THE MEBANE LEADER
“AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DSLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE felN.
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Vol 3
MEBANE. N. C., THUFSDAY. JANUARY 30 1913
NO S2
FEIISONAIS AND LOCAL
BRIEFS
j At The White House
I W. F, Casey, Mr. Weace, of Raleigh
j Times, Mr. Co’jie, Bradshaw of
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INTKRKST GAT.IERKD BY OUR |
REPORTER. r
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ser Wilhehii of Germany w: sj
111 Sunday.
I’ Slack and chiHrpn spent
m Greensboro
Must Stop
j We have been sending the Loader lo
t some parties with the umlorstanding'
j that they furnish us weekly l»'tteri^for
• p >b]i(*ation. a number have n.or
hsard frn*^ in some time We shall
of Durham'•p^nt i hare, to ?top the Leader to rhtm
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Bingham School iNotes
Bingham School, Mebanr, N. C. Jan
28, 1913.
Mrs. L. Wolfenden of Marion, N.
C., made a sh( rt visit to the school
a id ertereJ her boy, Earl, the other
d ly. -
Mr. Henry Blanchard of Bristol,
Va—Tenr., has arrived to be^in his
duties as coach of the baseball team.
Mr. Blanchard is considered one of the
very best players and coaches in the |
Louth and is sure to n'ake a success of
the season. He is also a very pleasant!
young: man, and everynodv at Bingham
t.irn.
Hihsboro Items.
Miss Sue Rosemond spent part of
last week in Durham with ner cousin
Mis.s Christene Rosemond
Mr, O. B. Williams of Durham spent
Saturday and Sunday with his parents
Mr. and Mrs, A. G. Williams.
Mr. Luther Kings little daughter was
very sick last week.
Mrs. William Graham who has been
on the sick list for the past week is
improving.
Mrs. Reed died at tVie liun'.e of
SIGNS SAILORS FEUH.
Seamen the Most Super
stitious Class—What
Some Omens Mean,
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S11U \v ^ I ir* 111
i>i»> Saiurdav.
pioasui C
Whiti* sfent several
in Ureensboro last week.
A l^eculuar Frei.2:hl W reek
ti:t \'tt
sit-in
I'.xi i-n>i vt_ ifn|ii'>\>'iii.-iit
iiriii.- in I he \\-:ii f-f .1 1: s
I lie I'mII I’t-riM a IlfVV
iloiiso has jiisc het-ii »-rect mI,
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II siiii-.-
new
I A freight wreck of rather a peculuar pump, pump jack, and line of pipe put
character occured on the ,So-liaihvnv
; daughter Mrs. Shephei'd
1 i>atnrd:ty :it 2:?X>
Mrs. VV. K. SJUnrt wJfj
CtMril|.;(l to },*"(• f OIK lilt >*\-
i.'- iiui»it>viii^ slowly.
'J'iie teachers niecMlii'^ wa.s
Jur
Strudick
luit WcH’n
r:i I >
•l.i
Haine of Cros? Roads,
to .Mebane Tuesday.
East of Mebane early last Friday
morning. Just after passing the last
switch, somethinir f^oinnu'iicod clipping
' verman, fat'-ier of Mrs. 'the tops of the bolts otV that hold the
ai is visiting here. 1 first plates connecting the rails on the
of laiilford College spei.t 't up
with M. N. VVilkerson
McP'ariand spent a few
;^":un last week, and re-
'Ui.day afternoon.
in, and an additional engine has been
installed. This will make a large
increase in the water supply. A new
?a\v auvi s.iw rig have been put in the
wood yard, and the L H. C., engine
overhauled and made practically new.
A lot of nice new boys have been
entering—practically all the old cadets
with unusual regularity, seldom missirg |
a one for little over the mile 1-mit i, ,
M. McFarland sDent a beyond Mebane. It stoped when i have returned. They have all settled
car heavily loaded with lumber next to i^ard study in their different
•the engine fell off the track, a |
Lynch attended the Sun- tumbled down the embankment when i Major Adrian Nalle, the sic^essful
the train stoped there was two other j Commandant of the past three terms,
cars derailed but .still l«-(ween the i is expected tomorrow to resume his
tracks. j work in the school. All are looking
The whole mile of trai k was [lushed ! forw’ard to seeing him again,
out of line, and unfit for service. A large j
force of hands was hurriodt') the scene '
ii-^iitute at Burlington Sat-
i ''i.jnday.
