MEBANE
ADER
“AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE telN.”
Vol 3
MEBANE, N. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7 1912
NO 41
PtBSOHAL AND UJGAL BR EPS
people who come and go
Item.^ of interest Gathered by
'Jur Reoorter
Thomas Whitefield is at homo for a
t’fW liay.
Miss Sudie Cook is visiting relatives
at Hurdle Mills.
Mr. O. Pickard was a Mebane
yisitin- Sunday.
If you are hurt about the way the
primary went, time will heal it.
Louise Slack of Greensboro
spcr.t a while in Mebane Sunday.
' Mr.^. Sallie Cooper of Carr is spend
in^ sMne time with Mrs. J. N. Warren.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fowler of
r.ret Mflicro spent the day Sunday in
Mobane.
Misd Fannie Ferguson of Danville
Va.. visiting at the home of Mr.
j. \V. Hudson.
Miss Margie Scott has returned home
irv'in Thomasville where she has been
vibitintr Mrs. H. W. Bason.
:\lr^. Booker of Durham and Miss
Fi .'Sle Corbett, of Corbett, visited Mrs.
\V. Y. Malone the past week.
Miss Ida Poteat, head of the Art
Dopaitment at Meredith College at
Raleigh is visiting Mrs, F. L. Mebane
Mrs. H VV. Bason of Thomasville is
spending a week in Mebane while Mr.
Brison is on a business trip to Chicago.
There were some tremendeous sur
prises in the vote cast in the general
election. Now really want you sup-
rised?
{\'e received a resolution of respect
from Friendship Council No. 51 for the
death of Classie Covington, but too
iate to liavo it appear in this weeks
Leader, It will appear in next weeks
paper.
Buster Brown resolutions will all
ways bo found senseable reading in
Holmes-Warren Co. advertisment. He
says pricos tumble, but quality never
falls. Buster thinks a good deal be
fore resolves.
Misses Mojrow-Bason and Green
change their advertisement in this
-weeks Leader, and are directing at
tention to some very pretty hats at a
moderate price. Fall line of the most
stylish millinery.
Weather condition in North Carolina
on election day were ideal. It seemed
much like Indian Summer. If the same
conditions prevailed over the entire
country there will likely be a tremend
eous vote polled,
W. A. Slater and company can furn
ish you with the most stylish and np-to
date clothing, in any kesirable color.
They carry a large stock of gents fur
nishing, hats, and everything to wear.
They will treat you right in price.
A fourth rate politician who has a
hankerin?? after office can do much to
spoil his future chances by his par-
tizenship. A voter may have a mighty
poor show ;n this wurld, but some how
.»r other thev have fairly good memories.
Dress well and the world applauds
you, dress shabby, and it lets you
itloiie, wear good clothes, and the girls
bniilu at you, wear bad ones and your
crcdit is gone. The way to keep in
touch with society elite is to all ways
purchase what you wear from that tact
full, tast full, and clever firm of Prit
chard, Bright and Co. of Durham.
Snider, Fletcher, Wilcox and company
keep the 1 irgest and best assorted
stock of first class jewelry to be found
in Durham, or any nearby city. They
carry a line especially suithd for the
selection ot wedding presents, holliday,
or other gift. You can make your
purchase from them with the utmost
coiilidence of getting strictly reliable
goods,
The election is oyer, but we can keep
up a steafly ca.ivas for Mebane. Let
us see that she gets a great majority.
Mebane is not grown yet, there is
much that may be done to keep her
growing. Make it a point to do what
you can to locate every good citizen
here. It takes men and money to
build a town. We can get both if we
go after them. What have become of
the Young Mens Business Club?
The Agony is over.
The political agony is now over,
t lose men who have been selected, by
County, State and Nation to discharge
their several duties will be all right.
Thank Ottering Service
On next Sunday evening Nov. 10th,
1912 at 7:30 P. M. Mission Band will
render a Thank Offering Service in the
Baptist church.
The program will consist of music
and recitations and a short sketch of
the Sunbeam Work.
An offering will be made for Missions
and Building B'und.
The public is cordially invited to be
present
“Sunbeams.’
