^‘Aiid Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would Be. Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.
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MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 1915
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Number 46
sles.srs Kdwiii ^c• »U, Charles Giloa'or,
Lorraiiie 'I'ui ti'T of H;»\vfields Itft
• ‘>ua\ to i tilt' J.aymen’s coii-
iii Ciiai’iotie.
\litis t'-ill.o i'aylor of I'er^-op. is visi-
ifiM' ncpliow Mr. Wiky -Ihnies.
Getting Out Russia’s
^ - Wheat Surplus
I There is no doubt than Russia haa a
I cimparat'vely large surplus of wheat,
over and above the needs for home
I consumption, and no less plain is it
Did He Do Them ?
Efiand itetus ^
Miss Pearl Eflan 1 Ijas: r turned from
Busrn.s^ For the-Co.;i t
A man by the name of A. L. Whil^ * earl JLtian i liaa^ r ttirnefi irom Mebane is e nonstrating: the fact
came to Meban.- several week, “ that she can put cn .some 3carl.t
■:iu'
ago to get original photos- and have
pictures taken from them. He left
after getting quite a number of
. J. . (.loojman is attending ^ surplm, if it could be got , ordei's, three weeks later he returned by master Orin Haity vpiio will spend a
lyinen’a c invention in Charlotte, j would go a long way towards showed proofs, and collected the money ! few days with his gra;^ imrents Mr.
.iiul Mrs. S:im White left 'l ues-' helping to feed her allies. But the for his work, Sii ci then nothing has!
C. Harris at Fuqurtv'?^ >riiigs.
After spending several days in Win
ston Mrs John Baity and Mrs Jacii
Price returned la; t w^i^k accompanied
•y i.'V v".i;trlv,tto.
Mip.5 iS.irua 1 lest or of Creedinoor
liu* ^uest uJ Aiit-. Geor^io Wyatte
\lt. W uUe' \vyit{i‘ of liurliiigton
I rt.f Lfuet-.r of his bioiiu*r last wi-ek.
closing of Dardanelles having shut off been heard from him, It seems that
the usual means of egress, the question people in their bland rirocence,
is, how to deliv'er the ^rain to France and child like failh handed oyer t' e
or C^reat Hritian or Belgium. | cash without ever questioning the man
7 to his business, residence, or l espon-
sability. They believe so implicity in
Near a Riot
II.i.lent authority h'nys a
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I •).
cii syveiiti'on
safv- ihuv
.'■■ui'h fuinilics in
:u*‘ xis-
.1 d- ai ie.' -s ttrm tlio ain-
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i oi :iv» i'ln
11 i'- ;i
thoviv^iui o;'
•,voi;i! inii.l  f v*'.ir
strangers, It is thou-jht that quite a
It soems that things went a high key , whs paid the nia'i.
at HnrMngton, Swepsonville, Hilhboro |
and Mebane, Saturday night Some-1
thing v*^ry near akin to a riot o^cnred
in each of these ultices so we have
heard, Ano what was ifc all about, v/e
answer, we are told that the
Draw The Line Closer
The New York Times urges the South
}>ul an
over and
of Cluna by Japan
Uohsi'M n;i -i;t
th.’i t-.' .yini
!i I .1. Miir hin\ s> mui'h anxiety
will be out of a job  n
r March I.
: > • ;: Iv one leasou why thi\v }‘*ro so
Ilia uiihapjiv ii.arriaja:es is that so
i!i !nv people never think seriously of
i to stop lynchiiitr and taKe its criminals
pnm_aiji . conrt. Why the South?
cause was this elicit whiskey buoiness,
The stuf is run in to small towns and , • , u p « , „
which they occur before visiting con-
on Saturday nights the gay crowd starts ’ j .• »
^ I demnation on an entire section? Does
ill for a helover time and they usually * .. a, , u , hoo
•’ •' I th» Times know how many years it has
have it. while the officers look «is= and ^ occurred in Vir
tfo on, ^„Ws they got just a iittle
naughty, stop it! stop it! Good people ! been for a decade
shoulil be treated rijtht, get a hustle on , that o( Illinois? And
j _,ou Mr. officei. what ot the shooting down b.v detec-
U is not difficult to estimate the , tive the other day in a New Jersey
bread tax upon the City of New York ^ town of sixteen persons who were not
The statistical theory is that American I eve». i^uspectsd of any crime for which
when she feels like it. ."'hturday even
ing a tVvv fell >ws tanked up with a
bit of the foroidden, and then pro
ceeded to paint things red. The first
case on the Mayor’s docket for Mmi-
day was one against John Murphy
Miss Pearl Tate of Biirlingion came ! charging him with dealing in the ar-
down Sunday to visit her friend Miss | dent. The two counts did not stand,
Maud Rro vn who has been on the sick j
list for several weeks. j ^ ,
i $23.10. Ld Wilson and Will Lee botii
Mr. and Mrs Charli^ Brown i.pei t
last Sunday witn Mrs Brown’s m«^ther ,
n=ar x roads church. > I
y 1 latter a very serious oil'i nee.
