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c. and Return ern Railway. ( aioJina State Agri- hor 19th to 24th, I914 i'e exoelKnt regular serviop to and from owiho- special trams fi 21 AND 22: inlt^rmediate stations f'tvn-n; l^^ave Greens- fti I ivt' Huleigji 9;50 A. k\o lialeigh 6:00 P. t^nnrciiHte stations to u; U’ave Oxford 7:00 pi-h 9 20 A. M. ti-30 P. M , same inttM'inPiiiate stations tviin. leave Goldsboro H:;l Mi.‘ h 8:50 A. M. Haleigh (Fi-eight i.. • JiUie (iay. «-!'i...itunitj' to ^fsit 1’ ur I'Hinerous tree I *e L d Thompson tiyir-ii up Side down • l‘mama in peace and ii k:i di-^iday. iti.imatiou re^ardin^ ei(v, apply nearest \ i)rk, ai?‘-er.ger Agent, Rsiieigh, N. C. Colli Needs ntioii ^nd try to wear it out. ->iu in;=tead. Take Dr. oveiy, relief follows your I'old and Soothes t’lea;^ar,t. Antiseptic idreji like it. Get a iiiu’s I'view’ Discovery house, *'Our tamily *ot t»>r” writes Lewis Chester, Ohio. Money efir-d, iuit it nearly rs of Alamance unty i.>n of my many Dem- blicaii fiipjids, I here- 'elt an independent leriti of Alamance 1 the su()port of all iedf^e to them, if t and impartial ad- e offi--e, and assure a change in the De- ty. RRIE WALKER. (iraham, N. C. ^tomach and Healthy ach, perfect working^ ar actin'? Bow^els ia will use r>r. King’:* I'hey insure good t (Jonstipation and tonir- effect on the urify your blood and poisons through the at your Druggist. rugs Fail. . eai='.es fail to respond t, even in hands of III?, whereas acute *; {lond readily. When come fhronic, drugs s much harm as they oniat’h rebels against this cia?s of casea reatesc benefit from atey. If you suffer ia, indigestion, • lone.-, kidney or arid poisoning or ue lo impure blood, “ccept Air. Shivar’a pruiitMl below. His only two in a thou- ge, have reported no Ihis is a wonderful wonderful spring, ilowing letter: H. C. arantee offer and en- u dollars for te« Mineral Water. I air trial, in accor- ctioiiB contained in >d, and if the results to me you agre« in full upon receipt ^ demijohns which I n'.ptly. And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin.’ e distinctly) tisuig Manager of Advocate? is per- with Mr. Sbivar. atever in accepting ersonally witnessed tive power of this rious case. Vol 5 MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22 1914 No 32 Card of Thanks. thank our frienda and \Ve desire to for their kindness during the of our mother. that nothing but similar service would compensate, as there . not a single night or day we did have abundance of company to mother. neighbors sickness We feel ‘r Wd not us in waiting on Daisy E. Ray. Prize Ottered by The Gra ham Chapter Daughters of The Confeaeracy. DEATH OF MR. J. W. STEED. Prominent Citizen of Mont gomery Dounty and Well Known in Asheboro Died Oct. !!• Dollar Gold Piece Graham Chapter A prize of a Five uttered by the Dautihters of the Confederacy, for the fSi-ay entitled, •mg the Lives, p.ii- A Sketch Com- Peisonal Character- d ana Military Leadership of Robert i.ee and Thomas J. Jackson.” Any white person undor twenty-one years of age attending the public schools in Alamance County may compete for this piize. and this pledge must be signed to each paper: “This is the original \vurk of (signature.) Ihe best three papers will be read as part of the program of Lee-Jackson i)ay as celebrated by the Chapter, and tnree judges will determine the success- tal one. All papers must be sent to Miss Mamie Farker by Thanksgiving. For any further information apply to; (Mifs) Mamie Parker, Graham, N. C. Alamance Cotton Fashion Show. The ladies of Alamance county will ^ Protracted Meeting Ihe effectual fervent prayer of the ritihteous man availeth much.^’ Ibese were the words taken from James 5 10 verse by Rev. Mr. J. J. Boone in the Methodist church Monday night at the beginning of a protracted meeting as the substance for his discourse. Not the prayer of a sinner, not the prayer of an ungodly man, but the prayer of the righteous man. It does not require such an abundance of words, one brief appeal is all that is needed. He said he once knew a Isdy. a Sunday School teacher who had been deeply interested in three young men. Mr. Joseph W. Steed, of Steeds, Montgomery county, died Sunday night Oct. 11 at the Charlotte Sanatorium after several weeks illness. Mr. Steed was 71 years old and was a native of Randolph county, having spent