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THE MEBANE LEADER
“And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.”
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MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1915
Number 16
Ir Ernest C heek and wife f f
xl.oro was iii Mebar.e the first
,!ie week
,iiss Emma Barnett of Bur-
o I is visiting her brother
,\lt4nine.
41:', Long the little dau ?1 ter
,ir and'iVlrs A. P L( acc-
’ y c:it her foot Tuesday eve-
an.l bled very much
A Great Man Has Gone Fo
Hib itewaru. Mr. Thomas
M. Cheek Head.
Mr. 'riiomns M (’heek the oldest and
one of the ipost beloved men of Meb-
ane passed away at his home last Sun-
W.J. BRYAN RESIGNS GERiNS iE AC-
Chapel Hill Letter
Do Right
No
And submit To
was done before he would
Notice
1 lu' Metane Civic Association
1 iioUl its regular meeting on
V.: Friday afternoon June 11th
' (I’v'look in the Graded school
nienil)ers are urged to be
■eiit.
The Protracted Meeting
1 he protracted meeting which
, conducted in Mebane
liev. Mr. Lightbourn was
.. tst'd Tuesday night. The meet-
; . ^ lui^^ attracted large crowds
u service, and very mush
h:Urest has been manifested.
! ht' t'rmons iiave been of a high
ord*r and uplifting. Much good
lias l .t eii accomplished, and it is
; !-tped that its effect will
■tiiuv Mr Lightbourn has
Mi in-hed some very able ser-
• u.iir ti> our people, and they
r.v them much pleasure to lis-
ir 11 to them
AMONG OUR ADVERTISERS
We are the leaders is a claim
made by Ellis-Stone and Co. of
Darhim and Greensboro, and it
can not be questioned but what
hey carry a stock of dry goods
that put them well in the front.
A letter will bring you a nice
iiiie of samples for any dress
;oods you may wish, write,
I yson=Malone Hdw. Co.
We have a home institution
hero that is entitled to this com
munities support. They carry the
. lock to meet the demand, they
rt‘ll right, and will treat you
i lt'ver, and considerate. It is
; yson-Malone Hardware Co.
Pont go any where else to get
what you can purchase of them.
Mritchard-Bright and Co.
Leading clothier of Durham
are a firm composed of men of
t xpei-ience and cultivated taste in
thn clothing business. Every
alesman is an expert fitter, a
-v^ntleman of cultured taste,
iio will see that your purchases
ire what is best suited to you,
. :iu will make no mistake to see
hem.
H. E Wilkinson and Co
Well if you have dealt with
iit‘old reliable, it is not neces-
i -\yy lor us to say miich. They
tarjy the goods, and all ways
make the price right. A full
line of ladies dress goods, mens
ladies, and childrens shoes,
mens hats. Fresh groceries all
ays on hand.
Nnelso Ray and Co
V clean store, clean stock and
er people is the boast of this
iirm. Everything new and up to
late, trunks, valices, hand
. . ,Tht is Charge Made bv,
‘‘ sign, as he was required to} Piirhtinfr in I tomatoes and
note, in answer to i
' France
As Secretary of state
W. J. Bryan resigned his
day afternojii at one o’clock after ’ ofTice Tuesday as Secretary
of State. The act neallegesj
Mr. Clieek bore his affliction with pa
tience and was until Ins death cons
>us.
Had Mr. Cheek lived until next | the ROte, In anSWer tO
month he would have been seventy \ Germanys recent reply in re->
^ the Lusitania
ried to Miss Philips of Waynesboro S
C. thus they liyed together for over a
half a century. To this union eight
children were born, all of whom sur
vive The sons are, Messers James,
Ed^ Will, Thomns and Hariv. The
daughters are Mrs. Clark of Durham,
Mrs. Ella Pearson and Miss Lula Cheek
ol Mebane
Mr. I’heek was horn about two
miles east of Mebane in Orange
County. He was a tailor by trade and
worked at this business practically all
his life. He was for years tailor for
the Bingham school at Mebane and
I 'I'he canning club work in North Car-
, o‘i;ia and the particular achievement
j o ■ tho cliampion-wiiiiiint; girl of’ .;he
i Alama’>c-e couniy t'iub are exploited in
1 “The Country Gentlen'an” this week,
i i'he department of “Farmers of To-
1 inorro^” of that ixccHent agricultural
i journal carries the story. Here it is; j variance with
j “When a fourteen year-old girl in-, German press is
! vests $24.47 in the cu tivation of one- j
real
$148.-
j 23 in profits, there’s a suggestion of
unusual intelligence and thrift! The
! case in point is that of Mary Rice Mc-
! Culloch, of Alamance County, North
I Carolina’s champion for 1^14. Her
J. F. Wamsley. of Sednlia, Mo,, in | yitjjfj vvas 2222 pounds of tomatoes and
Greensboro on a business mission, re- j ghe canned 1711 pounds. Here is her
ceived a letter fxom a friend, an En-
Wrong
While *-he German Gov.irnment side-!