\N .irren from near Corbett
i Tuesday and Wedi.es
■ .-.f C 'fiacco.
’■I It tie Stanford and Alice
I'uiiiam spent Saturday and
: the home of Mr J. T.
VVarren has returned from
v .-ti a nice line of horses.
•' I hem if you should need
their line. The firm of
. 1 Warren will carry good
; Sykes of Spencer spent
Mebane with her parents
. r. Clp.ak last week.
.■tre down Sunday and
■i to Spencer Sunday even-
;;/Ders of the Methodist
: friends gave Rev. Mr.
■ nding last Tuesday ni^ht.
f people sent their good
ti e way of something sub-
K^use keeping.
A. Kr.'ght general manager
■ i i'tor.e Company of Durham
g in a large line of spring
. ; ^oods. Mr. Knight is
: buyer and will select a
. a 'ractive lor this section.
ic. Peters of Elon College is
well boreing machinery,
u ijose to put down a well
. !t!;d Montgomery brick
! -0 plant is a snort distance
Vv . si. rn suberb of Mebane,
• :C(e Irust Co., of Hillsboro
■ • r advertisment in this
.er arnouncing that they
t v to ioan in lots of from
I. They will loan you
t :tce it for you on interest.
I • see them if they can
vy are clever people.
i Supply Company places
_ ad in this weeks Leader,
pc.gressive firm they are
^ht after business in their
can supply you for cash or
. n. Hufham we hope has come
ke charge of the Baptist
'e a personal call at our of-
sclay evening. Dr. Hufham
our tow’n with the highest
Il lation as a Christian geiitle-
• a man of unusual ability,
ne him and wish him well.
Post office has transmitted
- h the parcel post a live baby,
tr all the requirements of the
ent. It seems to U8 this par-
? t business has been the means
- ering a number of real fools.
; urtment has evidently made
1 post laws surficiently elastic
waging the simpletons to show
■■■Ive?.
of the trouble and put to work repair
ing the damage, and by tw»lve o’clock
had the track in a cn.dition in wiich
trains might pass slowly down the
line. f
It is much of a mystery as to how
the bolts of the fish plates were cut,
off. The flangs of the car wheels i
could not have reached the bolls unless i
the wheel should have droped .m the |
inside of track to the cross tics, and j
there was no cut in tl.e cross ties, j
again if the whe-ls ha 1 drupeJ j
surficiently low to reach ilie Lults then i
the opp sit si ie of ihev.h. cl \v. ulti i
have rushed the flangs ’.o.i lur otf to
reach the bolts. No one v. as liurt.
Mr, Dave Tayloe, who was a student
at Bingham for three years, and who
graduated in the spring of 1912, and
has since then been one of the best
^ football men of the University of
i North Carolina, has been visiting the
I school. Dave enjoyed his stay very
i much and we were all gJad to see him.
! He says he is homesick for Bingham,
“The Bingnam Bugle.”
A Ball-Faced Liar.
Mebane, Rfd. No. 5,
Well after so much rain we are blest
with a beautiful day, but a little muddy.
Misses Aline and Tannie Browning
spent several days in Burlington last
week.
day
Mr. John M. Miller spent one
in Durham last week on business.
j Mr. A. F. Warren called on Miss
over about I Lula Miles Sunday P. M.
j Mrs. W. A. Shnnklin is on the sick
! list, we wish Mrs. Shanklin a speedy
recover.
It seems that some v
Durham have bten char^'ing that
General Julian Cars ir.teresc in taxing
the cur of low’ degree was because he
bad a Kennel of CoIJie dogs at
Occoneeche farm from which he hoped i Messrs. Will and John Shanklin
to realize big money by selling their j spent Sunday at Mr. W. A. Shanklins.
progemy. Now General Carr denies | We are all glad to Know that Mr.
this, and he denies it :n bold 18 point Dave Tinnin is getting on so well in
type in the Durham Sur taking a page
to express his views on Ihe matter.
General Carr brands the .man who
made the statement as a ball-faced
dirty vulgar liar. Pretty stiong
language for the Genera'. I’ut wliat
kind of a liar is a ball far*;d liar? Of
courae the fellows face is pre.'iumed to
be spherical, is it a foot ball face, oris
it a base ball face. We have known
people to be called a bald face liar,
that is a plain every day hairless har,
but the ball-face liar some what con
fuses us. It must be a real hard
kicking foot ball liar that the Geneial
refers too.