Messrs Jack Baity an*/Walter Rich-1 .
mond were liillshoro via-tors last g„t. j I-"'« "
m-fjar. ; urday night, sorry to say it. Now
... * • » 1 ) -1 i Mehane ti.ay have a hard time jn t^uri-
Misses. Annie Jordon und ( ora (^eCil ' •
spent the day last Shturday in Dur-I but iVleu-
ham shopping. j ane must have hei’ law.s ri'spected at
Shj must have brave.
5 and cost, total
id Will Lee botii
colored, were giv.en thirty days on tue
1 iun;;s
lile
A Protest
Editor L eader;-
I learn tb^t the Caunty Commissio
ners of Alamance have endorsed s bill
for in Teasing t u saleries, or for ex-
ifies for the ('ierk-hire of our CuUt.ty
officers to the amount of $2,000 pfrj
year, also a bill increasing our road tax !
' twelve and a half cent on the $100,00 |
: that their bills have been diawn and j
‘ ^.ent to Hon. J. fl. Vernon our Repr-i
' I
: esentativo,' that they be passed. 1 !
I believe the sentiment of a very largo i
i niHiority of the tax pavers of Alamance j
'is ;':iying that they are opposed to
i these bills Mt this time. If 1 wanted |
fto pin.v politics I would not say a word |
I in oppo.sition ti) these bills, but as a ;
I , t
(tax payer and a citizen of Alamance, j
I who has the intere.st of our County to i
! heart, I beg of every tax payer in the
i county ti> write to lion. J. H. Vernon
Mr. Gene Stanford maik' a flying trip j •^'^^3' cost, bhi, must nave oiavi , vj^,i-
, ^ u 1 4 II .. ■ ! our Representative and to Hon. prank
- • ! to Mebane Saturday aIternoon must be i l®nt oiricers wn > will see that tnis is
J 04. «. • i a “magnet star” that.; always draws' jone, not alone Tor Mebane’s rood
specify the cases and the States m ^ | ’
' 1 name, but for the peace and j rotection
Miss Maggie Tapp one^of the 1*'. H. j of her citizens. Occasionally there is
Schoolgirls spent Thursday with h r'
friend Miss Maud Browiy.-
m itrirnor.y 'nnUl after the knot has been j consume one barrel of flour per capita , punishment? A
i-U
relv tied.
each year. New York,s proposition
little more or somewhat less diserim-
' therefore would be about 5,000,000 bar-
.Mr. Hryan teils'the railroads of the | rels, we have 1,865.000.000 loaves, an | ination would well become the censor-
eoiintry not to be afraid of the people
railf
increase of 1 cent upon each of which j jous Times.—Va.Pilot,
would in twelv'e months yield fil8,650,
I’Aen i'O. Ihv' (-.dy people th- Not all New Yorker suse .baker’s
w.i\ s have now or have ever had to , ^nd so the new levy may not be
fear are the demagogues. i more than half this sum’ but it is a
— ,.-T= ! burdensome tax nvertheless, and it
I.ord Chyrlcs Berostord insists that i falls with srreat weight upon an ele-
Princeton University announces that
henceforth no diploma of graduation
will be awarded to any student who
has not demonstrated his ability to
German raiders should be hanged as | ment of the population that can not i swim two hundred ^ards, using at leas^
^ J rcc^oe for i F'Jrthermore, the sovereign I two kinds of strokes, swimming is. of
les. oosn t le rcc.ne | that assessed this impost has the pow-! coui'se, an accompli^^hment which may
:uig a r;ibbit provide first for
Mr. Lon Forrest has returned from
Eastern Carolina where he has been
spending a few weeks.
