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. August, 24, 1911
NO. 27
James Cooper, colored, who operates
a farm a few mi'es of Mebane, had
a water mellon cutting at his home
last week, Cooper cut 44 mellons and
served 41 of his friends as guest.
Don’t think they were little fellows
as some of them weighed as much as
51 pounds. It was a great feast among
■ on
rais
ed in Orange County.
Trinity President weds.
A wedding of the greatest interest in
the States of Virginia ai d North Cnro-
liiia, as well as througho it the South,
was that quietly celebratei Thursday
Au{rustl7th at Martinsville Va,.when
Bishop John C Kilgo performed the
ceremony that made Miss Mary Reamey
Thomas of Martinsville the bride ,of
Dr. Williams Preston Few of Trinity
College, Durham.
PERSONIiL m mi BRIEFS
plOPLE WHO rOME AND GO
Itf ms interest Gathered by
Oor Repokter. , , ^ j
u. ( harlie Catea left for New York I and they feasted
. some of the biggest mellons over •'
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. K H. Tyson after a pl?asant
visit to her parents at Steeds has re
turned home.
Mr. C. 13. S.Tiith is placing the roof
on his new story brick store this week.
Miss Bessie Foy arrived in Mebaite
•Hiesday evening to spend a short
while-
Mis. S. Cl. Morgan and child, and
her sister Mrs. Barron left T*uesday
for Udvidson.
Mrd. Paisley Nelson has returned
from a visit to her parents at Asbery,
Mr. Nelson returning with her.
Mias Katie Davidson, a typo in the
Leader office spent Sunday with her
parents at Carthage.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Malone have
returned home after a pleasant visit
to see friends and relatives in Caswell
County.
Messrs A. M. Cook and J. A. Isley
left Monday for Ashville as delegates
to a convention or meeting of the
Junior Order.
Mr. F. L. White our popular drug-
gest, left this week for the North to
perchaae his winter stock, Mr. White
will buy a nice supply of holliday no
tions, in addition to his rei^ular fancy
and staple stock.
Miss Magada Malone after a pleas
ant visit of a couple of weeks to Cor
bett is home again to the delight of
her friends She is looking after the
fancy goods department of H. E. Wil
kinson Co.
The Martin McCanless dirt chariots
have been doing some great work in
leveling down hill and filling in the
places for the past weeks, but my,
some of the mules must be praying for
the time when they can go to the mule
heaven.
Mr. R. H. Knight, representing as
buyer and general manager of the
ElliS'Stone Companies store of Dur
ham has just returned from a two
weeks tour of the Northern dry goods
market making careful selections for
his firm. Mr. Knight has bought an
exceptional large stock. He tells us
he was enable to perchaae a much
superior class of goods for the same
money than those offered last year,
and that he put in the best posible for
his trade. The Ellis-Stone Company
of Durham carry an advertisment with
the Leader and are enjoying a good
trade from our readers North of here.
A Water-mellon Feast. I THUMB WAS TORN AWAY
If Judge Walter Clark was a candi
date for either branch of the Legisla
ture of North Carolina and that body
was soon to be in session and he was
running on the platform he has recent
ly announced for his senatorial race.
We would be for Judge Clark, and
lend him all the support and influence
at our command, but Judge Clark
could never work his platform in the
United States Senate. It wold only
proye an irritant without any oon?i-rn-
ing effect.
Peculiar and Painful Ac
cident to John W, Weath
erly.
The right thumb of John W. Weath
erly was torn from his hand last Thurs
day morning when a horse he was lead
ing jerked away from him. He had
entered South Elm street Greensboro,
upon coming to the city fronr. his home
near Pleasant Garden, and was riding
in his wagon, his son driving and him
self leading a horse behind.
The horse became frightened at some
thing on the street and without warn
ing jerked away, Mr. Wertherly’s
thunib being wr.ipped with the strap
by which he was leading the animal.
The thumb was torn away at the first
jerk and the tendon broken, a wound
which, though not serious, was very
painful. Dr J. T. Rives was called
and found it necessary to amputate
the thumb at the second joint.—
Greensboro News.
