THE MEBANE LEADER.
“AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, TO PALTER WOULD BE SIN.”
MEBANE, N.C., THUBSDAY, NOYEMBEB 16 1911
NO 36
PESSOflAL m LOCAL BRIEFS
people who come and go
Items of interest Gathered by
Our RepOit^**.
A Meeting of Printers.
The meeting to be held in Greens
boro by the printers of nearby towns
and cities on the 22nd. and 23rd of
November gives promises of being one
of unusual interest to the fraternity
Its obieot will be to more systemise
the job printing business, that better
results may follow.
If there is any business that has been
Cotton that has not been picked out j badly abusad for the lack of system,
it is the job printing business. Lots
worth but httle.
Thelayii%^ of the fouiidation for the i of job printers have skinned and beeti
quite ill
had La
skinned, partly for lack of knowledge
and partly for lack of princepal.
Some cheap business concern that were
bont on beatiiig the job prmter ii pos
sible would write all over the coantry
for prices, until they found a fellow
that would do the work at a cut throat
rates, attd to him they would give the
job. There area class of printers who
Fi’.' I Snipes killed a ho» Taes- | have caught op to this thing and pay
.tilling that weighed 3d8 pounds i no attention to the cheap John fellow.
one I . ♦
If yo i want to bav a heater or a
-wkst vou had better see the Ty-
ntfvv was begun this week.
j^fa. C. C. Smith has b;en
for the na3t ^he
i,rippe aii i a ge^ieral breaking down.
Miss Bvrnioe Bright daughter of Mr.
Blight oome in Tuesday from
Ourhaiii
M:
day m
Hardware Co They have
tjje line that will please yon.
The 0 >1.1 wave that struck the South
Sun lav night wai not only general,
bjt it w u SL?vere. It broke out in the
West with a storm that swept the
cuuutry.
Urfl. Cheek, wife of Mr. Tom Cheek
Senior, wad quite i'l the past week,
threateiif'd with phneumonia. She is
much better we are glad to learn.
Mr, Brice vVarren a prominent farm
er from C )rbette, Caswall County was
^ it Mebane Friday with a load of the
fragrant weed. He also renewed hia
*ub?cripti»)n to the Leader for an other
year.
Morrow-Bason and Green wish to
direct your attention to their change
of advertisment found in this weeks
Leader Bargains in hats, Royal Soci-
:y Embroidery. Don’t fail to call
'and see them.
Trierewill be something doing Sat
urday when the strong team of Bmg-
bam meets ttie Horner boys on the
Bingham Athletic field. This is the
championsbip game a good crowd will
k appreciated.
Don’t forget to look carefully over
advertisment of the Scbiffman
swelry Co. the leading Jewelers of
ireensboro. They have a large and
ittractive stock of the choices jewelry,
lilyerware, cut glass and novelties. It
t is Worth while to look.
Mr. R. W. Bright has opened up a
tore of general merchandise in the
Smith block, including millinery etc.
tlr. Bright is a new comer and we
ihall hope he w'ill be given a liberal
hare of pat ronage. See his ad elsc-
vber« in this weeks Leader.
A drummer in the wreck of No 37
lear Greensboro Monday morning did
lot mind being thrown from his sleep-
ng car berth so bad, but he did feel
^ighly incensened at the ice water
ooler emptying its contents upon him
rben he was clad simply in pajamas,
he tliinff was almost unbearable. '
A dead head pulling against a news
paper, may prove delicious pass time
Bome characters, but it usually
arm out unprofitable business, that
iust c /ident^ually be learned. A friend-
f co-operation would pay decidedly
etter, and should be far more pleasant
> people who desire to do the square
Observation of an
Colored Man.
Old
An old colored man who had been
following the buyers around the piles
of tobacco as the auctioneer whooped
em up for high prices at the Piedmont
I Warehouse, was heard to remark.
You just listen at dat man as he is
I crying over dat pile of tobacco.
I I jes can't tell what he says. Listen
j now hear him say, socket to em, selven-
j stein, eightstein. Graves, Come up
i boys an do em right, a fawn color
j sweet and juicey, give it to me, six
teen, seventeen, eighteen and half
Boland, Den he talk so last I dun know
what he says, but it sound like he
said center field, bass hit, swenty. Lea
and bless your soul honey. I walk up
dare and declare fore gracious, its my
pile of tobacco and $20 iy marked on de
ticket.
