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Mebane Leader J. a POT, ^Editor aud] Owtur Entered as second class | matter Feb* uary 8, 1909^ at the Post Office at Mebane* N. G*» ander the act of March 18M. Issued Every Thursday Morningr. SUBSCRIPTION: One^Year, - - - $1.00 riix Months, ^ - .50 Three Months, - - .26 idr :payable in advance -«i and Currency, Postal Money Order or^Stamps. CORRESPOND ENCE We wish correspondents in all the earby post offices. Write at ow^. Thursday. May 2, 1912 LIGHT OUT OF A DARK TRAGEDY. Out of the necessarily confused and contradictory stories of the “Titanic” disaster, told by the survivors, there has shone, conspicuously, one reassuring fact, which has shed a softening light upon the unspeakable hor ror of the disaster. Supre’oae among the master motives of this complicated human nature of our are the love of life and the instinct to preser ve it at whatever cost True it is that under certain conditions of iron discipline or the contagi ous passion of the multitude, men have seemed to hold life less dear—and so the roll of recorded heroism has grown with the passing years. When the side of the “Titanic** was torn asunder, the rapid settling of the ship must soon have foretold her doom to every thinking man aboard; and early in the development of the disas ter the terrifying fact was known that two out of every three of that ship’s complement must go down in that ice-covered sea. Yet in all the narratives of those final hours of agony there is practically unanimous testi mony to the noble spirit of chivalry which prevailed. With scarcely an exception the men stood aside and surrendered the one chance of life for women and children, until tne safety of every one of these had been assured. Then, with that calm resignation in the face of certain death which is the mark of tlie highest courage, and to the music of the band (to whose eternal honor be it recorded) the majority awaited the final plunge, or flung themselves in a last vain hope into the dark waters. Let the pessimist who laments the debasing effects of our modern civilization take note of this—the supreme triumph of the man in us over the brute. The blow which proved the “Titanic** the supreme exhibit of our boasted skill and powers, to be after all but a fragile shell, served to demonstrate the eternal strength and the eternal growth of those sublime qualities of heart and mind, which, after all, are the true values and highest glory of our human life. Tb^iSea^Captain I have watched them 5^wave from the crowded decks. As my ship put out to sea, With their smiles and tears their joys and fears. But most in a merry fclee— Two thousand precious human lives, And tbeir care was laid on me! I have watched them wave to the crowded piers As they turned to their native land With a cheer all 'round for the homeward bound. And a tear for the foreign strand, Two thousand precious human lives In the hollow of my hand! And this is the law of the untamed sea. Where never a law is known; Where one may say where the right may lie, ^ Save me, and by word alone: *‘If you bring not back these precious lives, You must not bring back your own! And they haunt our sleep on the mighty deep. And the awful wayes run gray, And no man knows when the pest blows What niget will end the day; But our lives are pledged that bring them home. And the pledge we always pay! r—H. F. T., in New York Herald tem- we’ll Now is the time to get rid of your rheumatism. You can do it by applying Chamberlain’s Liniment and massaging the parts freely at each application. For sale by All Dealers, A correspondent wishes to be in formed where he should address a letter to Hon. W. J. Bryan to make sure of its prompt receipt. We can only reply in a general way: Find out where is being baked the biggest political pie into which an ob trusive Jnose can be poked, and Mr. Bryan will be found close by. Just now we believe that he is meddling especial ly with politics in Florida.—«Va. Pilot. Which Do You See? The pessimist sees the thorns on the roses; the optimist sees the roses on the thorns.—Judge. A Depilatory Barber—‘‘Gettingpretty thin on top, sir. Ever use our Miracle Hairgrow- ine?” The Chair—“Oh no! It wasan’t that that did it,”—Judge. The Demoiih of Swamp. the are mosquitos. As they sting they put deadly malaria germs in the blood. Then follow the icy chills and the fires of fever. The appetite fJies and the strength fails; also malaria often paves the way for deadly typhoid. But Electric Bitters kill and cast out the malaria germs trom the bloo,:!; give a fine appetite and renew your strength “After long suflfering,” wrote Wm. Fretwell, of Lucama, N. C., “three bottles drove all the malaria from my system, and I’ve had good health ever since." Best for all stomach, liver and kidney ills, 50 cts. at Mebane Drug Co. The conclusions of last week finds a rapied readjustment ot losses, from flood and wreck. The losses from the sinking of the “Titanic’’ are said to amount to large figures in Hartford, Conn., insurance companies. The losses by flood in the Mississippi valley are plac2d at $100,000,000, yet such is the general prosperity of the country that the money centers do not show a tremor. Slowness in collections is reported in the cotton districts, «3 might be expected whilst the price of cotton has increased in view of the smaller area to be planted this year. With the usual rains of the season, a large area of the recently submerged and will be