Local News
List of Letters
office
1913
'J ^
i\(,i
li
'A.l
mmg unclaimed at this
week ending Jan. 25.
r for Mr. Albert Davis
■or for Mr. Jim Carter
Her for Mr. C. L. Carden
'er for Mr. Likil Gunter
' tier for Miss Carrie Brooks
ter for Mrs. Ada Gibb
n 1 for Estelle Wilson
i for Miss Geni Brown
nl for Miss Ruth Johnson
r l for Miss A. B. Strowd.
■ rd for Mr. R. C. Cannon
'1 for Mr. G. R. Douglmer
for Mr. Worth Lynch
-'■‘1 for G. W. Mebane
•'’’d for Mr. Walter Johnson
>1 for for Logan Smith
letters will be sent to the
‘ Letter Office Feb. 8 1913. if
'^Hed for before.
Hlling for the above please say
■ tisod” giving date of ad. list.
Respectfully,
S. Arthur White, P. M.
Every person in a community ought
to feel interested in helping to make
the local columns of its home paper
and important features. It should be a
matter of community pride, and is so
considered in many places. The tele
phone connection, with the newspaper
office makes it quite convenient. Wont |
you try and think of it and do what j
you can to inform the EditoJ of home I
happenings.
High Point, we all wish King David
well for he is one of our best boys.
Master Claud Miller spent Sunday P.
M., with Master Walter Aulbert,
Mrs. L. H. Jones has gone to spend
several days with her mother.
Mr. Robert Jones spent Sunday in
Burlington.
Mr. Oley Aulbert called at Mr.
John Millers Sunday P. M., also Mr.
Albert Hall, Emma Aulbert, Claud
Sykes and Dan Shanklin.
Mr. W. H. Miller called on Miss
! Nannie Aulbert Sunday night.
Mr. Sam and Mrs. T. J. Browning
spent Sunday at Mr. Mitchel Vincents.
Every body come to the sale at Mr.
T. B. Tates Saturday.
Mr. John Miller and children called
to see Mrs. Shanklin Sunday P. M.,
also Miss Nannie Westbrook and the
Misses Millers.
The Work of The Flood
Mr. and Mrs. Will Crawford and
daughter spent Saturday night and
Sunday with Mrs. Berry.
Mrs. Nan Vincent and Mrs. Eld
Cheek is on the sick list this week,
hope they will soon be out again.
Miss Sudie Miller and Master Sam
spent Wednesday afternoon in Mebane
Mrs. Bill Browning of Haw River
spent Saturday night and Sunday at
Mr. J. L. Pools.
A torrent 200 feet wide, and many
feet deep is rushing throaeh the ere* | with their aunt Mrs. J. M. Rimmer.
vasse in Beulah levee near Vicksburg
Miss., which broke about one hui;dred
miles north of there, on the east bank
of the Mississippi river, and the water
is rapidly inundating the lowlands, de
stroying the crops on fertile planta
tions and forcing hundreds of families
with their live stock to the hills.
A creyasse at that place last spring
when the river stage was considerably
Mr. W. M. McCaulev was called to
the bed side of his sister Saturday at
Chapel Hill
The box party given at Eflsnd
Saturday night was very successful,
they cleared $18,45. There was not a
higher, flooded approximately 1*225 j weather was
square miles The engineers engaged
in the work estimated that before the
floods recede at least 1,000 square
miles of plantations and st amps will
be inundated.
The Lyncliinp^ AntiJote
very disag reebie.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Newman spent
Sunday with her mother Mrs. Miles
who is right sick.
Mr. W. H. Miller and Claud Sykes
made a flying trip to Burlington Satur
day night.
I hope to hear from ail of the writers
this week.
Papas Girl.
At Gulfport, Mississi[)i)i. the other
i day a negro who had killed a policeman
was arrested, tr?ed, convicted and sen
tenced to pay the death penalty, all
within the brief space of .ceven hours.
In such prompt and certain adminis
tration of the taw lies the surest anti- There are a number of delinquei.t
dote for the lynching ppirit which is , subscribers on the Leader subscription
all too rife in every sec tion of the j books whose name should appear in our
country. Mob violence in these Un j honor roll, and we would appreciate it
Let Us Hear From You.
ited States finds its chief source ard
incentive in the fact that justice tra
vels with a leaden heel and all too fre
quently strikes, when it strikes at all,
with a velvet hand.—Va Pilot.
if you would send as one dollar. Let
us hear from you at once. Its a
small matter to you, but if all who
owed us pay up it woukl bo a great help
to us.
