Mebane Leader
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PARROT AS GERM CARRIER
Thursday. February 22 1912
ATTACKS SENATOR SIM
MONS.
Governor Kitchin opened his
batteries on Senator Simmons
in Raleigh last Friday nights in
a set speach of som^ length, and
some force. The promulgation,
was an artful attack so adroitly
planed that it evidently carried
weight to the unthinking and per
haps that was the class to whom
Mr. Kitchin made his appeal.
Mr. Kitchin is a logician of
more than usual force, and
knows the value of the play on
words quite well but he layed
too much stress upon certain
acts of Mr. Simmons in Congress,
a stress that sought to color
Senator Simmons acts to suit Mr
Kitchin’s caprice and selfish
ends. The ink had hardly be
come dry upon Mr. Kitchin
Phillipic before there was a thir
teen inch morter gun growled its
crushing answer from Senator
Simmons and sent a shell loaded
with forceful facts to burst with
all the powerful energy of un-
unanswerable truth. >Ir. Kitchins
open speech ignors the exist-
ance of all the other candidates,
apparantly he does not care to
trihe time with them.
Physician Finds the Bird I* Subjsct
to Disease Human Beings
May Contract.
Better not keep a parrot A lAysl-
clan has discovered that Wrda of this
species are subject to a disease called
psfttacoM, which Is peculiarly con
tagious, and may easily be contracted
by human beings. As a germ carrier,
in fact, the parrot is unrivaled.
Now the OflBce Window is not p»P*
ticularly afraid of germs. They may
be quite as bad, quite as dangeroua,
as they are represented.. But what !•
the use of trying to get away from
them? We cannot eat, drink or
breathe without taking in germs. We
associate with them from morning till
night. They are bound to work their
will with us anyway—so we may a»
well Ignore them and have as good a
tiuio as we can, before they get u*.
But the Office Window Is perfectly
willing to take advantage of the
germs as an ally against the parroL
This preposterous bird has nothing
to recommend him except his unlike-
ness to the bird species. He does not
sing, but squawks. He is regaMed
as worthless unless he can “talk,’*
a. kind of harsh resemblance to hu
man speech. He Is neither bird nor
human; he is a disorderly episode in
creation. He grates on the poetic
soul. He is a nuisance.—New Yorl
MalL
The acquital of Baker Bryan
of Newbern of the charge of
murder last Saturday was one
among the many flagrant mis
carriages of jastice that has
shamed the fair name of our
state. The murder was one
among the most wilful and de
liberate. Not a shadow of an
excuse existed for the killing
except that a bad man deliber
ately committed a foul crime.
Murder continues and mur
derers are continually being
turned loose. The lawyers who
have framed our laws, have made
it quite impossible to secure a
jury that will hang a man, if
the man has enough to pay for
the selection of the right jury.
Spring time will soon be here,
and so will the time to organize
a ladies Civic League, Is there
no one who will undertake this
laudable work? It is no trouble
to ascertain the necessity for it.
Only glance around Mebane. We
should be so glad to be able to
chronical some steps that were
being taken looking to the or
ganization of a Civic League.
THAT OLD-FASHIONED LADY
Sweet Picture Tliat Some of Us Are
Privileged to Carry In Our
Memories.
Everybo.ly loved that old-fashioned
lady. And I find almost everyone past
forty has, at the back of his mind,
vivid impressions regarding her and
the social life of which she wa* the
center. One remembers the atmo
sphere of that day as one remembers
the blush roses and spicy pinks of old
gardens. Even yet there are gardens
where blush roses grow, and I know
some women not yet old, and a few
young girls, whose mere presence
serves today to reproduce that at
mosphere. She was dauntless and
Bweet, that old-fashioned Lady; witty
but tender; as notable a housewife
as a hostess; full of gentle concern
or others, with a mind ever at lelfr
ure for their affairs, and a heart
wh^e sympathy was Instantaneous In
eir service. She stimulated and she
soothed. Fine, complicated and Inter-
esting as the old lace and &Q6I7
wrought gold she delighted to wear,
she was a very precious piece of por-
ce ain. The brilliant, soft daguerreo-
ype that has preserved her early like
ness for us did not Idealize her be
yond her Just due. Perhaps the in-
Umate secret of her influence was the
preasion she gave of one whose
eart is fixed, one whom the world
no longer harm.—The Atlantic.