long in drying out. This will make it too late in some cases for cotton. General business is growing in the south at a greater rate than trans portation facilities. Car shortages will grow in seriousness and crop move ments may be delayed. Still there is room for much confidence in the outlook Raleigh Times. Rosa Bonheur’s Humble Lover. When asked why she had never mar ried Rosa Bonheur always answered: “Nobody ever fell in love with me. I have n^ver been truly loved.” More than one man, however, really worship ed her. But she Inspired such deep re- Bpect that no man seems to have dared to reveal his feelings to her. There is a curious example of this fact, taken from the humble walks of life. On several occasions Rosa Bonheur had done service for a workingman who throughout his life spent his savings In buying engravings of her principal pictures and photographs of herself. His simple dwelling was a temple to her kindness. He described himself as “the earthworm in love with a Btar.” The person here referred to— B. A. Bautray of Clermont-Ferrand— tells me that Rosa Bonheur once asked him why he was not married, and he replied by asking her the same ques tion. Here was her answer: “Well, sir, it is not because I am an enemy of marriage, but I assure you that I have never had time to consider the subject.” — “Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur.” Paternalism In Groceries. Paternalism with a vengeance is prac ticed in certain New York groceries. It is benevolent paternalism, though. “Ma wants two pounds of sugar,” said a child to a patriarch in the trade. He consulted a calendar on the wall. “I guess you’d better take only a pound today,” he said, “and go kind of slow on that. The week is only half gone, but you have already eaten up three-fourths of your allowance. Tell your mother so.” The child promised to deliver the re port on financial depression. “That is the only way on earth to keep those people from running into debt,” said the grocer. “The system Is common in this neighborhood. I do It at the customers’ request. Every pay day women with spendthrift hus bands and an extravagant disposition of their own deposit enough money with th grocer and butcher to see the family through the week. They in struct us to let no one overdraw the amount, and except in cases where ex tra food is actually needed we stick to our end of the bargain.”—New York Times. Horrors of Bokhara. The terrible deeds that once made Bokhara a byword are now prohibited by the Russian government. Prisoners are not permitted, for instance, to be dragged through the streets by gal loping horses. Nor are they thrown from the top of the high tower called the Minar Katan. This was the usu- all punishment meted out to evildoers In the old days. Watched by thou sands of spectators, the poor wretches were flung from that giddy height on to the flagstones beneath. Bokhara has many chambers of hor rors, unwholesome for western eyes to see and the description of which would certainly be unfit for publica tion. Perhaps the most horrible of these Is a pit where prisoners were tor tured by vermin, which were so nu merous and ravenous that In the ab sence of human prey they were fed on chunks of raw meat.—Wide World Magazine. Disraeli and Goldwin Smith. It may have been partly by suspicion j of my possession of an unpleasant se- I cret that Disraeli was moved to follow j me across the Atlantic and try, as he i did in “Ix)thair,’' to brand me as “a j social sycophant.” IIis liuowledge of | my social character was not great, for I had only once met him in society. His allusion to the “Oxford professor” who was going to the United States was as transparent as if he had useil my name. Had I been in England, where my character was known, I should have let the attack pass, but 1 was in a strange. country, where, made by a man of note, the attack was likely to tell. I therefore gave Disraeli the lie, and neither he nor any of his organs ever ventured to re. peat the calumny.—Goldwin Smith in McClure’s. The Thimble. About 200 years ago a London gold smith called Trotting made and pre sented to the lady of his heart on her birthday anniversary a thimble of gold, beautifully ornamented and chased, accompanied by a note which introduced the little contraption as a “token of my humble esteem which shall protect those delicate, fair and industrious fingers from prick and scar of needle head.” That was the origin of the thimble. The Jews are a small minority of Russia*s population, and all persecution of them by theCzar*s Government is based on the theory of social justice. The Jew, being more intelligent and ambitious than the moujik, must be kept down for the benefit of the moujik majority. According to the Industrial Workers of the World, social justice consists in confiscating all the profits for the wage worker and driving the owner out of business. According to Mr. Baer, social justice consists in the miners* being content with the scale of wages that the divinely appointed operator is inspired to grant. According to Wall street social justice consists in repealing the Sherman Anti- Trust law and letting the direc tors of corporations make such business agreements as they think best. According to the prohibitionist, social justice con sists in restraining everybody from taking a drink. A chief blessedness of intercessory prayer is that we can use it lor those whom we love and care for when we can serve them in no ohter way. Their distance, their very nearness their unbelief, their desperation, may render our other helps—helps of the hand or tongue, of counsel or cheer of warning of the most delicate generality or the friendiest sympathy impossible or futile. Beauty is God’s handwriting, a way side sacrament; welcome it, then, in every fair face, every fai»* sky, every fair flower, and be sure that yet gayer meadows, and yet bluer skies, await thee in the world to come.