THE MEBANE LEADER
“AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE SslN.”
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MEBANE, N. C., THVBSDAY. NOTEMBER 9, 1911
NO 35
fEBSOHAL AND UlUAL BRIEFS
Marriage Annuuncetnent.
The following' announcement has been
received at the Leader office, Mrs.
Fannie I evina Mebane request the hon-
fEOPLE WHi' rOME AND
”^|or of j our presence at the marriage
1 of her daughter Fannie Kerr to Mr.
Iti'ins of intere^«t Gathered by
I Henry William Bason on the evening
I of Thursday the sixteenth of Novem-
Our j ber at half after six o’clock Presby-
t terian Church, Mebane North Carolina.
,Vr3. (.'lark of Durham ^isit* d a reception immediately
atter the ceremony at “Kalm Krest.”
The Leader finds pleasure in chronic
ling this auspicious event, fraught
N.
a
his ad
it is good pro-
frier.ds v..; relatives in Mebane Sunday
Mrs. J. K iiolaiul and daughter of
Durham nsited the family of Mr. J
W'arrt’ii Sun
John .4 '1 rollinjrt*!' »» agent h.HS
number of lar/ns for fali\ see
vertidPintMit else-^’here
p.rty.
Mr. .loe Kinp. Editor of the Durham
He was in Mebane early Tuesday
nD.Tiing. and paid the Leader office a
fi.ort i>iU plt*asat'.t call.
A in til i-ourh containing $20,000 was
ruatiHi t'nun Raleigh to New York last
July. It was ret-ei..tei for by the re-
c ivi ip-agent at Greer3boi*o, and then
it WHS lost sight of. The Government
has taken the matter up but so far no
thing l as heen heard of it. The agent
handling it has been suspended for
carolessness but nothing more.
Fashionable clothes, is the heading of
an attractive advertisement of Pritch-,
ani-Bright and Co , cJothiers Durham.
This firm is composed of a number of
clevirgentlemen who have been known
in connet’tion with the clothing busi
ness of Durham for years. They know
clothing from A to Z and will be sure
to give you a square deal. Call and
see them.
The Norfolk and Southern Railroad
people have just issued a good size
pHinphlet titled “Corn, Cotton and
I'dsli” nicely illustrated, that gives
much dii.criptive matter of the East
ern part, or coast counties of the
State. This pamphlet will be furn-
i hed on application to W. W. Croxton
I’aa.-'.enger agent Norfolk and Southern,
N‘iri'olk, Va.
Potash Deposits
ered.
Discov-
Potash deposit! that will supply the
needs of the entire United States have
been discovered in tha West, accord
ing ta Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Heretofore this country has bought
twelve million dollars worth of potash
from Germany annually. The location
of the deposits is not revealed.
with such unbounded anticepation of a
future repleet with happiness.
Tlie bride to be is one of Mebane^
mt>st popular young ladies, shi‘ reigns
a socm queen in an atruostphero in
which mingle gentle people of patri-
cia!j biith. Mr Bason tl^ gentlemuH
who has won this grand prize in the
lottery of life is a young man o*" rare
business, atid t'Ocial attainments, an
exooding clever gentleman now located |
in High Poi''t, holding a pi-ominent
clerical position in an important fac
tory. After marriage the couple will
make their home in High Point.
The Leader wishes them bon voyage.
There matrimonial bark will be bur
dens with good wishes of a large cii-
cle of sincere friends.
No Police, No Loafers and
Now No Post-ottice.
Too Ciood For This World.
A fund established by Charles D.
Rood, a wealthy resident, to encour
age good habits among the young men
of Ludlow Mass., has just been drawn
upon to reward Howard U. Bennett of
Ludlow Centre who has never used a
profane word, never smoked or chewed
tobacco, never touched a drop of liq
uor and never kissed a girl outside his
own family.
Bennett’s reward was a gold watch,
suitably inscribed, which was presented
on his 21st Urthday.
DEMOCRAI ELECTED
T1 e Turks who have i>een regartiod
as the butchers of Europe are now ap
pealing to the United States to stop
the Italians from wholesale murdering
of Arab.s and Turks at Tripoli,
" Joseph Barney, Postmaster of Irons-
port, O., a village of 700 inhabitants,
has closed his office. He said he bad
not sold a single stamp in five weeks
nor received any incoming or outgoing
mail. The people explain that they
don’t rece ve any mail.
