Mebane Leader
J. O. FOY, Editor and Owner
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Thursday January 4 1912
A CIVIC LEAGUE
Civic Leagues have worked
wonderous in a great many
towns and cities in arrousing a
public sentiment favorable to
civic improvement. The Lea
gues are in the hands of the
ladies, who organize, and then
do what they can to encourajje
civic pride, thev try to induce
the citizens to beautify there
homes, keep their premises
clean, and encourage a senti
ment that will aid in getting
rid of unsightl y places.
A civic league could work
wonders in Mebane, there is
so much it might do, if the
ladies would only energetically
push the work. There are a
great many ways by which they
may make their services of
value. They could secure the
passage of wholesome and beni-
ficial ordinances, and insist up
on there being enforced. There
are a great many unsightly
places in every town, and Meb
ane is no exception to the rule
they may do much to arouse
public sentiment to the pressing
necessity of remedying these
troubles. The moral force of
their influence is a great power
when rightly directed. There
is much they may do to make
Mebane beautiful. Some time
past we discussed the matter
frequently and urged a Civic
League, but our effort met with
such little encouragement we
droped the matter. We trust
that conditions are more favor
able to the organization of a
Civic League, The New Year
is upon us and it is a good time
to organize and get ready for a
years work. Any one with a
spark of civic pride could hardly
use a portion of their time to
better advantage than in help
ing. and in encourageing people
to beautify their homes, or to
insist upon unsightly public
places be corrected. Mr. W. E.
White has shown commendable
interest in this matter, he has
on several occasions directed
our attention to it, and seemed
anxious to encourage effort
along such lines. The Leader
tenders its help in any way it
may be able to serve.
THE UNDERWOOD BOOM
Reports from Washington in
dicate that that the Underwood
Presidential boom was assuming
generous proportions. And why
not. Representative Oscar W.
Wnderwood measures up to id
eal Presidential timber, He has
demonstrated that he is one
among the most capeable, and
level headed men whose name
has been mentioned in connec
tion with the nomination of this
high office by the Democratic
party, but it is said there is just
one big “IF” standing in the
way of the Underwood nomina
tion for the presidency. Thai
is the obsession, peculiar to the
south, that no southern man cpn
be elected president of the Un- \
ited States; The time honored I
belief, which followed the Civil!
war, ‘that it is impossible to elect
a Southerner, is one embarrass
ment to the chances of Under
wood. And the south itself is
declared to be mainly responsibly
for the feeling.
The old fear of sectionalism
still haunts the southern Dem
ocrats. Year after year the
solid south has sent its delegates
to the national conventions and
helped to nominate men from
the North, East and West.
The south has had presiden
tial timber of its own. just as
Mr. Underwood now measures
up to the job, but that section
has consistently failed to rid
itself of the antiquated idea that
a southern man cannot receive
the support of Democrats else
where.
If no Southern Democrat can
be elected to the Presidency, it
would not be out of place to re
flect that only one Northern
Democrat has been elected in
the past fifty years and it was
with Southern votes princepally
he was elected. For half a
century since the war the South
has given the full strength of
its votes trying to help elect a
Northern or Western Democrat
to be President, if it failed it
was because the North and West
failed to aid as it should.
The war has been ended near
fifty years, and at no time since
it ended has the South been
wanting in loyalty to the Gov
ernment or lacking in men
worthy to occupy the presiden
tial chair. So what is it that
must bar it from its rightful
claim to offer to this nation a
man the peer of any to rule it?
nothing except that innate mod
esty that has ceased to be a vir-
ture, and that fear of Northern
and Western sectional predudice,
that amounts to moral coward
ice. If the South has not won
the respect and confidence of
this nation in its fifty years of
loyalty and patriotic devotion,
then it should not want it. it
should not seek it, it is an ele
ment of respect that is not
worth having. Mr. Underwood
has never run iff on any fools
errand after pension loafers,
nor threatened Mr. Taft with
a dose of political layout drops
by running as a Canadian Rec-
iprosity candidate, Mr. Under
wood has acted as an honest
able Representative in all posi
tions in which he has been place
ed. He is a Southern man,
capeable and conservative, and
the Leader would take pleasure
in giving him the full measure
of its support.
PEOPLEJI^U KNOW
They May Not Be Quite So Nu
merous as You Imagine.
GUESS AS TO THEiR NUMBER.
What Is
v^Ol*lStin.3/S I store, Burlington N. C.
The Flight
(George E. Woodbury in Scribner’s)
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O Wild Heart, track the land’s per
fume.
Beach roses and moor heather!
All fragrancies of herb and bloom
Fall, out at sea, together,
0 follow where aloft find room
Lark song and eagle feather—
All ecstasies of throat and plume
Melt, high on yon blue heather.
O leave on sky and ocean lost
The fight creation dareth;
Take wings of love, then mount the
most;
Find fame, that furthest fareth!