Mr. W. W. Smith spent the day
Sunday in Mebane witn relatives.
We are etill waiting for the “High
Cost ” of living to coin^ tlawn, yel we
fear it is a long ways off, so we will
have to eat ‘‘corn bread” and let flour
‘*soar‘’ on skyward.
“ Len "
an apparent threat of a turlx lent
element breaking !oos^, and giving
some trcublc. Th s oieni.-n. must o •
Nasii our Senator, and enter their pro
test against tliese bills. It is up to
you, don't delay write today.
W. E White
Meliane, N. C.
pir:
CO '
er to double or treble it. if no superior , prove of incalculable value to its poss-
c itching the hare.
authority intervenes.
The Detroit man who lett his wealthy j
wife beciuse she insiste^i^n Ijis quit* j
ting work and Iving in idleness can-1
eiusively deinonstrat'd that being a j
man has niori? attraction for him than
t.cing a pet poodle
Swimming For a Dej^ree
■,\ here true fortitu-le dwell.', l(-yalty.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
1 Princeton senrors must swim to grad
I nation this year. The rule of the fa-
i culty is “no swim, no diploma.” Any
i heavy browed “grind” who has neg-
: lected his i.atatorial studies will be for-
, bidden to graduate, no matter what
high and excellent work he may have
i essor and so is something which should
• be taught every boy and girl in the
j land; but the average mind will have
‘ no little difficultp in urdfirstandir.g
* wherein it demonstrates fitness to hold
j an academic or professional degree,
j The next thing we hear pugilistic prof-
j iciency will possibly be concidered a
} necessary })ossession of a doctor of
I divinity.
Well Known HyiHn Writer
is Dead
Fanny Crosby Passed away in her |
95 year at Bridgeport Conneticut Blind '
most of life yet she was known
throngh the world as the famous
Hymn writer, she wrote eight thousand
hymns of Christian worship sung in
Protestant churches throughout the
I Senator Hardwick of Georgia is not
j th:j only alleged Demoerat acting with
j the Mark Hapiia subsidy crov.'d at
i Wa.shington who is rer’eiving admoni-
j tions from home. The Mobile Regis-
I ter asks Senator Bankhead of Alabama
^ to explain his fondness for the TTiiited
j Fruit Company, and the Vicksbu'’g
j Herald says very plainly that Seiintor
I Vardanian of Missihsipjn “ha^ landed
The number of miles of ]>ubl’c ro^ds (pew of the. protected interests.
held down at any cost, Mebane c^in
not afford to permit anything to tho
contraiy. The Lead.^r is not saying
much, it does n 't want to say much,
but if the interest' of this town de-
matuis that we speak out we wilt do so
in no uuoertain way.
Chapel Hill Ne'vs
in North Carolina, the percentage of
1 the total milage improved in each couu-
I t.y, and the number of counties having
no improved highways- these vita!
facts are included in a tubulated forM
where he belongs.” Eventually some
ot Senator O’(^orman’s assistant Re
publicans are going to have a cordial
welcome when they return to their
home.«.
as complied by the North Carolina(jlub
The statistics are assembled by W . J. ; > ^
Hardesty of the '-“rteret-fatoico I gj,,, jjnder FalSC Colors
Connty Club. The University News ^
A Great Pickle Farm
bountv, frieiidship, and fidelity
b - I'ou i.!. A man may confide in
eoiiSLitutcd for nobie ends, t Eschylus or calculus or crypto-| Mr. Chas. F. Cates, the pickle man
gandc botany. .While the heavy muscled , ^ phenomical success in his
“spoit” who has edged through his;
studies with the
mirgift, but who
world today.“Savedby Grace”"Blessed j carriers the analysis in cmplete j xhe German admiralty goes into con
‘Rescue tbe Perishing” ! j niption fits over the fact that a Brit-
The compilation covers the inform ,• i' i» r i
, , , . , ish merchant amp should display a n*>u-
ation av».lable upon the subje.t of
roads to January 1. 19 4. Ihe ™mber ,
of miles of public roads in North Caro- i ^ u
1- 4. 4. 1 .o rp. , ^ man warship Emden gained her aporo-
hna totals 48,9al. Th.rteen per cent--I ^
numbering 6 (fc, miles--are improved.