Saturday wUh a large number
teachers present.
Rev. Mr. Green preached a
touching sermon at the Bajicist church
!Sunday.
Mr. J. Clyde Ray spent the lattor
part of the week at home last week.
A Social Qatherinj?.
Miss Clara Warren entertained at a
very enjoyable party at her home on
Monday evening. A number of games
were played. The party was given in
honor of Miss Annie Cooper of Graham.
The following were in attendance:
Misses Nannie Boon, Myrtle McCauley
Annie Cooi er of Graham,Mary Patten,
lottie Satterfield, Sudie Cook, Sophia
Long, Fannie Ferguson and Clara
Warren. Messrs, I. D. Ham, Earl
Shaw, Glenn Scott, Mr. Strayhorn of
Durham, Jesse Tingen, Edgar McCauley
Sam Long, Sylus Compton and Frank
Warren. _
Corn Growers’ Meeting
We are making an earnest effort to
grow enough corn in our scate, and to
grow it cheaply enough, io thnt none
will be shipped into the state from
other parts of the country. The Dem
onstration Work has shown that with
good methods of farming we can eas
ily grow from thii Ly to fifty bushels
per acre instead of fifteen to twenty
bushels per acre as we have been do-
in>? in past years. These larger a-
mounts can be grown at an average
price of about twentvfiye cents per
bushel, so the matter is one of vital
irhportance to every fa»*mer who grows
corn.
Two meetings will be held in our
county at Friendship Feb. 7th. and at
Cross-roads Feb. 8th, 1913, beginning
at 1 o’clock. At that time we will
have wit’i us some men from the U.S.
and State Departments of Agriculture
to discuss the best methods of doub
ling the corn yield without increasing
the cost per acre We hope you will
come to these meetings and bnng one
or two dozen of your best ears of corn
so that we may have a corn judging
and some corn to study. Also we ex
pect some of our most successful corn
DRJ.D.M :
GOES TO MEBANE
, — -
iLar^2:e .Delegation Was at
Depot to pay Him Their
Parting Regpects^
j Monday afternoon. Dr. J. D. Huf-'
ham. one of the oldest and most hiyhly
re.'j>ectod citiy.ons of
[>!u’ted froOi •••r .vicl>anc iii-
will make Iri.s lutnu; in tlie fiiiure. 'i'in.'
[k.*.»|.K- of rre liMO>i wr-Ve s*n v to -f.-
In. ilufhain aiitl i> s)t"\v tlK-it
ai>i>i>--iatioM for wliat ho has doiiu lor
(Jroedniooi', and iht- I>>ve and «'^t'em
inw liich he is held, . tu arly i*v«‘i yiiu‘
in town were present at the depot to
pay him their partir^: respects. The i
j Creedmoor High School let out sooner I
j than usual, and the students—who are I
' so fond of Dr. Hufham—marched to j
i the depot in a body lo bid him good-i
! bye. A large committee from the;
I Merchants Association were'also pre-*
■ sent and in behalf of the association, I
' where there to bid him aiieu. In fact, |
! the delegation was one *of the largest 1
; ever gotten together in Creedmoor, j
and the suicide of Judas. The fact | and, tiy as they might, many could |
that Columbus both sailed and disco- i not keep back the tears that would !
vered land on a Friday has no weight; come. In telling his many friends i
with him—the day remains unlucky. j good-bye, Dr. Hufham was so fu.l of:
I emotion that he was unable to utter !
the words that he would fain speak; j
but all could see that he regreted to j
leave.—The Creedmoor Time. i
Of all sorts of men the sailor has the
name of being the most superstitious.
No one can clearly tell why, unless it
is that he always views an event in
the light, of something that has gore
before. A match ovei upside down or
the loss of a swab or bucket overboard
fills him wi^h lorchoding. ifo is aghast
at, the accidtnlal U-arinji of it Jla}^ arMl
kriovvs that il ;-aiis .sewn .>i mencled
on the iuai tt;i ileek ill ln k w ill result.
