THE MEBitNE LEADER
‘‘AND RIGHT THE DAY IVIUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, 1^' FALTER WOULD BE SIIN.”
Vol 3 MEBANE. N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 20 1912 NO 21
personal and local briefs
1>K0PLE who come and go
Items of interest Gathered by
Our Reoorter
\Wm\ the 4th of July ad. on fourth
Miss Barbara Shaw is visiting trien4s
in (IruhuMi.
Mrs. West Warien is visiting friex^ds
at '"rbett.
Mrs, Sam White spent
Tuesday in
Creetisboro.
J. A. Holmes spent Sunday in
Mr
untry.
Miss Rosa Ward is spending
>vs at home this week.
a
few
Pickpockets Rounded Up
Fifteen alleged pickpockets were
rounded up Monday at the central
police station in Chicago. They were
arrested on the street cars and in public
places bv detectives looking for “con
vention crooks" attracted by the op
portunity for thieving.
A Good Band for The 4th
The Graham Band has been engaged
for the big Fourth of July celebration
This is the best band in the county and
the committee is to be congratulated
on securing them.
Lawn Party at Efland.
I he ladies of the M. P. church will
give a lawn party Saturday the 22nd
beginning at 7 P. M. The public is
invited to come and spend a pleasant
evening.
At Panacea Springs
Crowds are gathering at the Panacea
for the summer, and just now it is
quite a gay place. You will find pleas
ure there, but the chief attraction is
the water at the Springs. It would
not be possible to put the virtues of
these springs in too strong terms. For
indigestion and stomach troubles it is
the finest water on the American con
tinants, and this not an idle phrasee.
Every one who tries the water be
comes its ardent advocate. If the
Leader is the means of inducing a suf
fer to test the water it will but feel
it has been a benefactor.
The Springs Hotel is under the mana
gement of that princely gentleman Mr
T. Alex Baxter, a man of recognized
ability in the management of hostel-
eries. You can be quite sure at the
Panacea you will have a good time if
you are seeking health, or pleasure.
Both are within easy reach. See
ad elsewhere.
Miss Sudie Clark spent Saturday in
HiU'lington shopping.
Mrs B. F. Warren is spending a
X hile with her mother
Mr. li. G. Brooks spent Sunday in
.'.iieiisboro.
■'Ir.'. W. C. Cates visited friends in
;;,u!inj?ton last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Mo&e Wilkerson went
up to Greensboro Sunday.
Mr. Mike Miles and family went to
raham Saturday and returned Sunday.
Mr. T. H. Harrison wife and child
I'urham came up to Mebane Satur-
■ evening.
Nlv. and Mrs. W. C. Clark and Glen-
v. ent to Swepsonville Sunday.
Miss Marion Waggoman returned
ri.lay from Elizebeth City where she
:ui been visiting.
Miss Gearinger of Danville Va spent
.ne night last week at the White
fluuse.
Miss Fannie Vaughn Andrews of
r'ulisbury visited at the White House
1 rt week.
Miss Dora Dollar returned home Sun-
.y after spending a few days with her
u icle Mr. J. R. McAdams.
Miss St Helena Foy left Tuesday
l or New Bern where she goes to visit
friends and relatives.
Mr. Curtis Clark from High Point
spent Saturday and Sunday in Mebane
with his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. C
Clark.
Shop with us by phone, you will get
the same attention, is the claim of
the Mecca Drug Co. see change of ad
in this issue at top of column next to
editorial column.
Trains was delayed going East Mon
day noon two hours on account of
warped rails. The sun was intensely
hot to throw s railroad track out of
line with ^heat
A leading busines man from another
lowMi says “yes, I am coming to Meb
ane the fourth. When you boys say
y »u are going to do a thing you do it
and I am counting on having a good
lime that day.”
The Fourth of of Jnly celebration
r-omniittee are busy getting things in
shape for the “greatest 4 of July cele
bration ever held in this section.” This
committee is composed of vridc'a-wake
young men and they are determined to
make the Fair a great success.