Tnere are 7,903 miles of unimproved
highways in the state. These counties
counties fell under that classificarion:
Alexander, Ashe, ('hatham, Clay,
As.su rp nee,
and Safe In The Arnis^f Jesus are
typical of Fanny Crosby’s n.ost pop
ular religious verses,
W.H. Dove who wrote the music for
many of her verses had one morning at
her home in New York. “I must take
a train for Cincunati in forty minutes”
he said and I hove some music for
which I want you to writs a hymn. He
dare ;io an.I suffer, arid who have a '
'•1 u!d t> oiirn ft>r their country and
Ui'. ir fri-Tid. Small and creeping thiiiefs
iir ‘ th" iirod'ict of p-'tty souls.—Sir
■r>i-ina-; llrowne
.-\;-.*'»rf ;nu to C’unn’s Alrnannc thez’O i
i ; •. ) fa ;no: (his month while in
\l:i;-.-i* th-jre ’.viit be two full moons i
I 'lis something exTeptional an I does j
1 Letter for Mrs. Hattie Emis
kimpiest possible i business, seoms to have had quite a
tan swim like an prosperous year for 1914, M**- Cates
Hawaiian duke, will receive a calfskin { has sold about 400 barrels of sour and
and benediction. | gweet pickles and sour kraut, and
about 700 packagei of presorve^, jams
and jellies, Mr. Cates has a nice farm
sat down at the piano and played his, ^ ^ rr ^
music. 1 think I can write it Mr. Dave I Hy^e,
In fifteen miutes she returned and 1
she said. In fifteen minutes she retur-1 'barren,
ned and handed him the words which ! Pe>iuimans,
are the same as used today in singing ! S"'"® counties, however, p..ll- _
Safe in the \rms of Jesus. At eight |® up a no>-^ by improvniK t *^*^ds i Germany. The
years the little girl displayed her tal- j ‘*1,. ' ... i Confederate
; so achieved a victory over defenders
j thus taken by surprise. It would seem
! to us that a ruse de guerre permissible
I to an armed vtsi el on hostile mission
, bonnd should certainly be allow'able to
a trader only seeking escape from cap-
I ture. The latter belongs to that class
of cases in which usage makes law in
the absenc of specific prohibition. The
‘ >t h i;pe:> more th"n o:K-e^in :i gon- ’
vritio i. For the reason nhone or write
ti.'.’kjr-'of Blurn’.-^ Almanac. '1 he
'■aol’.CTU ju.st (ioeii’.’t know,
nio.i Fiepublioan.
'ii., Anjel;'. pi’oposes leijislation de-
.v.ic! ‘ tf) prevent girls from, flirtiny..,
1 ii> :! \i tijinf \v: hear, somebody will
iv:l\./i-i'tin.T law'.i to stop the
!i; tt'irn revolving around the sun
List of Letters.
List of letters for wdek ending I-eb. | ^wo miles of Mebane upon which
!
i he raises much of the vegetables he
! pickles and uses all vegetable that his
' neighbors can raise. Mr. Cates under-
I stands his business thoroughly, and
I
I that is a reason.
'• II't .Georgia eiiilur wlio v/as heUl j
• .1 oot|)ad miglit have known that |
under f.ilse colors would sooricr j
■ ‘■r t)!i. its inevitable penalty. i
1 Letter for M. Dallis Crisp
1 Letter tor Mr. Frank Malone
1 Letter for Gildert Hollins
1 Letter for F. M. Walker
1 Letter lor W. R. Warren
1 Letter for Sam Curry
1 Letter for E. C. McCauley
1 Letter for Walter Pickard
1 Letter for Dave A. Bunes
1 Letter for Adrean Prides.
These will be sent to Dead
office March G. 1915.
J. T. Dick, P.
ent in versification by this philosophy i
of contentment.
Oh, what a happy soul am I,
Although I cannot see;
I am resolved that in this world
Contented I will be.
The good roads table, as tabulated
by tie Carolina Club, makes the coun-
blockaders adopted this
artifice and we know of no single in
stance in which the United States en-
How many blessings I enjoy,
That other people don’t;
To weep and sigh because I’m blind,
1 caiviot and I won't.
I Opportunity to Be No Lon-
I jcer Denied.
I etter I Reporter.
j Some great spirits have worked them
I selves upward to the most dazzling
1 heights of eminence and fame, with-
1 the aid of even ordinary opportun-
INO Time to Dodge. jities; but such cases are exceptional.
