North Carolina Newspapers

THE MEBANE LEADER “AND RIGHT TME DAY MIJST WIN, TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE &IN. >5 Vol 3 MEBANE, N. C., THUBSOAY. FEBRUARY 13 1913 NO 57 PEHSONAIS AND LOCAL people who C0M£ AND 60. items of interest gath- KPvED by our reporter Archie stray horn spent Sunday in rlillsboro. Charlie Smith visited in Hills- i .,vo i;i week. Mi,-:; K.V.e Boon spent Saturday night with relatives. Mrs. T« m Pettigrew went down to r irhnm Nionday. Mr E. C. Turner of HawfieWs was i:, Mebane Morday. 'd in your letters from the V: Nve want the local news. Smith “Warren Mr J. I. Smith of Orancre County; was married Sunday evening to Miss | Mary Warren of Efland, Rfd. No. 1. U Death of Mrs. Newton Wilson. Valentine Lunch Party, The pibllc is cordially attend a Valentine lunch Chesnut Ridge School Fridav Peb 14th. Ladies please bring .lunch for two. MEBANE 6RADED SCHOOL ru'.’al Susie Clark is visiting her sifter J^ykos in Spencer this week. I', f Spikerof Bingham SchoJ spent t I ' y Sunday in Elon College. . ' Charles Pickard of Greensboro 6 ; * Sunday in Mebane. Mr June .Andrews of Durham spent ; y in Mebane with friends. Tom Pettigrew visited relatives ; ; in Caswell last week. Mr. Ilalph Vincent went to Grahan; a . !‘arli:'gton Tuesday. ' Lillian Bowling spent the day , '.vich friends in Durham. \ and Mrs. Charlie Merritt spent s i,;v i .y and Sunday with friends near I i Valentine Party | The Ladies Aid Soci-^ty of the M. E. | church will give a Valentine party at j the parsonage Friday evening Feb. 14 j from 7 until IL Everybody cordially invited to conne and bring your friend?. A sdver offerillT will be taken at the door for the benefit of the parsonage. Refresh- m nts free. Died after a lingering, and painful Iness, Mrs. Newton Wilson. The complications indicated that dreadful, and misterous disease pellagra. She passed from earth into rest on last! invited to Thursday night party at' daughter of the late Andersjn Wilson, night, I She was married on November 29, 1883 She leaves a husb’*nd and two children. Parks and Fred, two of her children I having proceeded her to the other Honor Roll For January Attendance. 1st. Grade: Mrs. Wilson was the Morgan, Lucile James, Grace Cheek, Howard thore. Mr. Parks \ustin Texas funeral Wilson was here from to attend his mother’s bale Leaf Tobacco The following is a made at the Planters day last week by Mr. Carr, N. C. sale of tobacco Warehouse one W. M. Ward of The Bridge Club The Tuesday Evening Bridge Club met at the residence uf Mrs. J. Mell Tbompsoi^ last Tuesday evening. Among those present w-as; Misses Mary and Catherin W^hite, Mrs. W. O. Warren, Mrs. J. S. |Vincent, Miss Lenorah Harris. Miss Scott of Graham and Miss Jennie Lasley. 400 242 98,00 330 282 94.05 274 242 67.13 304 . 34 103.36 142 18 25.56 620 60 372.00 100 12 12.00 .70 672.10 LL PISSFJ SEKAIE It Is Sul'stitntecI for the Kenyson Measure After an «il day rlcl>ate the senate late Monday evcrii -z f j'Ssfd what is known as tiie M : t' at prohibits ' the shipment of Lquor rom iiny other state into a dry strife. ( r . ^ expressed in the bill, “when in^ece 1 to be re ceived or Sold in vioi tio of the law of the state t > which th: shipment is made. ” 'Ihis bill {.h’eaay ' li.;;- p d the ■’house. The d: b te i:: : he* i-er.ate was over a senate rnta.-^ure rii:!- t ideiiti- , cal in terri.s; i.uL whi^ i C'jr.taijied an he Responsabilitles ot a Physician ! Honor Roll. li : '-VO. ' J. W. Freeman of Gulf has aco vted a position with the Mecca Lrug Co. Rv V. J. D. Hufham will preach at the ntist church the third Sunday at 11 o' c. A. M. Mr.'. M. B. Chamblee of Wakefield ne. daughter Mrs. F. L. White last week. Pr. M. Wells of Shelhy, who lor.T.or y practiced in Mebane spent sever i liays here last week. Mi ? Leonorah Harris left last, week i for to:. rd, Charlotte and Rock Hill j on p easure trip. | Mr. .nJ Mrs. H. B. Slack and child-! ren r the day Sunday in Greensboro wit r-. latives. Mrs. Cleveland Married Mrs. Francis Folson Cleveland and Prof. Thomas J. Preston, Jr., were married at 10:30 Monday n''orning by Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of IMnceton, at Prospect, the Hiben resi dence at Princeton. The utmost sim plicity was observed in the recent ill ness of Professor Preston the wedding was private and r.o announcement cards were sent out. I. O. O. F. Officers, New officers elected of Mebane L odge No. 301 L 0. 