Startling Statistics
The health department of North
Carolina in its bulletine of June the
17th gives some very startling infor
mation in reference to typhoid fever.
It comments upon how the world was
shocked when the Titanic went down
with its fifteen hundred souls, but it
says last year there were fifteen
hundred victims of typhoid fever in
North Carolina, and twenty thousand
suffered from the, proper precaution
would have saved the lives of all.
A uisasterous Fire*
About one o’clock Saturday night
the big flouring mill of Mr. Ralph
Vincent caught fire and was burned
down. It is not known how the fire
originated, we might say if it was not
incendiary, it was likely some ones
criminal carelessness. The mill was
situated about seven miles north of
here near Cedar Grove.
The loss is estimated at $8,000 with
$2500 insurance. Mr. Vincent luid
recently purchased $500 worth of new
machinery which was enrout.
At Chicago.
Up to going to press in the Leader
Office Wednesday noon there was no
information of ircportance from the
National Republican Convention now
in session at Chicago, save the fact
that Senator Elihu Root had been made
temporary chairman, this the Taft
men regard as a victory, but the Roose
velt people see nothing in it. It is im
possible to forcast when a nomination
may be made, at any rate popular senti
ment of both candidates are 100 degrees
in the shade, with no hope of a break.
See on Fourth Fage
We place an advertisement in this
weeks Leader giving the program
that will be observed here on the 4 of
July. It is needless for us to say that
nothing is being spared to make of this
one of the crownings events ot Me^
anes history. An enormous crowd is
anticepated, and Mebane is doing her
best to prepare for their reception. If
you want to see a friend you have not
mf t for years come to Mebane and
look for him that day, the chances are
you will find him, at least you will
find a pleasant time.
State Normal.
We desire to call attention to the
advertisement of the State Normal and
Industrial College which appears in this
issue. Every year shows a steady
growth in this institution devoted to the
higher education of the women of North
Carolina.
Including the Training School, the
College last year had a total enrollment
of 905 students. Ninety-one of the one
hundred counties of the State had
representatives in the student body.
Nine-tenths of all the graduates of this
institution have taught or are now
teaching in the schools of North Carolina
The dormitories are furnished by the
State and board is provided at actual
cost. Two hundred appointments with
free tuition, apportioned among the
several counties according to school
population, will be awarded to appli
cants about the middle of July.
Students who wish to attend this insti
tution next year should make application
as early as possible, as the capacity of
the dormitories is limited.
Efland Items
Orange Qrove Items,
Mr. Vance Cates has returned to
Chapel Hill after spending a few days
with relatives here and at Burlington.
Miss Pearl Crawford spent several
days recently visiting relatives at
Chapel Hiil.
Miss Lula Roberson has been visiting
relatives and friends in Burlington for
several days.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Crawford and
Master Frank of Mebane spent Satur
day night with Mr. Crawfords mother
Mrs. D, F. Crawford.
Mrs. W. T. Reynolds and daughter
Miss Maie returned from Charlotte
Saturday alter having spent several
days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Reynolds of that place. Master Troxel
came home with them.
Mr. James T. Davis mounted that
most uncertain of all animals, a mule,
a few days ago, and the aforesaid mule
being adverse to carrying old confede
rate soldiers succeeded in placing Mr.
Davis where no yankee bullet ever laid
him-prone on the ground. Mr. j iavis
was not hurt seriously.
Miss Ava Crawford is attending the
Summer School at the State Normal at
Greensboro.
About enough members have been
secured to organize a Junior Order at
this place, and in a few days all the
necessary arrangements will be made.
Misses Nannie, Grarie and Estelle
Lloyd spent Saturday night June the
8th at Mr. T^uico Lloyds and attended
church at Antioch on Sunday. A
number of the Orange Grove people
were present, in the evening a beautiful
monument was unveiled that marks
the last resting p'ace of Bessie May
Smith, the little girl who wandered
away from home and was drowned
during the Christmas holidays. The
stone was erected by loving friends
ai.d relatives.