Heiy a juolotnid lK.*lievt r in his >wii
|» ejiidiircs aini has iK-'eii Kriou ji t»;
I'nse lo to st-a witlioiit salt in his
pocket or to p!it his left foot fii.st in a
boat or on slu)i*e. lie is a lirm believer
in odd numbers, as navnl salutes will
testify, m’nute g^-ns excepted. Re
vfi'y ! looks upon women at sea with disfavor.
!ia! Ill.
'>t' hf
how
Some ot his officers bear with him an
evil reputation, both for luck and the
weather they bring. An old chronicler
puts the number of days upon which it
undesirable to put to sea at 53, but the
number has been considerably reduced.
Among these days of ill rejmte were
Ci i.i’s birthday and the anniveisary of
the destiuction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Veteran Sickles
Arrest.
Waitmg
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles sat amid the
war reli^ in his Fifth avenue home ex
pecting mementary arrest in a suit
brought by the State to recover $23,-
476 for which he has failed to account,
it is charged, as chairman of the New
York monument commission. Within
his call where his son, Stanton, and an
aged negro retainer. Save for them
he was alone.
The order for the veteran's arrest.
Duke Frightened
James B. Duke w’as so frightened by
threatened competition in the tobacco
business from Thomas F. Ryan, P. A.
R. Widener and William C. Whitney
during 1898 that the American Tobacco
Company paid the three a profit of
$25,030,000 for their tobacco holdings.
This statement was made before Judge
Mayer in the Federal District Court
issued by Supreme Court Justice Rudd j in Brooklyn by Attorney Charles Dush-!
a^ Albany, and a copy of the complaint! kind, counsel for E. Locker & Co., I
were placod in Seritf Karburger, hands : tobacco jobbers of Brooklyn, in a suit j
by Deputy Attorney General Francis
Kennedy, who brought them. Mr. Ken
nedy announced his intention of ask
ing for immediate serv^ice. After a
talk with Mr. Kennedy, however,
Sheriff Harburger said he would give
the documents to his lawyer to de
termine whether thej^ are to be drawn.
This, he thought, would give the gen
eral respite from arrest until Mon lay.
The order can not be lega'ly served on
Sunday.
MAY GO TO JAIL.
Unless Gen. Sickles is prepared to
furnish at once a $30,000 bond. Sheriff
Harburger said he will have to go to
Ludlow street jail until the bond is
forthcoming. There
as to who, if any one, would come to
the veteian’s aid.
Gen. Sickles aged negro met all
against the American Tobacco Company 1
to recover treble damages, r 'gregat- ■
ing $300,000, under Sec^’cn 7 of the |
Shermrn law.
Court Criticisnj
growers to tell us how they succeed comers at the door and turned them
in the matter. Invite your neighbors,
especially the boys, to come to the
meeting.
E. C. Turner, Local Agent
Publicity For Pensions
Pension abuses have long since be
come so notorious as to admit of neith
er doubt nor argument. The War has
been over nearly halt a century, yet
the amount of the pension roll continu
es to increase with each recurring
session of Congress. Thousands of the
are today regularly drawing stipends
from the public treasury who have no
iota of claim upon government grati
tude of governments bounty, sutlers,
camp-followers, bounty-jumpers ard
even deserters, many of whom never
saw a battlefield when battle was in
progress, never had the smell of pow
der in their nostrils and never beard
the whirr of a bullet.
Wi^h a view to correcting these
abuses, in a measure, at least, there
has been introduced and is now pend
ing in che House of Representatives a
bill which proposes to publish the list
of all who are drawing pensions from
the Federal Government, the addresses
of the several pensioners and the re
spective amounts which they are re
ceiving from the government treasury.
There are many reasons why this
measure should be enacted into law,
and no single oue why it should not.
A pension list confined to the de
serving is a roll of honor, and any man
justly entitled to have his named en
rolled thereon should be proud to pub
lish it to the world. It is at once a
tribute to his courage and patriotism
away. For the first time the shades
at all the windows of Jthe house were
raised, and in each window there was
placed an American flag.
The order for Gen. Sickles’ arrest
Judge Robert B. Peebles has often
been open to criticism, and no doubt
j for good cause. F? held cour.: in
I Greensboro last week, and the News
[ says that “in no term of Guilford
: court in recent years has criticism been
I so pronounced against a North CaroHna
I jud^e, this criticism finding its origin
' chiefly in the bar, and being caused by
. , I both the slow movement of the covtc
alleged discourteous t’^eat-
ment of the members of the bar by the
judge.” It seems that Judge Peebles
had had trouble with the lawyers, or
has given them trouble, at nearly
every court he has held, if reports are
true.—Concord Tribune.