Advance Notes of the
Wedding,
There is much interest manifested in
social circles in Mebane on account of
the marriage of Miss Keer Mebane
to Mr. Will Bason which is to take
place Thursday night November 16th.
Already a number of prominent peo
ple, friends of the family have arrived,
with many others expected,
Among those who have arrived we
might mention Mr. and Mrs B. Frank
Mebane pf Spray. Dr. Geoi^e Meb
ane and wife of Spray, Mr. and Mrs.
James K. Mebane of Graham, Mr.
John Keer and two daughters of Yance
ville. Miss Ida Poteate of Raleigh,
Mr. Banks Mebane and Mr. Allen Me-
bane of Chafiel Hill, Mr. Jinks Meb
ane and wift* of Graham, Mr. Jnmes
Bason and wife of Burlington. Mr.
W. H. Bason and family of Melville.
Dr. and Mrs. Fearington and daughter
Elizabeth of Wmston, Mr. and Mrs.
Will Turder of Winston, Dr. and Mrs
W. O. Spences of Winston, Dr. and
Mrs. W. E. Wells of Graham, Mr.
and Mrs. L. Banks Holt, Dr. George
W. Long of Graham, Misses Ruth and
Inez Poteat of Durham.
The church at which the ceremony is
to be perfornr^ed has berfn artisticly
decorated with ferns and palms, the
color scheme being white ^nd green, a
perfect bower of loveliness- Rev. Mr.
F. M. Hawley will perform the cere
mony and accept their pledges of pli
ghted love. Mrs. Hawley will preside
at the organ. Miss Phillis Woodhall of
Greensboro will perform on the violin.
Will Be Here Wednesday
Nov. 22
Dr. N. Rosenstein of Durham, will
be at Burlington Tuesday Nov. 21 at
the Burlington Drug Co. and Wednes
day Mov. 22nd at Mebane stopping at
the White House for the purpose of
examining eyes and fitting glasses.
You should have them examined now
and glasses fitted. Oont take chances
with your eyes, charges very mode
rate as low as $2.00 including e.^ami-
nation.
Did iNot Mind Getting Wet
Our trroceryman, Mr. T. A. Church,
( meandered out in the suberbs of Meb-
' ane Sunday afternoon for a walk with
! one of his lady friends. Not bemg
thoroughly informed as to weather
prophesies, they were over taken by a
heavy rain, and the lady in question be
ing unprepared for this immergency
would have got thoroughly soaked with
water but for the gallantry of Mr.
Church who g^rasping the situation
with both hands proceeding to take off
his coat and vest and put them over the
shoulders, and around the form of his
lady friend, and then proceeded to walk
along with as little concern as if he
was taking a tepid shower bath.
Church’s friends wanted to know if he
was not cold, he said not a bit of it.
The only unpleasantness was the water
leaking off his back down through the
inside of his pants legs in to his shoes.
LAST HOPE 6liE.
Cut
The hmbankment
Down.
The banks on either side of the Sou
thern railway in front of the Mebane
Bedding Companys plant still remains
an nnsightly, and offensive exhibition
in the heart of Mebane, without ex
cuse or, reason.
A force of the Southern railway Com
pany some three weeks ago beeran
removing these embankments, but the
crude, slow and wearisome way in
which the work was attempted soon
discouraged those in charge of it, and it
was abandoned. The street force who
have been grading down the streets in
Mebane could have done this work at
much less cost than the railroad, for
the reason that they were better equip
ed for the work, unless the railroad
shouM send a regular road building
force here.
Our town is anxious that this work
shall be done at the earliest moment
possible, as it remains, it is an offen
sive refflection
WRECKELTIll.
No. 37 Flies the Track
Near Greensboro.
Number thirty-seven, the Southern
railway’s New York and New Orleans
Pullman train consisting of two mail,
one combinatlt n sleeper ard baggage
and seven Pullmans, running forty min
utes late, wai. wiecked near Banaja,
Rockingham county, midway between
Reidsville and Greensboro at 7:45 Mon
day morning, Engineer W. A. Kinney
was killed, and colored fireman Ed
Townes, of Spencer, was badly hurt ift
back and hip.
No passengers were seriously hurt,
only D. E. Line, of Baltimore, having
sprained wrist; A. M. Short, ticket col
lector, Atlanta, head lacerated; Henry
Morrey, Greensboro, thigh wrenched;
R. F. Arrington, colored porter, Wash
ington, head cut. Several mail clerks
were badly shaken up, but none ser
iously injured.
