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Mebane Leader J. O. POT.IEditor and Owmt Entered as second class|matter Feb- nary «, 1909^ at the Post Office at Mebane, N. onderthe act of March 18^. Issued Every Thursday Momlnjr. SUBSCRIPTION; One'^Year, - - - $1.00 rfix Months, - - - .50 Three Months, - - *25 -PAYABLE IN ADVANCE end Currency, Postal Money Order or’Stamps, CORRESPONDENCE We wish correspondents in all the •arby post'offlces. Write at cip^. Thursday, April 25, 1912 The sinking of that master piece of merchant marine the Titanic in the North sea with its caTKO of fifteen ^hundred human souls was thr despair of the worlds ship builders, the last crushed hope of the White Star Steamship lines, for a boat that could meet, and master all the elements of angry nature. With the Mississippi river on the biggest rampage this year in its4inown history levees breaking on both sides, and thousands of acres of fertile land inandated, and thousands of people d*iven from their homes, and the Titanic going down mid ocean, in a field of iceburg carrying with her six teen hundred souls, constitute disaster equal to the worlds largest. It fell to the lot of the Cap tain of the Titanic to be a p^y to the execution of more million aire in the disaster that befell his ship than any man that ever lived. Its a law of the sea that where a ship becomes disabled, and is liable to sink, that the women and children should be first looked after, and their safety provided for if possible. When the Titanic ground, and broke its bottom upon the huge ice berg, and it was seen that it would soon sink, and that many of the life boats had been crush ed, and the number left was not surficient to provide safe pass age, even for the women, and children, the men were made to stand back, and the women were loaded on the life boats. The gold of the Guggenheims the millions of the Wideness, the Strauses, the Astors, or the Hayes could not purchase a passage on these life boats that the chivalry of men had set aside for helpless women and children. These millionairs who on land were monarchs of the world, and coaid have every wish gratified that money could pay for, found them selves pau pers too poor too buy a single seat in a life boat. This was a law, not recognized in any coun try, but one of the sea, that compelled these rich men, men of every class to stand back when all knew death by drown ing was inevitable for them. They must stand helpless, and powerless when they knew in a moment the great waves would swallow them up. A man's wife and children were pushed off in the wide ocean to be pick ed up by some passing steamer, the husband and father was left leaning over the rail, sure to sink in a moment. While the sinking of the Ti- titanic was the most dreadful marine disaster the world has tver known yet it gave oppor tunity to illustrate some of the noblest characters it was possible to conceive of. The braveiy, mod^ty. and gentle demeaner of Major Archie Butt the tr]ang have just prior to the sinking of the Titanic, was the finest exhibition of a brave and noble character it was possible to conceive of. Its seems a pity that it is necessary for ■uch a dreadful disaster to hap pen that such character may be discovered. The Titanic carried a ship load of them, Capt Smith, John Jacob Astor.^yes, Mrs. Isidor Strause and hun dreds of others who glorified the human race by showing the world how bravely they could meet death. Make This a Day. Make this a day. There is no gain In brooding over days to come; The message of today is plain, The future’s lips are ever dumb— The work of yesterday is gone— For good or ill, let come what may But now we face another dawn Make this a day. Though yesterday we failed to see The itarging hand and earnest face That men call opportunity; We failed to know the time or place For some deed; what need to fret? The dawn comes up a silver gray And golden moments must be met. Make this a day. This day is yours; your work is yours; The odds are not who pays your hire. The thing accomplished—that en dures. If it be wha ths days require. He who takes up his daily round. As one new armored for the fray, Tomorrow steps on solid ground; Make this a day. The day is This, the time is Now; No better hour was ever here— Who waits upon the when and how Remains forever in the rear. Though yesterday were waisted stuff. Your feet will still seek out the way. Tomorrow holds not time enough, Make this a day. —Selected. Another Setback For Subsidy. The leading busines organizations of the country are not in line with the subsidy shriekers. The Chamber of C)n;meree in the city of New York recently.adopted a resolution demand ing: such amendments to our obsolete navig'ation laws as to aUow citizens of the United States ’*To purchase ton nage in the cheapest market, own it in their own names, sail it under the flag of the United States, and operate it on a competitive basis of cost with the tonnage of other nations.”—Va. Pilot. Oftical List Saved and Lost. The following tabulation of the passengers and crew on board the Titanic, together with those saved and lost, has been compiled from the figures in the statement issued by the committee of passengers: Approximate number of pikssengers aboard: First class, 830; second class, 320; third class, 750; officers and crew, 940; total, 2,340. Number of passengere saved by Carpathia: First class, 210; second class, 125; third class, 200; total pussengers saved, 535. Members of crew saved: Officers 4; seamen; 39; stewards, %; firemen, 71. Total members of crew saved, 210. Total saved passengers and crew 745. Total number perished, 1,595. First and second cabin passengers, 650. First and second cabin passengers saved, 335. Total cabin passengers lost, 315. The King of England has expressed his sorrow in a message to President Taft and has sent a donation of $2,625 to the Mansion House fund. The Queen has donated $1,310 and the Queen Mother Alexandra $1,000 to the same fund. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. —Cowper. Almost A Miracle. One of the most startling changes ever seen in any man, according to W. B. Holsclaw, Clarendon, Tex., was effected years ago in his brother “He bad such a dreadful cough, ” he writes, ‘that all our family thought he was go ing into consumption, but he began to vue Dr,King,s New Discovery, and was compleetly cured by ten bottles. Now he is sound and well and weighes 21 pounds. For many years our family has used this wonderful remedy for Coughs and Colds with excellent re sults.” It's quick, safe, reliable and guaranteed. Price 50 ^cents and $1.00 Trial bottle free at Mebane Drug Co. It Was a Joke. Secretary MacVeah says both par ties are committed to tariff revision in this campaign. They were both like wise committed to it in the 1908 cam paign but after the republican party was trusted with revision it nobly carried out its pledge by revising it up ward. “Revision of the tariff in the house of its friends in 1909 was a great joke, and so far as we are concerned we do not propose to have the same joke played on us a second time. How about you?—Wilmington Star. When the Titanic struck the iceberg of the coast of New Founland she wasgoing the rate of 528 feet per minute, or nearly the steamer’s entire length. If as the latest report indicate she ran up on the iceburg ripped, and wrenched her bottom so as to creat leakage from and end, smashing her life boats anc almost turning over on her side, commence setling at once, and going down in a few minutes can easily be accounted why there was such a great loss life and why so few were saved. Pay as little attention to discourage ment as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth, rain or shine. To carry your cargo and to make your port is the point.—Babcock “My little son had a very severe cold. I was recommended to Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy, and before a small bottle waa finished he was as ever,’'-writes Mrs H.Silks, 29 Dowling Street, Sydney, Australia. This remedy is for sale by All Dealers, Nearer My God to Thee. One of the survivors of the ill fated Titanic in giving out an intervew in New York savs: “The marine band did nobly. An air was stmck up soon after the crash and as we were lowered we were cheered by the strains ot music. After we reached the water and until we were yards away we could hear the music on board. Even when the giant vessel had lowered to a point where it was seen that she must go down this music kept up. The last I remember of the Ti tanic was hearing the strains of “Near My God to Thee.” There was a great Eound of slushinf? water and the vessel sank beneath the waves. I know that these musicians stopped playing the hymn only when the instruments were choked off by the swirling water that closed about their heads and sent them to hero’s graves. ” OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD Jfot a Sectional but a National Figure Wanted. Wanted Men to sell and collect for us Singer Sewing Machine Company. Greensboro, N. C. We an In accord with the hearty ludoiwiiieiit by the Atlanta Constitu- published on this page of the esBdldaqr of Eton. Oscar Underwood Ibr the prseidency. SSarller than the Oonstlt«tio& the Advertiser declared Mt. Underwood not only to be a suit able able candidate for the pres- IdeiMj, but an available candidate as waU. But we do not agree with the Conatttntlon in demanding that Mr. Underwood present himself as the can didate of the south for the presidency. Not a Seotlonai Figure. Mt, Underwood on his acknowledged mertts should go before the country as a national, not as a sectional, figure. Be should T>e in the Baltimore conven tion not only as an Alabamian, not only as a representative of the vigor and the ability of the south, but as an American. He should not be nominat ed simply because he Is from Alabama and from the south, but because he is an American who in the national halls of legislation showed himself a man of the highest character, of conspicu- ooa ability and of the broadest patri otism. He should not be nominated and elected because he is from the south; he should not be defeated be- caose he Is from the south. He should be nominated because he is the one Democrat who brought his disorgan ised party in the house Into a com- pact, eftectlve body, which wrought wril for the benefit of the country, and because of the soundness, the energy and the progresslveness of his leader ship, which won him the confidence of Uie country. TiwHf th« issue. does well to stress the paramount importance of the tariff as the true issue of next year. It does well to present Mr. Underwood as the personification of that issue. The Dem ocratic party, not on account of Mr. Underwood’s being from the south, not in spite of Mr. Underwood’s being from the south, should put him on the plat form which he more than any other man has made for the party to make its victorious fight on this year. It is his right to claim that the tariff of his making has won the favor and the confidence of the people, and It Is the right of his friends to claim that he should be chosen to defend that