In connection with the lynching at
Coatsville, Pa., we are told-that '‘Bo
rough, county, and State officials are
uniting in an effort to bring the lead
ers of the mob to justice, but it is alle
ged that some of the leading citizens
of the town ara involved, and ariests
will not be hastily made.” Why should
arrests be made at all? Are not “lead
ing citizens” a law unto themselves?
The new species produced by Dr.
Louis Bl&ringham, Belgian botanist,
are claimed by him to be not only
new, but stable They resulted from
experiments with corn, tobacco and
other plants, and in cultivation for
several generations they have bred
true to seed. It is declared, however
that the new forms are not an artificial
creation. They were due chiefly to
mechanical disturbances in the plants
at critical stages of development, ani
they represents simply an acceleration
of evolution.
Why Not Now.
The cross ties piled on either side of
the rail road in frount of the Leader
office and in front of the Mebane
House, the town is having the center
of these hills cut down, but their is
about twenty feet between the town
grading and the railroad that the rail
road promised to have cut dow^n and
were to get the contractors Martin and
McCanles to do the work, but just now
this space is covered with crossties,near
ly four thousand cross ties are piled up
snd down the railroad, embankment.
The time to have this work done is
now while -there is every facitilty
here for doing the work. There should
be a request made to the railroad to
have these cross ties removed at once,
and the space cleared so the dirt can be
removed. The pity of it is tha t there
is no body of buisness men to take such
matters in hand. Such a body of men,
inteligent and practial governed by a
spirit of progressiveness might accom
plish very much for Mebane.
The Severe Drought.
Davidson Correspondence Charlotte
Observer, 16th.
Dr. John Wilson McConnell drove
yesterday to Cox’s mill, in Cabarrus
and he reports that the pond is dry save
for a puddle of water about 50 feet
long and a few feet wide. Rocky river,
its supply, has ceased to run except in
the early morning, after the night’s
moisture has '’ollected a little water.
The river bed is merely a succession
ol pools. Mr.Cox told Dr. McConnell
that he had a record extending back to
1845 and that in the famous drought
then the river only shriveled into a
small, tiny stream. Mr. Frank John
ston, of Charlotte"^ here today from his
farm two miles from northeast of town
saystliht he understood from a reliable
source that much the same situation de
veloped in the drought of li^l.
Mr. J. H Reid reports that he found
to day in his drive through the country
a little southeast of Mooresville,
that the crops in that section have
probably suffered the most of any seen
by him; also that Davidson creek,
formerly was a stream large enough
to turn a mill wheel and taking its
nante from General IMvidson’s home
and plantation in that section of terri
tory lying north and west of Center
church, is practically dry.
(In the last issue of The Landmark
G. F. Shephard, Esq., of Elmwood,
stated that Davidson creek was dry
in 1845.)
The Great Subway.
Chand ler—Correl 1.
Notice.
fhe Ladies Aid Society will give a
Donkey party at the new school house
at Efland, N. C. Saturday night Aug.
26th, beginning at 7;30 o’clock. Re
freshments will be served and the
proceeds will go for benefit
Protestant Church.
Everybody inyited to come and bring
their friends.
Committee.
Big Fire At Kingston
Loss will Reach $150,000
Kinston, Aug. 20—Sunday morning
about 4 o’clock fire destroyed in King
ston the buggy manufacturing plant of
the Ellis Carriage Works, the farmers,
warehouse for the sale of leaf tobacco
a large storage warehouse and three
residences before it could be checked,
entailing a loss of over $100,000.
A New Tobacco Warehouse
McKenzie-Smith.
Married at che residence of the of-
fecitting J. P. on the 20th day of
August 1911, Mr. Wm. Smith of Meb
ane to Miss Esther McKenzie of Orange
county.
They were accompanied by a
many young people, to many to
all of their names. After the
meny they left for Mr. Smith’s
for dinner and were to return
the brides father’s that night.
The attention of our farmer friends
are directed to the advertisment of the
Methodist j Planters Warehouse of Mebane, Mr.
