North Carolina Newspapers

THE MEBANE LEADER AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE SIN. Vol 2 MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY, Aagmt, 3,1911 NO. 24 of Haw River is Mr. and Mrs. Joe ptBSONAL AND LOCAL BRIEFS people who nOME AND GO Items of intereHt Gathered by (>«r Ri'ookter. jji. Will Bason of Thoma»viile spent here with his people. gee (’hantfe of ad tor Nelson-Cooper Lumber Co. and if you Wish to build see (hem. H. E. Wilkinson Co. are doing a jcod business, ;see them, they will iave you money. Mrs. Alfred Isley visiting her parents Holt this week. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Stanford of Ffland were visitors at Mr, .1. T. ShiiWS i>unday. Mr J. W. Laaley and son of Bur- iington visited Mr. .1. H. La.sley and family last, Friday. "The Mebane Leader haa done lots for Mebane, and here goes three cheers for it.” Our localizer. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kee and children who went to Mt Vernon Spring week hefore last returned home Saturday. Mr:». McFarland and daughter Alice retnrned from a stay of two weeks at Hill!*boro N. C. They spent a pleasant time. MIsb Mamie Jones of Louisburge is visiting friends in Mebane, having re- i-pntl.v returned from Knoxville Tenn essee. Mrs. S. G. Morgan and children re- terned home from Mt Vernan Springs last Saturday after a two weeks ab- sense. Mrs. L. J. Moore of New Bern after a visit of two weeks at Ashland Va. to see her brother returned to Mebane Saturday afternoon. The steam road elephant used by street paving people has an immer>8e pull. She has pulled down some big trefs in Mebaoe and never gaunted. Messrs. James N. Williamson Jr. ftobt L. Holt, Gilbert White, and Mr. Stout was here Monday locating the central Highway through Mebane. Mr. Blake, the road man, went up to Winston Saturday night and, out to Pauftown Sunday now Pauftown is not on the map, but Blake can find it all right. There is a nice dwelling nearing •’ompletion on Holt St. also two new store going up and the streets, side walks and all the factories on full time, Mebane is getting lively. Miss Jennie Lasley left Friday for a visit in the Western part of the state, including Asheville. Her principal ob jective point is Elk Park wherf» she will visit Mrs. J. W. Rogland. Picnic at Baynes Store. The Annual Masonic Picnic held at Baynes store, twelve miles North of Mebane Tuesday drew an immense, of citizens from all near by sections, all ages and sexes. It was a great day for all who had the pleasure of attend ing. One of the most disastrous wrecks I in the history of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad ocoured at Hamet, Thurs day morning at 10:40 when a negro ex cursion train from Durham, bound for Charlotte, was run into head end, by a freight train bound from Wilmmgton to Charlotte. Seven people, all colored are dead and about 75 are suffering from wounds, siime of them serious. AT THE ATLANTIC HOTEL. Line Reaches Durham. The Southern Power Comprmy has reached Durham and the sub-station near the Pearl cotton mill is now connected with Charlotte. It will be some weeks before the station and all machinery necessary to distribute the current will be finiBhed. The station itself is a building of brick 50 by 75 feet, fireproof and quite sufficient for the distribution of the 10,- 000 horsepower that the lines carry here. Morehead City, N, C. With th9 seashore season yet young, and the usual large August crowd* not yet arrived, the season at the Atlantic Hotel, Morehead City has been a most auspicious one. The service in the hotel is now above criticism. Every comfort and convenience is provided by the Management. Especially is this true of the dining room service. The menu is full of the delicacies of the?ea and the truck farms neayby. The Sunday evening concerts by the Boston Orchestra of the Atlantic Hotel are always a great pleasure to the many guests. The one rendered last Sunday evening was especially goo and enjoyed by a large number of mu sic lovers. A special feature, causing a great many complimentary remarks, was the singing by Miss Pearl E, Brin son of Morehead, formerly of Golds boro. In her rich saprano she render ed so beautifully “Ninety and Nine," “Lullaby from Jocelyn” and ‘'0 Ory Those tears!” at The Salem Academy. We place on the fourth page of