There has not bren an idle man in
Iionsport sirce 1909'. The Miines are
running full time and every miner in
town owns his own home.
Three weeks ago the entire j>olice de
partment disbanded. The Chief of Po
lice declares that not one arrest has
been made within the last six months
and that it is a waste of the taxpay-
1 ers’ money to keep up a'police depart-
j ment.
1 A recent census showed that the pop-
j ulation is composed of 637 Irishmen, 11
Welshmen and 52 Germans.
Ironsport has yet to have its firtt
taste of scandal.
Will Raffle a Baby.
Only personi under twenty-one will
be barred from chances on a chubby,
blue-eyed baby of unannounced sex
that is to be raffled at a local theatre
Monday night at Henderson Ky.
Signs announcing the contest have
lieen tacked up on telephone poles in
side a twenty-five-mile radius. The
bady has been obtained from an or
phanage in Louisville, and the holder
Socialists Made Big Gains.
The elections held Tuesday in many
states and cities throughout the country
resulted in the election of Democratic
governors in Massachusetts, Kentucky
nd Mississippi, a Republican governor
in Rhode Island, a Republican assembly
in New York, which will challence the
continuance of Go'^ernor Dix’s policies;
a New Jersey legislature with majori
ties proba’^ly not in accord with Gov.
Woodrow Wilson of thit state, with
results of the state elections in Mary
land and New Mexico inill in doubt.
Socialist gains mark^ elections to
day and gave that party power in dis
tricts where heretofore it had boen un-
of the lucky ticket which will go with
the ticket of admission is to be dc-1 ^
dared foster-parent on the spot.
It is Eurely a press agent's device,
but there is a real baby and the ticket
office has been almost swamped.
Beattie May be Taken
Murderers’ Row.
to
Unless the state Supremo Court of
Appeals grants a new trial for Henry
Clay Beattie, jr., the young man, con
victed of the murder of his wife, will
be moved from the Richmond city jail
to murderer’s row in the df*ath house
at the state penitentiary. According
to the law, a man condemned to ele-
Beats Cotton.
(From The New^^on Enterpiise.)
From ten acres of land in this section
this year a farmer got 400 bushels of
clean threshed oats and about 30 tons
oi peavine hay. He will realize more
*■ ban a thousand dollars from the ten
acres. He also grows plenty of potato
es and raises plenty of hogs. He says
there is more money in hogs than any
thing else he can raise. There is more
in Schenectady, N. Y., the socialists
elected a mayor, all city officials ex
cept one, and a majority of the county
board. In addition, the assembly dis
trict in which Schenectjidy is located,
returned a socialist assemblyman.
Ohio was anoteer winning ground for
the socialists.
ctrocution must be lodged in the peni- j jjg inade from oats and hay,
tentiary 15 days before the date set
for hiE death-
No Hope of Saving Even
Naminal Throne in China
The legations consider that the end
of the Manchu dynasty is imminent.
There seoms no hope of saving even a
liuniinal throne. The provinces north
of the Yangtse river are now declaring
fur a republic. The only force of
Manchu troops large enough to cope
with the local situation is in Peking,
but there are indications that the cap
ital will be surrounded before many
d-iys by Chinese soldiers.
Whirled Over Shaft and
Arm Torn From Socket
D. D. Belvin, brother of Jailer Bel-
vin, and owner of a cotton gin near
Durham, lost his arm and is~ critically
injured as result of being caughc in
the shafting at his gin Tuesday. The
ginner was trying to put a belt on
when caught by the best and whirled
over the shafting three minutes. The
arnn was pulled from the socket. He
stands a chance for recovery.
The court which has under advise
ment Beattie’s petition for a writ of
error, sits Wednesday, but may not
give its decision. If it should not de
cide the appeal before the date set for
the execution, that would act as a
stav.
potatoes and hc^s than from cotton,
even at 10 cents, but few farmers be
lieve it.
MAN DYING FROM GLANDERS.
A Change in the
Girls.
