Smith & MUes STORE
The Neatest and the Best in Town
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Our entire line of Groceries are fresh and up-to-date, from the fact that we make groceries and Fresh Mer t
a specialty, enables us to not only sell cheaper than our competitors, but the enormous quantity of demand is
self-evident that we have the best goods. Our Meat Market is unique in quality. Ask those who buy from u?,
and they will verify our statemer.t.
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Smith & Miles Store.
50,000 Wo
Must go at a Sacrifice
I Need Money and can’t Help It
The goods embrace some of our
Choice selection, in Mens Suits,
Boy’s Suits, and ladies Suits Over
coats and a fine line of shoes.
You will get no better opportu
nity to buy, or better place to buy
from. Don’t fail to see us if you
want some of the best bargains.
M. GLADSTEIN
DURHAM, NOeTH CAROLINA
6IRS HERE
Come to the store tliat sells the best Tnorchan-
dise. We are ready to shovv you the best and most
suitable thiiigs'for gifts to your friends. Give some
thing good and useful, a nice pair of fine Linen Tow
els, A dozen Linen Table Napkins and Cloth to
match.
A nice Fur Set.
A good pair of fine all wool blankets.
Ladies kid Gloves, and a great display of the
most beautiful Christmas hankerchiefs you ever saw
Silks for Cliristmas
A silk dress or shirt w' ist is suitable, and marks
your intelligence as a gift maker. Bed Linens and
Towels in wonderful vaiiety all ready for the holi
days. Our store will be open evenings during the
Christmas holidays.
ELLIS, STONE 8 C(i
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Copynshi
Schlocs
Bros.
&Co.
Fine _
Clothes
Makers
N£aUm8ie,4«New
[BCOATS
These new overcoats that
we are showing now are of
a class and character quite
novel to '‘Ready-for Ser
vice” goods,—in fact, there
whole appearance is of very
fine custom-tailored gar
ments, the sort that cost
$15 or $35 at least.
W. A. Slater & Co.
Durham, JN. C.
The Business of Life
Demands careful buying. See that
you obtain the maximum of ser
vice and style at the minimum
price.
Buster Brown’s Hose.
are manufactured with this idea,
from, the world’s best materials.
EACH particular pair contains the
greatest amount of comfort, wear
and style that money can buy. 25c
a pair. In boxes of 4 pairs, $1.00
a box.
They are Guaranteed.
H. E. WILKINSON
THb STORE OF QUALITY, MEBANE, N. C.
Ycu Will
Love
DOVE
Under-muslins i
In Combinations; 1' ^
Night Oowns; rjj
Drawers; Corset !i
Covers; Princess
Slips.
The Newest of New York Styles
Sale Beginning Friday January 22nd*
Morrow & Bason Inc,
BurliPRton, N. C.
FARMER MAKES 1,500.00
He put it into Bank. Just
eight days after he had
banked it, a burglar broke
into his house^ The burglar
ransacked the place where
he had been hiding his $1,-
500. The burglar was just
eight days too late. Brother
Farmer, when the burglar—
the tramp—the thief comes
—wher will your money be?
If it is ‘hidden ‘ the burglar
may find it. If it is in The
M. B. K. 26, he will NOT
fmd it. Why not put your
money into our Bank now?
i Better be safe than sorry.
1 And don’t forget you can ’ '
! Bank with us by Mail. ,
May we teil you how to
do it?
Mebane Bank & Trust CO.
Mebane N. C.
Rosemary Has Learned.
Rosemary, aged two, was being
brought up carefully by a mother who
did -not approve of slang. She had al
ways played alone, but had recently
had as a playmate a group of little
neighbor boys. Shortly afterward her
dignified grandfather came to the door
as she was being put to bed, and said,
“Good night, baby.” Her mother’s
horror may easily be imagined wher»
she heard her daughter call, ‘‘Dood
night, danpa, old kid.”
His Interpretation of Nature's Law.
“The law of nature,” didactically
stated the professor, addressing the
members of the Sit and Aigue club,
informally assembled on the porch of
the tavern, “is that a certain amount
of work is necessary to produce a cer^
tain amount of good of any kind what
ever.” "That’s so!” agreed J. Fuller
Gloom, the chronic carper. “If you
want relief from itching you must
scratch for it.”—Kansas City Star.
Words in Various Languages.