Mr. Murray and Mr. Richmond of
Efland were visitors at Mr. A. A.
Perrys Sunday.
Miss Sudphin of Burlington is visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Will Kirk.
Followed Instructions
“You’re a nice one said the street car
conductor to the man from the country
“if you aaw the fellow pick that gen
tlemen’s pocket, why didn’t you in
terfere and not let him get away?
“Weil,” said Reuben, “I saw that
sign up there, ‘Beware of pickpockets,
and, ‘bgosh, I didn’t dast to.’’-House
keeper.
OP THE
PEERLESS LEftDER
Democrats Don’t Like it
Because Bryan ih Making
An Honest Penny m
Chicago*
William Jennings Bryan, the three
times defeated candidate for the presi
dency on the Democratic ticket, a
personal and political friend ot Josephus
Daniels, democratic national committee
man from North Carolina, is rumored,
to be in a receptive mood for a fourth
nomination, came in for a good bit of
adverse criticism at Washington this
week by a number of leading Dem
ocrats when it was learr ed that the
Peerless leader” was in Chicago
writing news stories of the Republican
convention for a number of newspapers
among them the Washington Times,
owned and controlled by Frank A.
Munsey, who with George W Perkins,
is boosting the candidacy of Theodore
Roosevelt for the Republican nomina
tion. The Washington Times carried a
picture of the Nebraskan and a long
story written and signed by him,
giving in detail what he thought ot the
situation. It was stated that Mr.
Bryan held a conference with the
Rough Rider and incidentally called on
William B. McKinley, President Taft’s
rilanager.
North Carolinians cannot understand
how a man who has been so signally
honored by the Democratic party could
so completely forget and humiliate his
friends as he has done for a monetary
consideration. “And to think I cast
my vote for that man three times for
the presidency,” said one prominent
member of the state delegation. “It
is the most humiliating thing to me 1
have ever seen or heard of,” said
another.
Ghunn’s Act Deliberate
Fired » Several Bullets in
Victim’s Body, Then Re
loaded Pistol
Mebane, Rfd. No. 1.
Mrs. W. S. Barnwell of Cary is
visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Small.-
Mr. J. T. McAdams ot* Mebane spent
Sunday on No. 1,
Mr. W. A. Holt made a business
trip to Durham Saturday.
Master Fra ’k Ray of Selma is
visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs.
J, W. Ray.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rodgers of
Burlinp-ton No. 5 was on No. 1 last
Saturday hunting meat think he found
plenty as the patrons of No. one have
plenty of everything.
Mr. J. B. Sellars and family of
White Plains, N. Y., are spending a
few weeks at his farm Glad to have
them, wish he would make it his
regular home.
Wheat harvest is nearing completion
and the wheat is very light.
Oer patrons have been very kind to
us the past week with fruits and
vegtables thanks to Mesdams Nannie
and Georgia Murray, Mrs. J. A. Smith
Mrs. Jas Foster, Mrs. J. W. Ray, Mr.
George Cheek, W. H. Jones and Dillie
Truitt for some
Mrs. J. M. Teer died at her home
Sunday evening at 10 o’clock and was
laid to rest in Cross Roads cemetary
Monday P. M., funeral services
conducted by her pastor Rev. W. 0.
Sample. She will be greatly missed by
the loved ones left behind, she was 70
years old had been a great suffer for
the past 3 years, she leaves two sons
and one daughter besides a host of
relatives and friends.
Mrs. W. M. King who had been
with her mother the past two weeks of
her sickness returned to her home at
Durham Tuesday.
Mr. R. 1-. Ray of Selma came up
Monday and attended the furneal of his
aunt returning Monday night.
Meet
As this warm weather comes down
and twist the rails on the railroad track,
and curls your hair, remember that
Holmes-Warren and Co., keep that
c lass of goods that you can wear and
keep cool, Buster Brown has an eye to
business keep your eyea on him in the
Holmes*Warren ad on fourth page.
