North Carolina Newspapers

Coun- ures. id or writ- jncomiums have no t. tor their solely in tentive pe- )tures, the aud elo- lod and all id to know en he saw r, and did when told days later, ,riug maca- ned rrlum )rmicelli is grow into I Gas. gas flame d corrodes xide or tri be conibus- little or no companies niouey in )uld remain r sideboard days. Place. an Island be coast of San Salva- 'ations Indian Isl- I’uba He er knowing new conti- uud he sup- ands of the >il. iph. » f force of 11, recently c Commerce of a p^’etty Misn Marie, it to church E?d, she fell I»r* : racted »n was con- prayer, he uial he ari the "hoir ntion, “we n ‘i U.'' Miss Marie, ?arin^ the Pleah-e call TO FEAR ainst Some- Nerve to to your ad- rou wanted LS a tocai proof of tB of Uie lilezico and ilsalonariea wttd pres- ,hur.” ited walrua Idened bull ica, and I 1 massacre an 1 want. so out on ^air-minded, umpire a deciding ^hen ne'^eS' replied tha ke into a uu iw. tna THE LEADER AndRight The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin. Vol 5 MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY. JULY 16 1914 No 22 Mail Storms. hail sturms have visited Western North week. Farmers Danui^ing yarioud sect’.ons in Caiuiina the past fear these awful hail storms as much gs they do anything else. A severe stcim can rui«i an entire crop crippling ihf farmer financially, but there is nothing that can be done to prevent it. Hail storms t.nd droughts are both ilieuJeci calamities with the farmers A rai road corporation in New York has agreed to furnish poor women fre« traiispoitatiun to and from the public piik& during the summer months. This is something more than an act ot cunimendable charity. It is a g^ business investment, and is indicative ot the growing realization by public lervice corporations that the good will of the puuUc is the moat itft liity ’an possess. valuable aL- But Little Use. it the Mayor of Mebane would sen tence about ten n.en to a weeks work on the streets for maliciously blocking Mebanes side walks it would stop. Until this one feature of provoking lawlenessis broken up there is but little me for a day policini'in in Mebane. FESSESTHEIRDER OF Throat Fails Him. The news is sent from London that Colonel Roosevelt’s physicians say he cannot use his throat for any more speech making. If Teddy loses his voice he loses his hope. That mouth ind voi'^e “was the makin’ of him.” -Everything. Husband’s Accusation Caused Act. Mrs. Joseph Johnson of Martin County who has been under arrest un the charge of murdering her husband, made a complete confession of the crime and says she did it because her husband made her life miserable by constantly accusing her of infidelity. They were riding in a buggy on their way to church when he began his un welcome talk. She drew a pistol she had concealed under a shawl and firtd a bullet into his left temple. He fell to the roadside and the horse who became frightened at the explosion ran away, when stopped Mrs. Johnson said her husband had been killed by strangers. After the case had been investigated Mrs Johnson was arrested and placed in jail. She is only 22 years old and pretty. They have one child, a tiny son. L ISSUES A STATE IT Reiterates His Intention ot Carrying Out the Plan of Quadaloupe. WflL GOME TO THE END General Cairanza. the constitution alist chief, issued a statement at Saltillo, Mex., Saturday reiterating his intentions of carrying out the plan of Guadaloupe. He announced: “As first chief of the constitutiona lists, I have complied and propose to comply until the end, to the plan of Guadaloupe, which bears date of March last year. In conformity with this plan which was subscribed . by the chiefs and officials who surrounded me before I was acquainted with the usurper Huerta, I then being governor of the “SUPERHEATED AIR TOOTH GERM ROUTED! PUT iOR FAITH IN Dr,BeJl of Battersea Hospi tal, Claims Much for New Treatment. “MIRACLES AT LOURDES” “Superheated Air as a Cure for Cancer" ,was the subject of an address delivered the other day by Dr. Bell in the Cancer research department of the Battersea hospital in London. Up to 1903 Dr. Beil relied solely and not with out success upon dietetic, hygienic and therapeutic treatment. He then em ployed superheated air as a local appli cation, the treatment being suoplement- ary to his former methods. Since the Cancer research department at Battersea has been in working order it h^s been possible, he says, to demon strate how the important supplementary treatment of heating up the cancerous growth operates. ‘ The knowledge thus gained," said Dr. Bell, ‘ ‘is