Some how or other we have thought
at times that the dignity of the state
peachment court.
sense. And he that will carry nothing
! about him but gold will be every day
1 at loss for readier change. “Pope.
comes as a climax of a distinguished 'would not have been hurt if Judge Pee-
and picturesque career. Born in New | ^les had been a defendant in an im-
Yorl: in 1825 of a wealthy family, j
Geu. Sickles served as soldier, legis
lator and diplomat. The‘guest of honor I
for many years at gatherings of war i j li. j ^
, ,, , ji Fine sense and exalted sense are not
veterans, he was recently refused!, , mu
, . . . , , »1 half as useful as common sense. There
admission to a local organization of . ^ -i. ^ ^
_ J .. o are forty men of wit for one man of
war veterans on the ground of | \ ,, .
military unskilliulue?s and reckless
sacrifice of the lives of his men “
Congress, which i/i 1897 awarded him
a medal of honor for bravery, three
years ago refused to gx*ant him a lieu
tenant generalship. In his old age
financial troubles beset him one after
another and his wife, son and daugh
ter became estranged from him.
AN AFFAIR Or HONOR.
Gen. Sickles was a member of the
house of representatives just before
the outbreak of the war, and it was
in Washington that he shot and killed
Philip Barton Key, a United States
district attorney, for alleged atten
tions to his first wife, the daughter
of an Italian musician.
Maniage of Miss Helen
Gould.
Miss Helen Miller Gould, known as
the queen of philantnropists and
America’s wealthiest woman, and
Finley J. Shepard, assistant to Presi
dent Busch, of the Missouri Pacific
railroad, one of the chief railroads of
the Gould lines vvere married Wednes
day last, at 12;3U o’clock The cere
mony w’as performed at L\ndhurst,
Miss Gould’s stone mansion at Seving-
ton-on-the-Hudson which had been
sumpteusly docorated with flowers for
the n'Ciuiin. I here wore 7-^ pnests,
:o!i. i.-i ill}.' ^elali^'v^ nnd intimatt'
'rit-i-l> pr* -fill.
MIR. I’M II.A ,\'rn K( Mi'iS
ll«'r [iliilaptl ro'.ijt'.s. howcvor,
carrifd mh nuivtly aiul t>i fli.- nm-.i
part. \v.‘r«- .ii siicli a |x‘i>on;,i
tliat at firpt- littU- was known
by the puhlic at laiye. In KsHO,
ever, she attracted vvidesprcaJ attention
through the gift of a library building
to the university of the city of New
York. This stiacture cost $310,000 and
supplied a long felt want to the uni
versity. From this time -^orward Miss
Gould became a national figure.
In 1898, shortly after the outbreak
of the Spanish-American war. Miss
Gould, probably rcached the zenith of
her popularity The country was wild
with excitement. Soldiers w^ere being
mobilized. Amunition and firearms
were bein? assembled. The country
was astir with the uncertainty and
excitement attendant upon w'ay.
During these days of suspen.'^e Miss
Gould was busy. First she contiibuted
$100,000 toward the war expense of
the government Next she interested
herself in the Red Cross society. And
finally she displayed a courageous en
thusiasm and a generous spirit that
won her the affection and admiration
of the nation.
Her checkbook was open for every
movement that could benefit American
fighting men and when she had dune
all that money could do she gave her
own personal services. Many a wound
ed man at Montauk camp owed his life
to her nursing.
It may be said that the Spanish war
left Miss Gould the popular idol of the
nation. Over three thousand soldiers
and officers wrote personal letters
thanking her for her sei vices; congress
awarded her a gold medal and the
states of New York,, Illinois and Pen
nsylvania thanked her in resolutions.
Among other honors conferred upon
her were the following:
A gold cup from the members of the
naval M'anch of the Y. M. C. A.
The gr?nd prize to philanthropy,
awarded by the International exposi
tion at Liege.
Honorary degrees from Wellessly
college. New York university and the
American colleere for girls at Constan
tinople.