steos the clear cut issues presented to |
it by our State Departu ent, quibbling
over questions of immaterial moment, |
and suggfcsting theories entirely ai i
MUCH TRUCK SHIP
PED m OF EAST
established facts, the j
press is contemptuously de- j
the pl^as advanced by the Many IhOU&HndS Of
LETTER TO SEOALIA MAN
glish officer, with the artny in France.
The letter bears date of May 5, and
the iollowing is an extract from it:
“Very many thanks for yours of 29th
of March which reached me a few days
ago. I am sorry my first letter never
reached you as we do not have much j juy plants on May 4, and again on May
t\me for writing and like to think that 114 i replanted them.
in
cident. iVIr. Bryan is not
oblivious of the fact that
his resignation at this mo-
mentiunc hour would tend m
some small nie.^sure to hurt
Mr. Wilson's position, but
Mr. .Bryan’s great self con
ceit will not permit him to
weigh with any degree of
importance the harm he
does. The assistant secre-
after Col Bingham moved to Asheville I ^ ill sign the instrU-
he did the work there for quite a while j •*- *11 -P A '
He was very proficient in the art of j ment and it Will gO iOrWarCl j having far, tar worse than, any savage;
making clothes, having done great j to Germany Carrying with j kicking wounded (British) prisoners to
it nil thp forpp and pffpct i
ii ail me lorce ana i their ^
that an act ot the F^resident i crimes, this is not hearsay, it is hard, j fQwed under before the
backed by this Government!^ never
. i have anything more to do with any
lend, or empower it. j member of that accursed rate as long
! as I live. War is a dirty business at
1 the best of times but they have deliber
story. I ing newspapers
“The Stone and Earliana tomato
seeds were ordered by the club early
in February. The session was wet and
my seed were not sown until March.
I put them into a tobacco plant bed
covered with canvas. 1 transplanted
I risive of the pbas
United States in behalf of the rights
common to humanity, ard ridicules the
idea that America’s professed neutral
ity is based on any motive higher than
that of reaping the largest possible har j
vest of gain from the misfortunes cr
exigencies of other nations. The lead-
^re of one mind in
casting doubt on the sincerity of the
attitude of the United States, and the
leading one of them says. “It is absurd
for a power whose past record is one
of consistent disregard of the rights of
weaker nations, whose light concern
those we do write reach their dcst-ina-
tion. As you say it seems strange that
the very war we so often discussed
should have come so suddenly upon us.
The Germans (-Blast them) are be-
Hawfields Items.
Too late for last week.
M=ss Mildred While has returned
home from the State Norn>a
she was a one of the graduates this
year.
deal of high class work in Charles
ton S. C. Charlotte and other places
Mr. Cheek lived in Charlotte for quite
a while and ma .iy a time have we heard
him speak of his door neighbor and in
timate frienJ Gov Vance. He served
in the war as a tailor—not as a soldier 1 Exit Mr. Bl'yan.
from the fact thet he was always veiy
delicate and not able to stand the hard
ships of a soldier. But Mr. Cheek was
a typical Southener and his great heart
and soul was ever on the firing line
with his friends and loved cnes and he
would have been willing to have bitten
the dust if need be in honor of the
confederacy He was a man of magr-
nanimous heart and to promote the
we’fare of h:s community and State
was the paramount desire of his life.
He represented his country and dis
trict in the House and in the Sena;e,
and was a member of th '.t August
body that established the State Normal
College. He was greatly interested in
education and did everything in his
power fOr the furtherance of its cause.
For fourteen years he was a member
of the Graaed school Board of Mebane,
and duriiior the time of his official con
nection wiyh the schoo', he labored in
an indefatigable way for its promo
tion. Truly he was a great and good
man, and “would for every one for
whom he did some loving kindness
bring a blossom to his grave, he would
sleep today beneath a wilderness of
flowers”. He was charitable, just and
kind to ever> one. He too was a devout
and pious Christian, He connected him
self with the Presbyterian church in
early manhood and always loyal to his
tihurch. He loved his family as only a
soldier of Jesus Christ can, and to his
devoted wife and fond children, we ex
tend our heart felt sympathy.