There is no accurate or complete es
timate available of the number of
words in the vocabularies of the vari
ous nations. The English language,
however, is generally conceded to have
the largest number of words. The fol
lowing figures are taken from reliable
dictionaries of the various languages
and are fairly complete: English,
450,000 words; German, 300,000 words;
French, 140,000 words; Italian, 140,000
words; Spanish, 120,000 words.
ASOGIALGENTER
A Broader Sphere for Religion—New
Field for the Rural Church.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Fanners’ Union
The social duty of the rural church
is as much a part of its obligations
as its spiritual side. In expressing its
social interest, the modern rural
church does not hesitate to claim that
it is expressing a true religious in
stinct and the old-time idea that the
social Instincts should be starved
while the spiritual nature was over
fed with solid theological food, is fast
giving way to a broader interpreta
tion of the functions of true religion.
We take our place in the succession
of those who have sought to make the
world a fit habitation for the children
of man when we seek to study and
understand the social duty of the
rural church. The true Christian re
ligion is essentially social—its tenets
of faith ' being love and brotherhood
and fellowship. While following after
righteousness, the church must chal
lenge and seek to reform that social
order in which moral life is ex
pressed. While cherishing ideals of
service, the rural church which at
tains the fullest measure of success
is that which enriches as many lives
as it can touch, and in no way can
the church come in as close contact
with its members as through the
avenue of social functions.
The country town and the rural
community need a. social center. The
church need offer no apology for its
ambition to fill this need in the com
munity, if an understanding of its
mission brings this purpose into clear
consciousness. The structure of a
rural community is exceedingly com
plex; it contains many social groups,
each of which has its own center, but
there are many localities which have
but one church and although such
a church cannot command the inter
est of all the people, it is relieved
from the embarrassment of religiously
divided communities.
Social Needs Imperative.
The average country boy and girl
have very little opportunity for real
enjoyment, and have, as a rule, a
vague conception of the meaning of
pleasure and recreation. It is to fill
this void in the lives of country youth
that the rural church has risen to
the necessity of providing entertain
ment, as well as instruction, to its
membership among the young. The
children and young people of the
church should meet when religion is
not even mentioned. It has been
found safest for them to meet fre
quently under the direction and care
of the church. To send them into the
world with no social training exposes
them'to grave perils and to try to
keep them out of the world with no
social privileges is sheer folly. There
is a social nature to both old and
young, but the social requirements of
the young are imperative. The church
must provide directly or indirectly
some modern equivalent for the husk
ing bee, the quilting bee and the sing
ing schools of the old days. In one
way or another the social instincts
of our young people must have oppor
tunity for expression, which may
take the form of clubs, parties, pic
nics or other forms of amusement.
One thing is certain, and that is that
the church cannot take away the
dance, the card party and the theatre
unless it can offer in its place a sat
isfying substitute in the form of more
pleasing recreation.
Universal Instinct for Play.
In providing for enjoyment the
church uses one of the greatest meth
ods by which human society has de
veloped. Association is never secure ,
until it is pleasurable; in play the in- i
stinctive aversion of one person for
another is overcome and the social
■ffifiaiLJft.iflgterfid. ^lay Is the cljtief
educational Tii T'ural c; -
ities anti in lLo plaj-nlay oi ■
childhood social synii)a>liy aiij i
habits are ovolvfd. As inciviuii:
come together In social : f
their viewpoint is broadeiiefl.
ideals are lifted and finally ruiiV ;
stitute a cultured and leline - sc; ■
It is pkiin, therefore, i t
church wlucli aims at a i i ic-:-,..: 1
ciety must use in a re.n;;.,a
alted way the ossentiL.i i:;
social e\olution and i.i. i ; :
of the universal instinct for p!;v \
If the church turrounc; it ■;
social functioi H Avhich ajji't,'! ^ .
young among its nien;bc=rt:iii‘>. ir ■ -
fill a large pail of V-.- :
gap in rural pleasures yu-,: r>
the richest reward by i.ro u in.-i a
higher and better type i.u.ii] a
and womanhood.
FARMER
r> r.:v fi
The home is the sreator-1
tion of womea to the wurl;], a'ld lI'-j
hearthstone is her thro- o. Our .
cial structure is built ato” -i r id
social righteousness is lu li^ r * Iiarso.