The Rlection in Mebane
The election in Mebane Tuesday
passed off unusualy quiet. If there
was an unkind word spoke at the polls
we do not know it. There was peace
ful rivalry for votes for the Senatorial
candidates.
All Gone Democratic
The whole nation seems to have gone
Democratic. Woodrow Wilson will
take his seat in the Presidential chair
with the largest electional vote ever
polled. North Carolina Democracy
has elected her entire state ticket, and
then Senator Simmons has been nomi-
natcp in the primary, something that
thousands of North Carolinan were in
terested in are anxious should be.
It is a happy event for the people of
t ie State. Let us all rejoice.
Senator Simmons wins
a Signal Victory
The latest reports, from the voting
precincts, counties, and cities, in the
State indicate that Senator Simmons
was nominated in the State primary
to succeed himself by twenty five
thousand votes, over and above both
his opponents. Governor W. W. Kitch-
in and Justice Walter Clark. The
Leader rejoices with the friends of
Senator Simmons over this signal vic
tory. It is the more gratifying be
cause it is a deliberate rebuke to the
vilest political slanders, disingenious
and dirty libels, its a rebuke to the
rankest demagoguery, and most blat-
tent assumption, known in the State,
and on the other hand it is a cheerful,
and most emphatic recognition and
reward for superlative and distinguish
ed statesmanship, and high meritorious
labor in Congress in the in
terest of his State and people.
Mebane Route 5
How are the Editor and all the read-
e*s this cold weather, I am nearly
frozen.
There was quite a large crowd from
this section attended the big show at
Durham.
Miss Bessie Miller, Ema and Nanie
Aulbert spent Tuesday in Mebane shop
ping.
Miss Vivian Cheek spent Sunday with
little Miss Allie Anderson.
Mr. Oley Aulbert and Miss Sudie
Miller attended the big show at Dur- i have formed among
ham last Monday, and reported a good
time.
The death Angel visited the home of
Mr. T B Tates Sunday night and took
away Miss Sallie McCracken, a
good old lady has gone to rest with her
loved ones, she was 86 years of age
and a good Christian woman.
Mr. George Newman called on Miss
Rosa Cole Sunday P. M.
We was glad to see Mr Robert Jones
out at Sunday School again Sunday.
Papa girl-
Bingham School Notes.
Bingham School, Mebane, N. C. NovJ
5, 1912.
School opened with a barracks full
of boys, who were all carefully graded
and roomed at once, and class work
began next day. Everyone seems im
pressed with the gentlemanly class of
bovs and all say it is the nicest set of
cadets which has been here for a long
time.
The teachers are all busy with their
classes and other school work, and
express themselyes as much pleased
with the progress the students are
making. They together with Col. and
Mrs. Gray, have become very fond of
the new boys and were glad to wel
come back the old frieuds of last
session also.
The boys are in a fine humor and
delighted with the various phases of
the school whose every department is
proving a perfect success. Therj is
good feeling between the old and new
boys and there has been absolutely no
havzing whatever. Many fast fiiend-
them, and
and every
Always say a kind word if you can,
if only that it may come in, pe»-haps
with singular opportuneness, entering
some mournful man’s darkened room
like a beautiful firefly, whose happy
convolutions he can not bu*’ watch,
forgetting his many iroubles. —Sir Ar
thur Helps.
Nine hundred persons, we are told,
met violent deaths in New York dur
ing August. And yet we are devoting
hundreds of thousands of dollars a
year to the sending of missionaries to
preach "Peace on earth, Goodwill to
wards men” to the benighted heathen
in “Darkest Africa” and the Jungles
of India.
Two Million Annually
Graft
in
Sworn st-ttements tending to show
that the annual graft collected by high
police officials ’"n New York city from
gambling houses and other illegal re
sorts has amounted within the last
year to $2,400,000.
Guod Manners.
bt'tatiu items
Mrs. John B. Baity left hero Hntar-
day morning for V/inton-Salem to
visit her son and his wife Mr. and Mrs.
O. L. Baity.*
Mr. George Thompson took a busi
ness trip to Hillsboro last Tuesday.