this weeks issue of the Leader an adver tisement of that time honored institu tion of learning the Salem Academy. Up-to-date in everything, conducive to intellectual, and moral culturel. Kev. Howard Rondthaler its princepal as a splendid Christian gentlemen, broad in culture, with the best and highest ideals for his guide i? every gcriving for the uplift of those en trusted to the care of this institution of learning. Writ« for catalogue. Big Blacl^berry business in Wilkes. North Wilkesboro Hustler. The amount ot blackberries, both canned and uncanned that has been hauled into North Wilkesl>oro has been enormous. Wagon load after load of the berries in barrels have been received by the Red Top Bottling works, while loads of the canned berries have been taken in by the Bridalveil Cf\nning Company and the wagons hauled out boxes of new cans to be tilled. The crop seems to be very large, though on account of the dry weather the berries are small but very sweet. The Interurban Edition of the Char lotte Observer issued last week wa/* in every respect creditable, but especialy does it give prof of ability and, an ‘xcelent equipment for doing the work. Mr. W. S. Fender wife, 'daughter and son W. S. Jr. and Dr, J. B. Pow- j _ ^rs of Valdoster Ga. passed through ; Orang^e Mebane Monday afternoon from Chap- ^1 Hill returning to their home via ^areensboro. I — jTwo Hundred and Fifty • Car Loads of Mellons. I Over 250 cars have been routed I north already tfeis season and the i prices received for the pielons has, as I an average been larger than before in I many years and the market has held up j unusually well, and there is still a brisk ' demand on the northern market. The ! shipments are in the majority from the I district between Wilmington and Golds boro and from points along the main I line of the company in South Carolina 1 and there is podoi^bt that the trucker i who raised a quantity .pf cantaloupes I this year and haa gotten them to the I northern market has made good this j year with this crop. County Sunday School Convention. You seldom run in to as nice a lot 'rf country folks as we found at the ■iiaynes Store Tuesday at the Masonic picnic. They bore every mark of a high *laas of well bred, well to do set *f country people. ^ change of the Commercial and Faiwiers Bank of Mebane. If you wish to have your money perfectly protected put it in the banlc. If you want to encourage bad men to commit ’ri{nea keep it around your home, that j'all. Meaara Holmes-Warren and Co. an nounces in this week’s issue a great ^t price sale to begin Friday August t4j. These gentleman are laying^ on their bargain counters, a rare line of goods at sacrafice prices. Don’t for get the date. They will save you nwfiey. See big advertisment on tourth page, Mr. J. S. Shaw brother of our May- orMr. J. T. Shaw who has been spend 3o*ne time at Syracuse New York fpturned to Mebane Saturday after- noon. We learn that it is more than probable that Mr. Shaw will make his luture home in Mebane. He left here spveral years ago, but is returning to his first love Misses Margaret and Susie Chandler, of Mebane arrived in the city Friday nM>rningto vi^it Mrs. A. J. Pollard. the way here Miss Susie received a telegram announcing the death of Mrs. i*'. Correll, of Concord, and she left "n the 9:5() to attend the funeral. Mrs. ^'orrell died Friday morning at 6 Durham Herald. For Sale One three room house and lot, and One four room house and lot for sale on terms. Apply to John Nicholson. The Masonic Picnic Baynes Store. Govenor fCitchen came in to Meb ane on the six o’clock West bound train Monday evening, and stoped over untill Tuesday morning, when he was driven out to Baynes store by Mr. W, A. Murray in his handsome automo bile. It was the pleasure of the Editor through the courtesy of Mr. Murray to accompany him and the Governor out to Bavnes store, where the annual Masonic picnic is held. It was a de- lightfull ride over good roads in Mr Murrys 30 horse power Overland ma chine, which is in truth a splendid traveler. Mr. Murray sit at the wheel and while he did not wear a cap, goc- gles, or a linnen duster, he proved him self an able automobile manager. Go ing and coming he niade good time on good roads, but handled the machine with all the care of a profe.ssional. There was an immense crowd at Baynes Store, coming