An other interesting an attractive
at the Mebane Store Co. Saturdav#
A lot of goods are being sold at this
tore at auction that are dirt cheap
and they are valuable, you rtiould
attend these sales and take advantage
•f some of the great bargains offered.
It is thought that any candidate in
the senatorial contest might strengthen
his chances in this section very much
in the primary by ordering 100 cases
of schlitz beer to arrive in Mebane in
lime for the fourth of July. There
are a number of our citizens who think
it would make a direct and most force-
ahle appeal to them on that day.
'Ihere is a general hegira to the
v.atering places, or summer resorts of
t!H: State, although spring time has
been lingering in the lap of winter.
'] here was a big opening ball at the
Atlantic Hotel MoreheadCity Saturday
night and one at Panacea Springs near
l.ittleton. Both of these popular
resorts will have good crowds this
■ ummer.
at Graded School
Building
All children in Mebane, girls and
boys about 12 to 14 years old, who are
willing to help in the 4th of July drills
etc, will please meet at Graded school
Thursday afternoon proreptly at 4:30
P. M.
We will also want about 150 children
all ages, for singing and specialties
on the 4th. Notice of this will be made
later.
Mrs Crawford
Miss Fowler
Mrs. Kee
Grace is Expected to Re
cover Now.
Eugene F. Grace, who was myster-
imisly shot at his home in Atlanta last
March, and who has since been parti
all paralyzed, was operated on last
week for the removal of the bullet
supposed to have severed his spinal
cord. The ball was not removed, but
it was found that the spinal cord was
not severed, nor was the bullet in the
spinal column. It was imbedded in
one of the vertebrace, causing it to
press against the cord, resulting in
paralysis. Grace showed no bad effects
from the operation and is expected to
recover.
Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace,his wife, for-
merely of Philadelphia, who is charged
with the shooting, is now at liberty
on bond. Her trial is set for the
week of June 24, but developments in
Grace’s condition may result in an
other postponement.
I^cllagraphobia Causes In
sanity, Says Doctor.
i’ellagraphobia, or fear of pellagra,
*'a clearly defined disease which has
h ‘cn discovered by the Thompson-
Alf Fsdden Pellagra Commission, sent
-"Spartanburg recently by the New
»"rk Post Graduate Hospital for
ios3arch work.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Biyins and baby
Louise spent Sunday at “River Side
Farm” with Mrs. Bivins parents Mr.
and Mrs. H. D. Brown.
Messrs. Frank Boggs and Charlie
Brown came down from Lime Rock
Friday morning to spend some time
with relatives.
Miss Annie Jordan and Mr. C. A.
Wolfe spent last Sunday afternoon at
the home of Mr. C. McCadams.
Mr. John Sharp wife and little son
Elwood of Hillsboro spent last week
visiting Mr. Sharps parents Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Sharp.
We are glad to note that little Nellie,
youngest daughter of Mr. Carl Forrest
who has been so seriously ill is improving
We forgot to mention in our last
Items that Mr. Jesse Baity won the
Declamation medal at the close of the
E. H. School. Jesse is a blight boy
and we predict for him a bright future
Mrs. Compton of Hillsboro spent last
week in Efland visiting old friends.
Mrs. J. J. Brown, Mrs. John Baity
and Mias Bessie Baity was visitors at
the home of Mr. C. L. Smith last
Wednesday.
Misses Pearl and Cora Tapp and
brother Willie attended the foot washing
at the Pentecostal church in Hillsboro
last Suiulay.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sharp attended
service at the M. P. church last Sunday
Mr. Ernest Forrest left Tuesday
morning for Moore Springs, N. C., for
a rest of ten days.
Mrs. Sallie Homer and little daughter
Bessie visited her mother Mrs. Riley in
Hillsboro last week.
Mrs. Low Thompson spent a few
days with her brother Mr. Jack Smith
in Mebane last week.
