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THE MEBAI^E LEADER
And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.”
Voiumn 7
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15th-1915
Number 21
\iiss Grace Pickett of Burling-
^.,11 spent last week with her
uiu.‘!e, Mr. G. E. Wyatte.
Mr. J. M. Hayes of Burling-
u.n spent Sunday with hisdaugh-
11. Mrs. G. Wyatte.
vir. and Mrs. G. E. Wyatte
pent Sunday atternoon in Bur-
i;ni':ton.
t;. V. H. G, Dorsett pastor of
Baptist church has resigned
will leave shortly for Louis-
vilU- Kentucky where he will
^nirv the Theological seminary.
Mr. Dorsett has done a great
w.)! k here and has made many
li I. !kU, not* only among his own
denomination butamong all others
,,*• tiie town who regret to see
turn leave and whose go(»d w’ish-
t and prayers will follow' him.
Interesting Descri|5tion Ofi
The Wild Battleground
of The East.
Frickidship Village
Route 5.
I Miss Ollie Douglass returned home
after spending two weeks at McRae’s
Our mail man Mr. Jobe has taken
himself a wife to add to his happiness
the remainder of his days , An English writer gives an interest-I
We can hear the hum of the thrash-) ing description of the wild battlescar-
ing machine as it comes to ‘ur neigh- Carpathians where “miles of al-
borhood. The farmers are expecting'
large crops of grain.
Mrs. Rebecca rhompson and daugh
ter, Miss Sudie spent last week with .
her sister Mrs. J. P. Kenion r«^turning i lonelier parts.
Friday accompanied by her sister Mrs. j honeycombed with
J. 1*. Kenion. j traveler hears the sound * of under
Mrs. C. A Newman returned home {ground waters; westward there are^
Sunday after a extended visit to Schly , many abandoned mine«?. lip the moun-
i
I tain valleys eastward on either side
village's, each hou:se
standing in its own plot or field
THE CARPATHIANS, I ™E SffiHT red pleme
nr.ost untrodden pine
slopes on either sitie’
wolf, bear a'd lynx
forest clothe the
’ and where the
still flouri*h in
‘The foothills are
caves, and the
and Durham.
Mrs. Rcbecca Thompson and
ter spent Thursday at Shady Nook
with her niece Mrs. Claude Newman
daugh- • nre straggling
Installation Service at the
Presbyterian Dhurc Sun
day July 12th.
Foiu’ elders, J, S. Cheek, W.
L. Mason, H. E. Wilkinson, E.
V. Farrell, and four Deacons,
,s. Morgan, J. M. Thompson,
,). S. Vincent, E. W. Wilkerson
were ordained and installed Sun-
.iay morning. This was the first
anniversary in the new church
tniilding. The congregation has
or tiekl or
farm, inhabited by a wild, yet gentle,
folk, on either side of the range,”
Hetzuis by naire.
“All these mountain people on both
sides of the border are generally call-
! ed “Slovaks; at the western end they
Lebanon reports a fine Sunday | ^he
schcol picnic at Efland July the 3rd j Hohe Tatra eastward are nearly
Mr. Me Efland opened his kind heart j all Ukraineans, the remnant cf ^that
and gave his mill buildings to the pub-, ^reat Slavonic kingtlom of the Ukra-
they
Mrs. R. J. Oakley who has been con
fined to her room with chills is able to
be out again.
Say let us have more Items from
the Routes we certainly enjoy reading ]
them.
lie where they served a line dinner
Both young and old enjoyed this picnic.
“Neighbor”
Chapel Hill News
ine which extended through Russia to
the further shores of the Sea of Azov
in the 11th and 12th century.
Washington News Letter
Alarming Increase of
Heart Disease in
The Last 30
- Years. i
Twenty years ago the most frequent
^cause of death in this country was tub- j
erculosis. At the present time more j
people die anUally from organic heajrt
disease +han from the "tjreat white
plague.” In rounds numbers, the an
nual death toll now levied by heart
diaeast!in this country is 410,000.
The president of the Life Extension
Institute recently poinLed'out that the
mortality from organic heart disease
hds increased 8(5 per cent in Massa-
chusettes in 30 years; and in a group
of 15 American cities it has increased
04 per cent.
! Another Go*>d Cartoon.
j. Puck carries a cartoo*". in which it
j pictures ex-Governor Slaton with a big
! club beating to death the black wing-
j ed fowls of Death Penalty, ^rame Up,
j Mob Rulerather ominous- birds while
I lying prostrate under him is Leo M.
