THE MEBANE LEADER
“AND RIGHT THE DAY IVIUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD IBE DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE *»IN.”
Vol. 2
MEBANE. N. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 2S 1912
NO 44
PERSONAL AND LOCAL BRIEFS
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO
Items of interest Gathered by
Our Repo’-U^r
Ce lar Grove items arrived too
for insertion.
late
A'r. A. N. Scott wont
Point Tuesday.
Mrs. T. W. Anderson
day in Greensboro.
up to High
spent Satur-
Miss Jennie White went up to Greens
boro Thursday-
Mr. J. D. Hunt spent the
the week in Durham,
first of
Mrs. T. J.
home o£ Mr
Carter is visiting^ at the
S. G. Morgan.
Mrs. H. E Wilkinson and little son
are rapidly improving.
Chorazin Chapter 13 R. A. M. meets
ill Greensboro Wednesday night.
Miss Daisy and Thacy Terrell went
to Hillsboro Saturday to visit friends.
Mr. J. E. Evens of Route 3, has a
little daughter at St Leo’s hospital
quite ill.
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Morgan went to
Davidson College Thur^-day last, to
see Mrs. Morgans mother.
The book club will meet with Miss
Mary Ed Scott, at her home, Thurs
day evening.
Miss Lillian Mebane ot Burlington
has been visiting her sister Miss Sue
Mebane.
Five Car
Lofids
ture.
of Furni-
Efland Items.
i Mt. and Mrs. George Thompson
Tiru-i. 1. oV,:r, ! returned from Eastern Carolina after
The White Furniture Company ship-' •
, ... I a long visit to Mrs. Thompsons rela-
ped away this week five car loads of
furniture which included a sixty foot j
car to California. The Whi*;e Furni- j Misses Nannie and Nora Pratt are
ture company have had a line of sam- , spending some time at home with their
plea of their goods both in Chicago | mother Mrs. Alice Pratt.
and New York for the past week.
Hissed and Honked
The honking of geese at tho Beloit
poultry and pet stock show at Beloit
Wis., prevented Miss Carolina McGill,
instructor in political economy at the
University of Wisconsin from giving
a talk on Woman’s Suffrage. After
trying for fifteen minutes to make
herself heard. Miss McGill yield
ed to the geese like a sensable woman
and let them have their say.
uon't Worry
Capt. H. B Slack onr accomodating
freight and passenger agent, says the
cold weather struck his freight busi -
ness for the past month a solo plexus
blow. But don’t worry Captain, you
are making for Mebane a most excel
lent, and accomodating agent, and
business will come out alright. We
hope the railroad will keep you here,
you are a good man, and that cannot
be said of every one Mebane has had.
No, we are not talking of Mr. I. L.
Ferree, he was a capital fellow, and
made good.
Don’t forget to read the change
advertisment of the Ellis-Machine and
Music Co of Burlington.
Mrs. Will York who went to Greens
boro a week ago to have an operation
performed upon her eyes, returned
Sunday much improved.
It is reported that if the weather
remains fair Mr. John Holmes will go
West Sunday.
These bright sun shiny days are mak
ing Charlie Pickard feel his oats. He says
he wants to get out and pick violets
and swing hands with some fair maid.
Dr. N. D. York and his brother Will
York who has been spending some
days at Taylorsville adjusting their
father's estate, have returned.
If you are not carrying an advertis-
Tnen in the Leader its getting time to
be thinking about it. There is no bet
ter trade winner than the Leader.
This ought to be one of the best
•years in Mebanes history, and it wiU
be if every one pulls tc^ether for Meb
anes good.
Mr. J B. McMullen of Corbett made
■a fleasant call at the Leader office
Wednesday, and paid a 5 ears subscrip-
■tioju
Mr. Sneed of the firm of Sneed-
Markham Taylor Co. of Durham was
in Mebane Wednesday. He represents
a clever firm of clothing dealers.