E. W. Harris Proprietor. This is a
new warehouse for the sale
of leaf tobacco. This will make two
tobacco warehouses for Mebane, giv
ing ample accomodation for handling
the weed. There will be a plenty of
buyers here this fall and conditions are
indeed promising. Mr. Harris the
proprietor of the new warehouse is a
clever gentleman, has had long ex
perience and we feel sure will give
perfect satisfaction to those who favor
him with their patronage.
good
give
ceri-
fath-
to
On la ^t Thursday afternoon, at five
o’clock, at the home of the brides par-
ents,at Mebane, Miss Susan Jane Chand
ler and Mr.»Ernest Correll of Concord,
were united in matrimony. Owing to a
recent bereavement in the brides-
groom’s family, the wedding was a
very quite one, but it was t>eautifully
simple and impressive.
To the strains of Mendelssohn’s
Wedding March, rendered by Mrs. F.
M. Hawley, the bride and groom enter
ed the parlor together, and standing
before an improvised alter of ferns and
goldenrods. Rev. F. M. Hawley, pastor
of the Mebane Presbyterian Church,
performed the ceremony which made
them man and wifa.
Immediately after the ceremony, Mr.
and Mrs. Correll left for Concord their
future home.
The bride was very lovely in a brown
tailored suit. She will be greatly miss
ed from Mebane, where her charm and
attractive personality has made friends
of every one, Mr. Correll is a buisness
man of Concord.
The number of beautiful gifts they
received were only a slight token of
the high e.«teem in which they are
both’ held.
New York has at last begun work
on the extensions to itssudway system,
improvements that will cost, according
to officials estimates. 257,400,000 and
will require four years to complete. |
The total trackage to be cons^mcted
will be 200 miles, through much of it
will not l>e underground, as under the
plans proposed the trains will cease to
to burrow like a mole after leaving the
thickly settled portion of the metropolis
and will jourhey to the suburbs on ele
vated structure. The new subways
will ultimately reach every one of the
vie boroughs of the city, and it is
hoped that they will relieve the con
gestion of the present transit lines and
solve the problem of future growth.
The actual beginning of work on the
new subways attracted a crowd of
thousands, and the police had difficulty
in holding the people back. Chairman
Willcox of the public service commission
used a silver spade to move the first
dirt, which was carefully placed in a
glass jar to be preserved in the office |
of the commissions.One of the pictures
shows Chairman Wilcox with the silver
spade, and the other shows the dirt in
the g'assjar. The crowd carried away
much dirt and bits of asphalt as souv
enirs
Efland Items.
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Thompson at-
tened the funeral of Mrs. Thompson’s
aunt Mrs. Backon last Wednesday.
Mr. Cecil Barker of Jacksonville Fla,
is visiting friends and calling to see
his best girl near Efland.
Mrs. Doll Riley and children went up
to Mebane Saturday night to visit Mrs.
Riley’s grandmother Mrs, Carden.
Mrs. Jordan and Mrs. Fitzpatrick
made a flying trip to Hillsboro last
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Miller called to
see Mr. Miller’s Mother, Mrs. Hobbs
who is very sick at her daughters,
Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s Sunday afternoon.
Master Walter Stencie of Burlington
called to see his best girl, little Miss
Minnie Murray Sunday, thej are rather
old to be courting, she being about elev
en years old, and he thirteen.
Girls in your teens we guess you feel
like going away back and sitting down.
Misses Annie and Pearl Tapp are
vi.siting their si.ster Mrs. John Thomp
son of Oaks and attending the protract
ed meeting at Orange Chapei this week.
Mr. Wm. Thompson and granddau
ghter, Miss Annie Murray attended the
protracted meeting at Cross Roads last
Friday. There seems to be some at
traction down that way for Mr. Lhomp-
son, Messrs Charley Brown, Jack
Baity, George Thompson, Will Sharp,
and Harry Fitzpatrick, took in the
Base Ball down at Eno Saturday after
noon.
Miss Bessie Baity has returned home
after spending some time with her
aunt. Mrs. Price in Burlington.
Mrs. Henry Longwell and chrildren
of Danville are visiting her sister Mrs.
Charley Smith.
Miss Sallie Efland and Mastea Efland
Forrest spent last Wednesday in Hills
boro shopping.
Mrs. Thompson spent one day last
week in Hillsboro.
Federal Interference.
The Ladies Aid Society met with
Mrs. F. R. Brittia last Thursday, and
wasdelitefully entertained, the refresh
ments consistes of cream and cake also
other ices, they will meet with Mrs.