Messrs Sam Walker and Gene Stan
ford spent last Monday n>ght in Dur
ham.
Mr. J je Murray spent Saturday night
and Sunday at home with his family.
Mrs. Mac Efland and baby girl
Elizabeth, spent last Thursday with
Mrs. Talitha Boggs.
Miss Bessie Baity has rerurned from
a visit to Greensboro much earlier than
she expected owing to the fact that
her mother was called to Winston to
attend the bedside of ner infant grand
son who is reported very ill.
Master Halcutt Williams visited his
aunt Mrs. J. J. Brown Sundsy
Miss Maud Efland is attending to
the Post office during the illness of
her brother Mr. D. E. Forrest, Post
master. Miss Maud is vei’y efficient
j and courteous in her duties as Post
mistress.
P
POST m
MONTHS HENCE
IWO
COL. ALSPAUGH DEAD.
Prominent Winston Citi
zen Passes Away at Ripe
Old Age.
Col. J. W. Alspaugh died at his home
in Winston-Salem Nov. 3rd, at 5
o’clock. He had a stroke of paralysis
two years ago, and had never fully re
covered, He was 85 years old and was
Winston’s oldeiit citizen He is survived
by two children. He w^as years ago
cashier of the First National bank of
Winston and wa& at one time editor of
Sentinel. He was the oldest living
aluminas of Trinity College and one of
the new dormitories there was recently
they all like and cdire each
one of the teachees also.
The codets have a great respect for
the Military System and are deeply
iiterested in it. The New officers
have been appointed and sincerely
congratulated by the remainder of the
student body. All are pleased with! rights and comfort
their positions and there have been no ^
complaints regarding their selection.
Everyone remarks on the improvement
that the becoming uniforms make in
the boys apppearance, and the cadets
are charmed with the neat fit of their
nice khaki suits.
Major Adrian Nalle, who was the
hii^hly popular and successful Com
mandant of last session, is with us
again this year in the capacity of
teacher and Football Coach. Under
I his able management tha team has
been flourishing, and the boys are
practising hard every afternoon and in
splendid form. There is fine material
in the team this session, and as the
fellows have been taking a lively
interest and working together with a
will, a victorious season is being
enjoyed.
The delicious fare of the Boarding
Department conducted by Mrs. Gray,
i-i appreciated as well as the skill of
Mrs. H. H. Johnston, the efficient
Matron, in her capable superintendence
of the culinary art as practised by the
“A Father to His Freshman Son,”
by E. S. Martin, in a recent issue of
the Atlantic Monthly, makes mighty
good reading. There are many young
men who ought to read it.
There are many of them whii have
sense, but whose lack is in not know
ing how to use it. What the author
says is applicable to other young men
and we quote one extract that hits the
mark for youths in general:
•‘By all means be a gentleman, in
manner and in spirit, in so far as you
know how, but be one from the inside
out
“If you have come as far as you
have it life without acquiring manners,
you might well blush for your parents
and teachers. I don’t thirrtc you have,
but I beg you hold on to all the good
manners you have, and get more. Good
manners seem to be a good deal to
seek among presen c day youth, but
I suppose they have always neen fairly
sorace, and the more appreciated for
their scarcity.
Show respect for people! Lord bless
me! the things I see done by males
with a claim to be gentlemen; tobacco
smoke puffed in women’s faces; Show
respect for all kinds of people, includ
ing yourself, for self-respect; is at the
bottom of all good manners. They are
the expression of dicipline, of gjod ; i
will, of respect for other people’s
and feelings. I
Mr. Hester Hooks is on the sick
thi-! week.
list
Mr. and Mrs Robert Sharp attended
services at the M P church at Efland
Sunday.
Mrs Annie Kirby of Salisbury is
spending a few days with her brother
Mr Will Thomgson near Ef*and.
Mi.sses Maie Richmond and 'Annie
Murray spent Sunday with their friend
Miss Baity.
Mrs Sallie Horner and little daugh
ter Bessie visited Mrs Horners parents
last week Mr. and Mra. Thomas Riley
in Hillsbrro.