Post Master White informs us that
he has at last succeeded in getting the
Department to establish route six.
This will be arranged and put in oper
ation as soon as some prehmeries can
be arranged.
The Bubscription that you are due us
for the Leader is matured and we trust
you will call at once and settle up.
We are needing the money, and feel
that we can not urge you too strongly
to pay.
Mr. A. F. Dillard went down to
Raleigh last Friday and entered Rex
hospital. An operation was perform
ed upon him removing 48 goll stones.
He is reported as doing well.
Mr. W. C. Hodge gladened the heart
of the Editor by calling at the office
and paying a years subscription in ad-
"vance. Mr. Hodge is one of the sub
stantial farmers of the North East
section of Mebane, and believes in
treating the Editor right.
Dr. Cook did have the nerve to sub
mit his data to the Copenhagun Scien
tist. Perry dared not do it. If Perrys
claim to the discovery had been flaw
less he would not have hesitated to
have submited it to the severest test,
but it was not, and no one knew that
fact better than Perry himself.
A Dangerous Operation
Dr. J. M Thompson performed a
dangerous and rather dificult operat
ion upon the son of Mr. John Dollar
I Saturday. The youth had been suf
fering from pleurisy and a large
amount of pus had accumulated in
in the pleura cavity. An opening
was affected in the side and nearly a
quart of effete matter drained off.
While this will giye temporary relief,
his condition is not the most encoura
ging.
Miss Wellie Strowd who is attending | foi'gotten
school at Elon College is at home for
a few days on the account of weak eyes
caused from continuous studv in school.
Mrs. Joe. Murray after i^ending a
few days in Burlington returned home
Saturday afternoon.
Rev. Homer Casto and Mr. John
Pender spent last Thursday nignt at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. George
Crutchfield,
Miss Bessie Baity visited Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Brown Saturday night.
Mrs. Lonnie Aulbert of Mebane is
attending the bedside of her sister Mrs
W. P. Riley who has been quite ill for
tie past several weeks.
Mrs. Lou Thompson has returded
from a visit to her father’s home near
Cedar Grove. Mrs. Thompsons health
is improving some we are glad to
learn.
Miss Annie Belle Pratt returned to
her school at Helena Saturday morn
ing after a few days visit at home
during the cold wer^her.
Mr and Mrs. Joe Trent and family
have moved into the residence recently
vacated by Mrs. G. Comptons family.
Mr. W. R. Thompson and wife are
visi‘‘ing in the X Roads neighborhood.
Mr. and Mrs. Hooks gave a candy
pulling party to the young people of
and uear Efland Saturday night. They
all report a gay ‘ sweet” time
Mr. C. J. Vamer of Rowland N. C.
was a visitor at Mr. John B. Baitys
Sunday afternoon. Mr. Varner used
to be operator here, and seems to still
have a “hankerin’’ to come back.
Orange Grove Items
Ink was frozen so hard last week we
didn’t get it thawei in time, to write
the items. ;
After the coldc-st and worift spell of
weather in years the people’ are now
able to get out again.
There were a good many pair of
skate* huntad Op during
“that cold Spell of 1912” aiid 'those
who had not enjoyed the fun iQ a long
time had another opportunity to try
the ice.
$55,000 Fined
The Standard Oil Company at Buf
falo N y. was fined $55,000 by Judge
Hazel in the United States district
court. This fine followed the convict
ion of the “oil tiust” on 143 cour ts
for a violation of ths Sherman anti
trust law for receiving rebates on
shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y.,
to Burlington, Vermont.
Misses Helen and Thelnw Reynolds
and Miss Rachall Howard who are at
tending school at Hillsboro were at
church Sunday.
Mr. Apple Lloyd and bride of Dur
ham heard Mr. Bpughcom Sunday.
Bro. Boughcom has not lost ar.y of
his popularity as a pt^acfaifr and that
sermon Su/kday would have been a
credit to a much oider and more ex
perienced man.