Engineer Kinney, is a son of Jerome
Kinney, who was badly injured in Har
risburg wreck near Charlotte and was
driving 37 when it rushed into 33 five
years ago killing President Samusl
I Spencer and other notable men in Vir-
tginia. T^ o brothers, George and Ben
and o first cousin, Charles, engineer
were killed in wrecks at Lynchbunr,
Danville and Gibsonvilte. He leaves an
estate of seventy-five thousand dollars
and only last week was importuned by
relatives at his home, Thomasv.lle to
give up the perilous occupation, but
paid no attention whatever to the en
treaties. Tbe body was embalmed and
sent to Thomas ville. He had no wife
or children.
This stretch of road seems to be in ts.
wreck zone. Just two years ago todaf
in five miles occurred the terribU
wreck at Reedy Fork Creek where sev- pi-Qjjijgg more next time
Bfland Items.
Miss Bes.sie Baity left here last week
for Greensboro to spend some time
with her cousin Mr. and Mrs. H. D.
Smith.
Mrs. J. H. Murray went up to Bur
lington Saturday to see her Doctor
again. We are sorry ro say Mrs. Mur
rays health does not improve.
Miss Bob Kirkpatrick has returned
after a lonir visit in Raleigh.
Mr. Ira Lewis of Oaks was a visitor
at Mr. Thomas Tapps Saturday night
and Sunday. We suspect Mr. Lewis is
trying to persuade Miss Annie that
Oaks is a nicer place to live than Ef-
land.
Mrs. John R. Riley is confined to her
room with a very sore foot. Dr. Hugh
es was calU-d in Sunday to treat the
foot. He pronounced it an abcess.
Mrs. J. J. Brown is visiting her par
ents Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Goodon in
Hillsboro.
Little Vernon Hart the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wiley Hart at West End,
Hillsboro, fell in running up some
steps, lost his footing and broke his
neck Saturday afternoon. He is the
only child, and the heart broken par
ents have the sympathy of the entire
commnnity in this the dark hour of
their great sorrow.
Mr VI. E. Thompson spent Satur
day in Hillsboro on business.
Mr. John B Baity spent Sunday at
home with his family.
Mrs. William R. Thompson was call
ed down to Cross Roads Monday. The
death of her little grand-son, a son of
Mr. Crawford Ray.
Cold weather has come and hog kill
ing has commenced we are glad to say.
, Well Mr Editor news is scarce this
j^ek. So we will have to ring off and
Accidentally Good.
It is not surprising that Norway and
Sweden, through their diplomatic rep
resentatives at Washington should have
made request to the State Department
that wood pulp and print paper produ
ced in and exported from those coun
tries be admitted duty-free into the
United States. It will be surprising if
Germany and other countries producing
for ext ort the commodities mentioned
do not proffer similar requests.
Existing commercial treaties between
the United States and foreign Govern
ments nearly all contain what is com
monly known as the “most favored na
tions” clause, whereby any discrimina.
tion ir favor of the products of one
country and against those of another
country is inhabited. Section 2 of the
aw generally referred to as the Cana
dian Reciprocity agreement admits
wood pulp and printed ps^er from the
Dominion duty f'ee. This part of the
agreement, which was passed as a sep
arate act, went into effect on July 1st
and is still in force, despite the subse
quent defeat of the porposed pact as a
whole at the Canadian polls. Had the
Dominion Parliament followed the lead
of the American Oongress and enacted
the Reciprocity bill, the way would
have been opened for the Washington
Government to contend, with some
show of reason, that the specific favor
extended to Canadian‘,wood pulp and
print paper is in the nature of a quid
pro quo. But as matters stand, the
United States could not advance even
the “doctrine of mutuality” as a de
fense of refusal to extend similar favor
to any and all other nations concerned
The bald, simple fact is teat Canadian
wood pulp and print paper are admit
ted into this country duty-free, regard
less of anj thing the Dominion may or
may not do in return. —Norfolk Pilot.
eral Pullmans left the track on a tres
tle, killing many, injuring fifteen among
them being the railyray magnate, Geo
rge Gould.
Four years ago about this time of
year occurred the equally terrible head
on collision on a side track near Rudd,
two miles from Reedy Fork, when sev
eral were killed aiid many were injur
ed, In this same zone there has
Aurevoir,
Paw. Paw-Queese.
Green Fertilizing No.
