North Carolina Newspapers

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KI owing [I'us ki.-Si*s of the d ratlar liav? been iih my loving wife 4' as I lie tiay died my cliilditn upon anus al)out me--l a\v been tiiat ijian, ‘f ton^ui'ioss Silence tlur I, t han to have I imjersontion of at>' Napoleon ti. In^ersoll. A Bitters our lisil.t. wp have iliduinj^ tile heated i.i.'en yt‘in«- on in hoolui betu'ix The vs and Observc»r as ilrii^ii’s water. ['A of the Seiretary flared that the wat- Fo far from being I'.L li> baUii* in. cih.r hand, has lly that, while per- rin^ w aror, it fr-^ely tlrinkin^ tbe cooling ( lef k. 'I'here are •riniHiations on both into claims and at r>‘8pcctive news- willi which wo will re. t nt editorial in o briiiL^ the matter ad to if: paper,” says The from delirium llial i a disease, it , nijikos the thing a 1' a Slate, or local, :;i ‘ n(»t })roduced by oitrarninated. Noth- •f llowr' m Kaleig'h. tii iking's, either of ail .-hake '1 arheelia. iri:tkiiiy:s, either of iali .-liake Tarheelia, roi i and branch, by hi‘ .\'av.v of all those *ir irii-^t. have taken Ufcciaion. .Tupieme court ■ultii that a ^vife liv- r hu=b^ua IS not eu- uiidei- the terms of nipeuriaiiou act may ) to those affected i and entirely for • of fcucifet>. The e£- uiii must surely be liidintaiiiing of the bay, Liie place where veil together wheth- or au apartment or om. The wife, nat- for herself and her riiore careful to pre- rity of the family* e done properly, so- thtt gainer.—Boston on Climbing, r hea»d .limkins re- e he gut half way up h one of his llttlo gaiuo?” asked ou® iiuw long ago did it*’” was the evasive rch when he’d he. lirst man. “Welli n mouths since ih a the rest of the luiatlub guide and fcloi ill on the summit* beiiuuibed strangers n and guided the en foot, where a group ’fcs was waiting-’ 1 1-1 71 AndRight The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin. Vol 5 MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 30 1914 No 24 Capt. E. S. Parker Dead. Kollowinjx an illness extending fl.ioutjh four years, Capt E. S. Parker nii-^.^oil awny at his home in Graham Monday at one o’clock in the afternoon. i)eath waf tliu* a stroke of paralysis wiiu'h he sultVred Sunday night. ( iptain Parker earned his rank and fti,. hv service in the Confederate aruiv. t\>r many years he was the j -ider of the bar in Alamance and one oi the loading citizens of the county. {!» was a man of aoility and influence, ili- tanding as a lawyer and his service t, th«' Homocratic party were recog- I r. t'il by oIectu)n to the office' of • .lu'itor. six years ago he was born i:i t’uintu'riand county, but the yeai» , i' his us^efiilnos:? and his labors were at m Ciraham. lJul. S North East Mebane ■a W t» are having a continued dry hot spt‘ll. the corn is needing rain badly Air. Frank Albright is. building a h;uHlsome c^ottage on a lot near his i K^thcr Joan AU»rignts Mrs .1. t". York spent Sunday after noon at Mr. Joe Hices Mif. I’ossio Albright continues very -il k, her death is exported at any time I ho infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Ne'vinan is very sick. VVc have about decided to call our it ie settlement Oak Ave. We invite the* gotul people to come and buy, there i -^.imepivtty building lots for sale yet, it i~ a nice place to live Mr -. Joe Kice spent Monday after- ii, oil with Mrs. A. Newman \Ve certainly enjoyed our picnic trip r,t (’arrs Farm Thur.«day. Those that V.«nt from Oaks were; Mrs. K. J. Oakley and children, Mrs. C. A. New- iii:ui and children. Miss Lillie Rice and Mr {'larenco York and children. U'o would like to hear from our Kihmd writer, we certainly would like news from all the Routes. Neighbor. With the appearance t»f typhoid te\ t i in fuir midst, it may be of in- ft rest to t.he general nublic, or some [Mifticn of it, to know' that the State .•f .N’orth ('arolina has provided for tfu' distribution of Typhoid serum by fht' StHte. This enables every per.‘?on in North ('arolina to secure this an titoxin, regardless of their means. The rate believes that it is good, and it iias i>p(Mi thoroughly tried out, and ad- (.pt('d in the United States Army and avy, as w’ell as in the Armies of the ureat European nations, with the re- ult that it has practically eliminated lyphoid where used. With this means of i riilection at hand, there is no ex- ;use fur the ]U'esence of this disease i>t this disease in iny community. Suspension _ We regret very much to an nounce that the Leader will be suspended for Jhe next thirtv days. The Editor' has suffered much from ill health and feels that rest and recuperation is most essential. We have done our best with what.strength we possessed, but we did not have the strength. We has struggled against being driven to this position, but in vain, realizing the hai m to us and the town. Respectfullv, J. 0. Fo\^ LOOW Ft* msBORo [.