his early life in Asheboro clerking in a store for Dr. J. M. Worth, he moved to Steeds where he in the mercantile business, which he followed for 41 years. He bore the distinction of being the oldest mer chant in the county at the time of his death. Mr. Steed was the son of Nathaniel , and Sarah Redding Steed and was one I of a family of ten children, eight boys j and two girls. Two brothers and one sister survive; Mrs. Eleazor Winslow, ! Asheboro, and Messrs. Jonathan Steed, of Asheboro and Thomas Steed Eudora Kansas. Mr. Steed was reared about four miles southwest of Asheboro at what is known as the Nat Steed place. In 1870 Mr. Steed Married Miss Martitia Page, daughter of the late James Page. To this union were bom nine children, eight of whom with his companion survive. The children are: Messrs. J. G. Steed, Mt. Gilead; W. R. Steed, Amarillo, Tex.; Frank Steed, Clifton, Arizona, Prof. H. N. Steed, of the A. & M. College, Raleigh; C. L. Steed. Candor and Mrs. R. D. Cothran, Manning, S. C.; Mrs. R. H. Tyson, Mebane, and Miss Lula Steed, Steeds. Mr. Steed had been a very active man until about three fyears ago when his health began to decline. He was taken suddenly ill about a month ago and was carried to the haspital for Efiand Items. have a cotton Fashion Show in the Hay building, Burlington, N. C., on October 29th and 30th, from 3 p. m., to 11 p. M. each day. The purpose of this show will be to interest the ladies in cotton goods and induce them to adopt this fabric more gennerally in mukirg their dresses and wearing apparel, in order that the distress occasioned by the European war may be relieved and in order that in this hour of disaster to the cotton farmer the women may do something to help relieve the situation. Also it is intended by this exhibit to In 18731 show the ladies the many beautiful engaged 1 designs of cloth made by our own mills that they may appreciate more than ever the beautiful goods made by our mills in this county. At this show will be exhibited the products of the different mills of the county. There will be booths containing exhibits by the mills. The ladies in charge of the booths will be dressed in suits made of cotton goods, and in this way will be shown many styles that may be adopted in making dresses from cotton goods. The different mills of the county will furnish samples of cotton goods, out ings, etc., and the exhibit will be well worth seeing. The Hosiery Mills of the county wiH Qxhibit hosiery of different styles and will contribute much to the beautiful showing that it is hoped will be made Everybody is invited to attend this show. Admission will be free and we believe that it will be the most unique and interesting exhibit ever made in this county. The committee expends a special invitation to all the ladies of the county and the'adjoining counties to participate in this Fashion Show, and it is hoped that all the ladies attending will wear dresses made of cotton goods, as in this way they will lend Interest to the Too late for last week. V 8.>H. D. Brown spent last Friday illaboro with her daughter Mrs. Bfvins. treatment but nothing could be done, occasion. His condition was so that he gaadually sank until the end came. About twenty-live years af(o Mr Steed joined the M. E. church at As- There was a revival going on and they ^ury under Presiding Elder Sharp’s attended service, she induced them to go up to be prayed for, she went with them, when she got to the alter she threw up her hands and pleadingly said, Loid give them to me, their conversion waa almost immediate. It was a sermon of extraordinarily power, an pathos, and seems quite certain that his? preaching is going tu prove of great value to the Meban** people. Mebane, Rfd, 5 preabhing. The pastor at that time was Rev. Mr. Woosley. Mr. Steed was a kindhearted man and bore the name of never letting any one go away empty handed if they weie really in need. He will be missed in the community where he lived The funeral was at the M. E. church in Asheboro Monday at 11 o’clock con ducted by Rev. Mr. Draper Rev. J. R. Comer paid a beautiful tribute to the life of this good man. The burial took place in the cemetery at the M. E. Church. The grave was beautifully decorated with flowers, the gifts of This ia an important movement, as it will impress upon those attending upon all the ladies of the cotmV^, the importance of wearing cotton dresses and in this way help the cotton farmer and the cotton mills in meeting the new conditions caused by the foreign war, which has destroyed our commerce abroad. Speak to your friends about this show and be sure and attend. You will be given a delightful surprise, and wil pleased with the exhibit. Maud Faucett has resumed her teschmif near Hillsboro, she is assisted by Misi Janie Blue. Miss Faucette is an efficient teacher and much loved by all who know her, she has accomplished much good.