bound to prove of supreme state of Coahuila, and accepted by all i importance, as it ha& placed beyound Painful Accident. Miss Katie Davidson, an efficient employee at the Leader office met with a very painful acc'dent last Wednesday a^’ternoon. In passing the gasoline motoi on the back porch her foot slipped un a v^et slick place on the porch floor throwing her down causing her sleeve til come in contact with the flying wheel of the motor. She was thrown around until her clothing was tom off her body and this caused the engine to stop saving her life. Miss Mossie Scott aiiuther employee at the office heard her screams and ran to her assistance. After a thorough examination the doctor made the statement that no bones were broken or internal injuries surtai.ied, although the body was badly bruised and skinned and the nerves ieverely shocked. .Miss Dayidaon’a many friends were dehghted to learn that the accident would not prove serious. The Southern Beat. The tracks ot the Southern and Sea board lines paralell each other between Raleigh and Cary, and the evening trains very often run the distance very close to each other, the Seaboard has been getting rather the best of it, in most of the trips that distance but Sunday evening last Capt. W. C. Gate^ wood engineer on 1093 decided he would change the attitude of things the Sea board ran up and past the Southern train shot ahead like a bullet, but. Capt. Gatewood “kinder” felt his racing blood tingling in his veins and he pulled down on his throttle while his fireman shoveled in a few more blocks of coal, and you ought to have felt that engine getting away. It was not long before she was kicking sand in the Seaboard t^ain, and she went right along like a moving cannon ball, ran into Cary nearly one and one half minutes ahead ot the Seaboard train. Old 1093 is a hustler you bet, when she gets up and knocks her heels together there is something going to move. the chiefs and officials of the constitu tionalist array, I fiad myself obliged to remove from the posts they occupy un lawfully all the usurpers of the three powers—executive, legislative and judicial. “I shall continue to struggle to estab lish peace throughout the republic and will immediately thereafter call elec tions which will result in the reestablis- ment of constitutional order in Mexico. For this reason the plan of Guadaloupe is not and will not be a program of government, nor a revolutionary plan, but rather, as it is, a political plan.” Carranza said he considers himself obligated to carry out the reforms which failed to consummation in the brief Madero regime. He added: “In a few days the three divisions of Gens. Pablo Gonzalas, Francisco Villa and Alyaro Obr«gon will advance simultaneously toward the capital of the republic. 1 believe that Huerta, the usurper, will not resist the advance of the constitutionalist forces.” Eat To Live. “Eat less food and live longer,” ad- vi««es Dr, Edward Beecher Hooker. Leas than what? Certainly to gorge for the mere delectation of the palate after natural appetite has been satis fied must overburden the digestive or gans with stuff they can not assimi late and 30 bring about disorders of the internal system. But we believe that the promptings of Nature to be the safest guides up to the point where a>Jtual hunger ceases and surfeit be gins. The body requires a certain amount of nutriment, as the engine does of fuel; beyond that, the excess is wasted and worse; but below that the machinery is cheated of its due and | will not do the best work of which it is i capable. It is not necessary to starve in order to escape gluttony.—Va. Pilot, HER BOY DIES AT 76 Mother declares bhe knew The Never Could Raise Him (San Bernardino, CaI., Dispatch.) Antonio Esparga, aged 76, died here recently. The mother, Mrs. A. Es parga, aged 110 years, took the death without feeling, apparently, for she said to her friends: “I always knew he would die. I knew that I could never raise that boy.' The aged woman, who is believed to be the oldest women in the state, at tended the funeral. The family came here from Mexico halt a century ago. The Agricultural and Mechanical College, in its growth, development, and social usefulness, has been almost a revelation to our State. It is just twenty-fiye years old this year. It is therefore by a good many years the youngest of our Colleges for men. It represents a new type of education. Yet, in the face of many difficulties, it has made for itself a most striKing record. Its faculty now numbers sixty specialists in industrial education who were educated in the best universities