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THE MEBANE LEADER “AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DSLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE felN. 99 Vol 3 MEBANE. N. C., THUFSDAY. JANUARY 30 1913 NO S2 FEIISONAIS AND LOCAL BRIEFS j At The White House I W. F, Casey, Mr. Weace, of Raleigh j Times, Mr. Co’jie, Bradshaw of PI OPLE WHO AND GO. COME N thn- rt... Ci- ()l’ ■: Tv th. i Greensbaro, iN’r. Tom And?rsen N'r. ; June Harden of viraham,L'rastus Coo’c ' of Mebane. INTKRKST GAT.IERKD BY OUR | REPORTER. r i ser Wilhehii of Germany w: sj 111 Sunday. I’ Slack and chiHrpn spent m Greensboro Must Stop j We have been sending the Loader lo t some parties with the umlorstanding' j that they furnish us weekly l»'tteri^for • p >b]i(*ation. a number have n.or hsard frn*^ in some time We shall of Durham'•p^nt i hare, to ?top the Leader to rhtm III II.ev t :iii 't^inl Bingham School iNotes Bingham School, Mebanr, N. C. Jan 28, 1913. Mrs. L. Wolfenden of Marion, N. C., made a sh( rt visit to the school a id ertereJ her boy, Earl, the other d ly. - Mr. Henry Blanchard of Bristol, Va—Tenr., has arrived to be^in his duties as coach of the baseball team. Mr. Blanchard is considered one of the very best players and coaches in the | Louth and is sure to n'ake a success of the season. He is also a very pleasant! young: man, and everynodv at Bingham t.irn. Hihsboro Items. Miss Sue Rosemond spent part of last week in Durham with ner cousin Mis.s Christene Rosemond Mr, O. B. Williams of Durham spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs, A. G. Williams. Mr. Luther Kings little daughter was very sick last week. Mrs. William Graham who has been on the sick list for the past week is improving. Mrs. Reed died at tVie liun'.e of SIGNS SAILORS FEUH. Seamen the Most Super stitious Class—What Some Omens Mean, •I I r*i S11U \v ^ I ir* 111 i>i»> Saiurdav. pioasui C Whiti* sfent several in Ureensboro last week. A l^eculuar Frei.2:hl W reek ti:t \'tt sit-in I'.xi i-n>i vt_ ifn|ii'>\>'iii.-iit iiriii.- in I he \\-:ii f-f .1 1: s I lie I'mII I’t-riM a IlfVV iloiiso has jiisc het-ii »-rect mI, 1«'*- II II siiii-.- new I A freight wreck of rather a peculuar pump, pump jack, and line of pipe put character occured on the ,So-liaihvnv ; daughter Mrs. Shephei'd 1 i>atnrd:ty :it 2:?X> Mrs. VV. K. SJUnrt wJfj CtMril|.;(l to },*"(• f OIK lilt >*\- i.'- iiui»it>viii^ slowly. 'J'iie teachers niecMlii'^ wa.s Jur Strudick luit WcH’n r:i I > •l.i Haine of Cros? Roads, to .Mebane Tuesday. East of Mebane early last Friday morning. Just after passing the last switch, somethinir f^oinnu'iicod clipping ' verman, fat'-ier of Mrs. 'the tops of the bolts otV that hold the ai is visiting here. 1 first plates connecting the rails on the of laiilford College spei.t 't up with M. N. VVilkerson McP'ariand spent a few ;^":un last week, and re- 'Ui.day afternoon. in, and an additional engine has been installed. This will make a large increase in the water supply. A new ?a\v auvi s.iw rig have been put in the wood yard, and the L H. C., engine overhauled and made practically new. A lot of nice new boys have been entering—practically all the old cadets with unusual regularity, seldom missirg | a one for little over the mile 1-mit i, , M. McFarland sDent a beyond Mebane. It stoped when i have returned. They have all settled car heavily loaded with lumber next to i^ard study in their different •the engine fell off the track, a | Lynch attended the Sun- tumbled down the embankment when i Major Adrian Nalle, the sic^essful the train stoped there was two other j Commandant of the past three terms, cars derailed but .still l«-(ween the i is expected tomorrow to resume his tracks. j work in the school. All are looking The whole mile of trai k was [lushed ! forw’ard to seeing him again, out of line, and unfit for service. A large j force of hands was hurriodt') the scene ' ii-^iitute at Burlington Sat- i ''i.jnday. \N .irren from near Corbett i Tuesday and Wedi.es ■ .-.f C 'fiacco. ’■I It tie Stanford and Alice I'uiiiam spent Saturday and : the home of Mr J. T. VVarren has returned from v .