If the roads ^ets any worse than
they are at presenc a flying machine
will be tho only way in which it will
be possible to travel.
There is to be a box prrty at Orange
Grove on Saturday niarht Feby 24th.
Young ladies and gentlemen from ev6ry
community are cordially invited to
come and bring a box. Proceeds to
defray expenses of commencement.
Mr T. D. Lloyd doesn’t carry his
head that way on account of being
proud or “stuck up,” but it is all due
to a carbuncle on his nick.
Gompers Attacked by
Senator Heybut n
A sharpe attack on President Gom
pers. of the American Federation of
Labor, was trade in the Senate by
Mr. Peyburn of Idaho, who protested
that a communication from Mr. Gom-
pera should not be received by the
Senate, He said that no communica
tion should be accepted from that
source after the revelations made in
the McNamara case Mr. Heybum
had a colloquy with several Senators
vrtm insisted that any citizen had a
right to address a communication to
the Senate. The Idaho Senator de
manded to know if «ny Senator could
vouch for Gomper’s citizenship.
EXPLOSION AT FAYEHEVILLE
Mrs. Ferrell Probably Fat
ally Burned at her Home
Jan. 18
Mr. Eklitor we notice a lot of news
paper talk aboot the convicted Banker
C. W Morse about to die in prison.
They all or at least a great many of
them seem to think it a great pity or
shame for Morse to die in prison would
you be so kind as to tell us why it is
any more for him to die in prison than |
a “poor” thief that gets two years for j
stealing a chicken? We would like for |
some Oiie to tell us where there is the
difference in a ten cent thief and a
millionaire thief?
Telephone Line Sold.
Messrs. F.' C. Davia and
G. E, Wyatt partners in common have
purchased the Ridgeville and Mebane
Telephone line. They propose to inau
gurate repaires and improN^ements, and
hope through the Standard efficency
of the line, to so commend it to the
public as to materialy increase the num
ber of those using phones. In the
future it will be known ad the mutual
telephone line. In addition to its large
list of connection in Mebane and in
the surrounding country, it connects
with the Bell system to all points.
As a result of pouring kerosene' oil
into a stove to kindle a fire Mrs. Peter
Ferrell, of Fayetteville WhS painfully
and perhaps fatally burned by the en
suing explosion at her home on Mon-
ticello heights. Mrs. Ferrell was alone
in the house at the time of the accident
and rushed on to the pizza, from
whence she fell to the ground, the
clothinS being almost entirely burned
Arom her body before a passing negro
woman came to her rescue and ex
tinguished the flames. The force
the explosion was so great that
stove was blown to the top of
house, tearing a hole through
ceiling.
of
the
the
the
Capital Punishment
Shall the death penalty be abolished?
In many States the movement
against capital punishment has assum
ed considerable proportions, but the
abuse of the pardoning power and the
influences of money and political pull
in juggling prisoners cut of the peni
tentiaries have checked the effort to
do away with the gallows and the ele
ctric chair.
Many churchmen have raised their
voices against the death sentence, but
Bishop William Croawell Deane of
Albany is equally ardent in his support
of the execution of murderers. He
recentlv said;
“Whomsoever sheddeth man's blood,
by man sball his blood.” Capital pun
ishment is right. The objection to it
is purely sentimental in favor oC the
removal of the death penalty overlook
the one great significant instruction—
God’s own word, which I have quoted.
In England, centuries of law en
forcement have shown capital punish
ment to be the greatest possible de
terrent to crime.
The effect of Dr. Crippen’s prompt
execution for the murder of Belle El
more was an object lesson which im
pressed the entire world.
It made clear to newspaper readers
the world over why England has tew
murders.—Nashville Tennessean.
DEFIES nSH KING
(nfanta Eulalie Quarrels With
Nephew Alfonso.