of America. Its enrollment ot students counting all courses, 738. Its buildings number 26. Its equipment is modern and practical. Its graduates are most successful Its catalogue furnishes an interesting story of activity in the industrial life of our State. doubt the fact that the cancer cell is unable, to survive if retained at a temperature of 115 deg. to 120 deg. for a few minutes at a time, the application of the heated air being repeated at intervals under a pressure of from three to four atmosphers, so that it may be made to penetrate the diaeasfd mass. “The result apparently is that the vitality of the morbid cells is gradually destroyed, these cells sjbsequently be coming absorbed. It must, however, be clearly understood that this result can be assured only if the disease is dealt with in the early stages of its development. Cure for Dread Pyorrhea Demonstrated at Dental Clinic. (Philadelphia North American.) After years of effort on the part of bacteriologists the world over, a cure has been discovered for pyorrhea, the most dreaded disease of the teeth, which is commonly known as Riggs disease, and which in many instances causes a loosening of the gums and a falling out of the teeth- The discovery, which is •aid to be the gratest advance of the age in dentistry, was demonstrated yesterday at the final meeting of the forty-sixth annual convention of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society, at the Bellevue-Stratford. Dr. Michael T. Barrett, a dentist of this city, and a eraduate of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania m 1913, is the dis coverer of the cure. Before a large audience he demonstrated the success he has achieved with a set of lantera slides and patients whom he has cured. Youth is the time for beginniRg. The storehouse of life stands wide op^, for the treasures to be garneu therein. —Edward Garrett. A Canadian preacher predicts that the time will come when there will be no liars. Yes, just about the time when the earth shall be dissolved in fervent heat and the human race shall be no more. Belief Among Physicians That it is Highly Efficient in Tuberculosis. Peysicians on this side of the Atlantic are experimenting with garlic as » possible cure for the dreaded tuber culosis. A Dublin doctor has been working* on the theory for some years past with considerable success and has published a book upon it, and although it is too soon yet to tell of results in this country, it is being tried at the Metropolitan hospital in New York. It is said that thert is little tuber- culosis in Italy, where garlic chewing is a national habit and that in this country it is the Italian children who have given up chewing garlic who suc cumb to the great white plague. Garlic contains a chemical substance called ally] sulphide in the percentage of two drops to a teaspoonful of juice, which is much stronger than the amount of the same chemical found in onions or shallots. It is this drug which, it is claimed, destroys the tubercular bacilli. Garlic juice is said to act quickly upon tuberculosis of the throat, which heretofore has been almost impossible to treat, and application of the juice to lupus (tuberculosis of the skin) has excellent results unless the disease is of long standing. Now that the rebel generals have decided not to confer with Huerta delegates, preferring to go to Mexico City to get the swag, the protocol ^reed on at Niagara Falls is nulli- it is incumbent on President Wilson, therefore, to make Huerta •alute the flag—or did the United States agree that the demand for a ralute was a fittle joke?—Raleigh Times. One of the most striking examples of ealamity lying is found in the state ment of that renowned pulpit orator, Senator Penrose, when he declared that the Democratic tariff law had lost to the United States 178,000,000,- 000 in foreign trade since the Mexican war began. The Mexican war has been in progress about eighteen months, two months ot which was during the Taft administration. Now, the fact is that the export business of this country has averaged during the past few years; including last year about; $2,000,000,- The Devil Dancers (New York Sun.) The new performances of the Pank- hurst deyil dancers seem to be grating on the nerves of our much-enduring, docile, downtrodden and henpecked En glish brethren. There is big talk of resuming forcible feeding and confining the operation of the cat and mouse act to minor offenders. The mushy, sentimental weakness and mistaken chivalry with which these sis ters of satan have been treated by the Enghsh authorities, to the full