I Frank. Puck everlastingly excoriates
j Tom Watson—-prints about as hard a
roast on him as we ever read. The
Frank case became international, and
all predict that before long the un
fortunate man, now sentenced for life,
will be fully vindicated.-'‘Every,thing”
Greensboro,
Every question touching rural life—
given its pastor, Rev. Dr. Haw^-
I from boys’ corn clubs to the best type
ley a months vacation. The | of country home—has been asked and ja confurence
members presented him with a I answered by the members of the Rural i
nice purse toward defraying his Life Conference who held their third i
expenses.
The FirmThatSells Right
The attention of the Lender readers
are directed to* the splendidly displayed
advertisement of B. A. Sellers and
Son of Burlington. Read it and you
will see that they hav-^ a list of very
attractive bargains. Its a real money
saver, and it will be worth yoar while
to take advantage of it. B. A Sel-
lr*r:« and Son carry a big stock. They
nave a big store and it is full of nice
rfiings. See them.
The Home of Good
Clothing
.Mr. B. Goodman of Burlington in-
aiigurats a great midsummer cut price
sale, it begins Thursday 15th. and con
tinues for 12 days. It covers the entire
-took of thirty thousand dollars worth
of g)ods including clothing, hats, caps,
-hoes, dry goods and notions. The
-ale will be worthy of vour attention.
Administration olficials regard as a
of in-
party
in Mexico which is being held here, as
annual session here last week. The | on the result of the conference the ulti-
great task of making North Carolina j fwate action of the President with re
country happier, more healthful and | ^^^erce to Mexico may be based. Re-
more productive is one of which is re- 1 assuring reports on conditions in Mexi-
ceiving the attention of prominent men j co City taken to Vera Cruz by re
and women from all parts of the state, j fugees who left that capital recently
and the 700 teachers who are here as ; have reached the
students of the University Summer | cable.
“Ihe German Government has re
fused absolutely to accept the hun>an-
itarian principle set forth by President
Wilson in his throe notes and has
reaffirmed its determination to re
write international Jaw to suit its own
desires, with no conception of the
_ _ „ rights of neutrals.
MeDane Elects A New | _
policeman j Fooled.
The Board of Town Commissioners, i • i. ^
, , p , u .. J ^he ex-Lieutenant Governor, of
of the town of Mebane has elected Mr. | ’
J. L. Patillo, former Chief of Police | Island, w’ho made a grand speech
at Bufiinyluii, as Chief of Police at j ^t the Battle of Grounds last Saturday
this place. Mr. Patillo will noc only | said he expected to see a few people
have chnrno of the eeneral police work ; celebration; thought maybe the
but will take charge of the sanitary ^ ,
work. This is an important part of the 1 '"Hrht parade; expect-
town’s p,)lrce work, and the Mayor I stop at a hotel with tin cups and
and \ (ommissioners have been very ' a broken wash basin. He came. He
anxiiJua to put the town in a thorough- looked. He was entertained in some
ly sanitary comlitiin. .Mr /“tilio will I , the city; he
begin t'lf work on tne 15th of this I
montii, ami the aulho.iti« hope that|*“"' ““tomobiles
the town will aid him in this impor- , parked on the grounds and twenty
t .nt work. If he visits you, co-oper- j thousand people out to hear hina talk
—and then he looked over as pretty a
town ar he ever saw, and he manfully
confessed he was the most surprised
man in seven states. —“Everything”
School hav3 been made to realize the
immense possibilities our s*:ate oflFers
its rural citiizens.
The meetings were presided over by
The United States government is
determined tliat Huerta, the former
H'e with him to the fulltst extent.
'Mr.'W. C. tMark had resigned some
time ago from the regular sanitary
work and was only holdmg the specal
police work job because the' t«..wn had
no one else who would accept it. The/Greensboro.
State Department j commissioners wish to assure Mr. | ■ ■ —,
Clark of their appreciation of his hon- j
est service, and their full confidence A great many people seem to believe
in him as a man and citizen. There that we will have to fight Germany or
Mexican dictator, shall not re-enter I was absolutely no friction between j retract from the position taken by the
Mexico from American territory. Chief him and the commissioners, and their
Director Walker and the discussions led! Justice White, of the United States only reason for electing a new man
by Dr. W. A. McKeeyer of the Univer' Supreme Court, has declined to payjiA^as the fact that Mr. Clajrk would
sity of Kansas. Among the prominent I any attention to the telegram sent to] not undertake the work. "
If We Should Qo To War
(St. Louis RepubMc.)
