Doubting A Oovernitient s
Word.
Ashamed of
Yesterday evening, .
if the German Govoriiinent 3 sUte- handsomely dressed, and in
“ u.cnprian ('ould not . . .
escort, appeared
Her Father
a young lady,
is at fault,
assurance of
ment that the Hesperian • j.u
Uve been destroyed by “ »Bkm»r,„e
because no submarine « “>e
time is not instanly accepted, the Ger-
man Government aU^ne
Time was when an otri:ial
that kind from Berlin would l^e been
conclusive, but that was before the
desperation of subtnanne wart.re and
diplomatic justification ibereof brought
the word of Germany ever\ where into
'''rre°'fact that tl.is eM.laiiation will
have to be supporteil by outside testi
mony is only another proof that, as
The World said long Tirpitz
savagery is more damaging to the na
tion responsible for it than to the ene
my against which it is directed. By
the operation of every submersible
that has sent life ami treasure to the
bottom in defiance of law and human
ity. there has been sunk also the honor
of a great people. It would be much
easier to believe Berlin’s declaration
that no submarine wa-^ near the Hes
perian it from tlie same nuarter we
did not have glorification the sub
marine which we know was near the
Arabic--N. World.
\n The Wame of Peape
When the last of tne soldiers has fallen
and the cannons lie fwisted aside.
When the last of all homes has been
ruined, and the heart of the young
est girl bride,
We shall wake from our terrible mad
ness, and pause for an eon or two,
Till the Master of all the good soldiers
shall call us to battle anew.
Then those that were brave shall be
brave—they shall love with a love
more fair;
They shall hear, o’er a world-wide bat
tlefield, the Voice of their God in j
the air:
They shall have the real saints for
their comrades- Magdalene, Peter
and Paul;
They shall fight unembittered, and
never again shall be weary at all.
And only the Master shall praise us,
for only the Master shall lead;
And no one shall fight for his country,
and none for his honor orcrced;
But each for the Master Who k>ves
him, and Teuton and Briton and all
Shall fight, each the cause of the oth
er, for the God of the Love of us
all!
—Lavinia V. Whitney, in N. Y. Times
company
with her escort, appeared on Main
street on her way to the theatre. In
an opposite direction came her father,
goins: home from his work and attired
in his soikd working clothes. He ap
proached his daughter and his face lit
up with a smile. Excepting for a lit
tle frown_ of annoyance, the young
lady gave no sign of recognizing him.
She eraily went on talking to the young
man with her. We could not help but
notice the careworn and sad '■express
ion which spread over the father’s face j a problem for the allies. These things
A Conspiracy against the
Farmer.
Of breadstuffs, cattle, meat, dairy
products, cotton ani mineral and cot
tonseed oils we have exported in one
complete year of wax $1,400, 000, 000
worth. In the seven months of 1915
alone the total was ?373, 000, 000 above
1914; even cotton exports ran $36, 000,
000, highter. As elsewhere sta^ed.
exports of all kinds in thirteen months
of war exceeded three billons and
gained $600,000,000,
Paying for war munitions is purely
after he had passed.
'rhe young lady was ashamed of her
father-afraid that her escort might
look down upon her for being ^he
daughter of a man in such dirty attire.
She was “in society” and it would
never do for her friends to see her
recognize such a plebeian person. -De
cidedly not.
And yet—this man was working like
a slave; do^g without many little com
forts in order that his daughter might
be clothed according to her wishes.
He had sent her to school in order
that she might have a good"education.
He had denied himself in many things
scrimped in many ways, that his daugh
ter might have a good time.
And this is his reward.— Washington
News.
they have to have. If netessary, they
could and would pay gold for every
dollar’s worth. Our own exchange
problem is to remove obstacles from
t»ie pathway of commerce in exports
for peaceful use which, without count
ing manufactured articles, have ri«err
toward a billion and a half a year.
Pro-German, pacifist or plain crank,
whoever seeks by threatening bank-
run conspiracies or by any other means
to prevent, or to render partial and
imperfect, the pending operations for
balancing foreign exchange, is endeav
oring"to inflict upon American com
merce and industry, and especially
upon the American farmer, a monev
loss of gigantic proportions and an ir-1
reparable injustice,—N. Y. World. {
At the Churches.
s
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Services at the Presbyterian
Church”every Sunday morning
at 11 o’clock a. m. and Sunday
evening at 8 o’clock p. m, Sun
day School at 10 a. m. Mid-week |
song service Wednesday evening I
at 8 o’clock p. m. Everybody!
cordially invited. j
F. M. Hawley, Pastor. i
J. S.- White, Supt. S. S. 1
Preaching at the M. E, Church
second Sunday night at 7 o’clock
and on fourth Sunday morning
and night, Sunday School every
Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. To |
all of these ser'M'ces the public is
cordially invited. “I was glad
when they said, Let us go unio
the house of the Lord.^’
E. C. Durham, P. C.
Walter Lynch, S”pt S. S,
Methodist Protestant Church, |
Preaching every 2nd and 4th 1
S inday 11 a. m. evf^rv Sunday j
at 8 p. m. Prayer meeting Thurs j
day 8 p. m. Sunday school 9:451
a. m. A glad -welcome to all. j
W, E. Swain, Pastor;
C, C. Smith, Supt S.S.