Thy fight, albeit amid her most
Thee, too, night starlike beareth,
Flying, thy breast on heaven’s coast
The infi:\ite outweareth.
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“Dead o’er us roll celestial fires;
Mute stand earth’s ancient beaches;
Old thoughts, old instincts, old de
sires.
The passing hour outreaches;
The soul creative never tires—
Evokes, adores, beseeches;
And that heart most the good inspires
Whom most its wildness teaches.
“For I will course through falling
years.
And stars and cities burning;
And I will march through dying cheers
Past empires unreturning;
Ever the world flame reappears
Wheretnankind power is earning.
The natiorjs hopes, the people’s tears,
One with the wild heart yearning.’
Nature ever yields reward
To him who seeks, and loves her best
—Berry Cornwall
Watch well the building of the dream;
However hopeless it may seem.
The time will come when it shall be
A prison or a home for thee,
-W, Webb,
Let us be of good cheer, however,
remembering that the misfortunes
hardest to bear are those which ^ nevtr
come. — Lowell.
Yes, the new days come and the o'.d
days go.
And I tha while rejoice;
For now 'tis the rose, and now ’tis
the snow
And now a sweet bird voice.
—W. Brunton.
F. NASH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
PRAGTIGIN ALL COURTS
HILLSBORO. N. C.
Then Do Some Thinking and Figuring
and See How Far From Youp Guess
You Come and Incidentally Learn
How Many Folks You Don't Know.
Did you ever have the experience of
walking down Main street with a man
who is running for olBce? All the time
he is bowing right and left to people
you meet. Several times in a block he
vill stop to shake hands with an ac
quaintance.
“You seem to know every one,” you
Bay to him almost enviously.
“That’s right,” he replies, not with
out some pride. “I guess I do know
everybody worth knowing.”
Yet how many people does he know?
IIow many people do you know your
self? Did you ever try to figure it out?
What proportion of the people in the
United States do you know? Certainly
you don't know the one-hundreth part
of them. Even the president of the
United States doesn’t and couldn’t if
he kept traveling all the time, making
a host of new acquaintances every day.
To know the one-hundredth part of
the people in this country would be to
know in the neighborhood of a million
persons. No; it is perfectly safe to say
that there is no person iu the wbole
world that knows a million other per
sons well enough to call each of them
by name. Think what a million means!
Suppose you said the names of all the
people you know as fast as you could.
If you could enunciate twenty names
a minute you would be doing marvel
ously well. Even at that rate, w’orking
steadily eight hours a day, it would
take you nearly four months just to
name the people j'ou know There isn’t
a memory la existence that would hold
a uiilliou names.
^Vell, do you suppose you know a
hundred thousand? Let’s see; that
would be about one-fifth of the popu
lation of Rhode Island. Imagine your
self sitting in the railroad station at
Providence watching the people come {
through. No; that is hardly a fair
test, for unless you live in Providence I
you do not know as many people there |
as in the city in which you live. Sit |
in your own railway station and count
the people coming through. No matter
how well known j ou are or how many
people 3'ou know, you cannot help but
be impressed with the fact of how
many people there are that you do not
know. If you know one in a hundred
persons you know far more than the
average.
Let us try to get at it iu another
way. You make on the average, say,
two new acquaintances a week. Of
Dourse there are weeks and weeks that
vou make no new acquaintances at all,
and then there are times, such as pic
nic week and vacation week and ,
church fair week, when you meet a '
lot of people, so that two a week is a i
fair average. You have been meeting ;
people, say, for twcntj'-tive years. !
That's 2,500, Isn’t it? I
Is it possible that you know only ■
2,500 people? You thought the nuin- i
ber would be far more than that? |
But hold on. You don’t know nearly
that many. There are lots and lots
of people whom you knew twenty
years ago that you don’t know now.
You cannot even remember their
names or what they looked like.
Just sit down and try to remember
the names of all the boys and girls
that were in the same room in the
public school with you. You cannot
remember half of them or a third of
them or a fifth of them. It is safe to
say that of every two persons you
met in all your life you have forgotten
one. The chances are that the num
ber of people you know by name is
nearer 1,000 than it Is 2,000.
Of coiirse a preacher with a thoii-
f?and members in his chui'ch is expoft-
od to know them all by name. But
all the same you will find him sayins
to his wife:
“My dear, who was that young lady
who spoke to us just know?”
It is business, too, for a merchant to
remember all of his thousand custom
ers, but very few merchants are able to
do it Possibly some of the politicians
and public lecturers may know a cou
ple of thousand persons by name, but
very few other persons know that
many.
If this estimate seems too low It Is
easily disproved. All you have to do
Is to take pencil and paper and begin
putting down the names of your ac
quaintances. Start with your own
family and then put down your cousins
and your second cousins and your
wire’s relations. Then put down the
names of the people you know in the
town you used to live in and the peo
ple you know socially. Follow that up
with the people you know in business,
then—
But you can’t dispute these figures.