“MY NEXTjoMB A|j)(|oys jfl |R|S|j ARE KILLED IN ou5r ! : DUBLIN STREET bhe Determines to Head the List of “Important Cities” in Noilh Carolina To The Voters of Ala mance County. I hearby heartily thank you for the liberal support you have given me and announce myself «gam a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the action of the County Democratic Convention. Yours very truly, Allen J. Thompson. Greensboro is going to have every-r thing possible to make her the most progressive' and up-to-date city in North Carolina. A town cannot moye without the united efforts and inter est of the people and a patriotic de sire to make their home a place to be proud of. This is the secret why Greensboro Is moving so fast, she has the right class of citizens and united ly they are working for a bigger and better town. Dodging: Issues anti Doing Nothing. It is such an easy matter for some men to be brave and outspoken when discussing a subject that has become popular and there can be no doubt as to which the popular side is. There are great issues constantly facing every man, and especially the editor of a newspaper. It is .such an easy thing for some to be quiet in “the seven languages,” while their nHgh- oors are fighting out the battles for progress and pui’e government. A fellow can so easily sit upon the stool of do nothing while the real patriotic citizen hammers aw^ay to forge out the necessary form of government. If a spark flies olV and stings the dodgmg skunk, he at once emits his only weapon of defence. It |3 oJfen- .sive, too, to the refined, cultivated mind.—The Davidi-’onian. The Qood Road Question. Good roads are next to good Church es in a community. To cite an instance the farm where the picnic was held last Thursday was selected principally because the road was an good. Easy traveling makes an enjoyable trip without considering the wear on the vehicle? or fatigue endured hy the horses. When the farmer takes a trip he usually considers the best road, and why should he not, a good road is a big inducement to travel on it. Good roads is an important question right at this time all over North Carolina. All the newspapers are telling it and everybody with any public spirit about them is talking it. Since th»^ highway through Orange county has been completed the people right from Mebane are travelling that road to Durham and Raleigh whereas before they were alwavh headed the other way. There is no reason why Alamance cannot have a good road continuing the Orange highway so as the entire road can be completed to Greensboro. Of course Alamance is going to do it sometime but there is no better time than now, procrastination is not by any means beneficial. Do it now'. “And I Hope It Will Be This One,’'Cries Annie Bell as London Judge Commits Her. “The next bomb I explode will be in some police court, and I hope it will be this one!” Four Dead and Others of Nationalists Are Ex pected ’to Die. Three men and one woman s^re dead generation. .This was the parting shot at thel„'^'’® 'eP‘y ‘he Austro- Magistrate at Westminster London by ultimatum was anac- j ceptance of almost all the imperious Annie Bell, a militant suffragette, as he committed her for trial on the double charge of attempting to destroy on May 10 the Metropolitan Tabernacle m South London and on July 12 the old church of St. John tne Evangelist. Miss Bell enlivened the sitting of the court by singmg the “Marseillaise,” shouting and struggling with court at tendants. She chaffed the Magistrate on the futility of sending her to prison, say mg: “If I have been there ten times I have never yet served my sentence ” She added: “The blowing up of a church does not count—not even if it is blown out of creation.” Miss Bell should be sent on a prison ship to Siberia. That is all we would do with her. Gave Servian Minister His Passports and Sent Him Home. i i Developments appear to furnish new proof that ~ Austria is determined to | more than 60 persons are in the make war on Servia The possibilities j hospital, wounded, as the result of a of a general European war seem greater j battalion of the King’s Own Scottish than ever have confronted the present} Borderers firing into a mob in the streets of Dublin. Seven of tiie wounded are expected to die. Among them are three women and a boy of 10. The affray was the result of a demands, except that ficials shall participate vestigation and fix the for the anti-Austrian Austrian of- in the in responsibility propaganda. Servia proposed an appeal to the Powers at The Hague for the settle ment of that feature. Notwithstanding this humiliating surrender, which was more than Eu rope expected of the proud little Nation, the Austrian Government gave the Servian Minister his pass ports, which may be construed as a I virtual declaration of war. gun-running exploit of the National ist volunteers, aided by a mob com posed largely of women and youths. A consignment of rifles said to num ber 10,000, was landed Saturday night at Howth, nine miles from Dubhn, from a private yacht. The Nationalist volunteers cut the telegraph wires and stopped travel on the Dublin roads and according to reports, sent away most of the rifles, together with 70,000 rounds of ammunition in motor cars. List of Letters Advertised for week ending July 25 1914. 