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S.'M-Ota. (I Downs II ;-h I fnr your IVtl. ’ ! I! -il Widow T If.'KY STAMPS to Rttdiicm Theftif Nut Be Used to Lettfcr. a p- -iage stamp be* alti Vri !: eruliieaa in over imen; ?” a ed 'o liiuddle the ul- biniii of ft buay to ireet a postman ii'i. i: ill!, the mair. taped : it-r. , ” ssi'j ■ h« postmaii. nt )ii special occar au 'esorted to sai> he demanded, "did 3 government be ats that It requires *d stamps stuck on always been pretty ed the unperturbed ere aio some kinds for more than oth- ’a got Ink on It. t go, because an Ink d to dlsgulfl'e a can- every stamp I hap- peck of Ink on 1* 1t In to the offl'’« It, and after a cer- II feet your money that Take?" the man ontha ” an’t wait," said the e dUcr#d!t^ A uoc Vol5 MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 4 1914 No 16 \V. W. Corh,'tt, Miss Jer.nie j '.'i.-x uud Mrs. W. IK Gallttspie went I., r.iirliiiK^**'^ Tuosday An announcement of meetings of ; , i,,r ,ind ('ivie Leai^ue will be found i I'ont pajxo IjOok it uj) and road it. (iPorjjre Holt and Clint , ■ ,u»i of Winston-Salem arrived in ;..mo Tnosday evening- to spend ten wltli Mr. Holt’s ]>arenl.s. Excursion to Richmond Round trip Excursion to Richmond Tuesday June 9th, Rates from Meb- and $3.25. Train passes here Tuesday morning at 8:55, Civic and Junior Meetings Leage Auction Company riu' Southoi'n iloalty and Auc- Co., of Greensboro places . half pa.ue advertisement in ills weeks Leader directinp: at- .. ntion to the business they are , luimtin.u'. A successful sale > Liieir infallible Motto. Busi- i -ss intrusted to them will be /s.nestly and (‘xpeditionsly band- The Mebane Civic Association will hold its regular monthly meeting oi\ Friday afternoon June 5th at 4 o’clock in the Graded School Auditonum. Those interested kindly remember to come. The Junior League will hold its re.G:ular meeting on Tuesday afternoon June 9 at the same time and place above mentioned. JVlembers who have not received their buttons can jxet them at this time. A full attendance is requested. What About A 4th of July Celebration Just about four weeks fi*om I his issue is the 4th of July and MOthine; has beeti definitely done ■oward having’ a celebration. -M'uu* i>f our citizens have an- liiunced their dt'sire to have ;omething‘ but no steps have yet ImvU taken to start things. If dfbane wants to celebrate she iuid better jior busy at once, o],u‘body stai't the ball to rolling und call a meotinr. Power and Light Roxboro Tor ! The Roxboro Courier says that the ' Carolina Power and Liuht Company i which received permission to enter ! and do busine?.s in that town, is jjo- in" right along with its plans and j ; within the next few months Roxboro j will be receiving the benefits of the ' companv's light ai?(l power. A Class oli Orphans A class of Orphans from the Oxtord r-iphan Assyslum will be in Mebane ! ;no Sth. and at night will give a 'U’ert It is pivtty generally known Aiiat a groat benefaction the Oxford ! irphan Assylum has proven to so r.atiy homeless and helpless children You will make no mistake in contribu- rriig your might to aid in maintaining thi vorthv institution. “1 have no vote ;ind I’ve raised hell all over this cou.ilry,” declares Mother Jones. However, the implication does j not necessarily follovv, since some of ! our most ctl'ective little hell-raisers ! from the day Mother Kve held converse I with the snake havi' been without a ! vote, ' At Mebane ^ue^day June 16th. DR. S, RAPPORT of Durham will be at Mel>ano at the Mebane House, Tuesday June IGth for the purpose of examining eyes and fitting glasses. If you are in need of glasses for the good of your eyes don’t fail to soe him on that d:iy. Mebane’s Depot. In the r.otices appearingin this paper ■ MO past two weeks about the addition It. the de[)ot, an important fact had t iled to be cited owing to the lack of information, so we take pleasure in ...ing further regarding it, that tliis ; tl;.