There is at least one consolation. If
\vp should go to war it would not be
iiecause we wanted a place in the sun;
.Kii to rectify our frontier; nor to ob-
tai ; an outlet for our trade; nor be
we had promised to fight if
Si me othrr nation did; nor becau.se we
had demanded the right to have our
utficerr! sit on the military tribunals
't a .smaller nation and been refused;
ii»>r because a port threatened by
hiiother power was a pistol pointed at
tlie heart of America; nor because it
'•■as our duty to resi«t the Slavic peril;
lor to retake provinces lost decades
()fcfore; nor because we -had a thum-
i-iiig big army which had grown tired
i>! innocuous desuetude; nor because
fne Almighty had appointed us the
uardians of culture and civilization to
lesser breeds; nor because we
tiiught it a favorable time to thrash
enemy; nor simply because we
■re superior to everybody else that
■ i (.'1' had been or would be, and ached
' • demonstrate it. If we go to war it
r\ ill be because it is a step necessary
u. vindicate rights conceded for gen-
•-'r.ttions to the citizens of nations that
'v-ep out of strife and attend to their
'V!i affairs. We shall be fighting for
'-f • freedom and security of the open
i jad for travelers who journey on er-
r tnds of [peace, and scrupulously re-
: pected the rules of the highway. Wej
:;fiall not be fighting for ourselves
sih»ne; we shall be fighting the battle
of the little power, the battle of the
weak powers, the battle of all the
.states of the world who have no pro
tection but character, no guarantee
ot continued independence except the
good faith of the nations, as manifes
ted toward the small nation that keeps
faith in its turn. And, ultimately,- we
^hall win—for God has built this old
world that way.
North Carolinians who discussed some i him by Gen. Huerta asking the inter
phase of country life were: T. E j ference of the court in his case. The j
Brown who has charge of the rural j clerk of the court, however, took the
club work: Hon. A. W, Graham and j telegram, which was in Spanish, to
Dr. H. Q. Alexander who spoke on the ! State Department for translation,
farmer and his problems; O. T. Hayden j A preliminary exchange of views is
and others, who discussed plans for preceeding informally between
the improvement of country homes; I United States and Germany re-
Dr. W. S. Rankin who interested every ! ff«J'ding the nature of the German 're
body by his clear treatment oi the j P^y ^1^® American note respecting
rural sanitation question; and Rev. C. } Lusitania in-
E. Maddry who discussed the social; cident This is responsible for the de
aspects of the country church and Sun ' 1^-V in the delivery of the German re
day school. I Ply» which is regarded hy some as a
Both the afternoon and evening ses- i hopeful sign that the efforts of the
sions of the Conference were well at- j diplomats on both sides will result in
a note which would be acceptable to
both sides will result in a note which
would be acceptable to both Germany
and the United States. There is little
tension now over the loss of American
lives on the Armenian, it having be
come known that she had sought to
I evade capture.
Independence day. which had a pecu-
goverement in thfe two notes sent to
Berlin as the result of the sinking of
the Lusitania. But we believe a ma
jority of the people feel that Presi
dent Wilson will bo able to accomplisn
I his purpose without going to war and
at the ^ame time uphold the honor and j
The ladies who ai'e growing Chrys- 1 dignity of the Nation.—Winatop Joum-
antheinunus for the Flower Show al.
should not fail to give their plants the
(Signed) W. S Crawford - Mayor.
Civic Department
tended, and were conducted informally.
Teachers felt free to ask any of 'the
leaders about anj'^ problem which was
pecu'iar, and were urged at all times
to participitate in the discussions.
Everywhere rural life and its advan-
The Pacifist
The severest indictment
to be
that it
of war.
North Carolina the teachers are at i
work to make North Carolina a better
place in which to live. The conferences
last week were replanted with sugges
tions which will help the rural schoo
teachers in their efforts to be of more
service to the community.
liar significarce this year, with nearly ,
all the countries at vai, was appro
priately celebrated throughout tho City
ot Washington President Wilson’s
plan for “Americanization day” cere
monies in the exercises, in honor of
j very best attention at this time. Neg-
i lect now means poor blooms this fall.