Funeral services were conducted in
the,Presbyterian church lasc Monday
afternoon by his pastor Dr. Hawley,
his former pastor Rev. Mr. Murphy,
Dr. Swain, Rev. Dorsett and Re\^. Mr.
Durham Th3 packed house and
wreaths of flowers testified to the Efland =vith friends,
high esteem in which he was held
The interment was made in the city
cemetery. He was buried with m>isonic
honors.
Pall barers wei-e, Dr. J. S. Sper-
geon, James H. Webb. C. A. McDade,
Charles Straughan, A. M. Cook. W. O.
Warren S. G. Morgan and A. B Fitch.
ately outraged every rule of war, the
“My garden was an oblong plot 33 "'>ose lust
feet by 132 feet. The soil was of gray- | for empire has been constantly indul-
ish loam. It had sown to crimson ! ged, should be setting itself up as an
clover the preceding fal’. The land; examplar of disinterestedness and
was broken with a tw^horse plow on j ^ international morality.”
May 8. Then it was harrowed three
times with a section harmw. Fortunately this is not the estimate
“I had one ♦'wo-horse load of stable | in which this Republic is held by the
manure scattered broadcast and har-; world; nor is it one at all justified by
plants were | record. Since the foundation of
putf out. .About the last of July I had i , • l t * -i-
f f *.-i- i. the Union but one acquisition to its
one-third of a sack of fertilizer put on |
my garden ! territory has been achieved by force
“I watered and set my plants on j of arms, and was in establishment of
Junel. Many of them died. I water-j natural boundaries and w'as accom-
ed and Veplanted twice again At last
most uncivilized peoples know how to plowing the ground was covered with
treat prisoners and wounded but they,
with all of their boasted “Culture”
have torn up every agreement, political
or moral, ever made and 1 trust that
the American nation which has always
been a champion of fair play and civi-
Miss Hudson, from Barum Springs, I lization will turn in loathing from Ger-
made a very interesting talk Sunday j many when the whole truth is known
morning at the church on the
ion and work of the orphans
Mr. Herbert Turner left Wednesday
for Spray where he will spend the
snnimer preaching.
Mr. Kerr Scott and Ernest Turner
have returned home from A. and M.
College. They wifi probably soend tT;e
summer at home.
The Christian Endeavor Society met
Sunday ni jht at the church, and was
conducted by Mr. Herbert Turner.
Mr Walter Mann has returned from
Davidson where ho has been studying
for the Ministry.
condit- j to them.
“You may think I am talking too
strongly but I have seen some of the
rich dirt.
I did not prune or stake my
p»nied by Jcompensation such as vic
tors in war rarely allows the vanquish-
plants. ‘ What plighted faith was ever
My plot was mulched^^with straw. I
killed the cut worms and tobacco
worms.
“I gathered my tomatoes in tubs
and buckets and hauled them to the
house. In grading, all the large and
small ones were put in seperate boxes.
I grew no other vegetables on my one
te.ith acre. I did most of my canning
things they have done and 1 think they at home. All my preserving was done
deserve no mercy at all and hope they
will get none.”
Choose Your As
You Would A Human
I Cottipanion
! Glasses Will probably be your closest
I companion through life. Choose them
Mr. Laraine Turner has recently got
at home.
“The meaning of the club emblem,
‘to make the best better,’ is working
toward perfection. I knew almost
nothing about canning when 1 joined
the club. Have learned many things
about fruits and vegetables. I used
the recipes recommended by the club
for catchup, chow-chov , jellies and
as such, for they have a certain chara- j grape juice. This was my first year
In 1890 the population of Little River
and Hillsboro townships in Orange
County was 6’364; in 1910 the same
avarice so great and our principle so 1 (now Little River Eno, Hillsboro,
cter influence. Dr. Rosenstein,s glasses j in the club and I enjoyed the work j German journalists af > township) had a popula-
more nobly kept than our promise of
independence to Cuba? After conquest
of the Phillipinois, we paid Spain for
renouncement of her already forfeited
title and then illustrated costly mag-
namity by undertaking to prepare the
uative population for control of their
own destinies. What other govern
ment refuses to collect from China
after the Boxer rebellion the millions
of indemnity wrung from her helpless
ness? What modern ration has exer
cised tovs’ard a turbulent neighbor the
forbearance we have displayed towards
Mexico,—a prize rich beyond compu
tation open to our grasp were our
Bas
kets And Crates of Vege
tables Go North.