The legislature will have to deter- Denied the opportunity of securing
A courtship Error He
Cant Correct
”I made one strious mistake when I
coprtcd my wife,’’said a Howard. Mo.,
t/ the unit and the counties in the lead i „j • , • , ,
” '■ teied protest, or in which any of the
! are ranked on the basis of percentage nations whose flags were thus used
I of improved roads in relation to num- | ^ade complaint. Of course, when the
i ber of miles of highway in the county, i real character of the ship was disco-
I Scotland county tops-off the list with j vered, she suffered the penalty of cap-
[266 miles impiove(l-88 per cent of its ' t^re confi.scation; no* ,however,for sail-
jmileape. Columbus county stands at tl'e ing under false colors, but because
, bottom of the list of counties having | making for a closed port with a contra-
! any improved roads with two »nilos ' band cargo. Va. Pilot.
I e(pial to two per cent. j
Twenty-two counties joined the giK)d |
I roads processicn in 19112. The end ot i
; the year saw only five per cent of their
] milage bettered. Eifjhteen ''onnties had '
! more than five a*'d less than ten per {
The rNew Gosoel
I iiere is an ancient saying,
amcng men, that thou shouldst not jud-
fulU' of a man’s life before he dieth.
famous ! this term whether it will per
mit one county to elect its board of
education while refusing this permis-
j sion to other counties which happen to
’vhother it s’lould be called blest or wr- i bg republican in politics. For ten years
^..rhed Sophocles. the legislature has dechned to permit
, additional breaks in the uniformity of
0 .^in^ unto the Lord a new .. .
-i-.fr „.,to the Lord, all the earth; sing the present plan or alopt the elective
the Lord, idess His name; show | plan. This is no time to dodge. If the
if.ith His salvation from day to day.-i members of the general assembly desire
to be consistent, they will be com.pelled God that the hideous pall has be'n
an ordinary education, too often is it | would only have me, I’d straighten up
the case that a boy or girl allows ; and try to live a different life. Now the '
what ambition he or she might have to . fact is I was’nt a very bad feller and
take wings, and the life fails to meas-. j that kind of a story over be-
ure up to what it might attain unto. i. • i i-i i. i.i,- i 4.u u «
^ * cause most girls like to think they have
(From the Atlantic Monthly.)
Foreshadowed by Herder and Fitch,
cent improved; seventeen counties im-j armed with the barbed apothegms of
proved between ten and tvventv per (Nietzsche, Treitschke and his school
man to the Kansas City Times. I told | jj-j, mileage. Seven counties i have formulated for the Germanic
her she was to good for me. and that I caught the good roads fever with such j nations a new gospel, strong in its ap-
I had been a pretty bad boy. but if she ] intensity as to have the unimproved . peal wherein Christianity is weakest.
! number of miles. Doctrines which a year ago would
”My gracious, dev sho’ has been a have seemed to us Americans mon-
change and a upgo in these years in ! strous bepond belief we now debate
the University,” said ”horney-handed | with the fascination which children
Henry.” the colored bell ringer of the j feel for fire. In the relentless ration-
state University, as he looked out over i 3|j,„ Delbruck and Bernhardi they
ProvideJ with a few years in school, 4.1, 1 *- i u- .
however and with medical inspection | K^eat influence for good over bad boys the campus and counted on his fingers ; are still repeient enongh, but as v.'e
song; j Ss'ystem, ana it either must stand by to aid i^ removing physical 'defecU j But after we got marrirf my wife | te“ears‘'’Hen"! "oTd" i ProteT Cr^lt^lrS'bU'
that might tend to hold back and re- j watched me hke a hawk. She got con- j associated with i “Germany and England ” and reali^;
Jil' "’y ““'lithe University as a Janitor and bell-1 how they may be applie'd to the devel-
1 'lini-^. xcvi,
VJ.
will, indeed, have a chance. Thank i
to feed all counties out of the same | lifted and the people of South Carolina .
tried to find out all about what I had j ringer for tw^enty years. His favorite opment of a people for v/hom we feel
been doing the years before shecame to j pastime is to keep hourly tab on his , affection and kinship, they seem to
ke'school question has not | see their dut^ along these lines and ^ town, and when she couldn’t run any |
'I fio I’ennsvlvania Railroad Company | spoon. _ , i- • .v • j 1.
o. M-ied for sale the other day a 49been made an issue in the campaign, | are prepared to discharge their duty,
•oo.iio-issue of p-jr cent, bonds, and j and the legislature can stand for the |
Use’ i/g'-egate applications so exceeded | present system and be consistent,
ilni*. amount that only $1, 8U0 could be , must be consistent -Raleigh Times.