There is to be a lawn party on the
Methodist church yard at Efland Satur
day night June 22 every body cordially
invited to attend.
“Two Ones.”
Fuller examination of the body of
Miss Burnadette Roueche of Salisbury
who was killed last Sunday night by
her lover, Frank Chunn, revealed the
fact that she was not struck in the
head as at first was thought by some
blunt instrument, but instead three
bullets ploughed their way torough her
head. These three shots it is thought,
were fired in rapid succession, after
which he was doing when Mr. Gable
and Miss Hortcnse Uoucchc ran up to
investigate the trouble. After driving
them away Mr. Chunn returned to the
prostrate form of his sweetheart and
fired one more bullet into her body
before blowing his own brains out.
Young Chunn talked to friends Sat
urday of doing something desperate,
but they tried to pursuade him out of
it.
G4RNEGIE HELPS BUY GREEN
VILLE PIPE ORGAN
Laird ot Skibo Contributes
$1,000 tor Purchase ot
Instrunjent for the‘iVlem=
orial IBaptist Church.
The Memorial Baptist church of
Greenville, N. C., has just installed a
pipe ar'gan, costirg $2,100, and it is a
handsome and sweet-toned instrument.
This church has long desiied a pipe
oreran, and its possession was hastened
through the generosity of Mr. Andrew
Carnegie who contributed $1,000 to
make the final payment on it. The
organ was used Sunday for the first
time in public service, being played
then by Miss Undine Futrell of Scot
land Neck. On next Thursday night
Prof. Wade R Brown, of Raleigh will
give a recital and his coming is looked
forward to with pleasure by loyers of
good music.
Turning From the Poli
tician to the Farmer.
Women Delegates in Both
Conventions.
WESLEY EDWARDS IS CAUGHT
IN KENTUCKY
One of the Hillsville, Va.,
Outlaws Arrested at Clay
City by tlie Chief of Police.
List of Letters
If we work upon marble, it will per-1
ish—if we work upon brass, time will [
efface it—if we rear temples, they will
crumble into dust, but if we work up
on immortal souls, if we imbue them
with principles, with the jusc fear of
God and love of fellow men, we en-
grave on those tablets something which I ‘Advertised” giving date of ad, list
will brighren aU eeternity.—Daniel Respectfully,
Webster. I Arthur White, P. M.
Remaining unclaimed at this office
or the week ending June 15 1912
1 Letter for Mr. Brown Anderson
Dellie Coror
Mrs. Anna Haith
Anna Haith
Mr. Albert Wilson
These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office June 29 1912, if
In calling for the above please say
Both the Chicago and the Baltimore
conventions will have women delegates
which indicates to a certain degree
what pr^res3 equal suffrage is making.
In 1892 Wyoming sent one woman
delegate to the Republican national
convention, bat none has been sent
since that time until this year.
' Several of the Western States have
sent women delegates, among the
number being two from California,
whom the Republicans of that State
sent to Chicago. This is in celebration
of tha victory the women won in that
State in the adoption of a constitution
granting equal suffrage aftd other ad
vanced measures.
Among the women delegates to Balti
more will be one from Colorado, who
will cast the solid vote of the delegation
from that State for Champ Clark. She
was asked to head the delegation, not
because she is a politician, for she is
not, and not because she is a suffragist
for it is said that she cannot really.be
counted in that clats-^but she was
chosen because of her qualities and
because she is a sister-in-law of the
ilissourian she is going to cast the vote
^f Colorado for. She is Mrs. Anna B.
Pitzer of Colorado Springs, sister of
Mrs. Champ Clark, a former resident
of Missouri, and with her in her ardent
support of the distinguished Missourian
are a number of former citizens of
Missouri who emigrated to Colorado.