- third addition v.hich has been ..liulo to the depot v;ithin ten years, riich is conclusive evidence in its self *r Alehane’s rapid growth. A F^roud Record. It IS given to very few teachers to -tain Jthe distinction in commemora- lon of which a golden testimonial was i his week given Miss Emma Lehman, nr 50 consecutive years a teacher in ‘ alem Academy. She has perhaps uicled the tootsteps of more young ^>incn than any other teacher in ■irth (Carolina, and her record will be isiatched in very few instances in the 'Wintry, if indeed, in any at all. Fifty = iirs’ faithful and continuous service ■' tlic education of young women is a - 'trd entirely worthy the appreciation • ii it was given it by the Salem stud- i Charlotte Observer. T. R. All “(Jas and Boss.’’ i When Mr. Roosevelt returns from Spain he says he intends to take up the political situation. If he feels so ! touched by the pinch in many homes : caused by the high cost of living he I should have shown his appreciation by , assisting them when lie had it in his power. The cost of living has not ad vanced one bit since he was in the White House, but he forgot that T. R. is all “gas” and “lioss. ” He’s got the newspapers started again and they •eems ready and anxious to write him up and they couldn’t please him better Publicity is the dearest thing to his heart and pleases his vanity. While Colonel Roosevelt was voicing | his unalterable opposition to repeal of j the tolls-exemption feature of the j Canal act, Elihu Root, pronounced by 1 the Colonel to be the biggest and j clearest brained statesman in the j country, was delivering in the Senate j an unanswerable argument in favor of such repeal. j Southern Railway Premier Carrier of The South. finngein Winston-Salem Raleigh Pull- (’ar Line ElVective Friday, Juno 12, 191 I, the I'l'oscnt Winston Salem- Raleigh Pnll- I !Mn Car Line will be changed to Wir, Salem- Beaufort- Morehead City l''-il!man Car Line for the Summer >-''ason, and will continue in rfVect un- il Saturday, August 22^ 1914. tor further information, rrsi'rvations ‘ fommunicate with, J. O. JONES, 'I’raveling Passenger Agent, Raleigh, N. C. The Bethlehem Steel Company is re-1 ported to have $30,000,000 to lend China, j and this, be it remembered, is the | company which its jiresident and chief j owner, Mr. Charles M. Schwab, said; would have to go out of business if any cut was made in the tariff duties on iron and steel products. The Star-Eyed Goddess (Louisville Courier-Journal.) The last time we heard of her she was flirting with Woodrow Wilson and making eyes at Theodore Roosevelt. She was a fly girl in her time, but wayward. Associating with Grover Cleveland, she grew kinder tough, so that when she began to keep company with William Jennings Bryan she be trayed a Jtoo great self-conceit and love of display to suit the Courier- Journal. Somebody told us the other day that she had turned suffragette. W e dropped her long ago. Too Had (l.iOuiKvillc Courie’’-J(»urnai i I ho unconscious grace of beauty new- 1 discovered wears away affr r many hallroom triumphs, leaving tne finest '*t' line girls a cold, calculatii'g, p>ofei-- ional belle, and in like manner the i"l>le spontaneity and generous enthu '■•'Hrn of genius, grown too famaliar '♦^h success and used to adulation, harden into the selfish aims and lordly K'tions of the arrogant egoist, hoist *>I*fin a pedestal and posing as a hero. NOTICE For Sale. The Manse of the Presbyterian Churc.h. Bids will be received by the undersigned Committee. Up to June 13th, 1914. F. M. Hawley T. M Cheek S. G. Morgan Committee. Reduction on Millinery. The Mebane Supply Co., will make a general reduction on all millinery from now on. If jou want a nice hat at a moderate price now is the time and the Mebane Supply Co. is the place. A Chicago man charge’s in an ap plication for divorce that his wife struck him with a rolling pin. If he was telling her at the time of the kind of bread mother used t») malce. she gave him even less than was com ing to him. Mebane, Rrd. 5 Well wo had a little shower Satur day night but not enough to hardly lay the dust Miss Pattie Prowning spent part of last week at Mr. J. L. Pools. Mr. and Mrs W. A. Shanklin spent Saturday night and Sunday in Mebaiie with their son, Mr. Will Shanklin. Mr. W. H. Miller attended Children Day services at Union Grove Sunday. Miss Mvrtie Warren spent Sunday with Miss Lizzie Berry. Mr. and Mrs. G. W\ Sykes and Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pool spent Sunday with Mr. J. M. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. L, W. W'icks spent Sunday at Mr. Mit(;hel V^incont. We are glad to learu that Mr. G. E. Newman is better at this writing, we hope George a speedy recover Mr. Oley Aulbert aiuI Miss Sudie Miller spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Miller’s aunt n.