-and made many friends in Hillsboror Aft^r spending the summer with her grand ^pother Mrs. Thompson in Ch&tl^am Miss Maggie Tapp has re tufried home and entered the Graded Sd^ool at Etland. We are glad to other haiyTe Miss Tapp with us again and give her a hearty welcome. Mies Ora Hall is visiting relatives in Durham. Mr. p. E. Forrest and sister Mrs. Mary Jordan visited their sister Mrs. Belle Freshwaters near Hawficlds church. Mrs. E. D. Thompson attended the funeral of her uncle Mr.'Frank Roberts at New Sharon Tuesday afternoon, Mr. R(^erts dropped dead in Sheriff Bains’ ^ce Monday in Hillsboro. Mr. John Clayton spent Sunday at his home near Cedar Grove. Mr. Ernest Forrest of Cheeks Crossing was an Efiand visitor last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Bivins and child ren of Hillsboro came up Sunday to visit Mrs. Bivins sister Mrs. M. P. Efiand. t Mrs. Joe Thompson and children little Miss Josephine and Melvin who have luen on an eYtended visit with relatives 4a Monroe returned home last Friday. Prof. Arthur Crawford of Orange Grove teacher in the E. H. School spent Sunday with Mr. Bynums family Mrs. Robert Sharpe spent the day Monday with Mrs. J. B. Baity. Miss Wellie Strowd and Mr. Robert Sharpe callcd to see Miss Maud Brown Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Lilly Boggs and children are visiting her mother in-law Mrs, Talitha Boggs. After being at home some time on the account of injurys received in a falling scaffold in Durham T, R. Fitz patrick has returned to his work again. “Patz.'' Russians Awakensng Russians are like a people awaken ing from a long coma. The enthusiasm is almost unbelievable. Every man. woman and child thinks Russai is about to take her place at the head of the nation of the world. The faith in the future of the country is in itself a good guarantee or realization of the people’s hopes. Russian na*:ional aspirations are especially aroused by the prohibition order. No vodka, heavy wines or beers are obtainable. This is a great sacrifice on the part of the government but its loss of revenue from the mono poly will undoubtly be made up in directions. Russians I talked with say the productivity of the nat ional will now be trebled I am not sure it is too much to hope. The curse of alcohol has been dreadful. This veteran is a hundred and three years of age, hale and hearty, wear ing 'proudly a row of medals he gained in the Crimean campaign, the Turkish war and other conflicts. As to Job Work It is not fair to expect your home job office to print 500 or a 1C JO stata- ments, note head^, bill heads or letter heads at the s& ne rate per thousand some out of town office will print 5000 or 6GC0 of these. The I-eader office does job work as reasonable as any office that does a legitimate busi ness, and it thinks all things consider ed it might be allowed the job work of Mebane such as it can do. We know one thing we do a decidedly bet ter class of work than that shown by a number . ..Tell the straight truth about what we do, don’t get the facts mixed, we do it as low as it can be done. We have defended you against the mail order houses of the North and West. Mrs T. J. Browning *»nd Miss Alina spent Sunday at Mr. W. M. McCauley.; many friends.--Asheboro Courier. Sunday, in A Tale of Two Cities spent Sat- Mr. J. L. Murdock in Meb- Mr. W. H. Miller spent Burlington. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cheek urday night and Sunday at Fool. Mr. D. F. Warren and Shanklin spent Sunday P. M ane. Miss Hattie Benfield and Mi^s Lillie Ward of Durham spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Ward’s ^mother, Mrs. M. R. Ward. Ask Mr. Tommie Browning how he enjoyed him self Sunday afternoon with hia girl from Durham. 