And Right The Day Must Win, To Dmhi Woujfi Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.
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Voluiiis 7
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, ^AflCH 25tk, 1915
Number S
Miss Alice Bowiand of Bur-
llnuton has a notice in this we^^ks
Leader thanking her many
friends for their purchases and
presence on the opening day of
her millinery last week
'I’he Mebane Supply Company
Iriw their annonncment in this
weeks Leader of their millinery
opening' on the 25th and 2Cth of
Maivh, They have a n>ce supply
i.i pietty hats, and will be able
to interest the ladies W'ho will
rail to see what they have got
i\ii'.l S Clark the prince clothier
h i ’, opened up an exceedingly
pivtty line of spring shoes and
nats, If you want to see some-
thins’:nif’^ around and take a
liink
Our Thanks
We wis.li to express our sincere
liianksio the people uf Mebane
tor tiieir very consi*^eratv^ kind-
n.'^r; us exhibited to our family
duiiu^- the very severe illness
s\inVred by several of them
(luring tlie past month
Mr and Mrs A P Long
MR. ABRAHAM VENABLE
CRAIG DEAD
Biiiffham Wins
The Bingham school baseball
t.'ani ooened the 1915 season
hnrt* Saturday afterno.>n by de-
ir':iting the team of Whitsett In
• titute by the score of 13 to 1
T’ne game went for five innings
and was then called to allow the
visitors to catch their train.
I'eatures of the game were the
})a-ting ot Welch, Ingle and
Stnck for Bingham and the gen
eral fielding of the visitors.
High Bingham’s pitcher found
lo batsmen out of the 15 w’ho
faced him.
Score R* H. E.
Bingham 18. 11. 1
Whitsett 1. 1. 5
Umpire J, J. Henderson
“A Hundred And Fifty
Milliard Marks.’*
Brief mention has hitherto been
maie in these columns of the substance
if the pamphlet, “The world War and
If3 End,” by Rudolph Martin, fornrier
(lernian nnnister of the interior; partic-
iiluily with reference to the marked
coturast between the forecasts of ter-
ri^orial divisions, contingent upon the
.leteat of the allies ard the assertion
ur General Beinhardi, published last
week.
The termer minister suserests a de
mand, upon the part of Germany, Aus-
tra and Turkey, of a war indemnity,
pr-jiitrtirned like that after the Franco-
t’i'u.-^fian war, at two and one-half time
tlip cost of '.he war; and this cost he
l>utM at 80 millard of mai'ks. “In ad
dition,’* the Associated Press Berlin
•• >rre.-'poiident says, 75 millerds will be
deinaiidfd for the support of those
killed.
• 1 \vu and a half times 30 is 75; twice
7'. 1 IT)!*. 'Therefore the total indemn-
iry that would be demanded by a vic-
I'xious Germany of Great Britain,
i l ar.ce anil Kua.sia, and their lesser
•ilhes and dependecie.s—it would make
^ . .itlerotice to Germany, Austria and
I 'll key where it came from--woald be.
in j'luin United States, 150 billion
ii uk.;; a mark being about 24 cents,
ill I'lainer United States, 36 billion dol-
iii In the United States and France,
:i tilllion is a thousand million; that
nount the English and Germans call
a millard. When they talk of a billion,
tliey mean u million millions
i hirty-six billion dollars--that is
iii(*re jnoney than there is in the world,
it is seven times the value of the gold
tu. k of the world. It is three times
lilt- value of the gold, silver and un-
"v. red paper of the nations of the
■ -lid. It is nearly a thirtieth part of
trit! wealth of the nations,
it the United States had to pay such
Ti uin, It would be the equivalent of a
i • > of some $850 on every man, wom-
•11 ;ind child. Considering it a debt that
’ u t be paid by the population of
'■‘it-it. Britain, France and Russia prop
er, it would be levied as against aome
■ 000,000 people. The total wealth of
se nation^, by latest available esti-
•iles, in billions of dollars, is as fol-
• ’ Vs; Great Britain and Ireland, 85;
i unce, 50; Russia, 40. The indemnity
I 'ifested would be nearly equivalent
> talking over Russia.