Hairy Vetch.
15.
Everybody can grow hairy or winter
vetch. You may have to have it in
oculated before it will make much of a
been'l W>wth and you may have to be some-
many freight derailments with sJottte
casualities in thepast .few years.
'’’It, than an arbiturary course. |
Mr. W. E. Ham who returned fron. 1 UniCSS GoV. Mann inter-
le Pikeville and Goldsboro sections of 1 fereS In Beattle’s Behalf,
lie East reports a great daal of cotton
in the fields, some large farms had
pt been touched. The crops as a rule
ere good, some land producing as
‘uch as two or more bales to the acre
what is the use, it may have to be
low»d under in preperation for an
^her crop.
Bring on Your Wood.
^hose subscribers of The Leader, Uv-
War Mebane who may prefer set-
their subscription in wood are ad-
thbt this is the season when we
!>e glad to have it. Bring it right j
We are needing some now. j
By refusing to grant an appeal in the
case of Henry Clay Bettie, jr, convict
ed in Chesterfield county on Septem
ber 8, for the murder of his wife, the
Virginia Supreme court takes away the
condemned man bis last hope of escap
ing execution on November 24, unless
Governor Mann should interfere. While
declining to comment on the court’s
ruling Governor Mann announced that
he will issue « statement Tuesday after
a conference with Beattie’s lawyers,
who are still fighting desperately in his
behalf. There is a bare i>ossibiUty
that the governor will grant a brief
respite, although this by no means cer-
^•■oken Kail Causes an
[Occident Near iVlurphy.
[A brolieii railjwas responsible for the
*4iltnent of passen^ei train No. 105,
Uuis. ille and Nashville railroad
r^l^'irphy at 10:30 Monday morning
1 engine, mail car and two coaches
Overturned and several passen-
injured, although none are
lau t. Fireman Pressly was
^'“•i‘th the engine and receiv-
injuriis, which are regard-
^^^rioiKs Engineea Snyder jump-
''iri tht cab and escaped unhurt.
If We Work Upon Immor
tal Souls.
If we work upon marble it will perish
if we worK upon brass, time will efface
it; if we rear temples, they will crum
ble into dust, but if we work upon im
mortal souls, if we imbue them with
principles, with the just fear of God
and love of fellow men, we engrave on
these tables something which will
brighten all eternity.—Daniel Webster
Bazaar.
Thanksgiving night, November 30th,
and the following night, the ladies of
the Presbyterian Church will hold a
Bazaar, in the Mayors Hall (above
Holmes & Warrens store.)
One of the principal features of the
Bezaar will be a Country Store, stock
ed with a great variety of goods, soli
cited from afl parts of the United Stat
es. All the articles in the booth will
be useful, a great many will be hand
some, every single article will be sold
at the same price, and a very small
price at that.
Beautiful fancy work suitable for
Xmas gifts, also all kinds of service
able things for ladies and children’s
wear, will be Eold at attractively low
prices. Home made candy, salted pea
nuts, fruit punch and a delicious sup
per will be on sale. Booths will be
beautifully decorated.
We cordially invite everybody to come
and have a good time. Plenty of mu
sic throughout the evening.
Will
be Here Wednesday
Nov. 22nJ.
^VvU y had quite a reputation for
as long as he kept his
^ *^‘Ut, but since he has talked so
•'f late people are beginning to
that the Doctor is not half so
as they once thought he was
Dr N. Rosenstein of Durham, will
he at Burlington Tuesday Nov, 21 at
the Buriington Drug Co. and Wednes
day Nov. 22nd at Mebane stopping at
the White House for the purpose of
examining eyes and fitting glasses.
You should have them examined now
and glasses fitted. Dont take chances
with your eyes, charges very mode
rate as low as $2.00 including exami
nation.
To Improve The Streets.
It seems since the recent rains that
tde bottom has dropped out of some of
our princepal streets, and its mud—*nud
for the poor struggling horses. If you
could have seen four big norman horses
straining over an engine on wheels,
and not a large engine at that Wed
nesday in Mebane, a load that could
have been easily pulled by two of
these horses on a fairly good road you
might have appreciated the necessity
of better streets.
Sand and clay would make a great
improvement, but the town of Mebane
is not authorized to spend a dollar of
the bond money on streets and she has
no other money to spend. It is pro-
IK>sed to take up a private subscription
and raise funds, surficient to build a
sand and clay street from the Piedmont
Warehouse, round Wilkersons corner
thence to the depot. These are the
most traveled streets in Mebane. Mr.