Princess Who Was Conspicuou* Ir
America During the Chicago World’s
Fair Is Again in the
Limelight.
We rotice there was no
items from
Guess
This the Publicity
The Durham Sun thinks that more
publicity in obtaining divorces would
do much to discourage the business.
If there was not so many contemptable
human poodles that were seeking to
shield every rich rascal that was a
party to the infamy, instead of mak
ing it fashionable to settle the matter
at the muzzle of a shot gun, instead of
screaming the damned infamy to the
skies, and let the foul lecherous
buzzards take their medicine, there
might be a halt and hesitating.
j other correspondents last week.
I they were all like me “snowed in” or
“froze up.
Adieu for now.
Paw- Paw-Queese,
The Mebane Journal
Mr. F.C. Davis showed us a copy of the
Mebane Journal a f -W days past. It
was issued on March 14 1901. The
paper is five column lour page. The
publication was continued for about a
year Among the merchants whose ads
appear in the paper are W A. Murry
and Co,general nerchandise, Mebane
Drug Co,A.B.York Proprietor, Dr N.
D.York dry goods and notions. The
Ellis-Machine aud Music Co, C.B. Ellis
Ma»'ager Burlington. There are sever
al local items that would sound quaint
to day. The paper was edited by Mr.
H. A. Bason.
Miss Rosa McQuaine, Probation Of
ficer of the New York City Domestic
Relations Court, declares that mother-
j in-law cause four times as much dom-
; estic unhappiness as drink and affin-
I ites combined, because they pay too
1 little attention to their daughters’ af
fairs before marriage and too much
afterwards. Officer McQuaide could
not make any such statement about
North Carolina, where mother s-in4aw
j are entirely peaceable citizens, as a
j rule. Cherchez la femme—look for the
I mother-in-law—may become a maxim
j in the legal investigation of domestic
i troubles everywhere
POWER WAR
SEEMS LIKELY
Two Big Companies to
Fight tor Contracts in
Durham.
By
The Columbia State says:
Had Col. Roosevelt evinced a liking
for Wilson and promised him support,
would there be a flurry in Democratic
ranks on the announcement of a
“break” between them? And yet
wherein was Col, Harvey more of an
asset to Democracy than Colonel
Roosevelt? When has the party, out
side of the Wall street
Decided Victory >\on
Liquor lalerested
Liquor interest won a far-reaching
victory in the United States Supreme
court by a decision that railroads must
carry beer, when offered for transpor
tation, into “dry” counties of another
state. The decision affected particul
arly shipments from Indiana into Ken
tucky.
Our great thoughts, our great affe-
ctions,the truths of our life, never
leave us. Surely they can not seperate
from our cnsciousness, shall follow
it whithersoever that shall go, and
are of their nature divine and immor-
contingent, Thackery.
In The Cold, Gray Dawn
of the Morning After
The people of the United States
may be trusted to have their opinion
about a man who acts as Governor
Wilson has done. So many the poli
ticians, not only for the same general
reason but fcr special reasons of their
own. Nobody would prefer to follow
a leader who, throughout his whole
career, has let the cold-blooded dic
tates of ambition over-ride every other
consideration—in commenting upon the
Wilsun-Harvey episoda M^tt J. Rea
gan of Wisconsin showed that he
knew something about Governor Wil
son’s academic career, as we also do.
When tnis undoubtedly able and learn
ed man went into politics, governing
not only his declared opinions but his
personal obligations by what he con
ceived to bo his interest, he broke
down very soon. The white light
which beats upon a presidential can
didate he simply could not stand, lack
of political experience—for he did not
sufficiently realize that in politics gra
titude is almost always good policy—
cjntributing powerfully to this result.