“A war that staggers humanity" is
a plirase that take.s on new meanings.
llerr Martin interprets Germany, il
i>‘- irf a true prophet, and in the event
'lerinan victory, after the defeated
iiuiions shall have been shorn of all the
ti rritory the victory the victors could
the worst will still be in anticipa*
tiij'i; and for many years to come every
I’ '•k will bear a heavy burden, from
'lie cradle to the grave.
It will “stagger humanity" for de-
to come, in any event.--Greens
boro News,
Prayed To Uod Then Met
Him Face To Face
The death of Mr. A V. Craig an in
fluential man of Raleigh, (formely of
Mebane) which occurtd Sunday morn
ing brought grief to the hearts of a
multitude of fiiends in Mebane and the
surrounding country where he was
widely known and highlv esteemed.
Concluding a most fervent prayer
that seemed to touch the hearts of all
that heard it at the Chapel service at
the State Hospital Sunday morning.
Mr. Craig expired in a few moments
aftervv'ictls. The pray^r was so filled
with deep spirituality that the patients
listened almost without any noise and
seemed to be deeply impressed by it.
As the pastor rose to speak Mr, Craig
sank back in his chair and on being
removed to the room of the superinten
dent Dr. Anderson, was found to be
practically dead. Mr. Cri;ig was born
July the 25th 1853 in Alamance county
and was the son of John Craig and
Melinda Minor, ile is survived by one
sister Mrs. John Turner, His only bro
ther died sudderly several years ago.
In September 1874 »Ir. Craig was
married to Miss Jane Thompson, Seven
children besides his wife survive him
They are Messers John and Hurbert
and Me.sdames W. S. Crawford, U. S.
Ray both of Mebane, Mrs A. B. Smith
of Wilmington, Miss Cappie Craig of
Aslieville and Miss Mabel Craig of
Raleigh. Mr. Craig had lived all his
life in Mebane until he went to Ashe
ville about five years ago to become
Stewart at Col Binghams school. In
June 1914 he went to Raleigh to accepi,
the same position at the State Hospital
The deceased had been a faithful
member of the Presbyterian Church
since the days of early boyhood. His
life was one of usefulness and he leaves
a record full of gootl and noble deeds
The impressive funeral service were
conducted from the Presbyterian church
Mondav afternoon 1 v the j)astor. Rev.
F. M. Hawley the remains were then
conveyed to Hawfields Church where a
short service was conducted by Rev.
Goodman after whi^h the remains were
laid to rest m the Hawfields cem.etery
A number of beautiful floral offer
ings further attested the high esteem
in which he was held by many friends.
Mebane Circuit Sunday
School Conference, M. E.
j Church, Suuth
!
i Next Saturday night and Sunday,
1 March 27th and 28th, there will be
' held at the Mebane M. E. Church a
j circuit Sunday school Conference. The
j four Sunday schools of the charge will
be represented, each Sunday school
bringing a choir. The music by the
different rhoira m turn will be a splen
did feature of the Conference. The
most important feature of the .Confer
ence, however, will be the thrilling,
inspiring, awakening message on Sun
day school work by the Conference
Fielil Secretary, Mr. M. W. Brabham
of Durham N. C. Mr. Brabham will
speak Saturday night at 8 o'clock,
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, and Sun
day afternoon at 3. Conference con
venes: Saturday night at 7:30 with song
j service and devotional vjxercises. This
I Conference will mean much to all who
j attend regardless of denomination, and
] every citizen of the town and of the
I surrounding community is invited,
come!--E. C, Durham, Pastor in charge.
Mebane circuit.