Although the past strawberry season
was the shortest on record, 1,1S9 cars
shipped out of the Wilmington terri
tory under refrigeration and by South
ern Express, with about 180 carloads
of lettuce. Snap beans and Irish pota
toes will constitute the next heaviest
movement of the trucking crops out
of this section. More than 100 cars of
beans, peas and other truck were ship-
j ped out the past week and fully iXX)
j cars of potatoes are slated to go for •
j ward this week. The price of beans
j have dropped to a point where a profit
I is hard to find but the prices for pota-
! toes is good.
Advices received here indicate that
60,0(X) ba.skets of beans were shipped
from Goldsboro; 32,000 from Mt. Olive;
20.000 from Faison and 35,000 from
points between Faison and Wilmington
Reports 'of the potato crop indicate
that the yield will be fully 25 per cent
greater than last year.
Something like 130 cars of canta
loupes are expected to move Irom the
Wilmington and Weldon road, while
something like 200 carloads of dewber
ries will move out from Southern
Pines, Sanford, Jonesboro and Car
thage districts.
Clinton, in Sampson county, is slated
for 35,000 crates of sweet corn and
10.000 crates of huckleberries, while
Mt, Olive will ship several thousanJ
crates of each.
A Good Country Marking:
Time.
will stand the test. Being sturdily j very much.
made, they give full value in Wear and, wx j
full life. We have fitted glas.se long I and the other canning-club girls in her |
a nice I jbber-tire buggy, but owing j enough to know them, and or.r recom 'county have done Alamance claims a!
to the bad weather he hns not been j f„endation aftd guarantee is back of j record for goods produced in 1914 by
feet to believe?—Va. Pilot.
A Miserable Defense
able to take a spin yet.
Erland Ntws
Miss Le».a Yates of Durham is visi
ting her friend, Miss Mattie S’narklin.
Mrs. N. C. Harris of Fuquay Springs
came op last week for a short visit to
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Ef
land.
Miss B^s::>ie Baity spent last Sunday
eveYy pai*" we sell. Hr. N. Rosenteion,
the Optometrist of Durham, will be in
Mebane, Teusday, June 15th. stopping
at the White House, f»^r the purpose of
examining eyes and fitting glasses.
Mrs, Robt. Kirk Smith
Mrs. Robert Kirk Smith was born
September 4. 1885 and died J une 4,
1915. eleven years ago she was married
-alchels etc. Ladies light weight 1 to Robt. Smith. Her mother Mrs. J.
ummer fabric the last dream of! W Kirk of Durham.
i 0 weaver. Lots of notions
(ireen-Mcclure Co
'I’ry and remember it that this
til have the biggest furntiure
li e in Graham and this house
lull to overflow with season-
stock, carpets, tables,
M.uir.s .setters, rugs, art squares,
j>]endid line of graphophones
NeLson Cooper Lumber Co
Soon or late vou. will need
•iiip lumber for building or re
aring, but it matters not for
'iut purpose, you can be sup-
•-•(1 by the Nelson-Lumber Co.
wsh doors, blinds, paints and
tty, glass etc. see them
N. C. one bro
ther, Mr. V. A. Kirk, Greensboro, N.
C and two sisters, Mrs- 3. F. Arring
ton, Durham, N. C. and Mrs. W. C
After spending two days at home
last week Mr. Harry Fitzpatrick re
turned to his worK in Richmond, Va.
Mr. M. L. Efland attended the Old
Soldiers Reunion in Richmond, Va.
Only a few mere Reunions and the
final “Roll call” will come for the
“old vets.”
Mr, and Mrs. Robah Teer from The
! New Sharon neighborhood spent Sun
day with Mrs. Teer’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Tapp near Efland.
Mr. Norman Mayes left Tuesday of
last week for Raleigh to join Uncle
Sam's Army. We wish you much
1 success Norman in your work
Washington Mews Letter
Following the receipt here of the
German note answering President Wil
son’s Lustania protest, official Wash
ington took a most serious vifw of
the situation affecting the two coun
tries, and the feelinpr produced was
that of profound disappointment. Dis
satisfaction at the failure of Germany
to answer the demands of the United
States was reflected in government
circles generally.