For Sale
Some have too much,vet still do crave;
I little have, and seek no more;
They are but p>oor, though much they
have, ~
i And I am rich with little store;
They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;
They lack, I have; they pine, I live:
— Edward Dyer.
75 acres or less, good farm
land convenient to Mebane.
Box 351.
Sept, 23. 2t
Jasper Cole Dead
Jasper Cole, aged ten, ion of Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Cole, died Thursday
at the home of his parents in East i
Durham. The little boy had been sick
only a short time, and his death came
as a blow to his family and to. his many
young associates. His remains were
shipped on the westbound train to
Mebane where interment took place.—
Durham Her; Id.
Applying Varnish With Air Spra/.
The application of varnish by means
of an air spray has heretolore been
attended with considerable difficulty
on account of the tendency of the var
nish to stiften and turn white when it
struck the surface being coated. This
has apparently been overcome by the
simple expedient of putting an electric
beater in the pipe that furnishes the
compressed air for forming the spray.
With the air heated in this way the
varnish flows freely through the orl
tices uf the air brush, and diies quioki* |
ly and smoothly.
P*ld for the Shutter. I
A tradesman in a certain town put a |
iox outside hds shop one day, labeled,. I
“For the Blind.” Most of his custoa.
ers dropped in pennies, and compli
mented him on his charity, A few
weeks afterward the box disappeared.
“Halloa! Wliat’s happened to your
box for the blind?” he was aslced. “Oh,
I got enough money,’’ he replied.
“And,” pointing upward to the new
canvas blind that sheltered bis shop
window, “there’s the blind Not bad,
it?”—London Answers,
Whom Should You Marry?
Everything, as an aloum of song’ and
a song, of love for humanity, is not
given to advising people in their love
affairs. We might make a mistake, if
our advice is taken. Wut we like to be
accommodating. A correspondent wants
to know
Whom should you marry?
Why, the one you love!
Happiness is the greatest thing to be
attained in this life-*and future happi
ness consists, finally, in being mated
to the ci.e who is one’s real mate
Science cuts a poor figure in this
“Wliom ShouW I Marry” problem.
Eugenics, froperty, caste, education,
looks, social connections, physical con
dition—all these considerations may
enter in a way, b»it the one great final
reason why one person should marry
another person is the fact of mutual
love’ confidence and respect.
Remember it, that when you have
married a person ycu are likely to have j
to eat with, talk with, travel with, as
sociate with think with, work with,
laugh with, sorrow with, play with,
worship with that person for the rest of
you? natural life-and that is all the
time you have here on this earth.
Worth Their Weight in
Gold."
“I have used Chamberlian’s Tablets
ana found them to be just as represnted
a quick relief for haedaches, dizzy
spells and other symptoms denoting a
a torpid liver and a disordered condition
of the digetive organs. They are worth
Health And Happiness
Depend
Upon Your Liiver.
That sluggish liver with its sluggish
flow of bile is what makes the world
look so dark at times. Dr. King’s New
Life Pills go straight to the root of the j
difificulty by waking up the action of j
the liver an.i increasing the bile. Dr. I
King’s New Life Pillscause the bowels |
to act more freely and drive away those
,‘moody days.” 25c. a bottl3.
We shudtler to
think what Judte
their weight in gold," writes Miss! Cook would do for Judge Peebles
Clara A_ Driggs, Elba, N. Y. Forshould he ever get him hook-d in ms
sale by Mebane Drug Co.
court.
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
An You I WoM ?
i» Caniul
The Woman’s Tonic
stomach Overwork^*
Eating between meals is a habit
ttiually left over from childhood.
Growing things need nourishing in
■mall and frequent doses. Grown-ups
merely require to repair the waste of
ths body—^and the stomach is * com
paratively small organ. Undoubtedly
bodies It is kept stretched
in the same condition of an abus
ed piece of rubber. How oan It do
tti» work?