Will Richmond Sept. 14th.
Mrs. S. C. Foster and Miss May
Forster spent last Thursday in Hillsboro
Miss May Richmond is spending some
time with hhr aunt, Mrs. Curry Walks
at Graham.
Miss Coy Pratt and brother Jesse who
have been with their sister Mrs. Dicky
at Sumpter S.C. returned home Satur
day, and Hubert Rives was all smiles
Sunday.
Messrs. Vestel and Erweld, and Eld-
gar Mayes and Marvin Pratt, were
Hillsboro visitors Saturday.
Clean
off The Embank
ment.
We regret that the railroad officials
fan not see their way to at once
remove the cross ties and other tim
ber from the left and right bank of the
railroad in front of the Leader office,
While the street improvement force
have their implements and machinery
here ia the proper time to have the
embankments graded down, and that
particular job done.
All
important Suggest
ion.
It is certainly to be hoped that the
town commission will try to do some
thing to improve the condition of the
Street leading from the tobacco Ware
house to (Vilkinsons corner, and from
Wilkinsons corner to the railroad track.
These will be the most used street in
Mebane. Inadition to town and conntry
traffic, all of the leaf tobacco sold on
the Warehouse floor will be hauled
wer them street to the depot. It is a
decidedly important matter, one thnt
^an not be ignored except to the hurt
of the town. If nothing better can be
done for the streets they should be
leveled up, elevated, in the center for
Rood drainage, and well sanded, and
roiied.
COTTON CKOP SUFFRRS
According to Reports to
Commercial Appeal There
Has Been Severe Shedding
and Some Rotting-Too
Much Stalk—Maturity Be
ing Delayed
The Commercial-Appeal weekly cot
ton crop review says:
Lack of rains all in the Carolinas,
part of Georgia and in Texas and west -
ern Oklahoma gives rise to complaints
of shedding of a rather severe kind,
while in all other States excessive rain
fall is producing a very rank growth of
stalk, is retarding the proper setting
of new bolls and ia rotting a few al
ready made.
The natural maturity of the plant is
also being delayed and the crop will be
exposed to unusal danger from frost if
the rains continue.
Preceding the inauguration of this
drought in the extreme East and the
Southwest and heavy rains in the ne-
tral States, the plant was well fruited
and comparatively early in growth,
so that although the loss has been rather
heavy durng the past two weeks,
promise is still good to fair,
right side, it is also worthy
that in many localities
Atlantic Hotel, Morehead
City Items,
Among the many campers on the
Beach are the following young people
from New Bern, chaperoned by Mrs.
Bessie Lewis, Misses Edith Berry,
Fannie Smith, Myra Berry, Mary Wil
lis, Helen Mulbn, Miss Leonrad, and
Messrs. J. S. Cox, F. L. Perkins, S.
H. Fowler, M. S. Hale, Leonard Hen
ley, J. O. Wilkio, and Geo. T. Willis.
After a delightful sail the entire party
dame in for L.uncheon at the Atlantic
Hotel. They are greatly enjoying the
many seaside attractions of this ever
popular resort.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Brittingham and
Mr. B. W. Whimore, of Baltimore,
Md., arc among the many fishing part
ies at the Atlantic Hotel for ten days.
Another fishing party at the Atlan
tic reporting exceptionally good catch
es are Messrs. B. W. Townsend, R. W.
Linemore, W.M Jones, of Red Springs
N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson, and
Mr. A. Broulett, ot Norfolk, among
the sojourners at the ever popular At
lantic Hotel.
Simmons.
(Charlotte Chronicle, August 16)
In this morning’s issue of ihe Greens
boro News is strong article by Cam
eron Morrison, of Charlotte, urging the
reelection of Senate Simmons. Mr
Morrison’s chief claim is Simmons’rec
ord and in truth it is a fine record upon
which to go before the people. That
Senator Simmons has influecce with the
sinance committe, of which he is a mem-
{ber, is manifested by the fact, as Mr.