Hello
Misses Callie and Sudie Clarke are
the hello girls for. the Mebane Tele-
ph'me call, two very clever young ladies
They go on duty at six, a- m. and re
main until seven p. m.
Mr. Nick Nicholson sleeps in the
phone exchange room going on duty at
seven p. m. and coming off at six p.
They say Nick sleeps with one eye open
so he will always see you get the doc
tor in time.
Wealthy Farmer Stricken
Wnile iNursing Intected
Stock.
Chambers Besore, a prominent and
wealthy resident, aged 52, is dying on
his farm at Green Village, III. from
glanders, transmitted from his horses.
Dr. J. H. Devor held a consultation
on the case with Veterinary Surgeon
Daniel Ryder, special representative of
the state live stock board. Besore’s
horses have been ill, and glanders was
suspected, but Besore, knowing the
grave risk, worked with the anima’s
until stricken himself.
The stock are not under quarantine
and will be killed by the state depart
ment orders. Four doctors are trying
to save the life of their owner, but his
hours are numbered.
MONA LISA IN THE STREETS
Boland—Mitchel.
Miss Maggie Mitchel a popular young
lady of Northern Alamance County
near Watson, and a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Mitchel, was united in
marriage to Mr. Floyd Boland who also
lives near Watson, on Wednesday eve-
>^ing of this week. The ceremony was
W)lemnized at the home of the brides
parents. The Leader wishes this pop
ular couple a long and happy life.
Reproductions of Stolen
Picture Appear Every
where in Paris.
Although the stolen “Mona Lisa” no
longer smiles in the Louvre, Leonardo
da Vinci’s masterpiece is^smilipg just
now more than ever before in Paris
streets.
Excelent reproductions of the picture
now appear on hatpins, and La, Giocen-
-da smiles Sometimes two or thiee times
from the same hat.
If Parisian follows its usual coutse
the mysterious smile will soon be seen
at every turn in London this season.
The heads of the hatpins are some
times made of pretty silver bijouterie
work and are quite cheap, and others
are in enamel.
Listen to an Important
Fact.
There has been good breaks of to-
I'acco at our warehouses all this week.
Friends, fellow citizens ard tobacco
f'lrtners don’t forget the fact that}
h‘>rBfc tiesh cost lots of money now days j
!*nd itH kiUing to your horse to drivel
distance over ilfuddv roads to a |
^ohat-co market, when Mebane "is right
your door with good roads to reach.
Xtore these facts up, they are worth
treasuring
handsome Overcoat.
e V ant to give to the most popular
tnrrn r on the Mebane Rfd's a band-
stjme o/ercoat; We are going to let
subscrRjers on these routes decide
who he is.. The one on whose rqut is
rec.tived at the Leader office the larg-
t^st number of one dollar cash sul scrip-
tion for old or new subscribers will
K^Jt the coat. You have a favorite, let
'is hear from you at once.
Plays for Durham
The following plays have been book
ed for the Academy of music Durham
from now on to the end of the season,
ofcourse subject to change from time
to to time, by taking from or adding
too the plays:
Nov. 4th, Country Boy.
“ 9tii, Dante Imferro.
' “ 16th, ■* The Fair Ct)-Bd.
“ 30th, Kenenicolor.
Dec. 1st and 2nd, Kenenicolor.
“ 25th, Councy Sheriff.
“ 30th, Nat C. Goodwin.
Jan. 5tlv V ^ennebec;
“ 23rd, Fennegan’s Honey Moon.
Feb. 5th, Geo. Evan’s Minstrels.
“ 6th, Get Rich Quicic Welling-
ford. . ^ ' -
“ 10th, Smart Set.
24th, Madam Sherry.
Mar. 4th. Fortane Hunter.
5th, Black Pattie.
12th, Lyman Bros,
“ 15th, Lion and Mouse
Apr. 4th, Buster BroWn.
Efiand items.
Messas Harry Fitzpatrick and Dewy
Riley spent Saturday night at the home
of Mr. Sam Riley.
Miss Bert Pratt took dinner with her
friend Miss Annie Jordan Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Squires visited at
Mr. Turner Smiths Saturday.