^ar F.fland. I Mr. Graham Rimmer spent Sunday p. m. at Mr. J. M. Miller’s also i\ir. Nelson Miles. Mrs. T. J. Browning and Miss Alina spent part of last week visitir.g rela tives at Haw River. ' I We are glad to report that Missj Mattie Shanklin is some better, she j has been confined to her room for two ' weeks. | Mr. Will Hughes spent last W'^ednes^ day at Mr. J. M. Millers. Misses Sudie and Nellie Walker of Burlington spent Saturday night and I Sunday at Mr. S. T. Smith. Mrs. Will Wilkerson and Miss Ida | VVilkerson spent lai^ Wednesday at Mr. J. E. Newman. Mr W. H. Jackson spent Saturday afternoon in Efland. Miss Sudie ard Bessie Miller called to see Mr. George Newman last Wed nesday afternoon. Mrs. T. H. Cheek spent last Monday afternoon ot Mr, J. I.. Pools. The Menace of Content It is in this tiuth thac I find the real secret, the deepest meaning, of the everlasting dis.satisfaction of man that is always ready to be stirred. We moralize, we philosophize about the discontent of man. We give little reasons for it, but the real reason for it all is this, that which everything lying behind really signifies that man is greater than his circumstances, and that God is always calling to him to come up to the fullness of his life. Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented when one great universal satisfaction spreads it self over the w'orld. Sad will be |the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he IS living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God. And there is the real secret of the man’s struggle,with his sins. It is not simply the hatefulness of the sin, as we have said again and again, but it is the dim perception, the deep suspicion, the real knowledge at the heart of the man, that there is a richer and a sinless region in which it is really meant for him to dwell. Man stands separated from that life of God, as it were, by a great, thick wall, and every effort to put away his sin, to make himself nobler and a purer inan, is simply his beating at the inside of that door which stands between him and the life of God, which he knows that he ought to be living. It is like the prisoner hidden in his cave, who feels through all the thick wall that shuts him out from the sunlight and the joyous life that is tutside, who knows that his imprisonment is not his true condition, and so with every tool that his hands can grasp and with his bleeding hands themselves, beats on the atone that he may fird his way out. —Phillij) Brpoks.* Oil on The Water. As vesult of the wreck, which occured near Dimmocks Mill just west of Hillsboro a few weeks ago, a verv peculiai condition prevails. Among the cars that were demolished in the wreck were some tremendpus tanks containing crude oil. Several thousand gallons of this were spilled and ran down to the river Great quantities of this now stands over Dimmock’s mill pond with no way to get it off. The Enj, from the severe draugnt, is very low. The water is siaiiding several feet below the Lop of the dam. The only water that passes seeps through the bottom of the dam. The oil, of course, remains on top. Fishing and swimming, for the present, in this quarter are spoiled. The horses refuse to drink in this vicinity and the odor from the pond is most disagreeable to passersby and to people living in the vicinity. The situation is destined to prevail until it is relieved by a freshet high enough to float the oil over the top of the dam. LARGEST LOCOMOTIVE BUILT. Walt Mason on Flies The early fly’s the one to swat. It comes before the weather’s hot, and sits around and files its legs, and lays at least ten million eggs, and every egg will bring a fly to drive us crazy by and by. Oh, everj' fly that skips our i swatters will have five million sons | and daughters, and countless first and i .second cousins, and aunts and uncles, scores of dozens, and fifty-seven billion nieces; so knock the blamed thing all to pieces. And every niece and every aunt,—unless we swat them so they can’t- Will lay enough dodgasted eggs to fill up ten five-gallon kegs, and all these eggs, ere summer dies, will bring forth twenty trillion flies. And thus it goes, an endless chain, so all our swatting is in vain, unless we do that swatting soon, in Maytime and in early June. So men and brothers, let us rise, gird up our loins and swat the flies! And sisters, leave your cozy bowers, where you have wasted golden hours; with ardor in >our ^ouls and eyes, roll up your sleeves and swat the flies — Walt Mason. Matt Shay Weighs 415 Tons and Has Speed of 120 Miles an Hour. (Chester (Pa.) Dispa ten.) “Matt Shay,’' the largest locomotive ever built, whijh was manufactured at the Baldwin Locomotive works, pasi'cd through this city this morning on the Baltmiore and Ohio railroad, bound for Erie. The locomotive weighs 415 tons. The “Matt Shay,” named alter the oldest engineer of the Erie railroad, is considered to be the most remarkable railroad engine in the United States. The locomotive has a set of driving wheels under the tender, the idea being to utilize the traction force of the ten der, which heretofore has been a waste. When running at full speed the “Matt Shay” will make a speed of approxi