-ti a nice line of horses. •' I hem if you should need their line. The firm of . 1 Warren will carry good ; Sykes of Spencer spent Mebane with her parents . r. Clp.ak last week. .■tre down Sunday and ■i to Spencer Sunday even- ;;/Ders of the Methodist : friends gave Rev. Mr. ■ nding last Tuesday ni^ht. f people sent their good ti e way of something sub- K^use keeping. A. Kr.'ght general manager ■ i i'tor.e Company of Durham g in a large line of spring . ; ^oods. Mr. Knight is : buyer and will select a . a 'ractive lor this section. ic. Peters of Elon College is well boreing machinery, u ijose to put down a well . !t!;d Montgomery brick ! -0 plant is a snort distance Vv . si. rn suberb of Mebane, • :C(e Irust Co., of Hillsboro ■ • r advertisment in this .er arnouncing that they t v to ioan in lots of from I. They will loan you t :tce it for you on interest. I • see them if they can vy are clever people. i Supply Company places _ ad in this weeks Leader, pc.gressive firm they are ^ht after business in their can supply you for cash or . n. Hufham we hope has come ke charge of the Baptist 'e a personal call at our of- sclay evening. Dr. Hufham our tow’n with the highest Il lation as a Christian geiitle- • a man of unusual ability, ne him and wish him well. Post office has transmitted - h the parcel post a live baby, tr all the requirements of the ent. It seems to U8 this par- ? t business has been the means - ering a number of real fools. ; urtment has evidently made 1 post laws surficiently elastic waging the simpletons to show ■■■Ive?. of the trouble and put to work repair ing the damage, and by tw»lve o’clock had the track in a cn.dition in wiich trains might pass slowly down the line. f It is much of a mystery as to how the bolts of the fish plates were cut, off. The flangs of the car wheels i could not have reached the bolls unless i the wheel should have droped .m the | inside of track to the cross tics, and j there was no cut in tl.e cross ties, j again if the whe-ls ha 1 drupeJ j surficiently low to reach ilie Lults then i the opp sit si ie of ihev.h. cl \v. ulti i have rushed the flangs ’.o.i lur otf to reach the bolts. No one v. as liurt. Mr, Dave Tayloe, who was a student at Bingham for three years, and who graduated in the spring of 1912, and has since then been one of the best ^ football men of the University of i North Carolina, has been visiting the I school. Dave enjoyed his stay very i much and we were all gJad to see him. ! He says he is homesick for Bingham, “The Bingnam Bugle.” A Ball-Faced Liar. Mebane, Rfd. No. 5, Well after so much rain we are blest with a beautiful day, but a little muddy. Misses Aline and Tannie Browning spent several days in Burlington last week. day Mr. John M. Miller spent one in Durham last week on business. j Mr. A. F. Warren called on Miss over about I Lula Miles Sunday P. M. j Mrs. W. A. Shnnklin is on the sick ! list, we wish Mrs. Shanklin a speedy recover. It seems that some v Durham have bten char^'ing that General Julian Cars ir.teresc in taxing the cur of low’ degree was because he bad a Kennel of CoIJie dogs at Occoneeche farm from which he hoped i Messrs. Will and John Shanklin to realize big money by selling their j spent Sunday at Mr. W. A. Shanklins. progemy. Now General Carr denies | We are all glad to Know that Mr. this, and he denies it :n bold 18 point Dave Tinnin is getting on so well in type in the Durham Sur taking a page to express his views on Ihe matter. General Carr brands the .man who made the statement as a ball-faced dirty vulgar liar. Pretty stiong language for the Genera'. I’ut wliat kind of a liar is a ball far*;d liar? Of courae the fellows face is pre.'iumed to be spherical, is it a foot ball face, oris it a base ball face. We have known people to be called a bald face liar, that is a plain every day hairless har, but the ball-face liar some what con fuses us. It must be a real hard kicking foot ball liar that the Geneial refers too. Local News List of Letters office 1913 'J ^ i\(,i li 'A.l mmg unclaimed at this week ending Jan. 25. r for Mr. Albert Davis ■or for Mr. Jim Carter Her for Mr. C. L. Carden 'er for Mr. Likil Gunter ' tier for Miss Carrie Brooks ter for Mrs. Ada