Chapel Hill Letter
Civic UeparttniBHt
The Mebane Civic Aaft^iation hdd The North Carolina Club at the State
its regular meeting at jhe Graded University has abolish^»d vhe crop lien
School Friday afternoon,
le
larch
and the time-credit business of
, J I „ 'u„ 4.U 4. tu ^ supply-merchants. Or such was
It IS the desire of the Leagip that the , ^ c. • u
i verdict of thep*>pular vote alter weigh-
town know just what we ar» doing and , ^^e affirmative arguments advan-
the definite work that is b|ng taken j ced by N. C. Shuford, of Buncombe
up, 80 hereafter a detaile| report of county, and R. E. Price, of Cleveland
the
the
A RICH WOMAN I
Who N'^ver Spent Heri
Money Or Time
The papers c irritd a 'ong story con-
Fire Destroya Qould’s
Barns and 13 Horses
Fire at the Gould Lodge, six miles
from High Point, at 2 o’clock Sunday
afternoon, destroyed 13 horses, one of
cerning the diath of Mrs. John D. jwas ,valued at $1,300, 1.800
Rockfeller, the wife of the richest i ^“^hels of corn, together with the three
each meeting will appear in |he fol'.oWr j county. The negative arguments were ' man in the world. A woman who had j ^^^ge barn buildings, including great
ing issue of the Mebane Lejder .produced by E. G. Joyner and J* j countless millions, and yet who never Quantities of hay and feedstuff. The
The Commitee appointea on “town
I Davis, of Warren county.
made a ripple on the great sea of life.
She died last Fridav, aged over seventy
—had boen Old John’s faithful and lov-
average value of the animals is es
timated at $200 each. The lodge itself
was saved.
Tne High Point motor fire truck was
The affirmative speakers admitted
Cemetery" reported that i landscape j ^^e crop lien was a necessity in
gardner could be procured to do the i tjje days of land- poverty ard labar-
necessary work for $75 00..| is to the | penuiy just after the war; but conten- ing companion through all the years
interest of the town that jtb^ cemetery ; crutch of those days has j jjjg friend for ten years before
J . 1 1 -J li! L i i now become a cross. First, the crop ., ^ • j u i
grounds bt* properly laid af before!,. ^ ,, i i they were married. Her people were
^ ; l,en aided poverty, then it thrived upon
lots are sold, and as the old^ cemetery and perpetuated poverty, said j "^®®lthy and she knew John when he
is filled up this time is not tir hence, i the affirmative. It kept the victim j walked the streets of Cleveland trying
and the Civic Association is villing and ; poor by exacting long profits and high j to get a job. She knew him and he’ped
anxious to help the town to have this i i>^terest rates for accommodation. It | when he was a book-keeper at
I I encouraged extravagance, wastefulness
woi one. ! and irresponsibility; it discouraged th**
The next important issu| was the ] raising of home supplies and the de-,
cleaning up and the keepinni ckan in j velopment of thrift. | dedicated her life to making his home crop of cotton, just about 11,
particular the business sectbn of Me- 1 jg the mainstay of the one crop, i happy as she could. She had count- I ^^les, leaving 4. 500,000 in first
was a
$500 K year and after he started on the
road to fortune she married him and
Cobtly Tuition.
(From The Wall Street Journal)
The South has sold out of its 16,000
. .... f., I . , „ , , hands. Fo
bane, and especiiilly two vjcant lots, ! farm-ti nancy, supply-merchant system , less millions of dollars at her command j^4go coo 0
viz; between Clark’s store aid Terrell's Iwhich allows the farmer j and yet she was nevei conspicious in | speci
Memory is sometimes an expensive
luxury. It cost us many millions of
i dollars and many lives to “Remember
the Maine." There is no occasion for
undue haste in ai.ding anv more battle
ships to th^^ list of things to be borne |
in mind |
barber shop, and between ;he Garage | "^ver joined a club; she
' J cotton and tobacco but make it im
and the Commercial an? Farmer’s j ^
Bank Bldg. These spots are a disgrace , negro tenants an advantage over white
to Mebane and we earnestly ask the co- 'tenants; as evidenced by the fact that
operation ot each one in the business { niore than half the farm owners in
district to do his part towarjs th« de- j »'■' Negro ten-
. ; ants liv3 upon a lower level, stand the .
sire en . I hardships better, and rise out of ten-j
The League carried a motion that | into farm ownership oftener th;.n j
I
never went to s*'e plays and never
danced. She was u school teacher be
fore her marriage and finally joined
the Baptist church although originally b>-ought in gold. No one wants to rub
hands. For this it has probably received
000. Commenting an this a cot-
specialiit says; “That will pay a
whole lot of debts, but its value as a
discipline, to make the people thinks
and as a diversifier of crops, make the
experience worth more than the cotton
sh-* was a congregationalist.
in on the South, but few of us really
learn until we must.’’