Plants that were potted in small pots
or cans in the Spring should be care- '
fully shffted to larger ones now. To | brought against pacificism is
Jo this have plenty of rich soil and ! may be a contributing cause
well rotted manure. Remove the i Tbe most tragic fact disclosed by the
plants carefully from the pots in which ! d u h/u-* d •
^ ^ \ ■ British White Papers in respect to the
thpy are growing ar.d place in the i
larger pots firming the new soil |"^^otations leadmg upto
around them within one inch from the j the present war, is that pacifism in
top, v/ater well, place in a cool shade 1 England had practically paralyzed Sir
fcr a day and gradually bring them into] Edward Grey’s efforts in behalf of
the full sunshine. Liquid manure! j t. j
, ^ ^ ^ i peace, and that when urgently pressed
about one pint to a plant once a i . o j
week will be beneficial, also a mulch j Russia and France to maice clear to
of well rotted manure, if more I Germa.iy that England would not keep
i than one bloom is desired when the j
about nine or ten inches
out of a continental war. Sir Edward
was compelled to maintain a non-
This week—July 12-17-is High School j who have
i:lants are auouc nine or ten incnes | compelled
high pinch out the top and allow just i j i_- .
^ I u .. ! committal attitude which, as a matter
three or four strong branches to grow,
if only one bloom is desired do not! fact, was altogether inconsistent
pinch brancli. The plants stould be j with England’s obligations and inter
been admitted staked as they grow. j eats,
admitted ,
Conference week at the School. All | to dt“izcnship was carried out perfect-I any ^^e lanies are uy^ouoz m
matter pertaining to the work in high | tion bore, as well as in nearly all!
schooU of the state will be thoroughly L^j^er big cities of the nation. The | Mountain EXCUrSIOn tO
discussed.
Hawfields Items
Miss Agnes White came home for
a few days.
Mr. R. W. Scott and Verr Scott
went to Spray last week on business,
Mr. Dewey Covington visited his
sister in Greensboro.
Mr. Herbert Turner who came to
Burlington on business spent several
days of last week at home.
Miss Margaret Covington went to
Raleigh to have her eyes, examined.
Mr. Charles , Gibson spent
with friends at Saxapahaw.
Americanization ceremonies here were ,
held at the base of the Washington
Monument under the auspices of sev
eral patriotic societies. The guests of
honor w'ere seyeral hundred residents
of this city who have become natura
lized citizens in the last twelve months.
! or the officers of the league will he . . . ^
glad to render them what assistance |-^^nevillej J\, C* TllCSClay
they can July 20th. 1915. Via .
Southern Railway
Premier Carrier of the South
SCHEDULES, AND LOW ROUND
The following article was read ot the
last meeting of the Association.
“The last tew days seem ta have
been spent in dreamland, but yesterday
I had a cruel awakening,” Dr. W. Har- I TRIP AS FOLLOWS:
grove, a local physician now at San ] Lv. Durham 9.50 A. M. $5.00
Francisco writes back home. Dr. Har-j Lv. Chapel Hill Sta. 8.20 A.M. 5.00
grove declares that he “came across j Lv. Burlington 11.18 A.M. 5.00
There are some merchants that do not an exhibt on the spread of typhoid | Low fares in same proportion from
I fever, and there, to the gaze of thou-! all intermediate stations up to and in-
think they need it. { sai ds trom all^ borders of the world I eluding Lexington.
was the statement that North Carolina j Returning tickets will be honored
has more deaths per thousand than any | on any and all regular trains leaving
registration State in the United State s [ Asheville, N. C. up to and including
All because of the fly” The doctor i Saturday July 24th. 1915.
* wrote that “the only other exhibit I Stopovers will be permitted within
These merchants want the trade of
the readers of the Mebane Leader.
Business is best in those cities where
the business men have realized that in
{dull times it pays to advertise even
Sunday \ better than in the most prosperous pe-} „ i i i- i * u - o-j
At the season of the year when ! ^'oods and carvings from | final hmit of ticket all points Ridge-
riodc
Several of Hawfields boys went j ^he people are not so
fishing last week. They had
time and reported good results. i , ^
i esn’t take much of
Miss Ruth Coyington has been very
sick, but is improving we are glad to
note.
X. Y.
much disposed to^Biltmore. That our people could ‘wake j crest to Asheville, going ok returning
a fine I purchase goods it requires a greater | “P'“-row off the curse of mal-
' effort on the part of merchants. It do- i hookworm and typhoid fever all
salesman to se’l i Preventable, and take their place where
or both.