We regret veiy much to learn of the
illness of Miss Meda Ray at the home
of her mother Mrs Wm Thompson
near Efland. Dr. C. D. Jones was
called in to attend her Sunday. We
hope Miss Ray will soon recover.
Paw-Paw Queese.
Choriotte Office Planning
to Take Care ot Increased
Resulting Business.
Postmaster J. B Spence of Charlotte
in discussing the operation of the
parcels post last week stated that the
local office was making preparations
for handling the increased business
when the law goes into effect the first
of the year. The rates, said he, would
be goyfrned by distances and weights
fnd the distance determined by zones
Said he:
“Tie meridians of longitude and
parallels of latitude form a quadran
gle having a width east and west of
54 miles and a length north and south
of 69 miles. These degree quadrangles
are divided into quadrangles of ^30
minutes length north and south and
east and west, and the same rate is
given to every postoffice in each
quarter-degree quadrangle, with the
privilege of sending at the same rate
to any poftoffice in eyery contiguous
quarter degree quadrangle. Thus the
United States is divided into about
3,500 different and neverchanging units,
each being the same size,
THE RATES.
“Each quadrangle will have an in
dex number and all postoffices locat
ed in any orie of these quadrangles
will have the same index number.
By the use of charts and directories
Vice-President
Sherman Dies
in Coma
Uremic Poisoning, Com
plicated With Heart trou
ble, Larries of Distingui
shed Patieni-Surrounded
by His Pamily at the End.
Vice-President James Schoolcraft
Sherman died at his home in Utica,
N. Y., at 9:42 o’clock last Wednesday
night of uremic poison caused by
Bright’s disease. He was fifty-seven
years old, having been bom Oct. 24,
1855.
James Schoolcraft Sherman was the
twenty-seventh Vice-President of the
United States, and with one exception
—Richard M. Johnson, who was named
for the office a second time in 1840—
was the only Vice-President to get
a renon’ination since the adoption of
the convention system.
He is alsu entitled to distinction for
another reason. As much as any other
man, perhaps, he contributed to the
breaking down of that indefinable but
nevertheless palpable “senatorial dig
nity” that hung around the highest
legislative body of the United States
like a shroud. With him legislation was
a business and he went to the Senate
chamber as he did to his bank—in a
business suit and devoid of the regula
tion white tie and the frock coat. Of
.. . 4. J i. ^ he had plenty but of frills none,
it IS estimated that any late can be Gradually, as he presided, stiff-backed
iscertained in 20 seconds.
“Rates are as follows;
Pound. Pound. Pounds.
Rural route and
city delivery
How Then.
$0.05 JO.IO $0.15
50-mile zone . , .05 .03 .35
150-mile zone . . .06 .04 .46
300-mile zone . . .07 .05 .57
1600-mile zone . , .08 .06' .68
j 1,000-mile zone. . .09 ,07 .79
j 1,400-mile zone . . .10 .09 1.00
1,800-mile zone . . .11 .10 1.11
Over 1,800 miles. .12 .11 1.32
“Packages may weigh as much as
11 pounds or can be 6 feet in length.
HOW IT AFFECTS THE FARMERS.
“Service redered by the postal
system is more extensive than the
service rendered by express companies.
For instance, the charge made by an
How then, is Labor protected? The '
American workingman has no guaran- i
tee, either from the goveinment or ,
from his protected employer, that his -
rate of compensation will rise pari i » ,
^ ^ ! express company for a 200-mile haul
* suppose good manners are unselfish,
but the most selfish people might well
cultivate thsm, they ara so remuner
ative. * * The things you must
scramble and elbow for are not worth
having; not one of them. They are
the swill of life, my son; leave them
to swine.”
Disarming tne Bee.
named for him.
Col. Alspaugh had been living at
Winston for a long time and saw the
I highly talented Chief Cook, John
I Packingham with his well trained corps
of helpers.
! The Y. M. C. A., officers have been
city evolve from a village into a modern j ^adet Captain George Sloyer
city. When younger .he took active j
part in all phases of the city s Chirlie
I McNutchen Secretary and Treasure,
j The entire school is supporting these
activities. He served on the board of
aldermen and was mayor of the city.
He also held an official position with
Centenary 'Methodist church in that
city.