—Charles Kingsley. Overman Presents As tounding Figures. North Carolina contributes annually in taxes to the federal government to help pay pensions to old soldiers $3,800,- 000 while in return only $600,000 is re turned to the state. This if? $3,200,000 over what the federal government con tributes to North Carolina. He ^aid that in the case of Indiana $4,000,000 in taxes is paid to the federal govcrn- Fate of a Duchess. We have had excellent morals drawn from the substantial waist of the Ve nus of Milo for the admonition of the fashionable woman. But what can we say about the Duchesse de Maza- rin, who (G. Duval tells us in “Shad ows of Old Paris”) “died in 1775 from tight lacing, although she had posed for a statue of Venus?” A Matter of Looks. First Boarding House Keeper—I al ways keep my boarders longer than you do. Second Boarding House Keep er—Oh, I don’t knowl You keep them so thin that they look longer than they really are.—Boston Record. He Got His. Geraldine—You haven’t been to see me since you asked father for my hand. Gerald—No; this is the first time I’ve been able to get about—Hu man Life. All Alike. The following entry appears In the “visitors’ book” of a hotel In Germa ny: “The living here Is good, plain and substantial. So is the waitress.” Helps A Judge In Bad Fix. Justice Eli Cherry, of Gillis Mills, Tenn., was plainly worried. A bad sore on his leg had baffled several doctors and long resisted all remedies. “I thought it was a cancer,” he wrote. “At last I used Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and was completely cured.” Cures barns, boils, ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles 25 cents at Mebane Ding Co. It is a good thing to be ’rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a bet- ment, while $10,000,000 is paid tothe.t f beloved by many tate in pensions. fiends.-Eunpides. A [NICE LINE OF THE PUREST DRUGS Stationary, Paper Perfumes, etc. Mebane Drug Co. F. U WHITE Mgr. Mebane, - - North Carolina YOUR SPRINC SHOES The place to buy tli^'im if you wish style and service is at the ( Id reliable House of J. M. Hendrix & Co. We guarantee to give perfect satisfaction with every purchase. Don^t forget. J. M. Hendrix Sc Co Greensboro, N. C. WANTED 200 CORDS 4 FEET PINE WOOD CUT, WILL PAY 60 CTS. CORD. APPLY TO T. M. Cheek m JUST m The neatest, the nobbiest and best fit ting it is possible for skilled tailors to turn out. We carry everything to' enable a gentleman 16 dress well, and we sell at such remarKable low figures that all can afford it. Don't fail to call on us when in the city. Yours to please, ■T Durham, N. C II! MUS LIndcrw One of the best f eatures of this store has been its lines of white goods. The fact is well established that we sell only the most approved j?arments—the very best that money will buy. For this sale we have the very best there is at the prices, and it is our assurance that there can be m better constructed at the low figures prevailinj? at our special Muslin U nderwear sale. Chas Greensboro, ‘THE WOMAN’S STORE” pHorth Carolina “Fine Millinery” The latest in shades and shapes for your Easter Hats. Moderate Prices. R. W. Bright, The Ladies Store. Mebane N. C. Cn Hi ',1 ■ , '-'I- - and make terms to suit you. EISEy ORGiS! GilRPENTER OROHNS!! WEAVER 0R6AKS !! PLiTNJIM GR6AKS I!! We have a HOUSE FULL of them, too! Organs as low as $25, and as high as $125.- 00. Pianos such as "Starr" Grown Eush and Lane, Weaver and etc. We can please you in PRICE and quality ELLIS-MACHINE & iSIG GG. Burlington, N. C. COTTON & TOBACCO SELLING HIGH. I Have Never seen the Fanners Handling so Much Money. My Sales Saturday Were (7) jobs $575.00 Car “Guilford” light running Buggies. Car “Columbia” top Buggies. Car “Hughes” Buggies and runabouts. Car “Wal ter A. Wood” Mowers-Rakes-Spike-th, and Disk Harrows. Car “John Deere” riding Cultivators, both Shovels and Disks. Nissen-Thornhill and Piedmont Wagons. Syracuse and Lynch- butg Chilled Plows and repairs. Superior and Cardwells Im proved Corn Planters. Dain Hay Presses, Stover Feed Mills, Ohio Cutters, Shellers, Hoes, Forks, Mattocks, Big stock Har ness prices low. More Saddles, Collars, Bridles than in all the stores in town. Best $1 work Bridle in town. 20 years ex perience in buying, and with ready cash to discount all bills enables me to undersell all competitors. (3) large double stores now full no KENTS, nor, heavy expenses to pay out, I ask that you drive to Cardwell’s on the corner for best bargains. “Boone Co, White, Va Dent yellow--Prolific and Hickory King Seed Corn N. S. CARDWELL, THE ALWAYS BUSY STORE. Phone 1-8-3 Burlington. SOBSCH Fill 1HE MHIE LEIKR TNE JEWELS They are pretty to w^ear, 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 FLETCHER Leading Jewelers Durham .... North Carolina S. M MOCKriELD Dealer In Clothing. Shoes And Dry Goois. 1 will sell you goods at an attractive price. Give me an opportunity to con vince you. s. H. HOCKFIELD 226 WEST MAIN ST. DURHAM. N. C % mm
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