FIVE DAYS IN THE COOL MOUN
TAINS OF WESTERN NORTH CAR-
hey naturally belong -at the ‘head of i OUNA. "THE LAND OF THE SKY”
What !Next?
If it was any i>ther country than
Russia over whose borders was pour
ing such a torrent of invasion as the
Teutonic allies are now pouring into
Poland, the anticipations of decisive
trumph which are enlertained at Ber
lin and Vienna might be regar jed as
well grounded.
But the territory over whose fron
tiers the German masses are sweeping
is that of Russia and the armies which
are retreating day by day with only
resistance enough to maintain their
entirety and preserve their communi
cations and material are Russian; and
therefore there is that in the situation
to givu pause to over sanguine judg
ment and suggests the ominous ques
tion whether history is about to re
peat itself
No hostile force has ever penetrated
deeply the Russian dominions without
finally encountering virtual destruc
tion. Thousands of years ago Cyrus,
up to then a universal conqueror, met
his fate in what is now the Scythian
province of Russia^ a victim to the
same causes which long afterwards
proved the ruin of greater generals
than he. The strategy and tactics
which wrought his downfall were the
same which’ Rusela has ever since
practiced against an invading foe:
Sullen retirement, stubborn rear gu ard
actions, waste of the abandoned r3
gions, obstruction of the routes of
transit, the aggression grows ever
weaker, the defender ever angmenting
its resources of men and supplies, un
til the hour arrived for administering
the finishing stroke and punishing the
temerity which had ventured into the
lair of Major Ursus.
Charles the Twelfth dared the re- ^
serve power of Russia and lost on her
plans all that his previous career of
conquests had won. Then Napoleon,
unmindful of the lessons of experience,
confident in his initial superority of
numbers and equipments, risked the
ho|:^of the Bear of the North and be,
too, retired from the encounter broken
in fortune, his prestige gone and of all
his countless legions but a miserable
fragment left to tell the tale of disas
ter.
Yet Napolean had at the outset of
his campaign greater odds In his favor
than the Kaiser has now, in troops,
cannon and munitions of war. He
crossed the Niemen in June, 1812, with
an effective force of six hundred and
fifty thousand soldiers, of whieh half
a million were infantty and one hun
dred thousand cavalary and of artillery
thirteen hundred and seventy-two
pieces. To oppose this vast array
Russia could put in the field less than
two hundred thousand infantry, cav*
alary, including Cossacks, 90 more than
fifty thousand, £of artillery about six
hundred guns, many of obsolete pat
terns, while the ordinance department
was deficient both in the quantity and
quality of it munitions.
Napolean re-crossed the Niemen in
December following with about twen
ty thousand men. The total surviv
ors ot the grand army who finally es
caped death or capture was eighty
thousand, of whom forty-three thous
and belonged to the Austrian and Prus
sian contingents. So that of the
French force of half a million but
thirty-seven thousand were spared
death or (faptivity. The rest had been
entangled in the toils of Russia’s
Fabian policy. In his advance Napol
eon had won every battle, had taken
every fortress which lay in his path,
had pierced to the very heart of Rus
sia’s western empire and occupied her
proud capital of Moscow Yet all this
was but the clutching and drawing
back of his wary antagonist in prepa
ration for a deadly leap at the throat
of the invader.
ilD RUINS OF
Devastated Land Amounts
to 40,000 Square Miles* in
Which Towns Have Been
Destroyed.
The devastation of property and the
suffering of millions of people in Poland
are increasing so stupendously from
day to day that, with communication
demoralized, it is becoming increasing
ly difficult to gather anything like a
comprehensive summary of the havoc
which the war is causing. It is evident
from facts now at hand that of all the
regions suffering from combat, Poland
not only is the worst sufferer at present
but that it will require more time than
any other country to recover from the
effects of the war.
The case of the Belgians is plainly
not so bad as the case of the Poland-
ers, which as yet has not been un
derstood so thoroughly by the outside
world and which has not attracted the
interest that was aroused by the plight
of Belgium,# In comparison, however,
the Belgians had an easy time in es
caping the horrors of the war by flight
to England and France, but With the
Polanders it has been a case of facing
a gun, no matter ' in which direction
its distressed might turn. In the case
of Belgium the sweep of war was swift
and final, while with the Polanders it
has been and still is a matter of being
swept into one direction and then the
other. The area and population af-
•fected in ^Poland are also more than
10 times that of Belgium, considering
both the Kingdom of Poland in Rus-
sia, and Ga’acia (Austrian-Poland.)