as jelly- backed and futile as even we Americans could have been in like case, have brought on a constantly more danger ous, more brutal and more mephitic manifestation on the part ot the nox ious creatures. The “lower classes” of people would make short work of them were it not for the police. It is light that the police should protect these enemies of society from harm; is no- from Let The Law Say “Thou . Art The Man” (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) The conscience of the whole nation is behind President Wilson’s demand that guilt be made personal. Every one knows, as he said in his address to Congress, that ev^ry act of busi ness is done at the command of some person or group of persons, just as every act of government is the act of an individual or grop of individuals. When a citizen suffers wrong at the hands of a public official he seeks re dress from the guilty man and not from the political corporation that the men represents. But corporation of- ficals who have been guilty of offenses against common morality have escaped punishment on the plea that the cor poration committed them. The corpo ration has been punished by a fine But the fine has merely fixed the pnce to be paid for such acts. It has been a license fee to be reckoned with in the conduct of business. Public sentiment has fortunately reached the point where it will no longer tolerate such a licensing sys tem. Guilt is personal. The man who adopts a criminal policy of business oppression for the purpose of crushing his rivals is as guilty as any evil-doer, and he must be held individually responsible for his acts- Unfair com petition is a crime, whatever form it takes. If the law that the President suggests shall stiffen the backbone of the Attorney General until he bogins to demand the punishment of the guilty under the old law the abuses will stop. Oreat is science! Five hundred years *£0 bubonic plague would have swept through this country like the “black ^eath" %i Europe, but, thanks to sfinnce, it no sooner breaks out than its (rourae is checked. We think of the plague without fear, because we know there are men in this country who ^now how to protect us.— Raleigh limes. Life without a cross is the heaviest of all.-St Sebastian. 000 a year. So, it would take about twenty-five years to lose the trade i body going to protect society which the Senator says has been lost, j them? If every dollar of it had baiished during the period of which he speaks. The absurdity of the Penrose statement is apparent to any intelligent person who stops to think, but to the un thinking an absurdity is just as good a fact, and it is to the unthinking that the Pennsylvania Senator appeals.— Winston Journal. Life is made up of little things, and he that scorns them despises his own real interest. r-J. W. Barker, Why are they treated better than a navy or costermonger would be should he dare to resort to the mildest of their antics? And when they are locked up, why should food be forced upon them? There's a better way. These sweet ladies will eat. Try to starve 'em and they will be almost as ravenous for victuals PS they are for publicity. The London Chronicle says there are very few wildcats in Europe now. What has become of the militant suffs? Scratching a Fig Pays (“The Kian,” in Toronto Star.) Old Twilight shunted a poll of swill into the trough and reflectively scrat ched the pig’s back. Old Twilight is not the only one in the world who learned that there is pork in scratch ing. Little do you think, when you sit down to your breakfast bacon that good men scratched for it. We moss- backs scratch for a living all the time and we are proud of it. There is pork in it, and pork is money, and money is gasoline, and gasoline is power, and a chattel mortgage is like the grace of God—it is with us always. Amen! As soon as J get through writing this, 1 am going out to the pen to scratch a pig. It helps to make him fat. You have got to please a pig, same as a woman, or she—the pig. 1 mean—wont reflect credit on you. A pig with a grouch is a dead loss. You might just as well pour your swill into a rathole. But please j?our pig, take halt an hour of every day and go out and scratch your pig. COLD 1F FREAK WELL An Oklahoman’s House Cooled by Unique System. (New York Times.) Frcrm a remarkable well on his land J. C. McSpadden, of Tahlequah, Okla., obtains not only an abundance of water almost ice cold in the summer time, but also a supply of chilled air, which he uses to keep the McSpadden home cooler on the hottest day than any summer resort. It is a freak well all