99 The “Buy-In-America Movement in Europe. The rapidity with which the “buy-in- America” movement is spreading in Europe should cause lo take heart of hope even those who are most pessi mistically inclined as to the business outlook in this country. Dallas re ports that three concerns in that Texas city have just contracted with one uf thfe European Governments for harness and saddle supplies to the value of half a million dollars. New orders for about a million blankets and half a million sweaters for the British army Messrs Walter Rimmer and Oley ^jeen placed in Philadelphia, while M. Miller’s spent Mrs. Jane Aulbert called at Mr. J. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, W. H. jBckson Sunday with their m Jackson. Misses Bessie and Sudie Miller spent Monday in Wilksboro shopping. Among those that called at Mr. W. A. Shanklin Sunday were Mi. and Mrs hrnest Shanklin of Mebane, Mr. and Mrs S. Shanklin, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Shanklin and Messrs Bill and Henry haith. Mr. W. Sykes and A. Dodson called at Mr, J. M. Millers Sunday. No man can promise himself even 50 years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the propottion of 50 years in 40. Let him rise early that he may have the day before him, and let him make the moat of the day by determining to ppend on two sorts ot acquaintance only; those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learnt.—Col on. For Sale. Horse, buggy and harness cheap. F, M. Hawley. hospital supplies, including shirts and robes, are also being contracted for there. The Greek Government has placed an order for $180,000 worth of shoes, while among the latest foreign orders are one from the French Gov ernment for 1,760 auto trucks, costing about $6,000,000, and another from the British Government for two million wool blankets. St. Louis has taken a contract for 110,000 barrels of flour; St. Paul has a $3,000,000 order for har ness and leather; Pittsburgh sells 100.000 sheets of pressed steel for $5,- 000,000; Australia, Greece and Russia order steel rails; Great Britain buys 15.000 tons of barbed wire and Russia takes 10,000 tons of wire products, while France takes 10,000 tons of steel billets. Verily, it is a dulljvision which can and does not'see the multiplying evidences which go to show that American industry is going to gain as much from the European situation in some ways as it stands to lose in sthers.—Norfolk Pilot. Gasoline Engine For sale Cheap. Six horsepower International in good condition. Will sell for less than half origmal cost. A bargain. W. W. Corbett, Meba«e, N. C. Portugal and The War in Africa* It IS more than a coincidence that Portugal is reported to have declared war on Germany the day after the Boer revolt in South Africa is announced In that quarter of the world the little republic has power by no means to be despised. Of Portugal’s colonies, four times the size of Germany, nearly all are in Africa. There are her 10,000 colonial troops; there ply her army transports and her 22,00'»-ton navv, tiny but valu able for river work; there is Delagoa Bay and its port Jof Lorenzo Marques. In the Boer war the British used this natural gate to East Aft-ca, in spite of political questions at Lisbon. They may use it again, with active Portuguese aid, against Col. Marltz’s revolt, if it spreads; if not, it is a fine base against German East Africa, just as Portu- guebe Angola arid the port of St Paul de Loanda menace German West Afnca Portugal can put in the field 100,000 troops, with 35,000;recruits yearly. In spite of a clash with British South Africa Company troops in .1890, a friendship of more than 200 years binds Portugal to Englpnd. It was in 1703, Queen Anne’s time, that the Methuen treaty admitted Lisbon wines to England and English woollens to Portu gal on preferential tariffs. Six genera tions of gouty English squires served their country by making port their national drink, A hundred years ago Britain served a friend already old by briving out Napoleon’s armies. British troops have since intervened in many Portuguese turmoils.