The Mebane Male Quartette, compos-
ted of Messrs Jackson, R. E. Thompson
I J. Miles and John Smith was down at
the M. P. Church Sunday. They ad
ded greatly to the singing. Come again
p!ease.
Mr. Oley Aulbert and Miss Sudie
Miller spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs
T. R. Fitzpatrick.
Miss Lilly Bivins visited friends near
Cedar Grove last week.
Mrs. Joe Murray spent Sunday with
her brother Mr. George Thompson,
Misses Bert Pratt and Julia Trent,
Messrs Ernest Forest and Marvin Pratt
called at Mr. Murrays Sunday afternoon
Miss Bessie Baity and Mr. Ed Mur
ray went ap to Burlington Saturday
evening.
Mr. L. W. K. Faucette came up Tu
esday morning from Durham to spend
some time with his friend Mr. Rufe
Mebane and take a hunt. Look out
i birds.
The Hallowe’en Party given by the
M. P. Ladies Aid Scciety at the E. H.
S. Building October 3 was quite a suc
cess, Misses Annie Jordan and Julia
Trent were Gipsies and read the fu
ture of most all present. They made
good imitations, dressed in Gvpsy Cos
tums with rings and bracelets. They
looked very sweet. Mrs. G. C. Bivins
was “pumpkin girl" Miss Bessie Baity
was “little bopeep'* add Miss Annie
Murray was “Little Red Riding Hood"
Miss Bert Pratt was “Flower girl" and
took the prize for being the prettiest
girl. The tub of apples was the fun
niest thing on docket. The boys and
girls had quite a lot of fun bobbing for
the apples. In fact it was as a whole
a most enjoyable occasion. All pre
sent voted it a most pleasant party, and
left wishing Hallowe’en would come
more often. The proceeds realized
were something over $20.
Guess I must ring off, and make
room for Cowbell and Papa's Girl, for
I like company.
Paw-Paw-Queese.
TRAGEDMiUIND
Indentified As Stone Re
posing for Six Centuries
Under Coronation Chair
An amazing tradition was added to
the many surrounding the famous
“stoneof destiny," which for six cen
turies has reposed beneath the British
coronation chair. One legened is that
the stone is the one used by Jacob for
his pillow at Bethel.
In a sermon at Westminster Abbey
Archdeacon Wilberforce quoted a well-
known antiquarian as saying that the
“stone of destiny" was also the rock
from which Moses struck water for
the thirsting children of Israel
The name of the antiquarian was
not mentioned by Archdeacon Wilber
force, but he was quoted aa saying
that he was convinced that the stone
was really Jacob’s pillow. After its
use as such it was considered sacred
and was carried from place to place by
the Israelites in their wanderings in
the wilderness.
The antiquarian showed to the arch
deacon a cleft in the back of the rock
from whice he said he believed that
the water had gushed after Moses had
struck the stone with his staff. The
stone, it is believed, was taken to the
Temple of Solomon and after the tem
ple’s destruction to Jerusalem. Fiom
Jerusalem it was taken by Titus to
Spain. Thence it reached Ireland, lat
er was taken to Scotland and was
brought to London by Edward I*
Cut It Out; Get Together,
What is needed in Charlotte more
than any thing else is team work. No
man or set of men ought to be bigger
than the community, and no feelings of
personal disappointment should be
cherished by any who are sincerely in
terested in the welfare of the commun.
ity. We have all had at times our bad
days, our misunderstandings, our fail
ures to achieve the particular ends we
have had in view; but it would be wick
ed to ask or to expect the community
to pay any of our personal debts, to
make it take sides for or against any
of us in the settlement of ancient scor
es. This is a great big town with splen
did prospects and the workers among
us should work for the town because
by making it powerful in all the civic
races we shall be making it the best
place in which to live, move and have
our being. — Charlotte Observer.
In the above utterance the Charlotte
Observer preaches a gospel of truth, a
gospel that will appeal to all men of
intelligence, broad minded, honest and
fair minds.
Robbers Paroled.