1 Letter for E. D. Wess 1 Letter for George Allen 1 Letter for Lonne Altman 1 Letter for F M. Forest 1 Letter for Carrie Bell Jackson These letter.^ if not called for will be sent to Dead Letter Office Aug. 7 1914. Respectfully, J. T. Dick, P. M., Mebane, N. C. Helping Humanity (Indianapolis News.) It rarely fails that the taps of abuse are turned on full flow for Rockefeller, 200 farm buildings insured, 42 are rod- Lightning Rods (Wall Street Journal.) Reappearance of the lightning red agent can soon be expected. Accord ing to a bulletin of the Ontario De partment of Agriculture, thirteen years of investigations demonstraie that lightning rods are now 94 1-2 per cent, efficient in the province. In the state of Iowa they are 98.1 per cent, efficient and in Michigan 99.9.per cent. ^^^t'jiMightning claims paid Dy in surance companies on rodded buildings in Iowa during eight jears was only $4,4$4, while on unroddod buildings, which were of the same number, they paid $341,065. In Ontario, out of every The Honston Post tells us that five people in Texas committed suicide last l^ursday. Considering the prov'oca- finn, the wonder is that the daily av- f is not a great deni larger. Im- a’ination could hardly conceive of Rieuter ills than those which humans foiM|it‘lled to live in the Lone Star ' >rMnionwealtti are called on to en- nire. Says a Missouri philosopher: “If you "Miy wear a smile the hot weather Won’t bother you.” Still, it might be Vv 'll to add the necklace of beads if '»u Wish to avoid arrest when you ap- P *ar on the streets. Did it ever occur to you, kind reader how easy a matter it is to choke a man when his hands are tied; kick him when his back is turned and he is started down the hill of failure, discourage ment; mistakes; to join in with the whisper and gossipmunger when an intimation of wrong-doing is given; to take advantage of the weak and unsuspecting; to prey upon the vitals of the helpless? Did it ever occur to you, and how cheap a goat it takes to do it. j so it is fair play only that when he j gives $2,500,000 additional to the In- I stitute for Medical Research, which he I founded that he should have due praise. I Nor w’ill it do to say, as is so often said, “Where did he get the money?” That is another story and involves an argument not contemplated here. The simple fact remains that he has given this great sum, which, added to his previous gifts, makes a total of $12,- ; 500,000, and mi kes this institution the most lavishly endowed of its kind in the wr»rld. The work that it has already done in its short life made it famous among institutions of its kind. Its discoveries have been many and great. It has added to human knowledge as to the causes and quality of diseases ded. Yet out of every 200 struck by lightning in 1912 only three were red ded buildings. But don’t let the agent put up rods that run through glass insulators. Ac cording to the Ontario bulletin they should be in metallic connection with the building and no insulators should be used. Is There a Machine I'x-Congressman Charles R. Thomas 'iiitrihutea an interesting paper on alleged machine politics, which with f'liargos that there is a machine and t'at it is in good working order. Of ^■')urse, maybe there isn’t such a thing liiit here’s a former Congressman who charges it just the same; which gives it standing enough to be thought of i>nd turned over in the minds of peo ple, either for condemnation or exon- Tution V)y the people of the Third iMatrick, and to show the whole peo ple how suspicion can arise when there only the soap-box variety of prim- !'ry. All this adds power to progress towards the goal of a legalized prim- 'Jiy.- Wilmington Dispatch. The Alabama Supreme Court is not without good precedent for it.s deci sion that an insurance company is not liable for a policy on the life of a man who was hanged. The Supreme Court of the United States, if we mistake not, so held in the McCue case. A good many people in the United Sates should take notice of the fact that Gen. Huerta leaves for foreign parts with a deep-seated resentment against the Democratic party as well as the Wilson Administration. In this he is in full accord with Joe Cannon and Theodore Roosevelt. The Pernicious Pie “Is Pie Vanishing?” asks the Rich mond Times-Lispatch. Yes; not in the sense you mean, but down what the children call “the red lane.” The consumption of fruit pastry is