from all points cf the compass for ten and fifteen miles distance. Some brought their dinners, others edt the dinner provided by the Masons daughters, and tkeir wives, at so much per dinner. Mr. E. C. Murray of Caswell was Master of Ceremonies, and directed the programme of the day. After the Burlington Band had -endered a num- t)er of popular airs, the crowd gathered in the grove where a stand had pre viously been erected for the speaker of the day. Governor William Kitchen, was introduced by Professor George E Anderson of Yanceville in a neat little speach, a perfect gem of oratory. Governor Kitchen’s address was upon masonry, an appropiate theme, the cardinai virtues of masonry, its mor al rectitude, its brotherly kindness, 1*^8 tender solicitude and help for widow, and orphan, its recognition of the bro therhood of man. The beneticent princepals of mason ry has outlived empires and kingdoms, it has .seen the proud cities of the past crumble to dust, it has felt the rumoling of centuries roll on. The ramparts, ^nd battlements of Jerusa- I lem have fallen, the magnificent works, ' the creation of the worlds, niasters of art, of Greece, Rome and Carthage has crumbled and rest beneath the accu mulated dust of Centuries, and yet Masonry that saw them rise, and fill the world with wonder, and has seen Orange Grove Items. ftfr. J. W. Howard has returned to his work in Raleigh after a two weeks vacation. Mr John Crawford of Mebane is spending a few days at home. A number of pur young people at tended church at Antioch Sunday. Misses Recie and Pearl Crawford are visiting relatives and friends in Greens boro this week. Mr. Hurbert Cates and family of Hillsboro visited their uncle Mr, Sam Cates Sunday. The recent marr'uge of A(r. Boo die Thompson and Miss Louis Thompson was very unexpected to their ,manv friends around Orange Grove, The Teachers Institute at Hillsboro last week was attended by six teach ers from Orange Grove, The teachers around Orange are very much con cerned over the election of a County Superintendent, at a mass meeting of the teachers and committees held in the Court House Satuiday they* were asked by the Chairman of the County Board of Education to express their choice for Superintendent, and with out a dissenting vote Mr. Andrews was indorsed. Whether the Board will ignore the wishes of all these people who have the interest of the schools at heart is yet to be seen. Mrs. W- T. Reynolds left the first of the week for an exten(?ed visiting trip to relatives in Southern North Carolina and South Caroling. She,will be accompanied pn her trip Uy her darghtor Mjss Inea Reynolds of Raleigh. Miss Male Reynold inform* the writer that she has agreed to teach at Wak? Forrest next year. This is a fine position and attest to Mia* Rey nold’s reputation as a teacher. All Sunday School * workers and scholars are earnestly invited to attend the County Convention, to be held at them fall, is still here a living incarna- Mebane Rfd. No. 1. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Tinnin of Gra ham spent Friday at Mr. J- R. Whites. Mr» and Mrs. J. S. Qihson were pleasant visitors at Mr. J. W. Bf^sons one day last week. Mrs. H. M. Moser nnd children went to Hillsboro Saturday on a visit returning Sunday. Glad to report Mr. Mr. W. C. Gibson improving. Mr. and Mrs. S W. Dixon went over to Chapel Hill Saturday, returning Monday. We are under many obligations to tHe following for some nice mellons viz Messrs. J. W. Bason, J. P. Pace, Mrs. H. D. Scarboro and our colored friends P. S. Miles who never forgets us. Miss Lizzie Clegg who has been with her uncle H. D. Scarboro tor a few weeks, received a message last Thursday from Moncure telling of the sudden death of her mother, she left at once accompanied by Mr. Scarboro. Miss Daisy Ray and her nephew Frank and Baxter Ray who have been spending the summer at Mr. J. W. Ray’s left Monday for Selma from which place Miss Daisy will go to Bea ver Dam Va. on a visit. The following on No. 1 left Tuesday on the excursion to Wilmington Messrs J. W. Ray, W. K. Edgeworth, J. W. Bason, W. H. Albert, Dr, >«nd Mrs. W, N. Tate where they will teke a bath in the ocean waves. Expect it will do some of them good. Bfland R. P, D. No. 1. Well I hope Mr. Editor you will al low a apace in the Leader for a little blue jay, Mrs. J. E. Hanner ^)ent