Gibb n 1 for Estelle Wilson i for Miss Geni Brown nl for Miss Ruth Johnson r l for Miss A. B. Strowd. ■ rd for Mr. R. C. Cannon '1 for Mr. G. R. Douglmer for Mr. Worth Lynch -'■‘1 for G. W. Mebane •'’’d for Mr. Walter Johnson >1 for for Logan Smith letters will be sent to the ‘ Letter Office Feb. 8 1913. if '^Hed for before. Hlling for the above please say ■ tisod” giving date of ad. list. Respectfully, S. Arthur White, P. M. Every person in a community ought to feel interested in helping to make the local columns of its home paper and important features. It should be a matter of community pride, and is so considered in many places. The tele phone connection, with the newspaper office makes it quite convenient. Wont | you try and think of it and do what j you can to inform the EditoJ of home I happenings. High Point, we all wish King David well for he is one of our best boys. Master Claud Miller spent Sunday P. M., with Master Walter Aulbert, Mrs. L. H. Jones has gone to spend several days with her mother. Mr. Robert Jones spent Sunday in Burlington. Mr. Oley Aulbert called at Mr. John Millers Sunday P. M., also Mr. Albert Hall, Emma Aulbert, Claud Sykes and Dan Shanklin. Mr. W. H. Miller called on Miss ! Nannie Aulbert Sunday night. Mr. Sam and Mrs. T. J. Browning spent Sunday at Mr. Mitchel Vincents. Every body come to the sale at Mr. T. B. Tates Saturday. Mr. John Miller and children called to see Mrs. Shanklin Sunday P. M., also Miss Nannie Westbrook and the Misses Millers. The Work of The Flood Mr. and Mrs. Will Crawford and daughter spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. Berry. Mrs. Nan Vincent and Mrs. Eld Cheek is on the sick list this week, hope they will soon be out again. Miss Sudie Miller and Master Sam spent Wednesday afternoon in Mebane Mrs. Bill Browning of Haw River spent Saturday night and Sunday at Mr. J. L. Pools. A torrent 200 feet wide, and many feet deep is rushing throaeh the ere* | with their aunt Mrs. J. M. Rimmer. vasse in Beulah levee near Vicksburg Miss., which broke about one hui;dred miles north of there, on the east bank of the Mississippi river, and the water is rapidly inundating the lowlands, de stroying the crops on fertile planta tions and forcing hundreds of families with their live stock to the hills. A creyasse at that place last spring when the river stage was considerably Mr. W. M. McCaulev was called to the bed side of his sister Saturday at Chapel Hill The box party given at Eflsnd Saturday night was very successful, they cleared $18,45. There was not a higher, flooded approximately 1*225 j weather was square miles The engineers engaged in the work estimated that before the floods recede at least 1,000 square miles of plantations and st amps will be inundated. The Lyncliinp^ AntiJote very disag reebie. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Newman spent Sunday with her mother Mrs. Miles who is right sick. Mr. W. H. Miller and Claud Sykes made a flying trip to Burlington Satur day night. I hope to hear from ail of the writers this week. Papas Girl. At Gulfport, Mississi[)i)i. the other i day a negro who had killed a policeman was arrested, tr?ed, convicted and sen tenced to pay the death penalty, all within the brief space of .ceven hours. In such prompt and certain adminis tration of the taw lies the surest anti- There are a number of delinquei.t dote for the lynching ppirit which is , subscribers on the Leader subscription all too rife in every sec tion of the j books whose name should appear in our country. Mob violence in these Un j honor roll, and we would appreciate it Let Us Hear From You. ited States finds its chief source ard incentive in the fact that justice tra vels with a leaden heel and all too fre quently strikes, when it strikes at all, with a velvet hand.