—N. Y. World. Greensboro New's. Louvain lies in ashes. The library and numberless other buildings rich in historic and architectural in terest are in riuns, end the marvelous hotel de ville escaped as by a miracle. The Germans did it. They allege that Belgian non-combatants fired on them and an American newspaper, the New York States-Zeitung, declares that under such circumstances the life of one German militiaman was worth more than the entire city of Louvain, with all its treasures. It is true that under all the rules of warfare people in civilian clothep who take up arms must be severely dealt with. But only a few month ago an other invading army battled for three days in the streets of a city with a far larger number of concealed enemies than even the Germans have alleged were in Louvain. Nearly 75 per cent, of that army’s losses were due to shots from behind doors, ?nd it was only with the greatest difficulty that the snipers were finally suppressed. Yet Vera Cruz today stands practical ly unharmed. Only those buildings were destroyed in which the enemy made a determined stand, and as for such a thing as setting fire to the city it apparently never even occured to the American commander. The question is, does Germany value the lives of her m.ilitiamen several hundred times more than the United States values the lives of its marines? Or did the American admiral conduct his attack according to the rules of civilization, while the German general reverted to barbarism? German Money For a Year’s War. Germany appears to have been successful in floating a war loan of $1,250,000,000, and the Government can borrow enough more from the Reichsbank to make up a war fund of $2,000,-000,000 immediately aviArfable. It is calculated the w?r is costing that nation $5,000,000 a day, and accordingly money enough is on hand to prosecute the war for over a year. This may -seem to be a cheerful situation for the time being. Yet it means for Germany a debt burden of war for a single year almost as great j as the civil war of four years imposed j on the United States—a burden in ovr I case which after fifty yep’*s is still far j from having been cleared away. But great i Germany's enemies are all in a like j boat on such a sea, it will so far have i the pleasure of company in this miseiy. Germany, under a virtual blockade from the ocean, however, has a problem peculiar to itself as against the allies. ' iike them, it can borrow plenty of money for the time beir^. Can it con vert the money into the needs of war as freely as they can? It is not a self-sustaining country for war in any important respect save that of munitions. It now has the money to pay for clothing for army and people; but if its textile mills can be kept manned, how are the neened cotton and other fibres to be brought in for the mills to work on? It is ordinarily dependent on the outside world for a third of its food supply and has the money to buy it. But unless there has been great storage of foodstuffs in anticipation of war, which is often claimed but yet to be proved, how is the needed supply to be brought in when the gateways of such neutral states as Holland are being more ynd more tightly closed by the allied sca- power? With money enough in hand to wage war for a year, Germany still faces the necessity of breaking down the British naval blockade if it would be sure of making this money fully avail able for war purposes without exposure of its people to cold and starvation.— N. Y. World. Thirty Bilions a Year (Springfield Republican.) Thirty billions of dollars in one year is the estimate of the money coat of the war offered by Chairman Gary of the United States Steel Corporation. He has seen^ other estimates, and he has put his own higher than any of them. Fifty millions of dollars a day, or $18,000,0(X),000 a vear, seems to him much too low. Let it be assumed that his figures are approximately correct The armed peace was expensive. In 25 years the great powers of Europe ^erit $25,000,000,000 on their arma ments. The race had become so in tense that in 1913 alone, according to a French economist, the six powers in the two alliances spent $2,000,000,000 on their armies and navies. For 1914- 1915, it was estimated that Russia, Germany, France and England would spend on these “guarantees of peace” a billion and a half, Coinpaiing military cost of peace in Europe with Judge Gary’s estimate of the military cost of the war, one finds that m a year war costs about 15 times as much peace. This form of calculation does not consider the in direct and remoter costs of the present struggle. The. question how long Europe can endure the strain of ex penditure 15 times greater than of the armed peace now becomes