He now stands fully exposed as having
coldbloodedlv cast aside one of the
best friendf any man ever had a’ld
then denied having done so He is
even estopped from employing the
whooly ignorant plea that Colonel
Harvey had “higher-up” interests to
serve; for his declaration that “Col
onel Harvey runs The Weekly entirely
on his own judgment” speaks for
itself, and as a matter of fact. Col
onel Harvey, being both editor and
and controlling owner of the Harper
pvblications, most unquestionably does
Only advocates who rely upon the ig
norance and prejudice of their readers
advocates ready to cry “Wall Street
conspiracy” weenever a radical poli
tician gets into trouble from any cause
can have tne least word in defense to
say.—Charlotte Observer,
Underground rumblings of a light
and power battle royal between the
Durham Traction company and the
Southern Power company has come to
the surface, it became known that
George L. Lyon was to manage a
campaign to be conducted by the
Southern Power company for light and
power contracts in Durham.
The Southern Power company is now
supplying power to the larger manU'
facturings enterprises of Durham, the
lines having been completed several
months ago. It is said that the Sou
thern Power company intended en
tering the retail light and power field
and secnring contracts in competition
with the Durham Traction company.
It is presumed that a local company
will be organized to distribute the Sou
thern Power company’s product, and
that it will be managed by Mr. Lyon.
permitted him to speak for it?
There is no anology in the cas*i. The
condition, men, and circumstances are
entirely different. Col. Harvey was a
sincere friend to Governor Wilson.
That kin d of chat wont do.
Our regular correspondences or ir
regular correspondence as it seems of
late, are reminded that we should like
to hear from them. We are sending
the Leader to some with the under
standing that they furnish us weekly
letters. We want the letters from
their section, they are of interest t-o
our readers.
Capt. Dick Springs is one of the new
ticket collectors put on the Southern
division between Waynsville and Golds
boro. Captain Dick is a bred and born
gentleman he is a clever man and knows
how to treat them right. We have
known him every since he wore short
pant'J, and know h»m to be as straight
as a plummet.
THIRD GIANT LINER ORDERED
Hamburg - American Line
Will Build Another 50,-
000- Ton Steamship;
The Hamburg-American Line has or
dered a third 50,000-ton liner for the
transatlantic service. She will be con
structed by Blohm and Voss in their
private yard, and will be a sister ship
of the liner Imperator, which has a
length of 890 feet and a 90-foot beam.
The Imperator, which is to go into
service in the spring of 1913, will pro
vide accomodation for 5,03 passengers
of all classea^
List ot Letters
Remaining unclaimed at this office
for the week ending, Jan 20 1912.
1 Letter for Mrs. Gaston Bradshaw
1 Letter tor Mr, A. R. Corbett
1 P. C. for Miss L. M. Everett
1 Letter for Miss Mary Bell Foster
1 P. C. for Miss Letty Haith
1 Letter for Mrs. C. W. Latta
1 P, C. Mrs. D. S Mayes
1 Letter for Miss Luanna Page
1 Letter for Mr. Will Right
1 Letter for Miss Margaret Stanford
1 P. C. for Mr. John Umstead
1 Letter for Miss Rosa M Walker
1 P. C. Miss Issabella Wilson
1 Letter for Mr. W. M. Wilson.
Dead Letter Office Feb. 4rd 1912, if
not called for before.
In calling for the above please say
“Advertised” giving date of ad. list.
Respectfully,
S. Arthur White, P. M.
THEY THINK WILSON
MADE A FATAL DOWN
I he English Centenarians
(From The London Standard.)
It has been remarked that persons
are longer lived now than they were a
hundred, or even fifty years ago, and
it would appear thrt the attainment of
the allotted span of three-score years
and ten is much more common than
used to be the case; but when it comes!
to the nineties and the century it ap
pears to be somewhat different.
The number of deaths publicly re
corded of nonagenarians in 1911 says a
correspondent, who has kept an ac
count for many years, is 200 and of
this nombei 83 were men and 117 wo
men. But then years ago the num
bers were nearly double, and last year
they reauhed their lowest pnnt.