Germans And Austrians
To Leave Italy At Once
Germans and Austrians who reside in
Italy have been advised bv their resipec-
tive consuls to leave the country as
quickly as possible.
It is reported that so many Ger
many military spies have entered Italy
that the general staff has changed its
mobilization plans because there is rea
son to believe that secrets have been
revealed.
Parts of the Italian pol*ce force have
been detailed to keep under surveil
lance Germans who recently have en
tered Italy under what are considered
suspicious circumstances.
ALBERT WAS GOLD MINE
Search of Burlington Bad
Negro Reveals Much Loot.
Albert Graves, colored, a much
wanted bad man, was captured at Bur
lington by Sheriff Storey, Officer
Amick and Judge Hall Saturday night
after a chase lasting half a night. The
officers got informatior that Albert
was in Burlington and they set out to
catch him, and had about given up the
chase when they were tipped off as.to-
his immediate whereabcuts, which
happened to be not over 300 yards from
them. Officer Amick was sent around
the block to dri’>e the qua riy inthe
direction of the other officers, and the
ruse proved very effectivo.
•Albert was leaning against a house
talking to a friend when the blue coat
and brass buttons of Amick showed
around the corner. That was the signal
for Albert to du-k, and duck he did,
but in doing so ran into the arms of
Shtriff Storey, who was waiting for
him at the other end of the house, with
the assistance of Judge Hall he had the
bracelets on him in a jiffy and marched
him off to the court room, where he
refused to be searched until he was
overpowered by the officers and by
standers.
The search revealed on his person a
watch, a diamond ring, a $20 gold piece
and $30 in currency.
flo-ver seeds be again furnished the
Junior League children with premiums
offered to the best in each section to
encourage the love and care of flowers
by the children.
The President appointed lift Flower
Show Commitee consisting; of the fol-
lowing:
Mrs. W. S. Harris, Chairman,
Mrs. Paisley Nelson,
Miss Alice Fowler,
Mrs. Ella Pearson,
Mrs. W. W. Corbett.
The Contempt case.
The North Carolina surpreme court
white t nants.
The negative speakers contended that
abolishing the crop lien affected more j may be depended upon to stand be-
than half the farmers of the State, all | ui- i • j
J , Lween the public and oppression, and
the tenant farmers and most of the I
small farm owners; that it meont chaos | reversing of the contempt ruling of
and confnsion ii the business of 41 i Superior court Judge Peebles is proof | pants an aggregate of somisthing like
counties, mainly the cotcon and tobac- j that special consideration is not shown j twenty niiliions a day?
CO counties of eastern N.>rth Carolina, people. The Jndge might have felt!
It is estimated that the combined
value of the warships engaged in for
cing a passage through the Dardanelles
is $200,000,000. Sounds like a big sum,
but what is two hundred million dollars
in a war which is costing the partici-
where negro population and tenancy
farming are main features in agricul
ture; that the landlords were not able
to finance their tenan'.s directly and
withaut the crop lien farm ten; iits
One thing at least is certain; If Billy
outraged by the criticism of the Golds- Sunday really succeds in converting
We are starting early this year and ; could not live. Farm labor would there-
want everyone to be enthusiastic about fore be compelled to desert this region-
ou n u -II u -1 and land Vdlues would be destroyed;
the Flower Show. 1 here will be a meet-1 , . . ,, . •
I that farming as a business would dwin-
ing of the Commitee this week ard l would de-
more definite information will appear i crease: that seventy-fiye million dollars
in next week's issue. j f annual wealth in cotton and tobacco
jeopiHTlism};- and that
! the commerce and trade of these
! counties would be throwii into a help-
Washington News Letter I less muddle.