Secretary Bryan would make no
comment. Other cabinet officers weer
reticent, but there was litt'e conceal
ment anyv/here that the answer from
Berlin had produced a very grave situ
ation. Great concern is felt over the
country’s future course, and there
were many who predicted that, follow
ing a sharp rejoinder from the Presi
dent to Berlin, the administration might
find it necessary eventually to break
for j off diplomatic intercourse with Ger
many by recalling Ambassador Gerard
U. S.
I from the Kaiser’s court, and asking
... Mr. Jack Price of Durham spent Sat-1 Ambassador von Bern-
F. Harris, Sumpter, S. C.and a host of |Sunday with his wife | Washington,
relatives and friends survive her. She j *^6^^ Efland. . President, upon whom rests the
was the mother of two children the! Miss Ivev Smith has relarned from j burdens of deciding the government’s
little boy twenty seveft months old still | a pleasant visit to her orother, Mr. 1 foreign policy in the absence of Con-
lives to cheer the bereft husband and , will Sm’.th and family near Maple | gress, sought solitude for a time, as he
father. The funeral was conducted j Springs. I did in the trying days immediately
from the Baptist church, ot which she | ^ j after the sinking ot the La8t.nia, and
was a member, by her pastor, Rev. H. ' ^ bouncing ' rnotormic - his tavorite diversion
flats at Halt Price
G. Djrsett, who pnid a fine tribute to
her memory. The church was packed
with fi lends of the family and many
could not even find standing room.
The floral offering was beautiful. She
was laid to rest in the Presbyterian
cemetery.
Flower girls, Pauline Nicholson,
Viola Hodge, Felsie King Annie Dol
lar,-Fellen Smith and Ora Allen. Pall
bartrs, U. S. Ray, M. B. Miles, W
M. Satterfield, R, H. Tyson. H
Wilkinsoii and W. F. Dillard.
young Joh»i L. ”
Capt. C. C. Taylor is having a new
wing added to his residence which will
improve the looks of it very much.
“High cost of living” is coming
down in the way of sugar being 8 cts
per pound, and wheat $1.50 per bushel.
Guess it will get “even lower” after
awhile. Ofcourse it will tor Woodiow
g i promised us it would come down and
j when desirous of undisturbed applica-
I tion to problems of state. For those
who fear a split in the Wilson cabinet
j when it comes to a show-down of
j what the United States purposes to do,
i it may be said that one man, is going
j to handle the rejoinder; and he will be
swayed neither by the extreme psci-
fists, headed by Bryan, nor by the ex
girls. The countv invested $1771.25, | We have a defense of the Lusitania
and from that expenditure produced j massacre on the ground that the great
canned goods to the value of $7039.65. I ^
warship, and
of the Falaba murder on the assertion
that her Captain “made an effort to
escape. ’ ’
The Lusitania was a warship in the
same way that Belgium was an ag-
The number of containers was 55,165 ”
Leslie’s Weekly of New York City,
the most widely read illustrated week -
ly in the United States, carries a
photograph of Lolla Rookh Fleming
and Ethel Gardner of the Wilson high
school, champion-wlnners in the De-,
bating Union of North Carolina. The ' pressor against Germany; in the same
photograph appears in the department! way that the Univerity of Louvain
of “People Talked About” in Leslie’s! and the Rheims Cathedral were “forti-
of May 27. Ihe caption heading is, fication;” in the same way that various
•‘Best Debaters in Carolina.” The raided by
picture and brie: item concerning the , , .
achievement were submitted by S. R Germans, were defended.”
Winters of the State University. | Qf the fact that the Lusitania was
, I unarmed we have proof in the testi-
John Jacoo .Astor Is An M^'one. ot the
1 falsity of the charge .that she carried
Expensive YoUnK Fellow. , „„„iUons ot war contrary to law,
John Jacob Astor, now in his third j national or international, we have
year, the posthumus child of Col. John j evidence in judicial and departmental
Jacob Astor, who perished on the Ti
tanic, has been living at the rate of
approximately $30,000 a year, accor
ding to the accounting filed with the
surrogate by his mother, Mrs. |
Madeline Force Astor, who is his guar-.
dian
The court allowed Mrs. Astor $60,
000 for the child’s maintenance for
three years, or $20,000 a year. In ;
ttie accounting filed Mrs. Astor j
asserts she has spent $23,639 of her j
own money in addition for his mainten-1 falsehood and subterfuge, it proposes
ance. Chief items in tne accounting j jelay discussion on our part, while
are one-third of the taxes of the Astor | reserving to itself the right to Bla^k-
Fifth avenue home (the taxes being j Hand our people and our goods.-
approximately $30,000 a year) $8,000 [ York World,
for professional services ot physicians, ' _
lawyers and others, and $5,000 for *
clothing, supplies and toys
rulings. For the absurd, accusation
that we permitted her to embark Cana
dian troops enroute to the front there
ran be no justification in a neutrality
that has been of the strictest order.