As in nearly every year, the oldest
person who died was in Ireland, Mrs.
Florence McCarthy having passed
away in her 115 year, and among six
teen other centenarians were Mrs.
Mary King, of Louth, who died at
105: Mrs. Louisa Thomas, of Holling-
bourne and Mrs. Sarah Foster of
Grantham> both of whom lived to 106,
and Mrs. Bristow, of Lea. in Kent,
mother of Canon Rhodes Bristow, who
died at 104.
A Matter of Manners
(WMsconsin State Journal)
Showing the false standard common
to a very large degree in modern “so-
city” we quote a question directed to
Cynthia Grey, a syndicate writer, on
social form. The inquisitor asks;
“Should a girl offer to shake hands
when introduced to a lady or a gentle
man on the street?”
What real value has the lifting of
a hat, the opening of a door, the shift
ing of a chair, if not inspired by real
kindliness of heart? Does it matter—
really matter whether we address the
wedding gift to the bride or to the
lucky man himself ? Is it wrong—
really wrong—for a man to send a girl
anything besides fruits, flowers and
candy until he has known her 47 yeart??
Is it really beyond the pale for a girl
to offee to shake hands on the street
if she likes the person, the person
i likes her and both think they are going
I to be friends?
1 What real effect do “just manners”
have in the development of a race,
mentally, morally and physicially? The
real thoroughbred may be bom in a
palace or in a poor hut; it doesn’t mat
ter. The fineness of the courtesy that
thinks first of others may be expressed
in graceful, cultivated way, or with
untutored roughness, but it is courtesy
true manners, just the same.
So, instead of worrying ourselves
over what is correct in manners, let’s
just shake bauds, literally and figura
tively, with evei"y human being whose
life touches ours from now on, A
glad hand and a warm wholesome
heart is the only true guide to good
manners.
Chicago.—^Americans who are old
enough to remember distinctly the Co
lumbian exposition of eighteen years
ago in this city will recall the coming
of Infanta Eulalie of Spain as a guest
of the nation. At that time she was
about thirty years old and she cre
ated a sensation here by snubbing the
leaders of American society most roy
ally. In Chicago she refused the hos
pitality of Mrs. Potter Palmer on tho
ground that she could not be the guest
of an “innkeeper.” Frequently since
then Eulalie has figured in the Inter
national dispatches in a more or less
sensational way. She is a woman of
independent spirit and thinks no more
of defying court etiquette than of
snubbing American women.
Alfonso, the youthful king of Spain,
who Is her nephew, has found her far
from complaisant when he has Issued
his orders and she has never hesitat
ed to criticize him openly. He object
ed strenuously when she divorced her
husband in France, a thing illegal In
Spain; she called him an ingrate when
he did not reward her son for flghtlngi
in Africa; and for some time she has_
preferred to live in Paris.
Recently she published a book in
which she justifies divorce as a natu
ral support to morality under certain!
circumstances, and when Alfonso
Some say It Should Eli*
mate Him trom Race
•‘Woodrow Wilson attitude toward
George Harvey, of Harper’s Weekly,
brands him as unfit for president of
the United States and makes him an
impossibility as the democratic leader* ’
said Attorney I. E. Jones, a member
of the democratic central committee,
Jan. 18, of Des Moines.
“Even some of his foremost suppor
ters throughout the state abandoned
him, following others who pulled in
their colors after the Joline episoda,
Imagine the president of the United
States urging upon congress the pas
sage of a bill and at the same time
saying to some members, ‘Don't vote
for this as you might brand it as un«
democratic.’* *
BOND ELE^ON VOID.
Forysth Commissioners
Decide That One Ballot
Box is Not Enough
A great deal of interest and gener
al approval attaches to the action of
the Forsyth county commissioners in
declaring void the recent election in
Broadbay township, when the issue oi
bonds in the amount of $30,000 to be
applied to subscription to stock in the
Randolph and Cumberland Railroad.