While at least three large commit
tees are at work in the relief of the
conditions in Poland, they have been
handicapped by the fact that the war
has been waged actively there e^r
since the European conflict began and
that is even more fierce today.
Most of us live in one room; some
turnish two or three rooms; but how
rare is the man who lives in the whole
palace of life! Partial living is the
knell of true living. Why should we
draw a lline across the things which
God has made and write “secular”
I upon one side and “religious” upon
j the other? God is more obviously an
j artist than a moralist. While we push
j beauty aside He has saturated the
I Universe with it.—Hamilton Wright
Mable.
The War God’s High
Carnival
The French Relief Society has com
piled a table of losses in the European
war from reports which it claims to be,
official. The total in killed, wounded
and missing is set at 8,770,810. Of
this vast list of casualties, 2,288,3G0
represents soldiers killed in battle.
Russia has suffered most severely,
having had 733,000 soldiers slain. The
German armies have had 482,000 killed
I and the French 400,000. Great Bri
tain’s loss in killed is placed at 116,
000, a very heavy ratio in population
to the number of men at the front.
The total Russian losses foot up nearly
3,500,000 men. Three hundred and
forty-one thousand Austrians have
been killed. Italy does not enter into
these calculations-and still the war
goes on!
Multum In Parvo.
a customer who wants to buy, but gen
uine salesmanship is needed to sell good, > 1 .*i • * .
to the man who doesn,t want to buy ' ha thinks. Then to add to the faalt that ] flyers, ask any Agent, or
or is indifferent. An advertiement in j he lodetes a(;ainst his fellow Tar Heels. 1
a newspapers is nothing more nor less ; Hargrove declares “our State has !
than a salesman. Winston Journal
It is seldom that so
much truth is
compressed into so small a space as in
the subjoined paragraph from the Cor-
olina Square Deal:
“One- third of the fools in the country
think they can beat a lawyer expound
ing the laws. One- half think they can
beat the doctor healing the sick, two-
more natural advantages than any j
State I have seen.”—From Civic Lea- I
write’
O. F, York,
Travelling Passenger Agent,
Raleigh, N. C.
How sweet and gracious, even in com- | gue.-—Observer
mon speech.
Id that fine sense which men call {;our-1
tesy.
For Sale.
“The German Foreign Office, appar- ■ God keep us through the common days
--James T. Fiekis. 1 ently, on advices from German agents | level stretches, white with dust,
— - ‘ I in this country, has chosen former! thought is tired and bands up-
1 Secretary Bryan as the repres-jntative
of the America'.^ people and has an-
gcspel, and all of them think they can
beat the ed,itor running a paper.,’
Pure bred Berkshire pigs, a fine lot,
■ them V
breeding.
thirds of them thmk they can put the j ^ “ i nounced its purposes of following his
minister in the hole expounding the of them well shaped and of the best, instead of acceDtint? the
Lake Lathani Farm
theories instead of accepting the
position set forth by the President.
raise
Their burdens feebly, since they
must. In days of slowly fretting care.
Then nc ost we need the strength of
prayer.
—Marfiaret E. Sangatcr
Because we have sought the Lord
our God, we have sought Him, and He
hath given us rest on every side.—
11 Chronicles, xiv, 7.
Ike Smith Dead.
Isaac H. Smith, one of the weathiest
negroes in North Carolina and one
whose career has been as spectacular
as any other colored man in the State,
died at New Bern July 8£at^ 12:15 at
his home on Johnson street, after be
ing ill for a few days. Smith was a
native of that city and during the
year 1899 when^the negroes held sway
was a {representative to the State
Legislature from that cpunty. There
are various estimates of his wealth
ransring from $100,000 to $500,000.
The roll Of’ Carelessness
According to “Safety First,” a pub
lication devo^’ed to promotion of great
er care and caution on the part of
drivers of automobiles in particular
and the public in general, one hundred
and twenty-eight lives were lost in
motor-car accidents in the United
States during the month of May last.
This is an average of More than four
lives a day and at the rate of 1,536 a
year. Nor do the fatalities tall the
whole tale. During the period covered
by the report two hundred and ten
persons were injured, fifty-six seri
ously, some of whom will be cripples
for life.-—Va. Pilot.