Berlin does not answer the President
questions. It ignores his appeal for
redress. It takes no account of the
“immeasurable wrongs” against which
he complains. On the contrary, hav
ing set international law and solemn
treaties aside and taken refuge behind
tion of 6,597; a gain of only 233 in
twenty years.
I|illsboro absorbed most ot this in
crease, 150. Meantime Mebane which
lies on the line between Orange and
Almance grew from 228 to 693 in 1910:
a more than three-fold increase in ten
years.
Naturally the country population of
these townships suffered corresponding
diseases.
Cedar Grove township during these
two decades lost in population, 45 in
all; pnd Bingham 161. Which is to say,
during the last quarter century every
township in Orange decreased in popu
lation, not excessively but gradually
and certainly. All told, there were
116 fewer people in Orange in 1910
than in 1890. —University News Letter.
Drs. Charles and William Mayo, the
famous surgeons of Rochester, IMinn.,
have presented the University of Min
nesota with a fund of two million dol
lars to be used, without restrictions by
the donors, in medical research work.
This is practical philanthropy well cal
culated to bring forth reiults of a
value to humanity above and beyond
estimation ia dollars and cents.
Special Ships For
Material.
War
Wttere is the old-fashioned girl who
blushed when she discovered that her
Mrs. Astor asserts that she is inform j petticoat was a little longer than her
ed that the income on the trust fund i skirt?—Pembrt'ke Enterprise,
treme advocates of drastic action, hea- left bv Colonel Astor for the child ap- [ She’s dead. Her granddaughter
“sure it will.”
“Pat.”
Hats at half price should b« a
inptation to any lady who
^eds a hat. The Mebane Sup-
i 1.V Co. have cut their prices half i
‘ too, and will for the next] . 4.u u i
‘ ■ V. days before their miliner ! Claud Newman was burried at Leban-{ be, then, ere thou bid the people re-
ives for her home, sell all i™
Death ot Mrs Newman’s 1, ^ f
I Shall the sword devour forever? know-
Cllild. I egt thou not that it will be bitterness
The little child of Mr. and Mrs.' in the latter end? how long shall
ded, according to report’ by Secretary
of the Interior Lane. An absolute de-
i nial was made by the Secretary to the
Presiden, Joseph P. Tumult, regarding
any impending cabinet split growing
out of the government’s foreign policy.
E. C. Durham
i‘lit*s hats for half price
officiating.
turn from following
II Samuel ii, 26.
their brethern?—
Poultney Bigelow says the Prussians
it I have no manners, and it must be ad
mitted that in the conduct of war they
are not particularly courteous even to
neutrals.
proximately $140,000 and upon this as-1 blushes if her outer skirt is not short
sumption contends that it was Colonel j enough to testify clearly to the fact
Astor’s wish that his son be amply | that she doesn’t wear a petticoat.
provided for. f
— ! Those Who predicted that Billy Sun-
dag would not be successful in Pater
son, New Jersey, seem to have reck
oned without their host. He is report
ed to have cleantHl us some twenty-six
thousand dollars as a result of his
meetings there.
j Lloyd is now offering odds that the
I war will not be over by the first of
next year, “but there is no apparent
rearon why other people should not be
just as good guessers as Lloyds.
The announcement that the B’rench
Government has chartered forty-five
freight steamers to be used exclu
sively in handling munitions and other
war supplies made in the United States
IS indicative both of the extent to
which France is already buying in this
still greater ex
tent to which she is prepairing to call
upon us for the meeting of her mili
tary needs. French purchasing agents,
we are told, are now placing a flood
of orders and expect to keep the en
tire lieet of chartered bottoms in bus^-
cess for several months. Manufac
turers receiving the contracts are
urged to make the speediest possible
delivery at the seaboard, where their
obligations will altogether cease and
determine, France assuming full re
sponsibility for the trans-AtHntic
transportation.
liiL.