do well to make that th«
source of your inspiration.”
Invlnolbls Logio.
Donald (whe is seeing his mere
perous cousin off by the train)—¥•
michi like tae leave me a bob or twa
tae drink ye a safe journey, WuJlle.
Wullie (felling regret)—Man, I canna.
A’ my spare shullin’s 1 gle tae my auid
mither. Donald—That’s strange, be
cause yer mither told me ye never gle
her onythlng. Wullie—Weel, If I dinna
gle my auld mither onythlng, what
sort o’ chance dae ye think you’ve got?
—Lond(Mi Punoh.
A Q0mmt Retlef.
“Qee, ain’t It a great reUef when
you’ve been suffering from a toothache
to summon up your courage and go to
a dentist and have ft over wtthf’
*1 guess so. Did the dentist relieve
you?**
“You betl He wasn't Inl”—Toledo
Blade.
Too Low Down.
“Why don’t yeu name your male.
Uncle Jacksonf’ ,
“Ain’t no ^me ornery ’nough to fit
dls mewl, suh.”—Buffalo Express.
Dangerous Moonlight.
Moonlight moat intense sometimes
causes sore eyes in ^ba, and the na
tives navigate and perambolat4>
ombrella and paraluna.
Starts Much Trouble.
If all people knew that neglect of
constipation would result in severe in
digestion, yellow jaundice or virulent
liver trouble they would soon lake Dr.
Kin>?’8 New Life Pills, and end it Its
the only safe way. Best for bilious
ness, headache, dyspepsia, chills and
debility. 25c at Mebane Drug Co,