Morrison says,that during the ten years
of his service his state has received
more money from the federal treasury
for her rivers and harbors and for pub
lie buildings than in all the previous 125
years of history. Much over half of
the more than $4,000,000 which have
been appropriated to our rivers and
harbors during these ten years has
been added to the house bills by senate
amendmenns offered and secured by
Sentor Simmon, who is a member of
the senate committee having these bills
in charge Among these amendments
have been: The appropriation of 550,
000 for the construction of a canal to
connect the waters of Pamlico sound
with the ocean at Beauford, which has
been completed and is now open to com
merce; the appropriation of $605, 000
for the canalization of the Cape Fear |
river from Wilmington to Fayetteville,
work up m which is in progress; the
authorization for a survey of the inland
waterway; the authorization for the
purchase of that one of the two canals
—the Dismal swamp and the Albemarle
and Chesapeake—connecting Albemarle
sound with Norfolk and for its widen
ing and deepening, and many others.
Simmons was all right on the Appa
lachian park bill, and was not right on
some other things, but it is his record
as a whole anJ his growing influence in
Congress that creates the rub for the
other candidates-
Miss Alma Durham of Durham came
up Saturday to spend sometime with
her friends.
Misses Thompsons on Route 2 of course
EJd Murray and Clyde Mayes were vis
itors there Sunday.
Several of the boys of this place at-
tened the protracted meeting at Leb-
ernon last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Trent spent Satur
day and Sunday in Salisbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Rives and lit
tle daughter, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Boonparant and Mr. and Mrs, H. D.
Boon.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thompson Messrs.
Marvin Pratt and Errnest Forrest at
tended the Prunitive Baptice assocation
Saturday and Sunday.
There will de Donky party at the
School house here Saturday night Ang
26th. Be sure and come, you know the
old addage,”The more the merrier"
Every one is expecting a laughing time
now dont get ’,muley“ and stay at
home but come and try for the prize.
Al-fa-na-tu.
■ “There has been no more startling
attack on the sovereign power of the
States than that which the Federal au
thorities directions against the Indiana
pure food act. The money, the pres
tige, the authority of the National
Government was poured out with lav
ish hand in the effort to sustain the
Remsen board’s holding that benzoate
is not injurious.
Indiana had a law against use of
benzoate of soda. It was attacked in
the courts. Seventy-five witnesses
were sent to Indiana to testify in favor
of benzoate. The Government paid
their expenses. The characters of
testimony wanted from them was so
plainly indicated by the policy of the
department that no man could doubt
that his tenure of position would be
more secure if he made his statements
s»s strong as possible in favor of the
benzoate users.
Wiley was told not to testify. Ser
geant Buzfuz McCabe does not hesi
tate to admit that he didn’t want
Wiley to appear because Wiley was
opposed to benzoate.
One Government expert did go ard
testify against benzoate; and for that
offense he was dismissed!
Tainted science is about the last com
modity Uncle Sam can afford to deal
in. Science, to be science, must be
open-minded; like justice, it needs to
be blindfolded. You can not mix
science and propaganda without ruin
to science.
The incident of benzoate, bad as it
is, remains after all only an incident.
There has now been bared the evidence
of a general purpose to reverse the
very purpose and spirit of the pure
food law.
Passed as the national supplement
and complement to the pure food ef
forts of the States^ it appears that un
der the Machiavelian rranipulations of
this man McCabe it has been perverted
from its original purpose, and made
so far as possible the means to defeat
ing the State laws. This Indiana story
is a shameful chapter of administra
tive prostitution.
The steps in this progressive cam-
paign for suffocation of the national
food law tell the whole story.
The law did not contemplate the
Wiley-McCabe-Dunlap board of review.
But it was created.
The law did not dream of the Rem
sen board. It was created.
The law did not suspect possibility
of a political lawyer passing on ques
tions of chemistry. But in effect Mc
Cabe became superior to Wiley,
The law did not remotely justify
spending vast sums through the Rem
sen board, in order to undo the work
of Wiley.
But more than $100,000 was thus
spent.
When legal justification was deman
ded, and Assistant Attorney General
Fowler denied it, the ever-ready Mc
Cabe was permitted to opin? that it
was all right.
When Wiley’s testimony as a scien
tific expert was demanded on behalf
of Indiana, Wiley was told not to go.
His testimony had to be corkscrewed
out of him, against the protests of his
superiors, by a legal procedure.