.sini>lied tor each $10, 000 applied for.
It
The Joker
■J'liis is something more than an indi- ■
^ itiioii of public confidence in the Penn-
All Old Time Darkey is
Dead .
Apropos of the German spy scare in
France and England, Lapsley Wilson,
thing down on me .he became imbued j" Pocket and then in another. Ask , The armorphous Teut..nic c>nopti,>n
, him how much off he IS, he invariably of a state whi?h lives apart from men
with the belief that I was a very sly j replies; ”Well, .bout a half second off.” ' and women who make it seem to us a
knave besides being as wickedaa I had I “ ♦ ' ^rather preposterous fiction; and the
perversion of the fundamental Christi-
: an idea of self sacrifice for something
Be Strong
led her to believe I was. |
’’She is susoicious of every move I ( '
J We are not here to play, to dream, to : ^ ,„ii- ^ , j
make’and it,s getting on mv nerves to 1 drift* j nobler than one,s selt into the naked
I at a luncheon at Nice, on the French 1 guch an extent that the peace and quiet j have hard work to do’ and loads to j hince the state is the high-
Uncle Ned Stroud by which name j Hiviera, told an anecdote, according to happy home is in danger, and it.s | lift. , - ,
said Mr Wil- j ^ q^^s ^^f it-it’s, collective happiness, while the state
' make her think I was a helova feller j ot s gi . , being superior to all moral con
;;ylvaria system. It goes to show that |
It’i- investing j)Ublic shares the optim- |
of the t-ountry’s financial and in-| j,e was known to every one died at j the Washington Star,
•■'.ustrial leader as to the business out-j ^ome east of Mebane Irst Tuesday! “It was at the time,
II IS illiOI
,1PMLLED,
People Live In Lotts and
Cow Stalls and Children
Are Born in Hen Coops
—All Stock are Destroj^ed,’
The wiir has reduced Belgium’s popu-
lH*-ion by about G00,000 and her condi
tion pre.sents a situation without par
allel in history, says a report issued
recently by the Rockefeller foundation
from its war , relief connuissioii, sent
to.B>rl;;iunfj last November to investi
gate the effects or the war on non com
bat a'lts
After detailing hov/ transportation,
commuiiication and banking exchange
have be- n destroyed, commerce and in
dustry p'iialy^ed, homes and other
buildiii?'.- laid low, the agricultural dis
tricts (I A^astated and the feed supply
virtual!, cut off, the report says:
“Yet if one is to continue the Bel
gium |;r .blem, it is periiaps necessary
to cmp:;asize not the destitution of a
few htiiHired thousand but the suddenly
enforce! 1 inactivity of a strong and
healthy nation of 7,000,000.”
Of th(- destruction of home and prop-]
ertv tlii report says:
“We found peofde living in cellars
under liii' ruins of of their homes, in
lofts over the cow stalls and saw child
ren that 'lad been born in hen coopa
and])ij;i stys. In Vise there v.’ere 12,
000 fatni'ies. We did not see a dozen
houses standing. In Tremelco half of
the houses were razed.”
The destruction of stock is of greater
importance than the destruction to
-
houses, the report declares.
• 1.
This is Authoritative
Of course the sun .had to shine at
midday and the blamed ground
hog saw his shadow and went back in hia
hole, wliieh according to the legend,
means fifty days more before spring.
The sun never showed its face for foup
days until today and the little rascal
had not been back in hole ten minutes
before it again became cloudy--Greena
boro Record.
Changings Name's Spelling.
Many have changed their names of
late, but no surname probably has un
dergone so many alterations as that
of Sir Harry Stapleton Mainwarlng.
At Peover hall, ii\s Cheshire home,
there is a record showing the differ
ent ways in which the name has been,
spelled in the course of tiio centuries.
They number 394, says the London
Chronicle. Shakespeare can beat the
394 different ways of spelling ’^rain-
waring, jmd quite er^sily, too. In 1869
a diligent American published a vol
ume showing that the poet’s name
could be spelled in 4,000 different v/ays.