—Va Pilot. if you would send as one dollar. Let us hear from you at once. Its a small matter to you, but if all who owed us pay up it woukl bo a great help to us. Saturday wUh a large number teachers present. Rev. Mr. Green preached a touching sermon at the Bajicist church !Sunday. Mr. J. Clyde Ray spent the lattor part of the week at home last week. A Social Qatherinj?. Miss Clara Warren entertained at a very enjoyable party at her home on Monday evening. A number of games were played. The party was given in honor of Miss Annie Cooper of Graham. The following were in attendance: Misses Nannie Boon, Myrtle McCauley Annie Cooi er of Graham,Mary Patten, lottie Satterfield, Sudie Cook, Sophia Long, Fannie Ferguson and Clara Warren. Messrs, I. D. Ham, Earl Shaw, Glenn Scott, Mr. Strayhorn of Durham, Jesse Tingen, Edgar McCauley Sam Long, Sylus Compton and Frank Warren. _ Corn Growers’ Meeting We are making an earnest effort to grow enough corn in our scate, and to grow it cheaply enough, io thnt none will be shipped into the state from other parts of the country. The Dem onstration Work has shown that with good methods of farming we can eas ily grow from thii Ly to fifty bushels per acre instead of fifteen to twenty bushels per acre as we have been do- in>? in past years. These larger a- mounts can be grown at an average price of about twentvfiye cents per bushel, so the matter is one of vital irhportance to every fa»*mer who grows corn. Two meetings will be held in our county at Friendship Feb. 7th. and at Cross-roads Feb. 8th, 1913, beginning at 1 o’clock. At that time we will have wit’i us some men from the U.S. and State Departments of Agriculture to discuss the best methods of doub ling the corn yield without increasing the cost per acre We hope you will come to these meetings and bnng one or two dozen of your best ears of corn so that we may have a corn judging and some corn to study. Also we ex pect some of our most successful corn DRJ.D.M : GOES TO MEBANE , — - iLar^2:e .Delegation Was at Depot to pay Him Their Parting Regpects^ j Monday afternoon. Dr. J. D. Huf-' ham. one of the oldest and most hiyhly re.'j>ectod citiy.ons of [>!u’ted froOi •••r .vicl>anc iii- will make Iri.s lutnu; in tlie fiiiure. 'i'in.' [k.*.»|.K- of rre liMO>i wr-Ve s*n v to -f.- In. ilufhain aiitl i> s)t"\v tlK-it ai>i>i>--iatioM for wliat ho has doiiu lor (Jroedniooi', and iht- I>>ve and «'^t'em inw liich he is held, . tu arly i*v«‘i yiiu‘ in town were present at the depot to pay him their partir^: respects. The i j Creedmoor High School let out sooner I j than usual, and the students—who are I ' so fond of Dr. Hufham—marched to j i the depot in a body lo bid him good-i ! bye. A large committee from the; I Merchants Association were'also pre-* ■ sent and in behalf of the association, I ' where there to bid him aiieu. In fact, | ! the delegation was one *of the largest 1 ; ever gotten together in Creedmoor, j and the suicide of Judas. The fact | and, tiy as they might, many could | that Columbus both sailed and disco- i not keep back the tears that would ! vered land on a Friday has no weight; come. In telling his many friends i with him—the day remains unlucky. j good-bye, Dr. Hufham was so fu.l of: I emotion that he was unable to utter ! the words that he would fain speak; j but all could see that he regreted to j leave.—The Creedmoor Time. i Of all sorts of men the sailor has the name of being the most superstitious. No one can clearly tell why, unless it is that he always views an event in the light, of something that has gore before. A match ovei upside down or the loss of a swab or bucket overboard fills him wi^h lorchoding. ifo is aghast at, the accidtnlal U-arinji of it Jla}^ arMl kriovvs that il ;-aiis .sewn .>i mencled on the iuai tt;i ileek ill ln k w ill result. Heiy a juolotnid lK.*lievt r in his >wii |» ejiidiircs aini has iK-'eii Kriou ji t»; I'nse lo to st-a witlioiit salt in his pocket or to p!it his left foot fii.st in a boat or on slu)i*e. lie is a lirm believer in odd numbers, as navnl salutes will testify, m’nute g^-ns excepted. Re vfi'y ! looks upon women at sea with disfavor. !ia! Ill. '>t' hf how Some ot his officers bear with him an evil reputation, both for luck and the weather they bring. An old chronicler puts the number of days upon which it undesirable to put to sea at 53, but the number has been considerably reduced. Among these days of ill rejmte were Ci i.i’s birthday and the anniveisary of the destiuction of Sodom and Gomorrah Veteran Sickles Arrest. Waitmg