But a battalion of ‘-experts,” every
man jack of them devoted to over
turning the W iley view, was shipped
out to Indiana at Government expense,
to help destroy the law of the State
Solicitor McCabe is manifestly not
the man for the position he holds. If
in that position he has been merely the
reflections of a policy dicated higher
up, then somebody higher up is the
wrong man in his position.
Bureaucrats and martinets of the
McCabe type cannot be dispensed with
too soon. But—
It would be peculiarly pusillanimous
to dismiss McCabe as a vicarious sac
rifice for the sins ot the whole Admin
istration.”
A Vaulable Premium.
The Leader has made arrangements
to secure an assortment of reproductions
of some of the master piece of art,
paintings that are world famous. We
will offer one of them to each new, or,
old subscriber who pays one dollar on
the Leader. Framed, they are an attrac
tion acquition to any home.
— • mi
What Reciprocity Agree-
the
On the
of note
showers have
Among the most delightful affairs of
the week was the sail last evening giv
en bv Mr Kilgore comylimentary to
Miss Mayme White, of Raleigh. To
day Mr. Kilgore is host to a large num- j
ber of his friends of the Atlantic Hotel, bearded, particularly on that mem-
on board his private yatch the ”Iola“,
”Woe awaits a country when she sees
the tears of beared men,^* says Sir
Walter. Now, Dr. Wiley, who broke
down in the cource of his, disquisition
on the perfidy of McCabe, is the reverse
been neither ezcessive nor scant
the crop is extremely good.
and
the party leaving at nine o’clock re
turning at six, after visiting the light
house and other places of interest.
An elaborate dinner was served on
Board. I’his most pleasant occasion
being another compliment to Miss
White,
“Uncle Joe’' fjannon.
’’Uncle Joe Cannon, formely the big
gest of the big Republicans and accord
ing to the estimate of many, the mean
est of the mean Republicans, who is a
native of Guilford county. North Caro
lina, and would have developed into a
better man and lived a better life if he
had continued to reside in this State
instead of making his home in Illinois,
is silent nowadays. If ’’Uncle Joe” is
saying anything or doing anything in
Congress the public never hears of it.
’’Uncle Joe” has been retired—perm-
antly retired, it seems, to the rank of
the useless and harmless. Cannon has
sustained a mighty fall, and his down
ward career has been materially acceler
ated by his fellow Republicans. He is
atypical Republican, and one of the
strongest, most energetic men the party
has ever had in leadership and one of
its most unrelenting fighters for the
very worst policies for which theRepub-
The party has tried
“Pow’er otthe Press.\
Louisville 'Courier Journal.
The power of a united press is illus
trated in the Wiley case, as it was in
the Ballinger case. There was little
danger that the chemist whose work
has made him so w’idely popular would
be dismissed upon the demand of the
Attorney General upon a charq;e that
ment Will Accomplish.
Now that the Canadian reciprocity
bill has been passed by both branches
of Congress the question very nat
urally arises. Just what will it ac
complish? The answer is given in the
following:
1. Admit to the United States free
of duty articles to the value of $39,811.-
560 upon which under the Payne-
Aldrich Tariff law there ia now a duty.
In return Canada, by a similar re
mission of her duties, will admit free
proJucts of the United States to the
value of $11,957,605, according to the
statistics for the last year obtainable
for purj)Oses of calculation. ,
2. Place upon the free list wheat,
rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, dried
peas and beans and corn, upon which
the United States at present imposes
a varying schedule ot duties ranging
from 10 cents per bushel for rye to 45
cents per bushel for dried beans, all
this benefit to the consumer being
accomplished at a revenue cost to the
United States of less than $300,000.
3. Place upon the free list ciittle,
horses, mules, sheep and swine, at
present dutiable at varying rates av
eraging, approximately, 25 per cent.,
but at a revenue cost to the United
States of l^'ss than $275,000.
4. Plactt upon the free list vegetables
of all sorts, including potatoes, cabbages
onions, turnips, sweet potatoes and
yams, now taxed at from 25 cents to 40
cents per bushel, and all other fresh
vegetbles not enumerated ^at 25 per
cent, ad valorem, and at a cost in
revenue to the United States of
$380,000.