mately 120 miles an hour. One of the most vigorous, most ac tive of Americans is John Burroughs, the naturalist, sometimes affectionate ly spoken of as “the Grand Old Man of America. ” Recently he passed his 77th birthday and paused to remark: “I am young at 77 because I have practiced the art of careful living. I have avoided all stimulants because I have wanted to be a natural human being. I am cheered and exhilarated by drinking a glass of pure water. My tood tastes good and refreshes me. I do not know what a sleepless night means. I do not worry about tomorrow.” A Fi^ecedent For Mexican Land Reform. All the defenders of tyranny and privilege have one invariable argument against agrarian reform in Mexico. If the great estates are divided, they say, the peon will lose his land within sixty days and be no better off than he was before. Either he will gamble his land away or the money-lenders will take possession of it for debt. This represents a very old problem in dealing with backward peoples; but it is not unsolvable. Lord Kitchener had to graf)|Je with it in Epypt, and he met It by the simple process of applying the principle of the American home stead exemption laws. In Egypt the possessor of five acres or less is now secured in the posse.-sioti of his land. His crops may be seized for debt; but his Innd, his hut, his farming imple ments and hi.^ twc cattle cannot be seized, ihis law is highly unpopular with the Greek money-lenders in Egypt; but it has stamped out the political discontent that had gaind such force in the Nationalist movement. What Lord Kitchenei’s wisdom has done for Egypt, American wisdom can do for Mexico. Homestead examption is an American principle. Once applied to conditions in Mexico, peasant proprietorship could be pern’.anently established and with it would come prosperity and pe,:ce.—New York World. All Sortsof A Bird (Hume Border Telephone.) The w’ife of a Methodist minister in W'est Virginia has been married three times. Her maiden name was Partridge her first husband was named Robin and her second Sparrow and the present one is named Quale. There are now two young Robins and a Sparrow and three Quales in the family. One grandfather was a Swan and another wasa Jaj% but he’s dead now and a bird of paradise. Snakes Again. Prof. M. H. Holt regrets that peo ple generally' bear so much ill will to wards snakes. Most of our snakes, he insists, are harmless and render a ser-1 vice and he contends that the harmless j snakes should b2 protectland of no | snakes of any kind would be a joy for- j ever to some of us. The very sight of | one, no matter how harmless, is re- ' pulsive; and if Prof. Holt wants to protect the snakes we hope he will collect them all in Guilford county. He has our permission now to remove all of them from Iredell.—Statesville Landmark. Steamers Col I ids, and an ether Titanic Disaster Sinking in 90 feet of water within 15 minutes after being rammed amid ships in the upper roacnes of the St. Lawrence Riyer last Thursday near Rimouski, Quebec, the Canadian Paci fic liner Empress of Ireland carried down with her more than 900 of her passengers and crew. Of the 1,3()7 persons on board the liner, only 483 are known to have been saved, mak ing the probable death list 934. Looming up through th-3 river mist.s,, as the Empress of Ireland was lying to, waiting for the fog to lift or day to break, the Danish colder Storstad crashed bow on into the side of the big Canadian liner, striking her about midway of her length and ripping her side open clear to the stern. CRASH NEAR SHORE. Th^ crash occured not far from tho shore off Father Point, 150 miles from Quebec, which the Empress of Ireland left Wednesday afternoon for Liver pool and 10 miles from this point on the St. Lawrence. In reality there fore, although the liner was heading for the sea and the collier coming in in from it, the disaster was not one of the ocean but of the river. Unlike the fitanic’s victims, the Empress of Ire land's lost their lives within sight of shore -in land-locK wa^^ers. Immediately the ships crew recover ed from the shock of Ihe collision and when it was seen thav the liner had re ceived a vital blow a wireless “S. O. S.” call was sounded, HURRY TO RESCUE. The hurried appeal was picked up by the Governmer.t mail tender Lady Evelyn and the Government pilot boat Eureka at Father Point, and both set out to the rescue. So deep was the hurt of tne Empress, however, and so fast the inrush of waters, that long before either of the rescue boats could reach the scene the liner had gone down. Only floating wreckage and a few lifeboats and rafts from the steamer, buoying up less than a third