The New York Times and the Post
on Transcript must concede that when
His Excellency, the Governor of South
Carolina, assails them and through them
other “Yankees," his bark is worse
than his bite. For why? Ask Joseph
Beckwith, otherwise known as “Red
Mike," and Joe Schultz, both of Yan-
keeland and both notorious pickpock-
hts. who, caught while abstracting
wads of currency from the pockets of
visitors to the State Fair in Columbia,
were convicted and—as warning to the
gangs of armed, and often murderous,
crooks who make the gathering of peo
ple at fairs their harvest time—given
long term sentences in the peniter-
tiary.
These crooks had powerful financial
backing. A man claiming to be a law
yer came to Columbia from Chicago in
their behalf. He handed $200 to Chief
of Police Cathcart to “keep mum" on
the witness stand as to the pickpock
ets. Cathcart immediately arrested
said lawyer for attempting to bribe an
officer. The man gave bond for $1,500
He skipped before trial, forfeiting the
money.
A third member of the gang named
Parker was permitted to give a cash
bond for $1,600. He also skipped never
to return, glad to escape trial by giv
ing up the $1,500.
It was understood the men convicted
were willing and prepared to pay any
fine that might have been imposed, and
the penitentiary sentence staggered
them.
Governor Blease has turned them
loose when they had full five years of
their sentences to serve—Columbia
State
N.G.
T,
Unmasking liaidee's Eyes
The State Must Decide
(The Rocky Mount Herald)
Now which is the best man for the
State to send to the Senate? Shall we
throw away our chance of getting
what we have been wanting for years?
Would it be right lo take down a cer
tainty and put, at best, a chance in
the office? There is no denying the
fact that the opponents of Mr. Sim
mons are able men, but there is also
no denying the fact that they will be
unfamilar with the details of the 'eg
islativa procedure and will not be able
to accomplish much at their first ses
sion, Then in sending them there the
State will lose the benefits ofa whole
session’s work. Can the State, at
this critical time, afford the loss? This
is the matter the voters of the State
will have to decide when the day for
electing a man tx) the Senate rolls
around. “Can we afford to put aside
a surety and place our dependence on
a possibility?”
Thrice Guilty.
There are but three cases reported
in the Bible in which the culprits were
adjudged cut off from further proba
tion and finally repudiated. The first
was Ephraim, so helplessly joined to
his idols that the edict w»>s “Let him
alone." The second offender was left
to his fate because “He had blown
neither,hot nor cold." The sin of the
third was symbo izod by the chronic
worthlessness of the barren fig tree,
and the sentence was, “Go cut it down
why cumbereth it the ground?" Next
year the American people are going to
pronounce sentence of perpetual ban
ishment on the Republicon party for all
three of these unpardonable offenses.
It has clung to the idols of Protection
until in the midst of plenty the masses
suffer for food and raiment; it has
blown neither hot nor cold on measur
es to restrain monopoly and agreed and
to reinstate the common right in place
or special privilege; and it has stood
for the best part of half a century in
the public vineyard, drawine sustenan
ce from the soil and demanding gener
ous care, without once bearing whole
some fruit.—Va. Pilot.
Inasmuch as Italy laid hold of a ra
ther hot poker when she undertook to
grab Tripoli, Turks are letting her
fight it out with the Arabs without
worrying themselves at all. At least
we should infer this state of mind from
an interview which Sidkey Bey, form
erly connected with the Turkish em
bassy at Washington and now on a visit
to the United States, has just let go.
Sidkey discusses the Turkish woman’s
new liberty in most carefree style.
“In the old days," he recalls, “a wo
man in Turkey couldn’t flirt because
her srlances were wasted on the wrong
side of her veil. Now she can use her
eyes to advantage, and she knows it.
The Turk knows it, too, and is glad she
does not wear the veil.” Sidkey then
dwells upon the joys, heightened by
contrast, of the new regime. “In these
days," he tells us, “the American
courtship is carried on in Turkey. The
young man calls at the girl’s house, and
even goes so far as to take her out for
a walk just like the American or Eng
lishman. Then he pops the question,
and if she accepts they are eventually
married, if some other fellow does not
come along whom the girl might like
better.’’ Sidkey shudders to think of
liie days when a Turk had to rely solely
upon his mother’s judgment in choos
ing his wife, whose veil he would lift
for the first time, with more or less
misgivings, after the weJlding feast
was done.—CharlotteJObserverr
Bought World in 1883.