Gen. Daniel E. Sickles sat amid the war reli^ in his Fifth avenue home ex pecting mementary arrest in a suit brought by the State to recover $23,- 476 for which he has failed to account, it is charged, as chairman of the New York monument commission. Within his call where his son, Stanton, and an aged negro retainer. Save for them he was alone. The order for the veteran's arrest. Duke Frightened James B. Duke w’as so frightened by threatened competition in the tobacco business from Thomas F. Ryan, P. A. R. Widener and William C. Whitney during 1898 that the American Tobacco Company paid the three a profit of $25,030,000 for their tobacco holdings. This statement was made before Judge Mayer in the Federal District Court issued by Supreme Court Justice Rudd j in Brooklyn by Attorney Charles Dush-! a^ Albany, and a copy of the complaint! kind, counsel for E. Locker & Co., I were placod in Seritf Karburger, hands : tobacco jobbers of Brooklyn, in a suit j by Deputy Attorney General Francis Kennedy, who brought them. Mr. Ken nedy announced his intention of ask ing for immediate serv^ice. After a talk with Mr. Kennedy, however, Sheriff Harburger said he would give the documents to his lawyer to de termine whether thej^ are to be drawn. This, he thought, would give the gen eral respite from arrest until Mon lay. The order can not be lega'ly served on Sunday. MAY GO TO JAIL. Unless Gen. Sickles is prepared to furnish at once a $30,000 bond. Sheriff Harburger said he will have to go to Ludlow street jail until the bond is forthcoming. There as to who, if any one, would come to the veteian’s aid. Gen. Sickles aged negro met all against the American Tobacco Company 1 to recover treble damages, r 'gregat- ■ ing $300,000, under Sec^’cn 7 of the | Shermrn law. Court Criticisnj growers to tell us how they succeed comers at the door and turned them in the matter. Invite your neighbors, especially the boys, to come to the meeting. E. C. Turner, Local Agent Publicity For Pensions Pension abuses have long since be come so notorious as to admit of neith er doubt nor argument. The War has been over nearly halt a century, yet the amount of the pension roll continu es to increase with each recurring session of Congress. Thousands of the are today regularly drawing stipends from the public treasury who have no iota of claim upon government grati tude of governments bounty, sutlers, camp-followers, bounty-jumpers ard even deserters, many of whom never saw a battlefield when battle was in progress, never had the smell of pow der in their nostrils and never beard the whirr of a bullet. Wi^h a view to correcting these abuses, in a measure, at least, there has been introduced and is now pend ing in che House of Representatives a bill which proposes to publish the list of all who are drawing pensions from the Federal Government, the addresses of the several pensioners and the re spective amounts which they are re ceiving from the government treasury. There are many reasons why this measure should be enacted into law, and no single oue why it should not. A pension list confined to the de serving is a roll of honor, and any man justly entitled to have his named en rolled thereon should be proud to pub lish it to the world. It is at once a tribute to his courage and patriotism away. For the first time the shades at all the windows of Jthe house were raised, and in each window there was placed an American flag. The order for Gen. Sickles’ arrest Judge Robert B. Peebles has often been open to criticism, and no doubt j for good cause. F? held cour.: in I Greensboro last week, and the News [ says that “in no term of Guilford : court in recent years has criticism been I so pronounced against a North CaroHna I jud^e, this criticism finding its origin ' chiefly in the bar, and being caused by . , I both the slow movement of the covtc alleged discourteous t’^eat- ment of the members of the bar by the judge.” It seems that Judge Peebles had had trouble with the lawyers, or has given them trouble, at nearly every court he has held, if reports are true.