Felix Graves will meet our business
men to solicite funds for the purpose.
An appeal to the railroad should be
made to give a special low freight rate
on the sand. The Southern should
feel this much interest in Mebane
Get busy gentlemen.
A Handsome Overcoat.
We want to give to the most popular
carrier on the Mebane Rfd’s a hand
some overcx)at. We are going to let
our subscribers on these routes decide
who he is. The one on whose rout is
received at the Leader office the larg
est number of one dollar cash subscrip
tion for old or new subscribers will
get the coat. You have a favorite, let
us hear from you at once*
Workman Plunged From
Ninth Story of Building
Without Injury.
(New York World )
After plunging 146 feet down an ele
vator shaft in the new Coyler building,
which is being erected between Thirty
first and Thirty-second streets, west of
6 Av New York Stanislaus Shymaga
aged 22 years, of 484 East Seventy
fourth street, arose from the ground,
rubbed the small of his back, which
was wrenched, and, ascending the ele
vator caNe hand over hrnd, met a
surprised surgeon from the New Yoric
hospital and a party of his fellow
workmen, .who had expected to find
him dead.
“Get out of the way,” Shymaga or
dered the doctor, who had started to
climb down. “Let me get some air.”
The physician laid the workman on
the scaffolding and started to examine
him for injuries.
“I’m all right; leave me alone!” pro
tested Shymaga. “I don’t need any
doctor.”
The physician searched in vain for
broken bones or even fcr serious bruis
es. Two or three scratches and a
slight wrench of his back were the
only injuries the man had sustained.
Shymga, who runs an elevator by
which building materials are hoisted
to ths upper stories of the new struc
ture, was standing on a plank placed
across the elevator shaft on the ninth
floor when the thin board broke be
neath him. The hoist, whose control
rope the elevator man struck as he
fell, plunged down below him, and
Shymga was only three feet or so above from 260 tons of fresh cow manure
the hoist during the entire descent.
Several times be struck the cables
wluch lift the elevator. This broke
the force of his fall.
Despite his protestations that he
was able to return to work. Shymga
was taken to the New York hospital
in the ambulance. He was able to
walk to the surgical ward and con
tinued to grumble when he was or
dered to strip and go to bed. Careful
examination by the hospital physicians
brought to light no internal injuries.
List ot Letters
Remaining unclaimed at this office
for the week ending Nov. 11th 1911.
1 Letter for Miss Eatty Bums
1 Letter for Miss Harriett Byrd
1 Letter for Mr. J. A. Capps
1 Letter for A. D. Davie
1 Letter for Miss Lad Day
1 P. C. for J. V. Mebane
1 Letter for Mr, Fish Walker
These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office Nov, 25 1911, if
not called for before.
In calling for the above please say
*‘Advertised” giving date of ad. list.
Respectfully,
S. Arthur White, P. M.
4rhat careful not to let it become a
weed in your wheat and oat fields but
it is one of the best plants for soil im
provement and grows during the fall,
winter, and spring when most other
crops are off the land.
It should be sown in September or
October and plowed down just before
planting in the Spring. The seed can
be secured from most seed dealers and
will cost around $3.00 a bushel.
You will be interested to leam that a
ton of cured vetch hay contains more
nitrogen, phosphate and potash than a
ton of hay made from any other le
gume we have so far discussed, and,
as a soil improver, it is in the class
with those plants that have no equal
A ton of vetch hav has 55,8 lbs of ni
trogen; 14,6 lbs, of phosphate, and 46,6
lbs, of potash.
Composition of Green Vetch Compared
With Composition of Fresh Cow and
Horse Manure, Pounds Per Ton.
Meterial, Nitrogen, Phosphate Potash
Hairy Mteti.trMD 13.2 3.2 8.2
Fmk Horse naiiura S.7 1.9 7.3
Fmh Co« namra 7.S 1.6 7.3
It will take about 5 tons green
vetch to make one ton of hay and it is
an easy matter to grow 3 tons of hay
per acre. This gives you 15 tons of
green vetch to plow under for soil im
provement, Now one ton of green
vetch contains, according to some ex
pert analyses, 13,2 lbs of nitrogen; 3,2
lbs of phosphate, and 8,2 lbs of potash.