Floated Bonds For State
and Peevish Because They
Are Fighting Reorgani-
izatlon,
It is said in Washington that the
officers of the American Tobacco Com
pany, the trust which the Supreme
Court hat ordered to dissolve itself into
its integral parts, are understood to be
not a little peevish over the action of
tee State of North Carolina in inter
vening, along with Virginia and South
Carolina, to protest against the plan of
reorganization which the Trust sub
mitted for the consideration of the
highest court,
It is recalled by these offended offi
cials of the Tobacco Company, among
whom are the Dukes of North Caro
lina, that when the Old North State
was having difficulty several years ago
in placing a loan which was needed to
pay the running expenses of her eovern
ment, the mu^h-denounced Trust step
ped forward and took the bonds at a
liberal price. The course of the com
pany was noted with praise by the
State government and newspapers of
North Carolina; and the representa
tives of the more or less embarassed
monopoly are letting it be known that
they regaJd North Carolina’s conduct
in the present crisis as decidedly un
gracious. The favorite Shakespearen
quotation at tnis time would be from
the play of King Lear, to wit:
“How sharper than a serpent’s
tooth it is
To have a thankless child!"
Of eourse, the State government of
North Carolina would answer that the
act of the Trust in purchasing good
bonds did not commit the State to up
holding the principle of monopoly
against the interest of her own tobac-
co-growers. But the Trust is deeply
grieved and will never offer Carolina a
loan again.
List ot Letters.
Remaining unclaimed at this office
for the week ending Nov. 4th 1911.
i Letter for Mr. Willis Carter
1 Letter for Mr. R. O. Reese
i Pi C. sor Miss Minnie Sykes
1 P, C. for Mrs. L. A. Smith
1 letter for M. C. Smith
1 Letter for Mr. S. P. Tesh
1 Letter for Mr. B. C. Vinson.
These letters will be «ent to the
Dead Letter Office Nov. t8 t 1911, if
•not called for before. . ^ '
In (filing for the aboj^ please say
“Advertised" giving date of ad. list.
Respectfully,
S. Arthur White, P. M.
Forgetting.
(From the Philadelphia Ledger.)
As times goes on, and we go on with
it—more rapidly than we like—it be
comes necessary to cling tenaciously to
the remembrance of a few things and
forget a great many others. This mind
—the average mind—has not room
enough to hold all that has been learn>
ed, observed, experinced in the course
of a lifetime. It must let many things
go, to make space for the rest. And
the first things to forget are the fail
ures, the disappointments, tha crum
bling of our idols upon their feet of
clay, the hard knocks dealt us in the
jostling concourse of the broad high
way. The things to remember are the
multifold blessings that haye been ouf
portion from the beginning—the kin^
face, the hospitable welcome, thO
thought that was taken for us even
when we did not take thought for our
selves, the sympathetic understanding
that outran our own and found an
cuse for onr shortcomings.
It is a good time to pay up your sub
scription to the Leader. We need it.
Radium Versus Coal.
By Garrett P. Lerviss.
Sir William Ramsay has stirred up a
eomet’s nest in England by renewing
the warning, which already has often
been uttered, that the coal supply, at
the present increasing rate of consum
ption, will be exhausted in a relatively
short time, and then, unless there is
some souice of power to take its place,
goodby to the prosperity of Great Brit
ain!
Sir IViUiam Ramsey fixes upon 175
years as the longest period that the
known supplies of coal can last. One
of his cntics undertakes to show that
this should be extended to 600 years.
But what matters the precise time if
there is a sure limit? Whether it comes
sooner or later, the exhaustion of the
coal supply will spell ruin—unless in
the meantime a substitute can be
found. Sir William Ramsey himself
suggests the bare possibility tnat the
needed substitute may be found in ra
dium.
If, he says, the 1,760 years which a
ton of radium requires in order to evol
ve half the enormous euergy stored
within it would be artificially cut down
to thirty years, the powea thus ^..devel
oped would be equal to that derived
from the consumption of a million and
a half tons of coal, and thus the ener
gy of a dngle ton of radium would
suffice to propel a ship of 15,000 tons
burden, with engines pf 1^000 h,p, at
a speed of fifteen knots ah hour for a
period of thirty years.