—Concord Tribune. Some how or other we have thought at times that the dignity of the state peachment court. sense. And he that will carry nothing ! about him but gold will be every day 1 at loss for readier change. “Pope. comes as a climax of a distinguished 'would not have been hurt if Judge Pee- and picturesque career. Born in New | ^les had been a defendant in an im- Yorl: in 1825 of a wealthy family, j Geu. Sickles served as soldier, legis lator and diplomat. The‘guest of honor I for many years at gatherings of war i j li. j ^ , ,, , ji Fine sense and exalted sense are not veterans, he was recently refused!, , mu , . . . , , »1 half as useful as common sense. There admission to a local organization of . ^ -i. ^ ^ _ J .. o are forty men of wit for one man of war veterans on the ground of | \ ,, . military unskilliulue?s and reckless sacrifice of the lives of his men “ Congress, which i/i 1897 awarded him a medal of honor for bravery, three years ago refused to gx*ant him a lieu tenant generalship. In his old age financial troubles beset him one after another and his wife, son and daugh ter became estranged from him. AN AFFAIR Or HONOR. Gen. Sickles was a member of the house of representatives just before the outbreak of the war, and it was in Washington that he shot and killed Philip Barton Key, a United States district attorney, for alleged atten tions to his first wife, the daughter of an Italian musician. Maniage of Miss Helen Gould. Miss Helen Miller Gould, known as the queen of philantnropists and America’s wealthiest woman, and Finley J. Shepard, assistant to Presi dent Busch, of the Missouri Pacific railroad, one of the chief railroads of the Gould lines vvere married Wednes day last, at 12;3U o’clock The cere mony w’as performed at L\ndhurst, Miss Gould’s stone mansion at Seving- ton-on-the-Hudson which had been sumpteusly docorated with flowers for the n'Ciuiin. I here wore 7-^ pnests, :o!i. i.-i ill}.' ^elali^'v^ nnd intimatt' 'rit-i-l> pr* -fill. MIR. I’M II.A ,\'rn K( Mi'iS ll«'r [iliilaptl ro'.ijt'.s. howcvor, carrifd mh nuivtly aiul t>i fli.- nm-.i part. \v.‘r«- .ii siicli a |x‘i>on;,i tliat at firpt- littU- was known by the puhlic at laiye. In KsHO, ever, she attracted vvidesprcaJ attention through the gift of a library building to the university of the city of New York. This stiacture cost $310,000 and supplied a long felt want to the uni versity. From this time -^orward Miss Gould became a national figure. In 1898, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Miss Gould, probably rcached the zenith of her popularity The country was wild with excitement. Soldiers w^ere being mobilized. Amunition and firearms were bein? assembled. The country was astir with the uncertainty and excitement attendant upon w'ay. During these days of suspen.'^e Miss Gould was busy. First she contiibuted $100,000 toward the war expense of the government Next she interested herself in the Red Cross society. And finally she displayed a courageous en thusiasm and a generous spirit that won her the affection and admiration of the nation. Her checkbook was open for every movement that could benefit American fighting men and when she had dune all that money could do she gave her own personal services. Many a wound ed man at Montauk camp owed his life to her nursing. It may be said that the Spanish war left Miss Gould the popular idol of the nation. Over three thousand soldiers and officers wrote personal letters thanking her for her sei vices; congress awarded her a gold medal and the states of New York,, Illinois and Pen nsylvania thanked her in resolutions. Among other honors conferred upon her were the following: A gold cup from the members of the naval M'anch of the Y. M. C. A. The gr?nd prize to philanthropy, awarded by the International exposi tion at Liege. Honorary degrees from Wellessly college. New York university and the American colleere for girls at Constan tinople. In speaking of Miss Gould, her sec- retaiy once said: “Miss Gould’s two greatest pleasures are the benefitting children and the inhalation of fresh air. ’ ’ Another side of Miss Gould’s acter that has not received so publicity as ♦hat accorded her, ities, is her business sense and train ing. She is a clever business woman— perhaps one