And the narue of his father actually
appears under 16 differenf spellings
in the council books of Stratford, and
Shakespeare himself had no settled
con\ lotions on the subject.
son, when concrete beds for guns were
j-night. He was ninty se^'en years | foun^-- according, at least, to and that I was reforming all for her j Be strong!
and the father of twenty one chil-j allips' territofy.
1 dren and the grand father great grand- j At this troublesome time an American
fo:.ml?tid:rri;^hTplT’«v:%:;: I father .reat *reat .vandfather o, j in Paris went up to a policeman and
There was more water in the ground t one hundred and fourteen children j said, misteriously:
five days ago, perhaps, than there has j He was an old 3la\e and loved by | Grman
l«en af any t™® ‘hese seven years. , child. His funeral j jj„is oui!’ said the policeman,
Koac.s that looked then as if they j- colored M. E. church ^^king from under his cap his notekook
would be navigable again are now in 1 • ... 4- . 4. , ^ ,,
pretty fair shape, espeoialJy where the | «"« >’« Juried m the cemetery at I and pencil.^
drag has been used in time. However, / Cheeks caossiug Wednesday.
there are still treacherous places, that •
! >;>k much better than they are, as auto-1 Oh, keep me innocent, and make
mobi'.ist^ have been finding out, to their
sorrow.— Greensboro News
others great —Matilda, Queen of Den-
mi^rk.
Then,’ said the American, go to
the Hotel de Blanc and arrest the pro-
pretor. He‘s put up at least two con
crete beds there, 1 know, because my
wife and I slept in ’em last night.’ ”
j siderations. need follow but its own
sake. Now I believe she would like me' Say not the days are evil who’s to : interest, is still the moat of us a devil,s
blame? | lie. But the nobler idea that patriot'
And fold the hands,and acquiesce-lovers a religion of
oh. shame! -1 valor, which promises nothing but
Stand up, speak out, and bravely in I fls^ands all, strikes a lofty chord in
God’s name! ' pagan ring. To call this a
I religion may yet seem a traversity of
better if she could dig up some old
scandal on me to justify the bluff I put
up to her when I was keeping company
with her. But next time i,ll know bet
ter,” he said with a long sigh.
i Be strong!
sacred things, but is the organ peal of
War Bill Of Fare
Customer—Here, waiter, where are the
olives? HoW on; bring nie half a melon
and some cracked ice.
, It matters not how deep entrenched | ^he Christian church more thrilling than
1 rr ' its exultant trumpet call?
How hard the battle goes, the days |
how long.
Faint not, fight on. Tomorrow comes
the song.
The Vraiter )loudly)—Dumdums, half
a bombshell and a bowl of shrapnel.—
—Maltbie D.. Babcook. D. D, ’ Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An Island of Giants.
Tory island does not. ;is one might
Imagine, derive its name from “rob
ber’’—the now' respectable tourco of
the name of one great party in the
state. The name comes from Torach,
towery or full of torfj. Although not
so big as Epping forrst. the island
once lioe.sed a race of giants, the
Fomcrians, chieftain of whom was
Balor of the Mighty Biov/s, a one-eyed
gentleman who built himself undying
fame for keen-Kightedness and skill
as a cutthroat. Tor\ i.~land is now
civilized, with the UcUr'l village post
office life. What the islanders chiefly
keep in memory is tho wrock of H. M.
S. Wasp in b'eptemb(;r. JSS1, with the
los.'? of all the orew o:c?->T)t six. The
ve.ssel had been &ent to the island to
enforce payment of rent or evict the
tenants- Since the wreck nobody has
had the courage lo ask or pay rent.
Being Philosophical.
A won'an of varied tnd v>id(3 experi
ence old me thnt she Iiiid loarned
that one can view any Bituation with
calmness, provided the effort is strong
enough. “You cannot beat ‘don’t
care,’ ” she asserted, “and when you
can truthfully repeat that to yourself
you can overlook slights and injuries,
forget to be resentful and treat every
body wi^h courtesy.” She maintains
that the man or woman who is rude
and blunt, who goes about knocking
humanity on the knuckles and boast
ing of the same, is lacking in pride.
“It is pride that urgfs- us to mak®
the best of everything.” she says, “to
show a smiling face to the world when
we feel more like cryiner, to cover up
the defects In those v.iio are bound
to us by ties of any sort. It is ft
righteous pride, the loss of which. aBJ|
person might deplore.”—Excbaxig%j»j