Pair of Mules for Sale
I am offering a pair of good heavy
draft or farm mules for sale. Weight
about 1150 each
Walter S Crawford
Mebane N C
Shocking Sounds
in the earth are sometimes heard be
fore a terrible easthquake, that warn
of the coming peril. Nature,s warn
ings are kind. That dull pain or ache
in the^back warns you the Kidneys
need attention if you would escape
those danf'^iou ma-ladies, Dropsy,
Diabetes or ^right’s disease. Take
Electric Bitters at once and see back
ache fly and your best feelings return
“My son received great benefit from
their use for kidney j»nd bladder trou
ble." writes Peter Bondy, South Rock-
wood, Mich. ‘It is certainly a great
kidney medicine. “ Try it. 50 cents at
Mebane Druz Co.
Remains of George Whitefleld.
Rev. Silvester Horne, who desires to
have the ’■emalns of Oeorge Whlte-
fleld brought from America and buried
In the Chapel In Totteuhan Court
road which bears his name, may not
know that a portinn of those remains
has already done a double jotimey
across the Atlantia Whitefleld died
of asthma September 80, 1770, whila
on a preaching tour In America, and
was burled, by his own desire, in a
vault beneath the Presbyterian church
at Newburyport Fourteen years aft
er his death the cofBo was opened,
when the body was found perfect In
1901 it was opened again, when “the
flesh was gone, but the gown, cassock
and bands remained." Shortly after
ward a bone of the right arm was
stolen by an admirer and sent to Eng
land, Protest was made, and the
bone was restored to Newburyport In
1837.—London Chronicle.
He Won’t Limp Now
No more limping for Tom Moo r of
Cochran, Ga., I had a bad sore on my
instep that nothing seemed to help till
I used Bucklen's Arnica Salve,” he
writes “but this wonderful healer
soon cured me.” Heals old, running
sore, ulcers, boils, burns, cuts, bruis-
e§, eczema or piles. Try it. Only 25
cents at Mebane Drug Co.
Style In Mourning.
“Spectacular moui'nlng is not so
popular as ’ was some years ago,"
said the manager of a city department
store in answer to an Inquiry on that
subjecl. “There is still a large bust-
ness (*one In all kinds of mourning
goods, bat either tne somber period
has grown shorter or many bereaved
persons preter not to be conspicuous
because of their sorrows, for the sale
of mourLiLi goods has fallen oS. in
the stationery department there seems
to be no cbangj—In fact, the demand
for black bordered cards and writing
paper h.as increased.*’ To illustrate
the quality of some "show mourning"
he said: “At a stationery establish*
ment a sLort time ago a woman in
deepest black asked to see samples
of dinner dance cards. She selected
one and ordered one hundred to be
done on black bordered cards, com
promising with her conscience by
suggesting that the border be not too
heavy.”
THE McADOO
A most delightful
home in Greensboro
N. C. for the trave
ler.
STRICTLY FIRST.
GLASS IN APPOINT
MENT.
EXCELLENT SERVICE
Easy of access to railway
station
F. NASH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
PRACTIGIN ALL COURTS
HILLSBORO, rvjj C.
BUDDHIST CREMATION.
Yhe Funeral Pyre and the Dispositleil
of the Ashes.
A Buddhist cremation is ft strang*
and uncanny event, and it is not often
that a foreigner is given to witness
one. I saw some of the preliminary
ceremonies at a temple in south China,
but found myself apparently becoming
pensona non grata as the time for the
cremation proper approached and did
not care enough about seeing it to in
trude. I have since heard and read
several descriptions of the grewsome
ceremony.