It was admitted that the system was
boro editor, but he exceeded his auth-
thority. The fact that the supreme
court, however, reversed this jurist
will not cause oiher editors lightly to
regard their responsibilinies; indeed it i
should make them more considerate, j
They will not desire to abuse- the privi- j
lege or right to discuss the conduct of
judges. And hereafter judges will not
be able to force defendan*^s to accom
pany them around the district at the
pleasure of the court, thanks to an act
of the recent general assembly, even if
Philadelphia, he will have richly earned
the one hundred thousand dollars
which he is said to receive.
Christian At Work
1 be safely
abolished until a
substitute can
Confidence in Osborne
(From I'he High Point Enterprise)
The friends of J. W. Osborne in
North Carolina will be slow to put any
credence in the charge made against
him by a young woman in New York,
who brings a suit for breech of promise
The whole story looks fishy. ’ Mr, Os
borne is a man of prominence, an inter
esting family, with a son off at college.
The thing is so ridiculous that it is
hardly worth the space given it in,the
New York papers.
The human faculties of perception,
judgment, discriminative feeling,
mental activity, and even moral pref
erence, «tre exercised only in making a
choice. He who does anything because
it IS the custom, make no choice. He
gains no practice either in discerning
or desiring what is best. The mental
and moral, like the muscular powers,
are improved only by being used. The
faculties are called into no exercise by
doing a thing merely bec-iuse others do
it’ no more than by believing a thing
only because others believe it.
He who lets the world, or his own
portion of it, choose his plan of life for
him, has no used of any other faculty
than the ape like one of imitation. He
who choosey his plan himself, employs
all his faculties.-John Stuart Mills.
Richest City m World
New York city has just completed
the revalution of her assessable proper
ties and fixed the tax rate, or,rather,
the tax rates, f s there is a differing
rate in each borough. The thing that
strikes attention is the size of the tax
able basis. It aggregates for this year
$8,108,764,237 in real estate valuations
! alone. In the Manhattan borough the
I tax rate for this year is $1.87, in Brook-
I lyn $1.92*, in the Bronx $1.84, in Queens
i $1.95 and in Richmond $2.24. New
I York will collect over $160,000,000 from
I real estate taxes this year, not to men
tion the receipts from franchise privi
leges and other sources, and will have
a use for all the money paid into the
municipal treasury. To pay the interest
on her bonded debt alone will call for
about $30,000,000.
New York i*!, beyond a reasonable
doubt, the richest city in the world It
is difficult to draw comparisons be
tween New York a'ld London in mat
ters of finance, because real estate
valuations seems to be on a different
theory of estimates in the two cities,
Whitaker’s almanac gives the ratable
valuation of real estate in Greater
London under the 1914 assessment as
$508,396,910. This rating must be re
garded as only nominal. The gross debt
of London, as stated in Whitaker* was
at the end of last year 86,520,000
pounds, or. in dollars, $432,600,000. This
is about $325,000,000 less than the debt
being carried by New York. The city’s
expenditures for all purposes in the
British metropolis last year seems to
have been less than $57,000,000--or
scarcely more than one-third the outgo
indicated in the New York budget
statement -Baltimore American.
The text of the British-in-council on
on behalf of herself and the allies,
which abolishes trade with Germany I
and announce ^ew and start lining 1
propositions affecting America trade
adversely, is regarded by State De
partment officials as the most sweep
ing war measure in the historv of na- , -
j quaater of a century.