Her beautiful H'o lisM§ t^ j s ?
hope and her retinemmit is 1'^ * r- - rn'.
of twentieth ceniiiry civil:-r U:r
graces and her power are i he c ■mu-
l^ive products cf oi;
queenly conquest, a id n r i.. ov 3i of
exalted womaniiood is je-’elfd v-ilh
the wisdom of saintly mothi rs. She
has been a great factor in the £.;ory
of our country, and her no’^le aclilGve-
ments should not be marred cr her
hallowed influeucu blighter! by the
coarser duties of citizen-hiix A^'^eri-
can chivalry should never permit her
to bear the burdens of defending and
maintaining government, but £..nuld
preserve her unsullied from the a'Ued
influences of politics, and protect her
from the weighty responr;ibiliti°3 of
the sordid affairs of lii’e that v.ill
crush her ideals and lov.-er her stnnd-
ards. The motherhood of the farm
is our inspiration, she is the gua"^'^!an.
of our domestic v,-eliare and o :'u)de
to a higher life, but directing tl^e af
fairs of government is not within wo
man’s sphere, and politf . 1 gn"sii;
would cause her to negiecL the h uiie,
forget to nieuu our cloihes and l
the biscuits.
RURAL SOCIAL CE’tTER
We need social centers where- our
young peop’.e can bo entertained,
amused and instructed under th ■ di
rection of cultured, clenu and roii>
petent leadership, where aestlie-ic
surroundings stir the love for tha
beautiful, v.herj art charges thj at
mosphere V/ith inspiration and power,
and innocent amusements iis^.ruct
and brighten their lives.
To hold cur young peciJe on tho
farm we must make farm lifo more
attractive as well as the business of
farming more remunera:ive. The
school house should be the social unit,
properly equipped for nourishing and
building character, so that the liv-s (;P
our people can properlj^
around it • and become supplied with
the necessary elements of liuMau
thought and activity.
V/,ight rid
A lady once cnns;
§on on the turpitude
her ;3on's rohbir.g an
Baid Johnaou, "'i r
tho \veight ol‘ i';e
fellow, David ? ..ir'
robbed a dozen orrh
ty. liut rhe : .
tree—I \^as r;i\vn>s
bough ij • ■ . • , :
called a j ' :
why justic is ; i .
of scales.”
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Cost of Civii War.
The aotu:'l cost o^ ili • ; . t- t Ci^ il
war in the United : n‘1. ^ r
be known exce ;t . - . is
»iife to say, however, t" t idi-
ture in actual money on b - li &i- : v/fis
more than eight biJlk'n dol - . ba-
cides an economic 1o-k ro th'- '-oie
•ountry of about ihirty bihi. u d . -
Tho Joss in life from bull is anu d^o-
ca«e was about a million.
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Tiie Mebs
hold its reg
School Au
afternoon, ]
Miss Betti
very ill at h(
Mebane is v
Jig-ht of her
Tlio Ho.'^toi
Cole Hleane I
tijou;^ Ni;?riti
We haven’t 1
that is, l)ut V
ishinent is i-ii
There i.-, a
a (.ertain ani(
rise into j' re.i
»nore brlj^l'ti'^
of water; hut
of |)ersecuti(M
unavoidable a
saine fire hv ;
watt'r. -AII.'.11
BeJi»ia]
'^rhe
bef'n received
i’. S. Harri.-
W. (’raw
Mis.s I'lnnna
Mrs. ,J S. (
li.-iptist Sun-
Total to dale
Aliy fiirthei
fhef*rfully
neeiled.
“I can not, t
tikin^f too nui
the answer a
cited to
Now is this nc
citizen refiisey
lar to tlie .^npp
bnt he is willii
other town tlie
Suppose thi.s n
is going: to die
his family will
full half a colu
will deserve ah
Are W(
Milk in a str
the healthiest,
s hie to obtain,
her share of tl
first {)la(‘e thei
cows kept in tl
the second pla(
are ke,)t are m
should he, not
It is work that
the classificati
belonging to t
the cry he mer
Milk is not onl
is gorid for ()](](
WE
There are a
just about now
wilh credit pi
have trusted f
merchandise w
getting their n
and they have
not got their n
said, it is hard
the'case that
vantage of the
avoid meeting
could meet, an
largely contiib
If some one ha
times were har
duce to make y
family, don't y
now to help th(
Look Up
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If business u
there has been
business was bi
is now, there v
future when it
Cheer up, if vo
shining, don’t
sun, there is oi
is still bright,
OP., everything
A Godless brut
Germany, can i
in want.