tariff and to ask the indorsement of the American people on hiw work. Of National Size. But when he Is presented he should be presented as a candidate who is as much a national figure as the tariff Is a national issue. It is not the proper way to rid our selves of the old, ^esome question of sectionalism by having the south make demands in the name of the south. Any organized force in politics auto matically raises an opposing force. The sectional feeling Is not dead beyond hope of reviving. We know of no bet ter way of reviving It than for the south to make demands In the name of the south and because It is the south. A southern man, li Is true, has twwdft a national issue, but the southern in so doing It has become a figure, and as such Alabanoa and her sister states could and should aal;. his nomination at the hands of a democracy.—Advertiser, Ala. . . ■“•ttr, “ ■i AMI LINE OF THE PUREST DRUGS Stationary, Paper, Perfumes, etc. Mebane Drug Co. F. L. WHITE Mgr. Mebane, - - North Carolina YOUR SPRING SHOES The place to buy them if you wish style and service is at the old reliable House of J. M. Hendrix & Co. We guarantee to give perfect satisfaction with every purchase. Don’t forget J. M. Hendrix 6c Co. Greensboro, N. C. SOME PRETTY SPIG ■JUST The neatest, the nobbiest and best fit ting it is possible for skilled tailors to turn out. ,We carr^^ everything to enable a gentleman to dress well, and we sell at such remarKable low figures that all can afford it. Don^t fail to call on us when in the city. Yours to please, Durham, N. C WANTED 200 CORDS 4 FEET PINE WOOD CUT, WILL PAY 60 CTS. GORD. APPLY TO T. M. Cheek MUSU Underwear. One of the best f matures of this store has been its lines of white goods. The fact is well established that we sell only the most approved garments—the very best that money will buy. For this sale we have the very best there is at the prices, and it is our assurance that there can be m better constructed at the low figures prevailinjj at our special Muslin U nderwear sale. Chas H. Dorsett ‘THE WOMAN’S STORE” Greensboro, - = - rs’orth Carolina 7^ iv- r ■ t’ I >.'1 f> “Easter Millinery” The latest in shades and shapes for your Easter Hats. Moderate Prices. R. W. Bright, The Ladies Store. Mebane N. C. and make terms to suit you. ETSEY QRGfiNS! CABPENTER ORGAKS!! WEAVER ORGANS !! PUTNAM GliGANS !!! We have a HOUSE FULL of them, too! ■Organs as low as $25, and as high as $125.- 00. Pianos sucli as “Starr” Grown Eush and Lane, Weaver and etc. We can please you in PRICE and quality ELLIS-MACHINE & MUSIC CO. Burlington, N. C. COTTON & TOBACCO SELUN6 HIGH. I Have Never seen the Fanners Handling so Much Money. My Sales Saturday Were (7) jobs $575.00 Car “Guilford^Might running Buggies. Car “Columbia^' top Buggies. Car “Hughes” Buggies and runabouts. Car “Wal ter A. Wood” Mowers-Kakes-Spike-th, and Disk Harrows. Car “John Deere” riding Cultivators, both Shovels and Disks. Nissen-Thornhill and Piedmont Wagons. Syracuse and Lynch- butg Chilled Plows and repairs. Superior and Cardwells Im proved born Planters. Dain Hay Presses, Stover Feed Mills, Ohio Cutters, Shelters, Hoes, Forks, Mattocks, Big stock Har ness prices low, More Saddles, Collars, Bridles than in all the stores in town. Best $1 work Bridle in towif. 20 years ex perience in buying, and with ready cash to discount all bills enables me to undersell all competitors. (3) large double stores now full no KENTS, nor heavy expenses to pay out, I ask that you drive to Cardwell’s on the corner for best i^rgains. “Boone Co. White, Va Dent yellov/—Prolific and Hickory King Seed Com N. S. CARDWELL, THE ALWAYS BUST STORE, Phone 1-8-3 Burlington. THE JEWELS of They are pretty to wear, but people good breeding and refinement want the best and the most artistic. They want something pure, something reliable, ALWAYS go to a house you can depend upon, to get pure Sil ver, pure Gold and rare Jewels in Diamonds and other precious stones, in fact to SNIDER-WILCOX ANO FLETCHER Leading Jewelers Durham North Carolina SUBSGHIBE FOR 1HE MEBftHE LEADER. lifts,- J S. ri MOCKriELD Dealer In Clothing. Shoes And Dry Googs. I will sell you goods at an attractive price. Give me an opportunity to con vince you. S. H. HOCKFIELD 226 WEST MAIN ST. DURHAM. N. C. tv- € c % § WAS A Wr. Bingl tion ' “For a ton, “I ha\ carefully stoj.ping t doing this surprise b; covered which one “Walkini ing I becj my shoes looked alo step on wh and there busily eng working a thought in “ ‘Mister ear, ‘can y( a cup of CO “And thi close along disadvantaj guard, and thought I inward apE man who job, ever a escape him Co Ilark! thos ly tr That swee hone 'Tis May ^ her Methinks tende For her the And She Her merr fores comes sprin beam songi -W. That will timore. the four as nomination cinched. Wilson—1 Clark-7J Underwo Harmon- The Chn national Baltimore Observer the hotel knows verj hotels, the Houston P (From It has howl of fra supporters They were topes.” but like men. admires the for the m: fraud when The lies often ness, nerve erg-y and liver and k; of this wre need then rious tonic, tor of stoi Thousands wonderful! build up health and of Grip, If 50 cents, guaranteed This is' The sent has adoptei by Senatoi aggregate waterways as it passe $800,000 House Bill Of these beginning refuge cost of th( be $3,500,( Three for the Cape Fea The oth waterway The r;v« the House waterway added by North Ca to these pects to M other ne^ additional — From tl ness on tl fame is w hour; as out from trampled Succeed In nerv weaknej remedy, FOR STd
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