The United States since the begining j —«►
of the war has contended that no bel
ligerent had the right to interfere upon
any pretex with the commerce between
the United States and any neutral
country. The British in council distinct-
i bad, but, sa d the negative, it cannot | judges were so inclined, Raleigh
practi':al! Tinies
be found. !
i Rural credit association are every |
j where slow in developing strength and
, power. They could not be a mainstay
! for landless farmers within the next
Cotton
Genuine
Diplomacy
(Philadelphia Puplic Ledger)
President Wilson has made a genuine
ly denies this right; and Department j move ot effective diplomacy in demand
officials may say this latest British ^ jng that the railroad between Mexico
utterance calls for an immediate, ! ^^3,, ^
strong and unequivecal protest. i
That a Treasury deficit of almost concrete
$150,000,000 by the end of the fiscnl' statesmanship is worth a ton of general
Stock And
Of War
I Sure! Great Britain took good care
! to stock up on cotton before beginning
[ the enforcement- of the blockade. At
(last reports, there were warehoused in
{ Liverpool 1,064,000 bales, the largest
accumulation ever known at that port
while, in addition, nearly half-a-million
bales were ofloat bound for Liverpool
Perhaps it is figured out that this
supply will be sufficient to last the
English spinners until there will be no
longer need for the enforcement of the
A woman interested in charity work
was accustomed each day to pass by
the door of a Chinese laundry wherein
there were employed two Chinese.
Each time she passed, the charity
worker would stop for an instant and
speak to the boss. “Hello, John," she
would call out, to which the celestial
would reply, “Hello, lady,"
One day she saw only one Chinaman
I where there had been two, and sha
I ^
j asked, “Where is the other John?"
i “Him in hospital," said the laundry-
End I man, Christian gentleman stluck him
in head with a blick."—New York
Globe.
year is possible, is indicated by the ; and idealistic representations, Carranza
dwindling revenues and excess dirdurse ' knows now that there is at least one blockade, which would mean the end
of the war. In that event there is some
ments carried in the daily statements i, .. u •
,rp ^ I.. . thing must do; if he cannot do it he is
of the Treasury Department. It is re- !
ported that the administation wilL puerile to warrant any comfort in it. A million and a half bales
sanction the sale of the Panama Canal i futher recognition from the United j would scarcely keep the British mills
bonds to make up the deficit. Of these I States. j going longer than the early Summer,
bonds $240,569,000 remain unissued, j There are three reasons why the rail-1 and if they are counting on being able
By the sale of these bonds the deficit i i^ad should be kept open; American j to secure new supplies by that time,
in the Treasury could be met, and the 1 j .u u- .. r Lu
• i. • u.. ...1 1 Citizens and the subject of other na- they are counting on the war to
many public improvements might then . . .
be inaugurated by the next Congress. * ^
Col. Wm. H. Crook, the veteran
disbursing officer of the White House
be
tions must be maintained and must j ended. We shall hope that this view of
have a quick means of egress from j the situation will be justified.--Char-
Mexico City in case of need; a food j lotte Observer.
Could FoMow Them.
It was a small western boy, giveal
to language more picturesque than
poetic, of whom this good story was
told. The child adored his eastern*
school-teacher, young, pretty, fond of
dainty blouses and high-heeled shoes'
—which latter proved none too serv
iceable in connection with the rough,
and ready prairie roads, “Is Miss So-i
and-So around today?” the youthful
admirer was asked upon one occasion.
“Yes, sir,” came the ready answer.
“Leastways, she’s been here. No. I
ain’t seen her, but,” his ey^ follow
ing the sticky roadway, “I seen her
tracks.”
died suddenly from an attack of pneu-: route must be maintained for those who '
monir, following a case of grip. His
still remain there and are apparently
England The “Serpent’
(Springfield Republican,)
If E.ngland were the “serpent"
which German poets call it, and had
been intriguing as German journalists
death was so sudden as to shock his
associates at the House and through- [ threatened with starvation; a clear and
out the city Col. Crook, who was j free road most be ready if it should be
seventy-six years old and only recently | necessary for the United States to
celebrat^ his fiftieth year of service Mexico City with an armed i allege for the destruction of their coun-,
at the White House, and served under I - . , . 14.-, ;4. „ u j • j u-
all Presidents since Lincoln. President! ' Si '
Wilson expressed deep regret when in-! Interests. 1 > » sader-rrttline per-
r J 1 /-I 1 . J I formance which would scare Europe
formed of Col. Crook’s death. . . i. ..*.1
,, T L TT TT ... I 1 into an entente, (2) an attack on i
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, who was !