By plowing under 15 tons of green
vetch there would be rendered avail
able, in each acre, 198 lbs, of ni*-rogen;
48 lbs, of phosphate, and 123 lbs, of
potash. On a ten acre field you would
thus get 1980 lbs, of nitrogen* 480 lbs.
of phosphate, and 1230 lbs, of potash.
You would thus get, for almost nothing
as much nitrogen as you would get
or
from 49 tons of 8-2-2 fertilizer. You
would get as much phosphate as you
could from 300 tons of fresh cow man
ure or from 3 tons of 8-2-2 fertilizer.
There would be as much potash made
available as you would get by spread
ing 168 tons of fresh cow manure or
by using about 81 tons of 8-2-2. It will
cost you at least $150 to haul and
spread 300 tons of manure in case your
field is half a mile from the stables.
The 2 bu. of vetch seed for the acre
will $5,00 or $6,00 and the plowing and
most of the harrowing will incidentally
prepare the land for the next crop.
The amount of nitrogen thus taken
from the air at no cost at all and the
phosphate and potash rendered avail
able in the soil is equal to that taken
out of a ten acre field by nearly 2000
bu, of corn; 3000 bu, of wheat, or fifty
six 500 lb, bales of cotton. All of the
nitrogen has been taken either direct
ly from tbe air or rendered available
by decomposition of pre-existing or
ganic matter in the soil. In case the
phosphate and potash are not supplied
artificially they are taken up from the
earth through the roots of the plants;
built into the plant tissues and render
ed available to the succeeding crop on
decay of the roots, stems and leaves of
the vetch plants.
1 . L. Burgess, N. C. Dept., of Agri.
Lifting the Tartar Yoke.
Isolated from Europe by vast desert
wastes, China has always had oniy her
own Tartar kinspeople to dread. Those
have subdued her time and again, not
withstanding the Great Wall which she
built fifteen hundred miles long and on
an average fifty feet high from a per
iod begfinning about 200 B. C. But
China’s vastness of population and area
tc^ether with the fixity of her customs
always prevented the convuerors from
producing much real impression, There
would be a change in the ruling class
and nothing more. Probably the Man-
chu or Manchurian conquerors who are
now defending themselves desperately
against popular fevolt galled China
worse than Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan
or any os the other wild Mongolians
of the past. They removed the capitsl
from Naking—the city whose gutters
ran with Hood last week—to Pekin, in
the province of Chili adjoining their
own native land.-—Charlotte Cbservea.
A Good
Sweet
Yield,
Potato
J. L. Maxon, of West Point, Miss.,
during the season of 1910, harvested
2,000 bushels of sweet potatoes from 17
acres of land. He received $1,25 per
bushel for this crop, a total of $2,500,
of which over $1,500 was clear profit.
The soil upon which this crop was
produced was not considered the best,
being a piece which was being brought
up to a higher standard of fertility.
This year Mr. Maxon has planted pea
nuts on this same piece of ground, and
states that he will receive even a bet
ter paying crop than the potatoes,
“Still, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow.
Keeping watch abovehis own.”
At The
Piedmont
house.
Ware-
There are a pleased set of farmers
who sell their tobacco at the Piedmont
Warehouses. The boys there whoop
“em” up to the top notch. The follow
ing is a few sales for the last few
days, but they show the drift is always
upward:
Hoopar & Swan of Corbett N. C. sold
1594 lbs, at the Piedmont Warehouse
for $224,15.
Will Tate of Mebane Rfd. 1, sold
2062 lbs, for $315,91.
Mr. J. W. Gillham of Union Ridge
sold a load of tobacco at the Piedmont
Warehouse at a $13,00 average.
Westbrooks and McAdams of Meb
ane Rfd, 1, sold 1291 lbs, for $202,31.
Brice Warren of Corbette N. C. soW
1128 lbs, for $115,45.
Walker and Day J. C. Walker sold
at the Piedmont Warehouse, Saturday.
They were well pleased with prices.
Walker and Walker sold 1796 lbs, to
bacco at the Piedmont Warehouse ave
rage $13,00.
J. W. Tingen of Watson Rfd, 1, sold
at the Piedmont Warehouse 1194 lbs,
for $195,85.
C. M. Pooe of Cedar Grove aold at
the Piedmont Warehouse a load of to
bacco and was well pleased with the
prices, and will sell with us again.
Mr. A. B, Florence of Baynes is in
town with a load of tobacco.
Beautiful Tribute Paid to
iVleinory ot Edward W.
Carmack.