Indicative of the rapid growth of
equal suffrage in the West, however,
is the fact that both of the great
poUtical conventions will have a number
of women delegates. This shows tha
the women are fighting their way to
the front in their struggle for recogni
tion as citizens with equal political
rights with men.—Nashville Tennessean
Wesley Edwards, a member of the
Allen clan, which raided the courthouse
at Hillsville, Va., on March 14 and
assassinated the judge, the prosecutor
and the sberifT of the countv besides
killing and wounding a number of
others was arrested Thursday afternoon
by Chief of Police V. B. Pettit, of Hay
City, 40 miles east of Lexington, Ky.,
if the belief of the authorities of that
place is correct.
The man, who gave his name as
Hathly and said he was from West Vir
ginia, answers the description of the
long sought fugitive in every particlura
and Chief Pettit is now waiting an
answer from the Virginia authorities in
regard to the prisoner. Chief Pettit
received a letter Tuesday morning from | lands, control of the waters.
People are tiring of turmoil and
strife, caused by the professional place-
hunter and politician, and they are
turning to the farmer to provide their
needs, for at last it is the tiller of the
soil on whom depends the prosperity of
the countiy.
The politicians and politics offer little
encouragement to the struggling masses
who are vitally interested in reclaiming
waste lands and otherwise advancing
the agricultaral interests of the country j
and many thoughtful people are urging
that more attention be given to the
farmer and less to the politician.
Mr. Benjamin F. Yoakum, writing
in Leslie’s Weekly, says that we have
quit the politician and taken up the
farmer, pointing to the tact that there
is abundant reason why this should be
done. He shows that in Germany where
the soil has had to be renewed by
scientific processes {time and again the
crops are from 40 to 100 per cent niore
abundant than those in the United
States.
We need to pay more attention to
making a livelihood rather than devoting
our time and energy to frenzied politics.
We need to reclaim our waste lands
and to make better the lands that are
now being cultivated.
Mr. Yoakun>, speaking jfor the
farming interests says that the farmer
gets forty-six cents for his products
and the consumer pays on dollar foi
them.
That there are 25,000,000 acres of
swamp land in the Southern States of
Mississippi valley, worth today about
$300,000,000, which when drained will
be worth at least $2,000,000,000.
That is costs $55,000 to make a twelve
inch gun, the money going to pay for
this gun being sufficient to reclaim 4,-
500 acres of land and provide homes
for 500 people.
That to help cut down the big expense
of bad country roads to the farmers,
the government provides a little oyer
$100,000 a year, and buys battleships
for $12,000,000.
The enormous amount of money
expended by the government on un
profitable and unproductive things if
expended on the reclamation of the
improve-
A. E. Gonzales ana Major
Hemphill Assei’t tliey Were
“Run Out ot Any Partici^
pation in Profits or Honor,
Attorneys for J. C. Hemphill and
Ambrose E. Gonzales, secured from
Judge Boyd, in the F(xieral court
Saturflay June 15 a restraining order
against the present owners of the
Charlotte Observer and the First
National Bank of Charlotte, from the
collection of notes held against Gonzales
for shares of stock of the Observer
Company, deposited as security for
payment of said note. Judge Boyd
named June 22nd as the day for hear
ing why the injunction should not bo
permanent, and the relief asked by the
plaintiffs should not be granted.
The complaint charges that by rea
son of a conspiracy between D. A.
Tompkins, George Stephens and W. H.
Wood, plaintiffs were used of their
interest in the stock management and
control of the Observer Company,
contrary to a contract made between
the five when the company was
reorganized, and the plaintiffs became
respectively, general manager and
edito-in-chief of the publication. The
plaintiffs, in addition to their prayer
for an injunction, asked that a receiver
be appointed to collect the assets of
the company, when the order is heard
next week, and provide for a distribu
tion of its assets among the equitable
owners, including the plaintiffs, Gon
zales and Hemphill.