upper most. Two of the belligerents, France and Austria-Hungary, showed signs of tax exhaustion in the few years immedi ately preceding this conflict. Even in Germyny and Great Britain, the in crease in the percentage of expendi ture on armaments since 1875 had ex ceeded the percentage of increase in average incomes. It was only a ques tion of time, as things were going,- as suming that armed peace had been permanent, w'hen all the powers w’ould have leached the point of exhaustion notwithstanding the aiinual increase in the production of wealth. The cost to Europe of theNapoleoni* wars in 1806-1808, according to Naix)- leon’s budgets, averaged about_ $83,- 000,000 a year. The net cost of 32 fighting against Napoleon co»t England some four billions of dollars. England could easily spend that now within tvvo years. The comparisons are suggestive, not scientific, because the^'vealth of those countries is today so much greater than 100 years ago. Life Pretty Much Saw* a Sea° (Mew Bern Sun.) Now that wheat is up and cotton down it is interesting to recall when wheat sold at fifty cents a bushel and corn at eighteen or twenty cents throwing consideration into the greut grain states of the west. This per haps shows nothing except that hu man life is pretty much a see-saw with its ups and downs—and after all it is this slight dash of uncertainty which gives spice to life. The south may be counted upon to face ai.d mater the cotton situation as cheer fully as did Kansas when the results of a year of careful work were wiped out by drought. The millennium is not here yet, and we couldn’t, expect to have a whole decada of successive high-priced cotton years. Shipping Cloth to Africa j (From The Cleveland Star.) | Henrietta Mills shipped 100,000 j yards of 3-yard sheeting to Africa last week. This is not such a large order for a mill the size of Henrietta but shows that a new territory is being opened up. Africa is England’s mar ket, but the war has caused orders to come to this country. Henrietta made up this order in e few days, but it is the beginning of what we all hope is a tremendous new foreign trade. Mills in this section ship quite often to China but this is the first order to go to Africa, Orders Rather Not Have. It looks like the money that soon will be coming in for our manufactured goods will help the situation. It develops that there are at least M agents of foreign countries now in the United States placing orders for goods. These orders will produce ac tivity in factories on harness and sad- dlpry, blankets, hospital supplies, all cotton products, shoes and hats and for coal, steel, horses and foodstuffs, by the shipload. Still this country would have been immensely better off with no war and no war business. Charlotte Observer. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY TRAFFIC DEPART MENT. Notice to Shippers and Re ceivers of Freight in N. C. The new freight rates, both local and joint, made effective by the laws of North Carolina October 13th, 1914 are on file with all agents of this com pany. Agents will furnish upon application full information as to these rates. E. D. Kyle, Traffic Manager, Norfolk, Va. J. F. Dalton, Asst. Genl. Freight Agent, Norfolk, Va, Hajs a Pound Apple (Shelby Highlarder.) Mr. R. M, Johnston, of Gastonia, passed through Shelby ^^riday return ing from the Toe River fair at Spruce Pine on the Clinchfield. He brought with him a splendid sixteen-ounce ap ple, one of the finest and largest that The Highlander editor ever saw. But Mr. Johnson states that his sixteen- ouncer is small compared with the prize apple, which weighed twenty- two ounces. There were many other tine apples, but the sixteen-ounce was the largest he could purchase. North riarolina could reap millions from ap ple culture if we devoted as much time and money to that crop as we do to cotton and corn. Of law there can be no less acknowl edged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things do her homage, the very least as feeling her crre; and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and crea tures of what condition soever, though each in a different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her a^^ the rr-other of theii peace and joy. — Hooker. Man should be ever better thanj h| seems.——Sir Aubrey de Vere.
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