ever on the increase in the cities of and to such an extent as to place it in the south where, year by year, larger the front rank. Here is a double advantage. It has not only extended numbers of the people eat in so-called cheap restaurants. The pie of com- human knowledge, but it has given i merce,—a minimum of canned apple or American scientists an opportunity that they would not perhaps naye had and by the work that they nave thus had a chance to do it has reflected honor and credit on the American name. For Sale Two desirable six room houses recently c^nstructf^d within three short 'blocks of the center of the town. There is a bargain for you at a reasonable price. Several vacant lots for sale. Apply to John W. Nicholson 4t. A Georgia editor says the newspaper that pleased everybody must have been edited by Adam before he lost one of his ribs, and he might have added that the newspaper of today which succeed ed in pleasing everybody wouldn’t be worth anything to anybody. The verdict of a jury in a criminal case in Arkansas has been set aside because the jurors consumed nine quarts of whiskey in arriving at a conclusion. Was the consumption considered too large or too small? A Trenton man who insistea upon driving a’.i automobile through the streets of that town while drunk has been given a sentence of twelve months in the work house. That ought to give him tim.e to sober up. The Curse of Karolyi (From Leslie’s Weekly) Is Francis Joseph, Emperor ot Aus tria and Apostolic King of Hungary, whose nephew and heir was murder ed at Sarajevo, June 28, under the spell of a curse? Certainly it would seem so, and it is rumored that this unhappy old man, at every new miS' tortune, thinks of the night when the Countess Karolyi cursed him with the curse of a mother robbed of her first born son. It was at a brilliant ball. The Emperor was not yet 20 years old and had reigned two years, during which time butcher’s work had been done in suppressing a revolution in Hungary. The Countess Karolyi’s son was one of the patriots executed, and she faced the young emperor in a frenzy, crying: “May heaven and hell blast your happiness! May your family be ex terminated! May you be smitten in the persons of those you love best! peach to a maximum of dough—is a very different proposition to the home made article which our grandmothers f’ained the Dinahs and Dulcies to make. They were concoctions as delicious as digestible, the flaky pastry overflowing with the juices of ripe products of the orchard or garden, the combination meltiner in one’s mouth, without masti cation. The present generation of Vir ginians is addicted to an article that their ancestresses would not have al lowed to be served at their tables,-'-a tough, leathery, tasteless thing not de serving the name under which it mas querades on the lunch counter; its ap peal to the customer being neither through the eye or palate, but consist ing in the fact that a generous slice may be had* for five cents. To the nicer tables of former days it would have ■eemed dear at any price.—Va. Pilot. Austria and Servia. Itj may seem like bullying in a country the size of Austria-Hungary to threaten one the size of Servia, but when the small country is a hotbi^d of 'assassination—of assassination al ready carried out against the late Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife through a plot of National di mensions—the case takes on a differ ent look. Moreover, the small coun try continually foments aH sorts of anti-Austrian intrigues Servia, al ways itself governed largely by as sassination and now ruled over by a family whose title rests upon assassi nation, is one of the toughest custom ers among the Nations of the earth To Austria it present;? the menace of the copperhead snake. There is noth ing brave about shooting a copperhead, but neither is there anything of which the shooter need be ashamed.—Charlotte Observer. B The Unwritten Law^ (Boston Herald.) The sooner people stop talking about the unwritten law, the sooner people will stop fancying that such a thing exists. Americans have only a writ ten law. Jt reads ihe same whatever the circumstances. For its plain writ ing mankind has paid an appalling price in pain and blood; none of us understand what it has cost the race to get its laws written down for all to read. And we have but one law. Other peoples have had civil law and canon law; they have had nominal laws of their own making and the real laws made by stronger kings. But Americans have only the one law, written in the same words for all. From Draco’s time to the present no system of law has been all it should he. But the way to make law better is not to shadow it with a vague lawlessness miscalled unwritten Uw. If our laws are too rigorous, if they regard too little the extenuating circumstances, if they lag too far be hind our growing