5. Relieved from the tariff of 1-4
cent, per pound the annual importation
of 31,841,152 pounds of fresh-water
fish, and from the tariff of from 3-4 to
1 cent per pound of 13,341,921 pounds
of mackerel, eels, smelts, halibut and
herring; 17,085,091 pounds of cod,
haddock, hake and other dried, smoke
and salt fish, and 10,000,000 pounds of
salted and smoked mackerel and
i herring, at a revenue cost to the
United States of $380,000.
6. Remove the existing tariff on pulp
wood and print paper, thereby ad
mitting to the United States free 160,-
217,659 pounds of pulp wood now
dutiable, and 86,766,027 pounds of
print daper, according to the importa
tions of 1910, at a revenue cost to the
Government of $300,000, and 75,446,100
pounds of chemically prepared un
bleached and 19,345,312 pounds of
bleached pulp wood at a revenue cost
of $175,000.
7. Place lumber npon the free list,
thereby relieving the American con
sumer of the tariff of $1.25 per 1,000
feet upon the 975,975,000 feet of sawed
lumber imported last year at a revenue
sacrifice of $1,218 970.
8. Reduce the present tariff on fresh
meats ftom 1 1-2 cents per pound to 1
1-4 cents per pound for the return
concession on the part of Canada of a
reduction from 3 cents a pound to 1
1-4 cents. Reduce the tariff on bacon
and hams from 4 cents per pound to
1 1-4 cents per pound, on all other
dried and smoked meats from 25 per
cent, ad valarem to 1 1-4 cent, per
pound, in return for a reduction on the
part of Canada from 2 cents per pound
to the same figure. These changes in
the meat tariff to be effected at a
revenue loss to the United States of
less than $8,(X)0.
9. Reduce the duty on canned
vegetables from 40 per cent, ad valorem
to 1 1-4 cents per pound, at a revenue
loss of $86,000.
10. Reduce the tariff on flour from
25 per cent, ad valorem to 50 cents per
barrel of 196 pounds, at a revenue
loss of $72,000.
11. Reduce the tariff on maple sugar
and maple syrup from 4 cents per pound
to 1 cent per pound, at a revenue loss
of $18,000.
12. Reduce the tariff on laths from
20 cents j)er 1,000 to 10 cents per 1,000,
and upon shingles from 50 cents per
seemed inadequate. It would be un- i 1.000 to 30 cents per 1,000, at a revenue
fair to President Taft to hold that no-1 loss for the two items of $200,000.
thing but the unwisdom of unfair treat i 13. Articles to the value of $47,333,-
ment of popular public servant deter- 158 are affected by the new reciprocal
ber where the wool ’’oughter grow.
Nevertheless the gentle drops evoked i ® ^ it »» •
xNeveruieicBB me gci c p I to make ascapegoatof’Uncle Joe”since
hy his emotion should like the wounds fr.rn hi« mi..ht
of Caesar, be in his behalf dumb mouths
of protest to move the American peo
ple to rise and mutiny against the all
but incredible methods he has revealed
in his department.
he was cast down from his mighty posi
tion of leadership and since, later on, it
was found that it would be popular to
throw stones at the fellow leader.—
Greensboro Telegram.
red him from acting summarily upon
Mr. Wickersham's recommendation.
That the President wished to deal
squarely with Dr, Wiley all x>f his
critics who are inclined to deal as
squarely as they insist that he should
will be glad to kdmit. But it is undeni
able that the backing given Dr. Wiley
by the press is such that persons back
of the movement to remove him could
not profitably push their charges or
demands. Because he has labored with
energy and apparent conscientiousness
in good causes Dr. Wiley has won the
warm commendation of the newspapers
of the whole country without regard
to political bias, and he is pretty well
intrenched.
agreement. Upon these articles the
total tariff levied at present is $5,649,-
826 per annum. Of this revenue the
United States will remit duties to tha
amount of $4,849,983.
How mirth can into folly glide.
And folly into sin? —Scott.
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
—Coleridge
Knowledge by suffering entereth
And life is perfected by death.
—Browning.
No body can be absolutely happy
without being absolutely straight.
: Our youth we can
We may always find time to grow old.
have but today
e to grow 
—Bishop Berkeley^
mm