If, we charged so much a head for
sunsets, or if God sent round a drum
before the hawthorns came into flower,
what a work we should make about
their beauty, but these things, like
g K)d companions, stupid people cease
early to observe.—Stevenson.
Deaths
Harvest
ease.
by Dis-
19,000 brave
fell on the
Death otMrs. J. W. Bason
Died at her home Oct. 25, 1912,
after a lingering illness of about four
months, she fell asleep in Jesus at one
o’clock in the afternoon. She suffered
n.uch but bore her sickeess with
chriytian patience. She was gentle and
kind to all her many relatives and
friends and will be sadly missed by
k.ved ones. She died trusting in her
Savior and when the summons came
v.’as prepared to go She leaves a
l en'ayod husband and four children
tiiree boys and one girl to morn her
losi besides many devotied friends who
will remember her love and kindness
to them. Farewell dear friend, gone
but not forgotten.
A Devoted Friend,
During the Civil War,
North Carolina soldiers
battlefield, disease increased the num
ber to more than 40,000. For every
American soldier killed in that strug
gle by bullets, three fell before the in
visible shafts of disease. During the
Spanish-American War the common
house-fly slew five times as many
American soldiers as were killed by
Spaniards, and in that short and une
qual struggle for every American sol'
dier who fell before a Spanish bullet
disease slew 14. It matters not how
brave the soldier may be, how loyal to
his flag how enthusiastic in his cause
no measure of bravery, no degree of
loyalty, no amount of enthusiosm can
save him from disease brought on by
negleet. ^ ^ Health Bulletin.
representatives wholeheartedly, and
we believe that great good will be
accomplished this session.
The Kalisthenic-Polemic Literary
Society has also been organized for
,his year's work, and the officers are:
President Adj. Kesler Cobb; Vice-
President, Sgt. John Mikell, and Secre
tary and Treasure, Sgt. William Comp
ton. This Society is highly instructive
add at the same time most entertain
ing, and the boys are improving wonder
fully as Declaimers, Orators and
Debaters, while enjoying the inter
esting contests and other exercises in
the meetings which arc held each
Saturday night.
“Bingham Bugle.
Toledo Blade.
The honey of commerce is the pro
duct of a creature with a passion for
work in the fore part of him and a
red hot stiletto in the rear. He is in
dustrious enough to be written down
in the books of the proverbs and he
is ill-tempered enough to make even
children respect him. He might be de
scribed as a cross between a steam
engine and a carpet tack.
An English apiarist—which is so
ciety language for beeman—.has been
experimenting with bees for a num-
her of years with a view to product
ing a worker that you can stroke and
tease and rob with impunity, the char-
aacteristic of the ordinary bee which
assures him room according to his size
having been removed. He says, this
Englishman, that his labors have been
crowned with success. He has de
velopment a species of bee that will
suck the nectar from every nodding
flower as assiduously as the old-fash
ioned bee. But he will rot get on the
high horse. He will not draw his
knife on you. He is as stingless as a
Penrose investigation of the Oil trust.
We’re not certain whether we’d care
to have this unarmed bee supplant the
present rough rider style of bee. We’ve
come to have a fondness for the pic
tures of those beemen showing col
onies Swarming over their persons as
other folks permit their offspring to
swarm over them. And we’re suie
the beeman would miss those pictures
themselves.
passu with the extra percentage j. j. ,
at. u I. I. V, ^ ,1 1- 1 covers the transportation of a package
profit which high tariff allows hja ern- i , ^ ^
, ^ i only from one town to another without
ployer to reap; while to that profit he , • u • -j j i-
^ ^ ’ J, , . , any rural service being provided for
must contribute from his pay envelope , .., .. j .. ,
. ^ J. J ' and with a limited city delivery service,
an inflated price for shelter, food, ; r,.. , . . n i
, , ’ . Ilhe parcal-post system will take a
raiment and eve-rything else that is' i .c .r > u
, ,,, , i ^ ir package from a farmer s home on a
essential to the health and comfort of, , . i. j. i.
I rural route, carry it to town, transport
^ J X X 1. ^ 200 miles over rail routes, and then.