The priests are dressed in white sack
cloth, similar to that worn by the
mourners at the funerals of. the lay
men, and their brows are bound with
white bandages. The corpse, dressed
In a cowl and with the hands fixed In
an attitude of prayer, is placed in a
sitting position in a bamboo chair and
carried to the funeral pyre by som« of
his fellow monks, all the other monks
of the monastery following In a dou
ble line. As the procession advances
the walls of the monastery echo with
the chanting of prayers and the tin
kling of cymbals.
When the pyre is reached the bearers
place the corpse upon it, and the fag
ots are kindled by the head priest,
and while the flames are mounting the
others prostrate themselves in obei
sance to the ashes of their departed
brother. When the flre is burned out
the attendants, collect the charred
bones and place them in a cinerary
urn, which is often deposited In a
small shrine within the precincts of
the monastery, to remain there untU
the ninth day of the ninth month,
when the ashes are sewed up in a bag
of red cloth and thrown into a sort of
ossuary or monastery mausoleum.—
Lewis B. Freeman In Los Angeles
Times.
THE FIRST SOAP.
According to Plioyf It Was In Use
Among the Gauls.
Who invented soap? According to
Pliny, soap was an Invention of the
Gauls, who used It for giving a bright
hue to the hair. He also states that
It was employed by the Germans
both as a medicinal and as a cleansing
agent, two kinds being used—hard and
soft There Is reason to believe that
it was introduced into Germany by the
Romans, though on this point there is
eome difference of opinion.
Homer tells us in the “Odyssey” that
Nauslcaa, daughter of Alclnous, king
of the Phaeclans, and her attendants
washed clothes by treading upon
them with their feet in pits of water,
80 tiiat apparently she and her serv
ants were unactjualnted with the use
of soap.
The fact that soap was obtainable
by boiling together oily or fatty sub
stances and alkalis was known at an
early period of history, but it must
be home in mind that the substance
referred to in the Old Testament and
translated “soap” (Jeremiah 11, 22,
“For though thou wash thee with
niter—properly, natrou—soda.—and take
thee much soap,” and Malachl iv, 2,
“For he is like a refiner’s fire and
like fuller’s soap”) refer to the alkali
itself and not to the substances pre
pared from oily bodies and these alka
line matters.
The French word for soap (savon)
Is supposed to have been derived
from the fact of its having been manu
factured at Savona, near Genoa.
The manufacture of soap began in
London in 1524, before which time It
was supplied by Bristol at a penny
per pound- A duty was imposed on
soap in 1711, but after several reduc
tions was totally repealed in 1853.—
—London Journal.
A NICE UNE OF THE
I
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DRVGS
Stationary, Paper, Perfumes^ etc,
Mebane Drug Co.
F. L. VS’HITE Mgr.
Mebane, - - North Carolina
WHEN
You are thinking of the best place to pur
chase anything in ladies dressing material, in
Coat Sui^ from substanialy made for wear
np to the finest creation, the best the most
artistic lady tailors can produce, or wraps
for comfort, the swellest affairs worn by so-
cieties elite, or any Kind of ladies dress good
mater al, then call, or write to us. Remem
ber we pay your railroad fare from any point
East of Haw River to Durham when you pur
chase goods to amount of 515, or more.
Ellis-Stone, & Co.
Stores
Durham^ N. C.
Greensboro
Washington Monument Bent by Heat.
The towering Washington monu
ment, solid as it is, cannot resist the
heat of the sun poured on its southern
side on a midsummer’s day without a
slight bending of the gigantic shaft,
which is rendered perceptible by
means of a copper wire 174 feet long
hanging in the center of the structure
and carrying a plummet suspended In
a vessel of water. At noon in symmer
the apex of the monument, 550 feet
above the ground, is shifted by ex
pansion of the stone a few hundredths
of an inch toward the north. High
winds cause perceptible motions of the
plummet, and In still weather delicate
Vibrations of the crust of the earth
otherwise unperceived are registered
by it
Blood Thicker Than Some Water.