around. When the well was sunk it was for a cistern. When about 50 feet deep the bottom broke through, revealing a sort of cav ern, from which came a tremendous flow of ice-cold water. Apparently the supply is inxhaustible, for the well was sunk years ago and the water has remained at the same leyel ever since. One may open the cover of this well and’his hat will be lifted from his head by a rush of air from the well that feels like an icy blast. Where the water and the cold air come from is a question no one has answered. Unlike most underground streams, this one changes temperature in the winter, getting much colder. While the water stands 45 feet below the surface of the ground, yet in winter ice five inches thick has been known to form in tlie well. Taking advantage of the well’s supply of cold air, Mr. McSpadden sealed the top of the well with a concrete cap and put pipes in it. Through one of these he draws his water supply. Through the other he draws cold air that is piped to every room of his six-room cottage. The pipes reduce the temper ature many degrees even on the hottest days, and when the weather is moder ately cool the house can be made so cold as to be uncomiortable. A True Tale True to Life (From Columbia State.) One of those true tales that shame fiction comes from Alabama, where a husband and father, missing since 1893 returned a rich man from Brazil to hunt up his family, living in poverty, the children uneducated, thinking him dead Yet the truth is something better than fiction would have imagined. There was no melodramatic reunion. Though Blackman left $50,000 in cash and endowed each member of his fam- itly with an mcome of $5,000 a year, he was permitted to go back to Brazil after a greetiag on the part of th« wife and children that was utterly cold and unsympathetic. It was here that real life bettered the story books. Who shall say that the wife who dismissed the sixty-seven-year-old hus band was not right in her attitude? Time was of the essence of his con tract, and he had hopelessly defaulted. No money that he could pay could wipe out the years of neglect, of lost opportunity, of struggle with which he had afficted her by his desertion. She took his money, but she wished noth ing of himself. It is easy to imagine the pdrseproud Blackman coming home after his twenty-one year jaunt, confident in the healing magic of his possessions. It may matter little to him, but it will do good to others, that he found out- that money is not all powerful, that where a man is rich is in service; that there are some things that may be forfeited that never can ^be brought back. In all the world the noblest of ad venturers are those cohorts of love that find themselves walking the tread mill of duty, with noses against the grindstone of labor, who are kept alive not so much by what they hope to get as by what of duty they feel them selves compelled to endure in order to do. It is these simple folk, to whom “wanderlust” and adventure are but tales i/Old out of fairy books, who win in the dust of a daily round of obliga tion to the fortunes most worth while List of Letters Advertised for week ending July 11 1914. 1 Letter for Mr, Lorme Altman 1 Letter for Mrs. Mary Williams 1 Letter for Mrs. H. L. Thomas 1 Letter for Mrs. Pearlie Plunts 1 Letter for Mrs. G. A. Powers 1 Letter for Mrs. J. G. Prichott 1 Letter for Mrs. Sammie Coatnore 1 Letter for Mrs. Malise Walker 1 Letter for Mrs. Amanda Williams 1 Letter for Miss Saline Sykes 1 Letter for Miss Ula Ray 3 Letters for Miss Mable Jones 1 Letter for Miss Virgina Jeffreys 1 Letter for Miss Annie Gibson 1 Letter for Mr. Henry Mills 1 Letter for Mr. Marvin J. Thomas 1 Letter for Mr. Philip Criss 1 Letter for Mr. Clarance Wright. These letters if not called for will be sent to Dead Letter Office July 521914. Respectfully, J. T. Dick, P, M,, Mebane, N. C. 60,000 Men To Write. The Railway Employees’ Department of the American Federation of Labor has begun to gather data for the greatest hard luck story ever written. Sordid chapters from the lives of 35,- 000 men will be gathered. The whole, j when compiled, will tell the story of the hardships, the sufferings, the poverty and sickness of the union shop men thrown out of work thirty-three months ago, when labor difficulties arose betweeR them and the Illinois Central railroad and the Harriman lines. A Summer Drawback. “Summer has its inconveniences.*’ “I don’t get you.” “I was just thinking of the vestless man who tried to carry a lead pencil, a fountaie pen, his watch and hit cigars in the top pocket of his coat.**—: Detroit Free Press.