In speaking of Miss Gould, her sec-
retaiy once said: “Miss Gould’s two
greatest pleasures are the benefitting
children and the inhalation of fresh
air. ’ ’
Another side of Miss Gould’s
acter that has not received so
publicity as ♦hat accorded her,
ities, is her business sense and train
ing. She is a clever business woman—
perhaps one of the cleverest in Ameri
can. This fact is amply evidenced by
the reputed fact that her original in
heritance of $10,000,000 is believed to
haye been increased to about $30,000,-
000 through wise investment.
char-
much
char-
MEBANE METODIST PRO- i
TESTANT CHURCH. !
Preaching each 2nd and 3rd Sunday j
at 11 a. m. and every Sunday night.!
Sunday school 9:45. Prayer meeting j
Thursday night at 7:30. i
W. E. Swain, Pastor.
J. L. Amick, Supt. of Sunday School. I
The public cordially invited to all |
these services. Bring a friend with j
I
^ ou. I
Fire at Creedmoor,
Fire broke out in the back of the
Wagstaff Lyon C^mpany dry goods
store Wednesday morning last between
4 and 5 o’clock, while the majority of
the people were still sleeping and no
thing could be done to extinguish it.
the men did every thing
possible to keep the fire
from spr .ading. The entire block, which
is composed of wooden buildings, oc
cupied by the First National Bank,
Allen’s barber shop, Wagstaff-Lyon
Company, Dr. Sanderford’s office,
Creedmoor Drug company, and the
postoffice wa& destroyed. The entire
amount of daiT age being estimated at
$13,000.
Ant's Wisdom.
(From The St Paul Pioneer Frees.)
A cook, being annoyed by the dep
redations of ants, put a pie in the
pantry shelf, surrounded it with a
thick circle of molasses and awaited j
developments. 1
They came in the shape of f'?lly 500 j
red ants, led by an ant larger than any 1
Mebane M. E. Church
South.
and an evidence that his country is
both mindful of and grateful for the i other.
services rendered. On the other hand, j When he came to the molasses
if there are any undeserving so hon- \ halted and held a consultation with a
ered, and who are drawing pensions small detachment from the main army,
through deception and fraud, their Each one selected a place where the
names should be made public so that! stream of molasses was narrowest, the
fhose who know them and know their J leador made a tour of inspection and
deserts may properly expose them, then all the ants made their way to a
Such publicity would be valuable no
less as a protection to deserving pen
sioners than as a means nf relieving
the government treasury, in a meas
ure, at least, of the fraudulent drain
to which it is now subjected Let the
pending bill pass. No legitimate in
terest has anything to lose, while much
may be gained thereby.—Va. Pilot.
Rev. F. B. Noblitt, Pastor. j
Walter Lynch, Supt. S. S. |
N. H. Walker, Assist. Supt.
Preaching every 3rd Sunday at ll:Oo ■
A. M. and second Sunday night at 7:30 I
P. M.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday j
! evening at 7:30 and a union prayer'
Y g I meeting ever Sunday after noon at j
3:00 o’clock conducted by the young |
men of the town. |
Sunday school ever^ Sunday begin |
ning at 9:45 a. m. j
Everybody welcome tc all these ser-1
vices.
hole in the wall where the plastering
was loose.
Each ant took a tiny piece of plas
ter, and to and fro they went from
nail hole to the molasses for two hours
until they had thrown a bridge across.
Then they formed in line, marched
over and soon every member of the
army was contentedly eating pie.
Fate Commute Morse’s
Sentence.
The death sentenced pronounced by
Atlanta doctors on Charles W. Morse
has been commuted by Fate. The year
in which the doctors said that Morse
was bound to die has passed, gnd as
the first month of the new year passes
too word comes lo Atlanta that the
famous barker, once a convict 'in the
federal pen., is slowly regaining his
strength and normal health, instead of
sinking toward the tomb.
No Fish.
“Come now, John, we’ve seen the
elephants and the monkeys and the
birds; let us go into the aquarium.”
“But, dear Eliza,” rep’ied the obe
dient husband. “I can’t swim a
stroke.”—Yonker's Statesman.
“Careless and slipshod enunciation
among presumably cultured people.”
Julian W. Abernathy says, “is proba
bly more common in the United States
than in ary other country in the v’orld
A Frenchman is proud of his speech
and treat.'i it as a fine art, while an
American regards his speech with in
difference or contempt.”
Right is more beautiful than private
affection, and love is compatible with
universal wisdom.—Emerson.