Loving: friends and admirers of the
late Edward Ward Carmack, paid a
baautiful tiibute to his memory on the
third anniversary of his death at
Columbia Tenn,, last Thursday even
ing. A goodly company under the au
spices of the Woman’s Christian Tem
perance Union, assembled at the last
testing place of the martyred states
man, in Rose Hill cemetary, and with
appropriate exercises placed flowers
npon his grave Rev. W. T. Boaz, the
pastor of Mr. Carmack’s church when
he died, presided. “The “Tribute to
the South” of Mr. Carmack was read
by Hon. Hardin P. Fi;i:ucrs; the great
poem of Grantland Rice, ‘ TheChie^^”
was read by Col. John E. Edgerton An
eloquent prayer was offered by Dr. W.
T. Haggard.
J. I. Finney, editor of the Columbia
Herald, was the orator of the occasion
and delivered a beautifully worded trib
ute to JVir. Carmack. He concluded
with an appeal to the followers of the
late senator to honor his memory by
practicing the arts of good citizenshipj
He said in part;
CARMACK’S CAREER.
“What we may do or say cannot de
tract from nor add to a career that ia
the pride of all true patriots, the in
spiration of all genuine reformers, and
the sternal heritage of all Tennesseans
For him “life's fitful fever is over.’
His prayer has been answered. He
sleeps in his beloved southland. He is
•forever pillowed upon her bosom and
rocked in sleep in her tender and en-
cir^’ling arms.’
“But we can add luster to our state
the better serve it makes this a bright
er land in which to live and a safer one
in which to rear our children and our
children’s children, if we shall give ear
to his counsels and strive to follow that
noble example which in life he exem
plified. We can here and now resolve
that the cause for which he died shall
never lack for valliant defenders nor
shall the banner which he bore so tri
umphantly ever trail in dishonor. If he
could speak to us today it would be a
message of hope; a call to arms; an ad
monition to loyally and steadfastly keep
the faith. W’^e cannot hear his clarion
call, but we can keep the faith; we can
not have his counsel but we can fight a
good fight.
“We can learn from his life the les
son, of good citizenship, which he
taught as no one in Tennessee has ever
taught it. And the first and last les
son requires us to perform our duty
every day. He has told us that the
powers of evil owe their supremacy to
the cowardice of those who fear to as
sail them. And we can keep the faith
and honor his name and memory by the
high resolve that no true follower of
his shall ever be a party to the success
of those forces for lack of homage to
attack them.
“Let us make no compromise for ex
pediency’s sake. Let us scorn to deal
with those who in life despised him
and who rejoiced in his death. There
are issues involving the very life of
constitutional government, the very
fabrics of civil rights which cannot be
compromised, without dishonor.
“No more earnest and courageous
advocate of law and law enforcement
e^er lived than Mr. Carmack. His pen
was ever wielded and his voice was
ever lifted in its behalf. He believed
in liberty and law. He abhorred that
license which men mistake for liberty.
He ever appealed for the supremacy
of the law and for reverence for its im
perial mandates. He had not tolera
tion for the mob and his whole nature
revolted at the suggestion of anarchy.
He never gave utterance to nobler
sentiments than, when shortly before
his own tragic end. in commenting on
the mob murder of Quinten Rankin he
wrote that great editorial entitled, “A
Challenge to Civilization.” Sometimes
I think when I read and re-read and
ponder that great paper that he must
have been inspired; that some premo
nition of his own murder must have
moved his pen in a deliverance that
every American citizen should read
and p'»nder.
Blue and Gray Together
at Unveilmg of Shaft at
the Crater.
Fragments of the armies of the Blue
and the Gray, who 50 years ago opposed
each other on the battlefield; Monday
i shoulder to shoulder witnessed the un-
j veiling of a shaft of granite erected
I at the crater near Petersburg by the
state of Massachusetts in honor of its
soldiers and sailor dead of the Civil
War. The veterans surrounded a
stand upon which Governors Foss, of
Massachusetts, and Mann, of Virginia
and their staffs. Colonel James Ander
son chairman of the Massachusetts
monument commission, who presided-
J. Steams Cushing, of the Massachu
setts executive committee and others.
The flag draping the monument was
drawn aside by Miss Otelia Mahone
McGill, of Pettersburg, grand-daugh
ter of Gen. William Mahone, who led
the Confederate charge upon the crater
June 30, 1864, when it Was retaken by
the Confederates.