But Protection does fail to protect; j • j j ... 1, ,
_ , ^ . , , ' ! if desired, deliver it to another farmer
Labor at the very point where it is; . ^
, ^ i.... * • ont on another route. Further, the
absolutelv essential that the American i , . j i.
jj - total routes covered by the express
workingman should be guarded against | . * r. * oco aaa
,, ^ ■.■ r companies aggregate but 258,000 mileb
miscellaneous foreign competition; for'
. . . rr. wr 4-j . while the general mail routes covers
there is no provision in the Tariti that i , , ..
^ ^ 435,000 miles, not to mention more
prevents a protected miller or manu- .
^ -.^.u 4. 1 4. than 1,000,000 miles of rural routes,
facturer from importing, without let
or hindrance of tax or proscription, as '
many thousands as he wishes of cheap
immigrants from abroad to take the
places, at low wages, of the American j
workman so elbowed out of a mine, a |
A H1igh=Class Thief
(New Orleans Pidayune.)
It has been said, possibl’y more as a
I mill or any other line of protected in- j«*ke tnan otherwise, that the only way
1 dustry. In other words, Laboi is left j to steal with any sort of security is to
I to complete barehanded with the labor ; away with a lai*ge sum, not
markets of the world, though the j than a million, enough to break the
American laboring must live, move and j bank, and then return one-half the
have his being in a home market where | spoils on condition that the thief he
all that sustains the existence of him- j immune from all prosecution and
self and family costs hitn greatly more j responsibility.
because of the protective tariff pre j This experiment was tried by the
tended'y imposed for his protection. i perintendent of vaults of a great trust
If he shall vote on Tuesday for a con
tinuance of this system of discrimin-1
ation and plunder he will richly de
serve the continued subordinatiod of
his interests which will surely follow.
-Va. Pilot.
Action of Shrimp on Tin. j
I
The popular idea that only acid sub
stances attac.^ tin is wrong. Fish, as
paragus, beans, pumpkin and spinach
are not acid and yet their corrosion of
tin is quite marked.' This is probably
due to amino compounds, substance re
lated to ammonia. In the case of
shrimp, the cans are often eaten
through in comparatively short time,
i So alkaline is the methylamine con
tained in the shrimp that workmen in
company in Philadelphia. That person
disappeared from the bank with over
a million dollars in cash and negotable
securities, and his whereabouts have
never been discovered, but through
his lawyer he made a proposition to
return the securities on condition of
never being prosecuted The propo
sition was accepted by the bank and
due steps were taken to secure his
immunity from punishment. But the
president and other high officers of
bank are now called on to answer for
compounding a felony with a man who
robbed a ^ank of a very large sum
giving him protection.
Now the prospect is that although
the real thief may escape punishment,
the high bank officers, who never
profited a cent by the operation of
“senatorial dignity” melted away.
The late Vice-President was bom in
Utica, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1855. His father
was Richard U. Sherman, an editor
and at one tim'' a rather prominet
figure.
He went to a public school at New
Hartford, N. Y., and from there to
Utica Academy. He graduated from
.the Whitestown (N. Y.) Seminary in
1874 and from Hamilton College in
1878. Two years later he was admitted
to the bar.
He married Miss Carrie Babcock at
East Orange, N, Y,, on Jan. 26, 1881.
Their three sons, Sherrill, Richard U.
and Thomas M, are all in business in
Utica.
Mr. Sherman first became prominent
in politics as Mayor of Utica, to which
office he was elected as a Republican in
1884 Previously he had been a Demo
crat. He was eleceea to the nrtieth
Congress in 1887 and served two terms.
In 1892 he was a delegate to the Repub
lican National Convention and the fol
lowing year was again sent to Congress
where he served until his election to
the Vice-Presidency, in 1908.
In 1906 he becrme Chairman of the
Republican National Congressioeal
Committee. In Congress he was a
member of the Committee on Rules,
the Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce and the Committee
on Indian Affairs, of which he was
Chairman.
During the Republican State Conven
tions in 1895,1900 and 1908 Mr. Sherman
was Temparary Chairman. HejJ was
slated for that position for the State
Convention at Saratoga two years ago
at which Henry L. Stimson was nomi
nated, but was shelved through the
less efforts of Theodore Roobevelt.