a week re cently with friends and relatives near Rices old mill, and reports a good time Wheat thrashings was all the rage in our community last week, good crops are reported. Miss Rosa Ward of Mebane spent last Wednesday with her parrents at tending wheat thrashings on No. 1. Mr. and Mrs. John Shanklin of Meb ane spent last Sunday at Mr. W, A. 3hanklins. Mr. and Mrs. J, M. Miller and child ren attended the funeral of Mrs. Dur ham last Sunday. There seems to be a great awaken ing from towards Mebane now as two of Mebanes boys are often seen driving up over in this community. Meby O. and J. can tell why they come so often Mr. Murdock Shanklin spent* Satur day and Sunday in this section. Messrs Claude, Oley and Marchel Sykes, Misses Lillie Ward, Minnie Al bright and Nan Nix attended the quak- ei meeting near Saxpahaw last Sundaj W. R. Ward and son Fletcher spent one day last week in Mebane. Mr. Jim Wright spent a few days at Mr. Sam Brownings last week. Miss Annie Qrooka retwned home last week from an extended visit to relatives at Hurdle mill and Roxboro. There were a large crowd attended the funeral of Mrs. Polly Durham last Sunday at Cool Spring. She was a good old woman greatly thought of by ail who knew her. May God attend her in the world of sweet repose. Miss Cora Browning called at Mr. Tom Durhams last Sunday night. Mr, Ernest Wilkerson and Miss Olivia Brownii^ spent last Saturday and §vti^(^ay at Haw River and Graham vi^it^ng friends and relatives. Mr. Joe Faucette of Mehan* made a pleasant viait at Mr«. Martha Brown ings Saturday night. Gutss there is some attraction, Mr. George Newman was able to at* tend singing at Lebanon Saturday night Glad to see him out again. Mr. Frank Browning was a recent visitor in our midst. Mrs. M. A. Browning is an an ex tended visit to friend^ and relatives out West. Retail Grocers Want Wil ey Retained; Safe and Cap able, They Say. The retention of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley as chief of the Bureau of Chem istry in the Agricultural Department is desired by dealers and manufacture rs of foods in all parts of the country it is by Perry P. Patrick, secretary of the Retail Grocers' Protective Asso ciation, and general manager of the food show to be given by the associa tion in Washington November-6 to 18. Mr. Patrick spent the last two weeks with dealers and manufacturers in New York and Philadelphia, and had ample opportunity to leam their sent iments, He declared they were pract ically unanimous in their advocacy of Dr. Wiley. **Food manufacturers and dealers recognize the fact that Dr. Wiley has made some mistakes,’* Mr. Patrick said, “but they feel that whenever he makes a mistaxe he is honest in it. They believe he is absolutely honeat. reliable, and fearless and never is in fluenced by any thought of personal gain. *We ?iew with alarm a change by which sodme men not having Dr. Wil ey’s personal character might be placed in his powerful office.” Mr. G. A. Sharp Mr. W, R. Wards. spent Sunday at the Baptist chuich, Hillsboro Mon day and Tuesday August 14, and 15. Addresses will be delivered by very able speakers from various parts of the State. We are anticipating a very pleasant and profitable time. Superintendents are requested to bring reports of the number of teachers and scholars in school, and also to report what amount the school will contribute to state work. Programmes of the Convention pro ceedings will be issued later. Make preparations to come and en joy an intellectual and spirital feast. Bring your friends along also. Cer vices will begin each daj* at 11 o’clock. Cedar Qrove Rfd I We have been needing some rain in oi'r section for the past few weeka. Miss Bettie Fuller from Little Rock Aark^nsas is visiting her cousin Miss Lessie Webster. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Perry and family is visiting their Son-in-law Mr. Sam Wilkerson. Quite a large crowd attended the service at Mars Hill Sunday. Little Master Hal McDade is spend-* Ing the week at his uncles Mr. Edd Scott’s. We are glad to know Miss Hawkins is some what improviug from typhoid fever. Miss Knox Scott is attending tb« meeting at Cedar Grove this week. The meeting will began at Walnut Grove Sunday, we ht^pe to have a large crowd. Ridge road played Breezes Ball team Saturday, 29 to 3 in favor of Biveze. Get your basket ready for the pic-* nic Saturday at Efland. With best wishes to the Leader. Lillian. A Terrible Tragdey. The terrible tragedy recently enact ed near Richmond was not wanting in a single fesiture calculated to arouse apathy itself to emotional eruption. Nothing more brutal than the “deep damnation of the taking off" of that fair and tender blossom of woman hood ever challenged the vengeance of High Heay«n. Bistory contains no chapter recording malig^iity «> fiend ish aa that which wrought the deed. If the hand that stilled the heartbeats in that pure young bosom, and robbed the tender infant of its resting place, were indeed that of the husband and father, that which followed on com mission of the crime was the act of a monster whom ’twere rank treason to our kind to call a man. If fais were not the devilish mind that contrived the murder, nor Ihis the perpetration, still what unnatural spirit prompted the desecration on that ghastly home ward ride of the mutilated body, his but yesterday to ,cherish and defend? And o| what insensate fibre the na ture, if human, which never since has shown one tremor of passii^ regret for the loss of her whose bridal wreath was scarcely yet too withered to be laid as florial offering on her grave?. — Va Pilot Girls Long Trance Broken After sleeping almost continuously for 105 days. Miss Hazel Schmidt, the 18 year old girl of Vandalia III, whose strange case has puzzled physicians for weeks, was awakened for five hours Sunday and ate three meals. She said she felt no ill effects from her slumber Attending physicians say the girls trance is broken and that she will soon be herself again. ^ List of Letters. Remaining unclaimed at this office for the week ending July 29th 1911. 1 P. C. for Mr. W. E, Bank's, 1 Letter for Miss Lizzie Byrd, I Letter for Miss Nannie Loyd, 1 Letter for Peter Mort, 1 Letter for C L. Smith, These letters will be sent to the Dead Letter Office August 12 1911, if not called for before. In calling for the above please say “Advertised” giving date of ad. list. Respectfully, S. Ajrthur White, P» M. ted primiepal, to bless humanity, a benediction, world wide, its every vir- ture, its every princepal has grown brighter, and shed more luster upon the worlds kinder, and higher life, as the ages gather and go. It was an edifying address entirely free from any suggestion of politics. The address was admired for its high and wholesome lessons, its excelent admonitions to live a higher and purer life. Governor Kitchen was brPMpht back to Mebane in time for him to catch the east bound train at half after five in the evening. The Editor of the Leader wishes to express his high appreciation to Mr. i Murray for tendering him a seat in hia automobile to and from Baynes Store Tuesday to the Masonic picnic. Dr, Wiley’s Work. Dr. Wiley also fought the bleached flour interests to the last ditch. He exposed the injurious colorings used in candies sold to children. He stub bornly opposed the use of sulphur as a fruit preservative. He secured the removal of the tax on denatured alco hol. He exposed frauds without num ber in patent medicine. It was Wiley who started the War on the use of narcotics and other poisons in soda fountain drinks. And he stubbornly fought the whiskey trust ^ntil he war at last overruled by President Taft. These facts tell better than a long article could why it is up to the food dopersto get Wiley's goat. Also why it is up to the people to see that they don’t get it!—Greensboro Record. Leniency to Lawlessness. The infliction of a paltry pecuniary fine upon Trust magnates who have plead guilty to sympathetic fieecing of the public in violation of Law, is tan tamount to a confession that the gov ernment authorities agreeing to such sentence are more concerned about making political capital than either to adequately punish crime or prevent its repetition. The pecuniary penalty, insignificant as it is, will be paid out of the treas ury of the corporation, that is to say from the funds of which the people had been defrauded. Neither the guilty afficials nor the monopoly they repre sent will be actually a cent poorer; and the offence will be repeated so long and as often as the offenders feel re asonably certain that practical im munity awaits their detection and con* viction or confession.