It is too much trouble to think of all
the people you know'. You’ll never do It.
•-New York "World.
Without fruits, candies, etc? We have a nice
line of apples, oranges, lemons, raisons and
other nice things to eat.
We have clothing, shoes, hats etc. We sell
everything close. Wo have what will please
you, and will take''pleasure in filling your or
ders. Don’t forget us.
Mebane Store, Co.
Mebane, N. C.
SPECIALS Fon mmis m
GOODMAN’S
WHEN
You are thinking as to the best place to pur
chase anythiag i i ladies dressing material, in
Coat Suits, from substanialy made for wear
np to the finest creation, the best the most
artistic lady tailors can produce, or wraps
for comfort, the swellest affairs worn by so
cieties elite, or any Kind of ladies dress good
material, then call, or write to us. Remem
ber we pay your railroad fare from any point
East of Haw River to Durham when you pur
chase goods to amount of $15, or more.
Ellis-Stone, & Co.
Stores
Durham^ N. C.
Greensboro
SEyEHTy-FiyE cokdsof wood
We have seventy-five cords of two
foot wood for sale at
TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY GENTS A CORD
This wood was cut last winter and
is well seasoned. Give your orders
to W. C. CLARK
Mebane Land & Imp. Co.
Mebane N. C.
The Christmas season of fjood
cheer demands that every man wiU
be well-dressed and look his beat.
GOODMAN can fit you out from
head to foot, and at the spmmI
prices he is now making no nan b«8
any excuse for not being well drMsed
His immense stock is of the T*ry
latest styles and patterns. In Fom-
ishings he has everything you n»od
—collars, cuffs, ties, underwear,
etc.
Also a big line
and Furnishings
prices from now
of liadies’ 3uit«
All at special
until Christmas.
B.
The Home Good i;lothes
The Biggest Clothier in
tbeiCouiity.
, Burlington, N C
^STROUSC 6i BRO^
.OAuTiAAoaa ^
24 PICTORES FOR ONiy 250.
Just Think Of It
cheaper than stealing them, if you never get caught. Monday Dec.
llth I will open penny Photos and Post Card Studio over the Bank.
Its only a short time until Christmas so if you «are for any Photos
of any kind Don’t wait, come early and avoid rush. Pittares muat
be paid for at time of sitting.
Yours for busidess,
L D STEVENS,
PHOTOGRAPHER.
A Grand Exhibit
of Furs from
America’s Leading Fumes, Wm. Jackson’s Sons
Overshadowing anything of the kind ever shown
in Greensboro. The display will include every
thing that is dependable and strictly faehionafek,
comes just in time to choose Christmas gifts f#r
the ladies.
Among the more stylish Furs will b« ae«k
pieces, Muffs and Coats in French Black Coney,
Black Lynx Hare, Blue Bear, Australian Chin
chilla, Alaska Sable, Beaver, Russian Mink, Blaek
Fox, Japanese Mink, Black Lynx.
Chas. H. Dorsett,
THE WOMAN’S STORE.
Greensboro, N. C.
DELIVERED FREE.
$175.00 Will Buy a Very Nice Upright.
PIANO.
from u&r-too,—but t«ke
our advice and don't get iiie
TOO CHEAP!
For 225-250-275^JH--
350, you can buy a
that will be a please® for a
life time from
ELLIS iCHINE & ISIG GO.
(Easy terms—if you want them.)
Burlington, - - North Carolina.
A Hs:t and a Head.
“Now, if you follow’ my advice,”
said one business man to another at
the wind caught the hat of the latter
from his head—“if you follow my ad
vice your derby will stay on in any
wind that New York can produce.
When I buy a new hat I heat it over
the gas Jet, and while it is still warm
I put it on and let it cool on my head.
The result Is a perfect fit. Try it and
see.”—New York Sun,
The only wealth v
cay is know ledge.—L
will not
d.
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DID YOU SEE
OUR MALEABLE C00KIN6
RANGE
last week. We had’ a
demonstration in our
store and showed what
it could do. It i s cien-
tificaly built and will
last a life time. It is a
great Range. Call at
Coble-Bradshaw, Company
Burlington, N C
KILLTHECOUGH,
andCUREthelUNGS
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rofiCoLDS^ ?RIA?BOni?fRE?'
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G(/A/?/iA/r££0 SAT/SFACrOPy’
Of? MONEY
INSURANCE!
I carrj" a full line o Companies, including
Fire, Life, Accident and health Insurance.
In. fact, anything jn the Insurance line.
When in need of any kind of Insurance see
me. Rates reasnable
S. G. MORGAN
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W. A. SLATER CO.
DRESS WELL
And the world adiai
you. Dress shabby Mid
it lets you along. Iff •or
good clothes and you
a hero. Wear pooroa«5
and your credit
We handle the kind for
^fit, finish and price that
has no superior and bit
few equals.
W. A. SUTER CO.
Durham N.C.