Th/e Great Book.
Henry M. Stanley set out upon hisj
great African exploration with quite a
formidable library. One cannot march.!
18 hours a day under an equatorial
sun, and he gave a prudent thought to^
the long encampments and armed him*'
self with books. But books are heavy
baggage and one by one his servants
deserted him. As a consequence,
Stanley was compelled to leave one
treasured set of volumes at this Afri
can village, and another at that, until
at last he had but two books left—
Shakespeare and the Bible. And we
have no doubt that had Africa been a
i still broader continent, even Shake-
I speare would have been abandoned.
Doing a Great Work,
Sympathetic, but Just.
The late Rev. Silvester Horne, who
represented Ipswich in parliament,
. ... i used to tell an amusing story con-
^ Serbia which would give British diplom | cerniiig a visit which Mr, Balfour once
j acy a chance to go on recrd as working 1 paid to that town. An old lady, hard
(From the Morganton News-Herald) ! for peace, (3) a breach of Belgian neu-1 hearing, seeing the crowd of peo-
Statistics sent out by the Southern j trality which would unite Britain for P*® outside the station and the extra
Railway this week show that acorn : "ar, and () an attempt by submarines j"”, jp* •,
parison between January 1915 and Jan.; ®"'' England which ^ neighbor for wiom
uarv 1914 eives a decrease in the „ IK"®‘he British navy and excuse ^
uary 1914 gives a decrease in the re-, p„t mcroase pressure on Germany, (old it was Mr. Balfour, the old lady
said: “Well, I suppose if the poor
national chairman of the war children's
fund, has received, among many testi
monials of gratitude from citizens of
nations involved in the present war,
two officials acknowledgements of
written in warm personal terms’ one
from the Empress Marie Feodorowna
of Russia and the other from Princess i a i .
Mary of England I ^ month this year. An- j The Kaiser did the saber rattling, the
The District eight-hour law. enacted ' in the ^ame statistics! idplomats botched the Serbian business
dy Coogress about a year ago, prohibi- { shaws that in spite of these discour- | the general staff insisted on attacking i sufTer for it.
titg the employment of females in cer- j agements the company hid not ceased | Belgium, and the admiralty seems to
tain establishments and avocations for j to push forward improvements, in fact j have been responsible for the war j
more than forty eight hours a week ! i -
, 1 J 1 J ... . , there has been an increase in the ex* zone oerformance Amom? them thev
has been decleared constitutional by ^ ^ , pt-normance Among tncm iney
the District Supreme Court, The Court improving the road-Such j have played England’s game as well
an example as is this in a time of fi-jas it could be played; it is left for the
man has done anything wrong he’s
explained that the law was almost
identical in form with a California
statute, declared constitutional by the
Uuited State* Supreme Coi.rt on Fed-
ruary 23,1616.
Nothing Much Adheres to the Fool.
The fool and his money are not
parted much sooner than the fool and
tiis health or the fool and his friends.^
Where She Mended It.
When illicit distilling was common
I In the Highlands there was an old
man who went about the country re
pairing whisky-pots. The gauger met
nancial depression can hardley be over | general and soldiers in the fiel 1 to do | dofng^re^la^sTt no grea“t‘d?s®
estimated. The Southean Railway is j what they can for Germany. I tance, asked what he would take to in
doing a great work in the development] ! form him (the gauger) where he had
of the South. Not only is it the| [repaired the last whisky-pot. “Och,”
“premier" carrier, but in a great
carrier,
many materirl ways it is aiding in
bringing cur section of the country to
Boy Wanted
the front, agriculturally, industrially j prove a good place for the right kind
commercially. ©f a boy.
I said the old man, “she’ll shust tak’
Wanted a smart honest boy white or! half a crown.” “Done,” retorted the
color^ to do handy work around the 1 «auger, “Here is your money, but be
careful to tell me correctly.” Och,
Leader office. Apply at once. It will j tell the gentleman a lee. I
shust mended the last whisky-pc^
where the hole was.’