—Va. Pilot. Standard Announces Dissolution Plans, Its Positive announpement that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey IS to be split into its original thirty- three companies, is made by the com pany. In a letter sent to the stockholders it is stated stock of the various com panies will bedestributed, according to their holdings, to the stockholders of record on September 1 of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. The transfer books of the company will be closed on August 31, and will remain closed untill all of the arrange ments to turn the new stock over to its tightful owners can be made. When you are listening to some mis erable talk reflecting upon a neighbor just think of the low character that started it, and stop it. Mrs, W. R. Ward and sons Felix and Fletcher spent Sunday at the home of Mr. J. W. Brooks, and say they cer tainly enjoyed a good time. Mr. and Mira. Qeorge Bradley and daughter Blanche of Mebane spent Sunday in this section, returning and report a good time. Messrs Claude and Dan Little and Miss Blanche Christopher of Mebane spent Saturday and Sunday at Mr. George Jefferess, Among those who attended the close- ing of the singing from Mebane Si^tur- day night were aa follow^;- Messrs V, Jaokson, Walter Lynch, Tom and Claude Sykes, Earl Bradley Oley Aulbert, Everat Clark, Joe and Ernest Shanklin, Frank Aulbert, Will Wilkerson, Oda and Jean Terrell, Hub- bert, Floyd, John and Frank Jobe. Ed and Paul Jobe, Lee Hooks, Misses Pat- tie Jobe, Tannie Douglas, Callie Claik, Fannie Sykes, Rosa Ward, Bessie and Suddie Shanklin, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Newman, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Oakley, Mr. and Mrs, Jean Albright, Mrs. S. J. Rice of Hillsboro was hur ried at Lebanon last Thursday evening The singing at Lebanon closed Sat urday night with a large crowd present Well guess people are ready for pic» nics and associations including Protrac* ted meetings with wheat thrashings just passed. Oh, my, the poor chick ens are seeing a hard time. Guess lietter ring off for another time. Preventive Medicine; its Result. Chicago Tribune. Today, although the dread disease known as cholera has its deathly fin ger tips on the edge of the continent, there is no dread in America. We ought to stop and think what that means. Twenty—perhaps ten—years ago the report of one death by cholera in New York or New Orleans would have meant the death of hundreds or thou sands. Today it means a stricter guard at our gates, a few more measures of surveillance, a few headlines, a few obscure deaths, and nothing more. That is what science has done for us. That is what preventive medicine and sanitation have done for us. Smallpox •yellow fever, the cholera the plague— these fell invaders have been beaten back. The fight is on against tuber culosis and cancer and all akmg the line. Dip the colors to the doctor; the national salute every gun, to the s(4- I dier with ^e microscope A Chicago young man has been be- queated a half million dollars on con dition that he shall not drink liquor nor gamble before he has arrived at the age of sixty years. Our advice to him is to shake the dust of the Win dy city off of his feet with all possi ble dispatch. What^s In McClure’s For August/* The leading article in the August McClure’s is an account in Detective Bums* own words of the events that led up to the anrest of John McNamara the secretaiy-freasurer ot the Structu ral Iron Workers Union, and his bro ther James for the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Timers Building in October 1910. In spite of the storm of contro versy that has raged around this case and the important issues involved in it, the ^neral public has in the main no very clear idea of the evidence upon which the arrest was made. For the man who honestly desires to know the facts, whatever his sympathies may be “The Dynamiters,’* Detective Bums* straightforward and convincing storv will have an absorbing interest. In “The Collapse of the Diaz Le gend" William Archer^ analyzes the causes that brought about the sudden downfall of Porfirio Diaz, the great Mexican dictator, and sounds of warn ing against the present day tendency to mistake the wealth of a country for its well-being. John Moody and George Kibbe Turn er contribute to the August McClure’s another “Masters