“Blood is thicker than water”—
though not much thicker—and not so
thick as sea water. The water of the
ocean contains thirty-five parts of sa
line material a thousand, while the
vital fluid of the human body contains |
but seven parts a thousand or one-
fifth as much. In the*human body
each of its myriads of cells is bathed
with this seven-tenths per cent saline
fluid.—Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette.
SEIIEWTY-FiyE Cfli PS OF W:OD
We have|sev6nty-five cords of two
foot wood for sale at
TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY GENTS A CORO
This wood was cut last winter and
is well seasoned. Give your orders
to W. C. CLARK
Mebane Land& Imp. Co.
Mebane N. C.
24 PICTURES FOR ONLY 250.
Just Think Of It
cheaper than>tealing them, if you never get caught. Monday Dec.
llth I will open penny Photos and Po Card Studio over the Bank.
Its only a short time until Christmas so if you care for any Photos
of any kind Don’t wait, come early and avoid rush. Pictures must
be paid for at time of sitting.
Yours for busidesa,
L D STEVENS,
BOTOGRAPHEa
New Store
New stock of the very best in a choice line
of dry goods,'’and notions* A full sto^k of
fresh family groceiies constantly on ha id.
I trust you will favor me we with a share at
least of your trade. I shall do my best al
ways to merit your trade. Give me a cal.
Feipectfully,
w. T. Bobbitt
Mebane N. C.
THE CLOTHING
That will keep you warm and look well
iSOMETHING NICE AND NOBBY
Hats and Gloves to match. A full line
of the best Underwear. Every thing
sold right. See
Snsed-Markliam Taylor
Company,
Durham, - North Carolina
j
and make terms to suit you.
EISEY ORIiiSl
C/liPfNTEIi CfiEJlKS!!
WEAVER ORGANS !!
PUTNAM 0R6ANS !!!
We have a HOUSE
FULL of them, too!
Organs as low as $25,
and as high as $125.-
00.
Pianos such as “Starr”
Grown Bush ^nilLane,
Weaver and etc.
We can please you
n PRICE and quality
ELU»IE > MB EO.
Burlington, N. C.
Th« Comeback.
“You used to say,” she complained,
“that you counted that day lost when j
you did not hoar the sound of my
voice.”
“Yes, I know,” he replied, “and 1
shall never cease to long for those dear
lost days.”—Ijdndon Answers.
INSURANCE!
I carry a full line o Ck)mpanies, including
F, f, Acciden and health Insurance.
[n fact, anything in the Insurance line.
When in need of any kind of Insurance see
‘"m Rates reasnable
S. G. MORGAN
. Identification.
“I shall try to leave footprints on th«
sands of time,” said the man who l»
earnest, but not orljflnal.
"Very good,” replied the absontmlnd-
ed crlmlnoloRlflt, “but thum'j prints are 1
now considered wore ro ilable.”--Ex-
change.
The beautiful Is beauty seen wltk
tlie eye of the soul.—Joubert
Here Is a message of hope and good
cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin, Bcone
Mill, Va., who is the mother of eight
een children. Mrs. Martin was cured
of stomach trouble and constipation by
Chamberlain’s Tablets after live years
of suffering, and nowrecom mends
these tablets to the public. Sold by all
Dealers,
S. M HOCKriELD
Dealer In Clothing. Shoes And Dry Goods.
1 will sell you goods at an attractive
price. Give me an opportunity to con
vince you.
s. H. HOCKFIELD
THE JEWELS
They are pretty to wear, but people of
' good breeding and refinement want the best
and the most artistic. They want something
pure, something reliable, ALWAYS go to a
house you can depend upon, to get pure Sil
ver, pure Gold and rare Jewels in Diamonds
and other precious stones, in fact to
SNIDER-WILCOX
AND PLETCHER
Leading Jewelers
226 WEST MAIN ST.
DURHAM. N. C.
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John H. VERNON
AnORNEY AND COUNSLOR AT
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Tebphone Office No. 65
Residence No. 337
Biirlindton N. C.