The board heard witnesses and attorn
eys for both sides, the point at issue
bei/'g whether the use of single ballot
box was sufficient. United States
District Attorneys A. E. Holton, who
is an energetic friend of the road, be
lieving that it will result in untold
good to this section, stated as his op
inion that the election was nullified by
the use of only one box. Hall and Ben
bow county attorneys, were of a simi
lar opinion. A petition was presented
tor another election, and the com
missioners will consider this later.
heard of it he telegraphed a command
for the suppression of the book. Then
Eulalie exercised her woman’s pre
rogative and talked back, expressing
herself in no uncertain terms. She
defies her kingly nephew and says she
will sell her Spanish estates, give up
her place at court and live as she
pleases in Paris. At the same time
she bids Alfonso a curt farewell.
Of course all European royalty is
scandalized and in circles which are
not royal expectations are nursed that
before long Eulalie, now that she has
“kicked over the traces,” will be doing
things to keep the sensational press
busy.
Alfonso had trouble enough trying
to govern his somewhat rebellious
subjects. He might have known bet
ter than to try to boss a woman.
NOW A PENSION FOR MOTHERS
Light Work
(From Lippincott’s Magazine.)
A weather-beaten damsel, some
what over six feet in height and with
a pair of shoulders proportionately
broad, appeared at a back door in
Wyoming and asked for light house
work. She said that her name was
Lizzie, and explained that she had
been ill of typhoid and was convales
cing.
“Where did you come from Lizzie?”
inquired the woman of the house.
“Where haye you been?’*
“I*ve been workin* out on Howard’s
ranch,” replied Lizzie, “diggin’ post
holes while I was gettin’ my strength
back.”
Homes May
Children
and
Thus Be Kept Up and
Reared by Mother
Sent to School.
Common sense in an uncomon de-
Ifree is what the world calls wisdom.--*
Goleridge.
Worse Than The Heathen
It is reported that prisoners in a
Delaware jail were whipped in the
open air, on the bare back, in zero
weather. And yet we are spending
himdreds of thousands of dollars a
year to send misionaries to civilize the
barbarous Hottentot and to Christian
ize the heathen Chinee.—Va. Pilot.
Chicago.—The new Illinois state la^
pensioning deserving poor mothers
with families recently became opera
tive. The first week forty mothers,
most of them widows and the sole
support of that many broods of chil
dren, received checks for amounts
ranging from $18 to |120.
The pension act allows |5 to $10
a month for each child. Nearly all
the mothers were tearfully grateful.
The pension allows them to keep the
family together and exercise the care
necessary for growing children.
The deserving mothers and children
are Investigated by officials of the
juvenile court. When the home Influ
ences are found to be good and the
mothers deserving the money Is paid
to the mother. Before the law was
passed the mothers who found it im
possible to support their children
turned them over to the Juvenile
court and that institution placed ftiem
In other homes, for the support of
each child the county paid ten dollars
a month in the new homes. The pen
sion law authorized the county to
leave the children with the parent
and pay them the ten dollars a month
*or each child.
Where They Got Oft
Sometime ago a German was riding
out on the Hill City branch, of the
Union Pacific. Paradise, Kan., is on
that branch. The German afterward
remarked: “Vat kind of a country is
this, nohow? Ven the drain reached
one town, the brakesman yelled Para
dise and no one gots off. Purity soon
he yelled Hell City and everybody gots
off.**-^Kansas City Journal.
A Boy’s Miraculous Escape.
Grand Junction, Colo.—At the risk
of his own life an unidentified tramp
saved Willie Stevens, twelve years
old, from death. The boy, on his way
to school, jumped upon a moving
freight train. He slipped and fell un
der a car. The tramp, who was riding
on the rods beneath, grabbed him and
held him from the ground until the
train stopped. The boy’s leg was
fractured and two of his fingers wer0
■mashed beneath the wheels. :