of Capital in Ameri« ca,'* article, discussing this month the conditions that are gradually giving the control of the country’s industries and resources into the hands of seven men. Burton J. Hendrick has in the Aug ust McClure’s an article on the political aituati(Hi in Oregon, describing how the people of Oregon have made use of the Initiative and Referendum to become their own political bosses. The Action includes “Daltrni of the Osiris,'*the story of a storm on the Great Lakes and the splendid struggle by which a captain saved his ship “Die Wanderiust,*’ by Fritz Krog;^ the ac count of a young German’s experier- iences on his way to the American wilderness in 1834; “The Price,** by Gctavia Roberts; “Mrs. Peyton In- terfers** by Neito Boyce; “His Baby*' l^ Annie W. Noel, and “The Case of Wchard Meynell** by Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Captains otlndtt^ry and Dead Rats. When Claus Augustas Spreckels testifies that dead rats were thrown into barrels of sugar in his Yonkera refinery after he had refused to enter the “trust," and that sand was thrown into the machinery of his plant in Philadelphia, the public mind reverta involuntarily to the methods of some Sugar trust in defraudii^ £he Government of revenue duties. The agents of the trust tampered with the scales and s«ne of them was sent to the penitentiary. In other words, this gigantic eon- cem, directed by “captains of finance and industry,** has not only been adept in the magnificent manipulation of stocks but has resorted to the ways supposed to be characteristie of cer tain low-browed sh(^keepers m the back streets of villages and smatt cities. What a queer sort of pec^tle are we' Americans? We behold a man of mil lions, with a city palace and twe or three country houses, four or five high-powered automobiles and a steam- yacht, and **point to him- with pride." What a “land of opportunity is ours.*' and what splendid merchants *,an4 manufacturers it produces! When hie daughter marries an Austrian count,, how the women crowd the portals of the church and how they revel over the descriptions of the trousseau t Picking up the metropolitan morning journal, how the thousands and tene of thousands of American women tom to the column headed “People and Society Elvents,** where the comings and goings of the Newport and Palm Beach sets are record^, and a IRtle later we read how the fathm of these men and women put ^dead rats'* in the barrels of sugar of a bosinese rival in order to bring him to his knees. “Tainted money? “Filthy lucre?*’’ How much cleaner is the money, the lucre, than the tainted and filthy peo ple who sometimes posses it l-> Virgin ia Pilot. In a certain city in North Carolir|i one of the captains of finance is living worshiped, by a fawning wheedling class, and every act of his lecheroue life condoned. Making Trust*Busting A Farce. When violators of the Sherman act are permitted, as was done in the case of the Wire Trust officials in New York the other day, to enter pleaa of “nolle contendere** and are letofE with nomfaial fines of one thousand dollars each, the so-called prosecution by the Govern ment of unlawful combinations in restraint of trade becomes a roaring farce. The wie way to secure even measurable respect for the anti-Trust statutes lies, as Governor Harmon, Governor Wilson and other prominent public men have time and again point ed out, in holding the responsible of ficials of offending corporations amen able to the law and in taifiioting upon such officials, in case of conviction, no punishment short of a jail sentence. One Trust magnate clothed in stripes and placed behind prison bars, would go farther towards breaking up “cm- porate lawlessness** than all ^e fines which all the courts of the land, sitting in continuous session, could assess in a decade.—Va Plolet. CoUnel Andrews. Colonel A. B. Andrews, the best railroad man in the south, and one of the finest citizens of Nmrth Carolina, was 70 years old Sunday. The Raleigh Times takes advantage of the occasion to publish a sketch of the life of Col onel Andrews, whidi in its very na ture must be an interestii^ me. It is a pleasure to know that Colonel An drews in his 70th year is in excellent physical condition. We indulge the hope that this is a token of many more years of a life of usefulness.—ChMr« lotteClmMaiele.