Many sensational charges of efforts
by the defendants to oust the plaintiffs
of their rights in the publication, with
details as to how they were finally
“run out of any participation in profits
or honor,” are included in the com
plaint. Besides pecuniary loss the
plaintiffs alleged that the action of the
defendants was a libel on their business
integrity and ability, for which no
relief could be given in damages
Bond in the sum of $1,000 was given
by the plaintiffs on demand of the
court to justify the restraining order
in the suit in equity. Bynum and
Strudwick, ot Greensboro, and Lyles
and Lyleg, of Charlotte, appeared as
attorneys for the plaintiffs. Summons
issued are returnable August 5th.
SAINT JOHN’S DAY MASONIC
CELEBRATION
Oxford, N, C. Saturday
June 22nd, 1912.
Excursion via Southern Railway.
Round trip
7:30 A. M. $1,75
8:12 A. M. SI,35
8:20 A. M. $1.00
10:00 A. M. $1.00
Leave Greensboro
Leave Burlington
Leave Chapel Hill
Leave Durham
Returning leaves Oxford 4:45 P. M.,
same day. Take advantage of this and
visit the most complete Orphan Home
in the country.
Ask your Agent for detailed infor
mation, or write,
J. 0. Jones,
Traveling Passenger Agent.
Raleigh, N. C.
Frank Wyatt, of Jackson, Ky., who
knows both the Edwards and Allens,
saying that Sidna Allen and Wesley
Edwards were headed towards Clay
City, and giving him a description of
the man. Pettit took the tip and
watched all trains and roads leading
into the city. He arrested his prisoner
as he was boarding a freight train to
leave Clay City.
ment of rivers and roads, and for the
general upbuilding of the country, the
agricultural interest would be enhanced
to a degree that the benefit would be
inestimable to all the people.—The
New York World.
In an address to the South Carolina
Press Asssociation, Dr. Joseph F. Siler,
a member of the commission, requested
the newspapers not to publish sensa
tional stories about pellagra, the fatal
ity of which he said had been exaggre-
rated. He declared tnat the insanity
supposed to result from Pellegra as to
pellagraphobia. Having been told
that pellagra produced insanity,
sufferers from the disease felt that
they were bound to loss their reason
and were actually frightned into be
coming insane.
Johnny Keb’s Consolation
(From the Washington Star.)
Quartermaster-General Edwin A.
Taylor, of the United Sons of Coi^fed-
erate Veterans, told at a Memorial Day
banquet in Memphis this story:
“A Southerner,” he said, “sat in the
lobby of a New York hotel discussing
certain campaigns with a Northerner.
“Well, the Northerner ended, with a
laugh, ‘well we licked you, anyhow.”
“Yes, you did,” the Southerner ad
mitted; “but it’s plain from the size of
your pension list that before we gave
in we crippled every blessed one of
you!”
Such Villains!
It appears chat the pirates and high
binders and thugs and liars and crooks
and burglars and confidence men and
bunco steerers and forgers and em
bezzlers and kidnappers and sneak
thieves and brigands and second-story
workers and counterfeiters &nd rural
tories and assassins who are in charge
of the Taft campaign have not set
their hearts merely on defrauding the
Colonel of the nomination. They have
conspired to murder the Republican
party.
Dixon says so, and Dixon knows.
The Colonel has told him all about it.
Perking has told him, Flinn has told
him, Pinchot has told him, Medill Mc
Cormick has told him, and he has told
himself. Coming from such sources
there can be no doubt about the cor
rectness of the information.
These Taft scoundrels “brazenly ad
mit in private” that Taft cannot carry
five States. “They admit in private”
that if their programme is earned out
“not twenty Republican Congressmen
can hope for election in November.”
“They are not only prepared to murder
the Republican party, but to drag down
to defeat in November every Republi
can State and county ticket throughout
the nation.’’—New York World.
“Items From Faith”
Bell Haven a new play gotten up by
the young people was played a few
nights ago with great success. They
go to Granit Quarry Saturday night
June 22nd.
Two contracts for granite ^door sills
has just been awarded to J. T. Wyatt
Faith, one on the new factory at Rod-
hiss, N. C. and the other for the new
church at Burlington, N. C.
“Venus.”