moral sense, let us change them to meet our actual needsB For every appeal to unwritten law speaks the same antisocial impulse as the blind whip of the night rider and the hasty fagot of the lyncher. Proved His Claims. The Baltimore American tells us that “the dancing of bathers on the beach in scant attire has shocked popular sensibilities to the point of protest,” but why should dancers be required or expected to wear more when perform ing on the beach than ■;vhen in the pub lic ballroom? The reluctance of women voters in Kansas to register is reported to have diminished since the Attorney-General rendered an opinion that they are not required to tell their age. Male voters may not care for the privilege, but is it accorded them under conditions “equal” political rights in Kansas? She looked at him doubtfully after the proposal. “The man I marry,” she said, “must be both brave and brainy.” “Well,” he declared, “I think I can lay just claim to being both.” “I admit you are brave,” shs re sponded, “for you SBved my life when our boat ups«t the other day; but that wasn’t brainy, was it?” “It certainly was, ” he retorted. “I upset the boat on purpose.”—Ex change. Militancy and Matrimony We thank one of our kind lady friends tor sending us the following selection for publication. Read it, you will be interested: The militant movement in England has been explained by a physician who has written on the subject, as due to the fact that there are a million un married women in that country. He has concluded that the lack of the husband is the reason for the demand for the vote. In the light of such logic, Mrs. Ar chibald Colquhoun’s findings in a re cent article in an English magazine are of added interest. Mrs. Colquhoun has discovered official figures which show that England has also the un married man. For the ages between 15 and 35, she says, are comparative ly few more sinjfle women tlmn single men “A superfluous woman there fore, she writes, “is superfluous net because there is no man to marry her, but because she does not fit herself to become a wife. We are breeding teachers, typists, anr* government clerks, and we want mothers, wives, and cooks. Unless middle class young women are prepared to make marriage economically possible for young men, they will be condemned in increasing numbers to celibacy, not because there are not enough youtig men, but be cause men will increasingly learn to 4o without marriage.” Now there is still another deduction to be drawn from the facts in the case. If young women are turning in such large numbers to other occupntions than that of marriage, isn't it be cause they are offered better terms in the new employment than in the old? And isn’t the onus of the situ ation possibly the other way round rather than as Mrs. Colquhouo puts it? Perhaps until middle class and all young British men are prepared to make the terms of the marriage con tracts more attractive to the young women who are at last economically independent, they, the young me«, will be condemned in increasing num bers to celibacy, not because th«i« are not enough young women, but be cause ycung women are increasingly learning to do without maririage in the form of servitude in which their moth ers knew it. The woman who has found work for real wages is loath tn give it up for work in any man's home so long as the present autocracv of marriage allows him to dictate ab solutely the disposal of the family in come. HUCKLEBERRY SHIP MENTS. Will Amount To Nearly $200,000..From Towns. of Senor Moheno’s latest exhibition of good manners in his reference to Secretary of State Bryan as “a clown in a country circus,’^from which those who are fpmiliar with the cartoons of our jingoes will be able to determine the kind of American newspapers which are appreciatively read in Huertista circles in Mexico. Honest Confession | We understand that a joint stock company is being talked of for the purpose of publishing a first-class, up to date newspaper at Hillsboro. We have been publishing a weekly paper in Orange county for over thirty-six years,—two years and five months at Chapel Hill and the balance of the time at Hillsboro—yet we have never felt that we were giving our patrons more than a third-class paper. May b^ others can do better than we have done.—Orange County Observer. A Warsaw special says: While it has I been known here for some time that j the huckieberry crop this year was one of the lai^est in many years, it was not expected that the reeeipts from the would reach the high mark that'^it now seems has been reached. No official figures have been issued, but after talking to a number of reliable men in some of the towns it now seem;^ that the crop this year will reach a total of $175,000 in four towns, namely, Clinton, Faison, War saw, and Mount Olive, with the two former towns leading by a amount.