Mr. Pulitzer’s entry into New York
journalism occurred in 1883 when he
bought The World, ihen a paper of
small circulation. Its circulation and
prestige grew rapidly under his general
direction, A building to house it,
which he erected in 1890 in Park Row,
was, untill overtopped by the sky-scrap
pers of late years, one of the most
striking of New York’s office buiMings
Mr. Pulitzer’s health began to fail in
the late eighties, and after a time he
became blind. Ever since he has been
a partial invalid, but up to the last he
kept general supervision over his news
paper properties here and St. Louis,
and has t^en a prominentpart in civic
affairs.
Followed Many Avocations.
He obtained his first employment as
a deck hand on a ferry boat After
ward he did manual work on the levee,
then became a hostler in the Denton
barracks and later became a waiter fn
a then popular cafe. He then got a
place as coachman 4nd through part of
the cholera epidemic in the latter six
ties he was a grave digger. Aftar be
coming a reporter in 1870 he developed
a keen interest in politics, and In a few
months entered the lists as candidate
and was elected to the Missouri State
legislature.
Shot Man in St Louis.
In the same year, 1870, he, in his
newspaper capacity, bitt^ly assailed a
g^roup of authorities in St. Louis coun
ty. This led to an encounter in a down
town hotel with Capt. Edward Augus
tine, a contractor, who bad been men
tioned in the news. Augustine struck
Pulitzer, and the lattar left the room
aad returned in a few jnirates armed*
The quarrol was renewed and Augiis-
tine was shot in the light 1%. The
case dragged through the courts for a-
year and finally Puliteer pleaded guii ty
to common assault'and paid a fine of
$100,. \
Mule Retired From Work
and Well Cared For
Henderson Gold Leaf.
Mr John Harris a well-known farm
er living only a few miles from this
place, owns a mule that is 43 years old
Mr. Harris, when a young man, began
farming with the mule, which always
proved to be a very useful and faith
ful animal. A few years ago Mr. Har
ris decided that on account of the
mnle’s long and faithful service he
should be set entirely free from work
and be placed on the “pension list" for
the rest of his days. So Mr. Harris
built him a nice stall off to himself,
which opens into a good pasture, and
the mule has since had perfect freedom
to come and go at will. He is required
to do no work whatever, and is as well
cared for as any other animal on the
place, receiving the same attention
that he did in his best work days. He
is perfectly fat and slick. Mr. Harris
refuses to consider the idea of selling
him.
Troops 01^ Border May
Cost Nation Over Two
Million.
It cost the United States Groyernment
just $1,630,526,72 for the mobilization
of troops on the Mexican border from
March 6. when the movement was or
dered to the end of the fiscal year June
30.
The single item of transportation to
the border by water and rail caused
an expenditure of $1,287,903,88.
These surprising totals were reveal
ed to the public today in the annual re
port of Brig. Gen. J. B. Aleshire, the
quartermaster general.
The grand total of expenditures for
the movement probably will pass the
2,000,000 mark, as there still are some
few troops on the border, and quite a
nember have been moved since June 30
The original movement of troops, sup
plies. and baggage cost $894,486,72.
Other items of expense were: Regu
lar supplies. $294,527; incidental ex
penses, $47,966; barracks and quarters
$29,^6; water and sewers, $49,802;
roads, walks, wharves and drainage;
*2,500; clothing and equipage, U7,461;
shooting galleries and ranges, $500.
General Aleshire states in his report
that the movements of troops to Gal
veston, San Diego, and San Antonio,
all were executed promptly’ with the
exception of ;jhe soldiers coming from
Fort gnellipg, and Fort D. A. Russell
Wyoming. He ascribed the delay at
these points to congested traffic in the
vicinity of the first, and the isolated
position of the latter.
Stai^ up for your mall carrier,, and
see tl^t he get» that- ^handsome over
coat the Leader is offering.
Most observers hold to the opinion
that the Democratic party will not risk
the extra hazard, howevea slight, of
giving either first or second place on its
n ational ticket to a Southern candidate
but the time is past or is passing when
the ambitions of a man" from Sooth
are but ghosts of ambitions merely be*
cause he is from South.