FOR SALE AT ALL BRU6«ST$
P4
Ralph Peters i
On Railway Mail Pay j
A controversy has been raging In the columns of the !
press between Ihe railroads and the Federal Post Office |
Department over the question of proper compensation ,
for handling the United States mails. Mr. Ralph Peters, j
Chairman of the Railway Mail Committee,' when asked ■
to state the railroad ‘side of the controversy to the
American farmer^ said In part:
‘*Th© railway muil pay Question ■will be settled and j
settled permanently and with Justice to all concerned— ,
as soon as the American people realize that the. whole ;
subject, while seemingly complicated and technical, boils ,
down to a few simple points of fair business dealing |
which no one need be a rate expert to understand. !
“The first Is that the Post Office Department weighs the mails, and re
adjusts the pay of the railroads, only once in four years. This compels the j
railroads to carry the increase in the mail tonnage during the intervening j
years without pay—manifestly an iajustice in the case of a rapidly growing ;
business. One consequence has been that last year the railroads carried fully j
half the parcel post for nothing. i
“A second point is this: In addition to carrying the mails, the rail- j
roads are required to operate many traveling post offices for sorting and ■
distributing the mails while in transit. But the Post Office Department pays 1
for such post offices only where they occupy whole cars, and pays nothing |
in the many cases In which it merely requires the use of post office apart- j
ments in combination cars, although such apartments differ from the full |
railway post office cars only in size. More than 4,200 apartments of this
character have been fitted up, and are maintained for the exclusive use of I
the Post Office Department. Failure to pay for them has been an especial |
hardship to the smaller roads on which the Department does not find it j
necessary to utilize whole cars. |
“One last point: In thousands of Instances (though not In all) the Post j
Office Department requires the railroads to carry the mails back and forth |
between railroad stations and post offices, but pays them nothing for this ■
extra service beyond the rates covering the rail transportation. The rail- 1
roads have no choice but to perform this additional service gratis, or refuse |
; to carry the malls at all. {
' “Now for the remedies the railroads ask: They do not ask to have the j
mails weighed daily, or to have each shipment weighed and paid for sep- !
arately, as Is done In the case of private shippers. They merely ask to •.
have the mails weighed, and the pay of the railroads adjusted, at least once
'a year. Instead of once In four years. They also ask that apartment post j
office cars be paid for, at reasonable rates, according to size. Lastly, they 1
!ask that the Post Office E>epartment cease to require of them free messenger
service between stations and post offices, and either relieve them of this {
‘ service or pay fairly for !t. These are the reforms the railroads ask of Con
gress. They gladly lay these reforms before the public, confident that they I
will appeal to the common sense and fairness of American voters.” I
HIches on Pacific Island.
^ An island in the Pacific of which a
French company has obtained control
is believed to contain 10,000,000 tons
Of high-grade phosphates and many
million tons of inferior quality.
Make Cheap Barometer.
A weather man described the other
day a cheap, homemade barometer. He
said it was only necessary to take a
piece of string about fifteen Inches
ong and to soak It several hours in a
ftrong solution of salt and water. Aft
er being dried the string should ha7«
a light weight tied to one end and >■'
hung up against a wall, a mark being
iiia^e to show where the weight
reaches. The barometer is now com
plete. It is as accurate as a |100 in-
fitrument. The weight rises for wet
v^eather and falls for fine.
‘ c hing pleases a man better than
thaf t ^'®^^^®rstood by someone so
Taiv ® you about it. He may
hi a future, his prospects,
ficas family, or his busi
J when he speaks of himself
la earnegt.
Serviceable Clothes
Young Men, Old Men, Middle Age Men,
Little Boy’s and Big Boys
We are ready for you all with a nobby
line of serviceable clothing, Shoes,. and
Hats,
The Kind That Make You
Look Your Best ~
Without Costing You MOST
J. s. CLARK
Mebane’s leaf tobacco market opens.
SELL YDUR TOBACCO HERE, THEN
COME TO OUR STORE
and see us, if you wish anything, we will be glad to
wait on you and shake your hand. _
A Full Supply of Everything
In The Hardware Line
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Hardware Co.
North Carolina
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Chew
5c. the packet or two “Bobs” for a
cent at all the better stands and stores.
" IJb OBS” is the boy
for everybody.
Candied over with peppy
peppermint—the heart of
the heart is the gum. It gets
better with every chew.
^Bobs” is One Good Get!
ALL KINDS OF MONEY
will be yours^if you will make
up your mind to save a little
each week and
Put It In the Bank
It is the only way to get ahead
in this world, because it enables
you to start in business for your
self when the proper time comes
and also insures a comfortable
and peaceful old age. Don’t put
this off until tomorrow;do it now.
Commercial & FARMERS
Bank
Mebane, N. C.
Soft Answer.
Hub—“I wonder where the money Is
coining from for that new gown of
yours?" Wife—“From the mint, 1
hope, dear. I’d be sorry to think that
you were a counterfeiter.” - ^
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Shoes, Hats, Caps. We have secured many novelties.
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Come and see us we wall suprise you in price, quality and K,
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