of the cleverest in Ameri can. This fact is amply evidenced by the reputed fact that her original in heritance of $10,000,000 is believed to haye been increased to about $30,000,- 000 through wise investment. char- much char- MEBANE METODIST PRO- i TESTANT CHURCH. ! Preaching each 2nd and 3rd Sunday j at 11 a. m. and every Sunday night.! Sunday school 9:45. Prayer meeting j Thursday night at 7:30. i W. E. Swain, Pastor. J. L. Amick, Supt. of Sunday School. I The public cordially invited to all | these services. Bring a friend with j I ^ ou. I Fire at Creedmoor, Fire broke out in the back of the Wagstaff Lyon C^mpany dry goods store Wednesday morning last between 4 and 5 o’clock, while the majority of the people were still sleeping and no thing could be done to extinguish it. the men did every thing possible to keep the fire from spr .ading. The entire block, which is composed of wooden buildings, oc cupied by the First National Bank, Allen’s barber shop, Wagstaff-Lyon Company, Dr. Sanderford’s office, Creedmoor Drug company, and the postoffice wa& destroyed. The entire amount of daiT age being estimated at $13,000. Ant's Wisdom. (From The St Paul Pioneer Frees.) A cook, being annoyed by the dep redations of ants, put a pie in the pantry shelf, surrounded it with a thick circle of molasses and awaited j developments. 1 They came in the shape of f'?lly 500 j red ants, led by an ant larger than any 1 Mebane M. E. Church South. and an evidence that his country is both mindful of and grateful for the i other. services rendered. On the other hand, j When he came to the molasses if there are any undeserving so hon- \ halted and held a consultation with a ered, and who are drawing pensions small detachment from the main army, through deception and fraud, their Each one selected a place where the names should be made public so that! stream of molasses was narrowest, the fhose who know them and know their J leador made a tour of inspection and deserts may properly expose them, then all the ants made their way to a Such publicity would be valuable no less as a protection to deserving pen sioners than as a means nf relieving the government treasury, in a meas ure, at least, of the fraudulent drain to which it is now subjected Let the pending bill pass. No legitimate in terest has anything to lose, while much may be gained thereby.—Va. Pilot. Rev. F. B. Noblitt, Pastor. j Walter Lynch, Supt. S. S. | N. H. Walker, Assist. Supt. Preaching every 3rd Sunday at ll:Oo ■ A. M. and second Sunday night at 7:30 I P. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday j ! evening at 7:30 and a union prayer' Y g I meeting ever Sunday after noon at j 3:00 o’clock conducted by the young | men of the town. | Sunday school ever^ Sunday begin | ning at 9:45 a. m. j Everybody welcome tc all these ser-1 vices. hole in the wall where the plastering was loose. Each ant took a tiny piece of plas ter, and to and fro they went from nail hole to the molasses for two hours until they had thrown a bridge across. Then they formed in line, marched over and soon every member of the army was contentedly eating pie. Fate Commute Morse’s Sentence. The death sentenced pronounced by Atlanta doctors on Charles W. Morse has been commuted by Fate. The year in which the doctors said that Morse was bound to die has passed, gnd as the first month of the new year passes too word comes lo Atlanta that the famous barker, once a convict 'in the federal pen., is slowly regaining his strength and normal health, instead of sinking toward the tomb. No Fish. “Come now, John, we’ve seen the elephants and the monkeys and the birds; let us go into the aquarium.” “But, dear Eliza,” rep’ied the obe dient husband. “I can’t swim a stroke.”—Yonker's Statesman. “Careless and slipshod enunciation among presumably cultured people.” Julian W. Abernathy says, “is proba bly more common in the United States than in ary other country in the v’orld A Frenchman is proud of his speech and treat.'i it as a fine art, while an American regards his speech with in difference or contempt.” Right is more beautiful than private affection, and love is compatible with universal wisdom.—Emerson.