of those who had set sail on her, were to be found. The rest had sunk with the liner, had been crushed |to death in the Storstad’s impact with her, or had been forced from exposure in the ice- chilled waters to loose their hold on bits of wreckage and had drowned. Dew on Clover Kills Heifer (Morganton Messenger.) A, B. Harmon, a rherchant and farmer living five miles out fiom Statesville, is fully convinced of the danger of allowing cattle to graze on clover while it is wet v/ith dew, Mr. Harmon has a fine field of clover near his home and had been allowing his cattle to go on it for an hour each day after the dew had dried off. His sister turned the cows on the clover before the dew had disappeared, forgot them and about two hours later one fine heifer was dead and four fine milch cows were in a dangerous condition, all being badly swollen. The cows were saved from death by driving them about th%*^ace tor several hours until the swelling went down. Davidson county blind tigers tried the sick dodge on Judge Lane when he came to town, but he sent the county physician out to investigate and they were brought in and given their medicine. The same trick has been worked successfully here and in other counties and we are waiting to see what happens when Judge Lane comes around,—Durham Herarald, Norfolk Southern Railroad Company, Passenger Traf fic Department. ATLANTIC HOTEL, MOREHEAD CITV, N. C It is with pleasure the Norfolk Sou thern announces Chat the “New At lantic Hotel,” Morehead City, this summer will be under the manage ment of Mr. R. P. Foster, of Ashe- ^ yille, N. C., who for years was con* j nected with the Atlantic and North j Carolina Railroad as General Manager, and whs*operated the Atlantic Hotel for four years with so much success and to the entire satisfaction of all his patrons. Mr. Foster has already received many letters from old friends, who ad vise him they would be glad to be with him this summer, to enjoy the finest fishing on the Atlantic Coast and cool and invigorating breezes. Mr. Foster will have associated with him this summer that popular hotel man, Mr. A. J. Cook, who needs no introduction to the Summer Tourist and who has so many friends all over the country. The Norfolk Southern Railroad has had ixjen at work for the past thirty days getting things in order and will co-operate in every way in providing good train service, etc. All railroads , in North Carolina, Virginia and Geor gia will sell round trip excursion tick- j ets to this papular resort daily until | September 30th, good until October 31, 1914. The hotel will be ready for reception of guests on Monday, June 15th, and the Grand Ball will be held on Satur day night, June 20th. Rains haye been falling at varying points for a week, and it is to be hop ed that we will now get sufficient showers to help the crops to maturity. 1 he Weightier Matters How much longer do the people of Henderson propose to embarrass them selves by attempting to look the in telligent stranger in the face and ex plain satisfactorily to him just why this progressive town has not even the semblance of a Young Men’s Christian Association, public library or institu tion for higher education? Do we be lieve for a moment that we can ignore or neglect these important matters very much longer and make a favor able impression on the wide-awake strangers who are passing back and forth among us hv the scores every day? Henderson has an elegant danc ing hall and other attractive places of amusement for both old and young, and there is no object or pur pose to condemn or criticies these in connection. But while we have these can we longer afford to be without the others?—Henderson Gold Leaf. A Bad Example Col. P. M. Perrsall, who was a few months ago appointed deputy clerk of the federal court at New Bern, has thrown up the job. He found, he would not only have to abandon his law practice but his political activities as well, and the last was the straw that brought the resignation. It is not surprising that the colonel surrendered his office rather than surrender his privilege to take part in the political game, but he is setting a bad example in resigning. It will never do in the world for the idea to get abroad that it is the proper thing for an office holder to resign.--Statesville Land mark. List of Letters Advertised for week ending May 30 1914. 1 Letter for Mr. V^^oren Ladden 1 Letter for Mr, S. A. Isley 1 Letter for Mr. R. M. Dickson 1 Letter for Mr. Joe Cates 1 Letter for Mrs. Chas. F. Moore 1 Letter for Mrs, Doctor Poland These letters if not called for will be sent to Dead Letter Office June 131914. Respectfully, J. T. Dick, P, M., Mebane, N. C.