Mr. Sherman attained great wealth
through the formation of trolley and
water companies in New York State
and as President of the Utica Trust
and Deposit Company which he founded.
The latter is the sole business venture
with which his name has been promi
nently identified.
He was not a spectacular figure in
politics at any time. Because of his
smile he became famous under the so-
briquetof *‘Sunny Jim.” before that,
when in 1908 he advocated campaign
contributions of $1 each, he gained the
title of “Dollar Jim.” He was very
ford of baseball and on off days in
Washington was invariab'y to be found
at the park of the American league
club.
A little girl came to herjfather ore
day and said her dolly was very sick.
•‘Send for tne doctor,” suggested
the father.
“I did, but he couldn’t help her,”
said the child.
“Give her a drink of water,” again
suggested the father.
“I did, but she wouldn’t swallow it”
said the child.
“Well,” said the father, “I guess
you will have to try Christian Science”
“I did,” said the child, “but she
couldn’t swallow that, either.”—Kan
sas City Star.
An Evil Book
Mr J, F Ray of Lauringburg sends
The Observer a copy of a book which
Colliers are now putting into circula
tion in North Carolina. He wants us
to read it and warn our people against
contcmination of their homes by it.
The book is a vile French novel, one of
the most salacious stores of Dumas,
the younger. It in an affront to the
decency of any respectable home, but
from what Mr. Ray says,
being pushed in this State
says Mr. Ray, “have not only cast re-| —,
flections ot the basest sort on the pure ] Paris labels are being imported in
womanhood of this State, but have'ad-1 large quantities by American manu-
criminals, while the real thief goes
free. It is an interesting case and
should teach a lesson to bank officers
who handle large sums.
the canneries find the skin peeling off j the arch thief, have got to answer as
their hands and their shoes eaten
through. Shrewd observation by some
canners led to the discovery that if the
shrimp were iced for a day before can
ning the corrosive action of the juices
1 was greatly dimished. This is row
I the universal practice. In addition
i the cans are lined with paper to pre-
I vent contact of shrimp and tin.—
Scientific American^
The St. Louis Goble-Democrat is dis
turbed because “Professor” Wilson,
as that paper calls Gayernor Wilson,
cannot smash every trust incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey. Why,
its sale is j that’s the reason he wants to be Pre-
“Colliers,” I sident.
Clerks in the Treasury Department
at V/ashington are allowed one dollar
a week to cover the cost of having
their clothes pressed. The average
buL'iness men, who dresses just as well
as the government clerk, probably
doesn't spend ,over a dollar a month
for the purpose aforementioned, but
then it seems to be too much to hope
that the government will do anything
on a stiictly business ibasis.
More Drinking and Smok
ing.
Reformers concerned with the re^
gulation of the Nation’s per?onal ha
bits will find cause for bitter disilusion
in the increased consumption of whis
key, beer and cigarettes reported by
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
According to the tax returns, 450,000
more gallons of whiskey and 320,000
more barrels of beer were consumed
in the third quarter of this year that
during the same quarter of 1911, and
cigarette consumption rose by a bil
lion, to a total of 3,800,000,000.
This increased addiction to liquors
and tobacco has occured in spite of a
prohibition sentiment which has
found expression in recent years in
much new compulsory abstinence leg
islation on statute books, as well as in
the regulations of railroad and indust
rial corporations, and in the face of a
notable extension of the agitation
against smoking fti public places.
rted to it by flooding North Carolina
with literature of the vilest kind, lit
erature calculated to undermine our
youth.”—Charlotte Observer.
facturers and milliners. The only
hopeful sign is that the fetich of
French branding may be laughed out
of court.
Something oyer eleven hundred men
took the civil service examination for
policeman in New York City on the day
Becker was convicted. There’s always
room at the top, or the jury will mnke
one.
A man passes for what he is wortk.
What he is, engraves itself on his
face, on his form, on his fortunes, in
letters of light, which all men may
read but himself. Concealment ayailfl
nothing. —Emerson.