0. F. for vear 1913. The following subscribers who scription to the published list. Miss Laura Thompson Brice Warren A. P. Corbett W. B. Strayhorn Henry Scott E. H. Wright Miss T. D. McAdams M. Shanklin Ralph Vincent E. P. Cheek Dr. J. D. Hufham- Julia Long, M?ry Allen I Atta Allen, \ Hunt, Paul' Fowler, Vernon Walker, Glenn Miles, j Homer Fitch, Harry Farrell, Clay Christopher, Stacy Davis, Murray Nicholson, Arlington Wilson and James Stewart. , 2nd. Grade; Effie Miles, Margie Allen, Jeter Burton, Ruth Crawford, Claude Bobbitt, Jack Long, Sallie | Satterfield, Edgar Farrell, Robert Wilicinson, Ralph York and Murray j Vincent. 3rd. Grade: Pink Royster, George Wicks. Alma Ferrington. -* Hughes Wilkmson, and Ralph Stewart. ,. 4th Grade: Bernice Fitch, Harllee i Theron Wilkerson, Thado Smith the line. The houso bill wbieh ab^olato'y })ro- hibits the article from ir.tersti.to com merce when dvftina^.od to a drv tate is a list of the have paid their sub- Leader since our last A. F. Lambert J. S. Cheek Lacy M. Jobe T. M. Crutchfield J. £d. Jobe J. T. Shaw N G. V. G. Treas. Sec. F. Sec. Lodge Depty. A. M. Cook, i T. M. Cruthfield f Financial J. E. White i Committee ' r. «i'd Mrs. Alfred frien ;> and relatives* in SatarJ .y and Sunday. Isley visited the coimtry Local News, Every person in a community ought to feel interested in helping to make the local column.s of its home paper and important feature. It should be a matter of community Mayo: J. T. Shaw has been ill for t: e pat several days, but is much bet- pride, and is so considered in many ter we are glad to leam. Mrs. Lillie Crawford and daughter Erhlee’: i f with ' rs. E. W. Wilkerson. places. The telephone connection, w'ith the j Hilis'toro" spint“lun^y newspaper office makes ii quite con- venient. Wont you try and think of it and do what you can to inform the Ed itor of home happenings. An Oyster Supper. Contributed. A very attractively appointed Oyster Supper was given the youn? men of ^ the “White House” Mebane last j Friday night by the Misses Whites, j and to say that it was enjoyed by those I so fortunate to be there, would be j putting it mildly, for to know the ! Misses Whites makes one fully acquainted with good hostess’es. Plates were laid for tw#‘nty and after supper the dining room was cleared and cards were plaved and j joke.T exchanged until at a late hour I all said good night, and went to their respective quarters feeling tha*" one was ^ortunate to be counted as friends of these two very noble hostess, may wfc add ’‘Heres hoping" that they may live long and prosper. “One who was there." and Estelle Hunt. SCHOLARSHIP Lower 5th. Grade: Sam Satterfield, Glenn Clark and Schley Lynch. Higher 5th. Grrde: Lottie Long and Pauline Lambeth. 6tn. Grade: ^Sybil Walker. 7th. Grade: Holen Warren, Mary Rimmtr and Lottie Satterfield. 8th. Grade: Haywoo Jobe. Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.—Burke. j was substituied laLe in t'ne j agreed to witno^t a r-.ll call Previous vote to ---.i \ l h> dav and I Shepherd bill shi-v. o i j . ' j in favor of the lejfi.'l,it!(> of 61 to 20 Tha liquora int lid- :! u or for saciamencitl purpi'-vs within the law. They wou d haps if any state Uiade ;a ,v them but no state eve - Lns b^biy never wiil en ct .^ucVi K'-nyon- fp'^nuoi-ance in.tlie raito In the spring of 1896 there was a suit triei in London for slander that excited world wide attention. It was a suit against Dr. Kitson Playfair, a gynecologist. The suit was instituted by Mrs, .Tames Kitson, wife of Sit James Kitson and resulted in an award of 560,000 damage to the plaintif. The verdict had far reaching reaalts, in de- Rep„rts upon which this Government termmg the responsibihty of phys.cians took action come from who were accustomed to make flippant a-^d, though I’emarks about the diseases, or com- s)mewhat plaints from which their patient suf fered. , T,, . i It was iK> longer The guilt or innocence of Mrs. Kitson ; p^^mit American cut no figure so far as public sentiment | America to was concerned While a physician un der oath in a criminal court may pos- t„ > r i • . -:ui, J ^ ^ in baivador, w.iere for a long period rrioij be excused for betraying profes- pga^e has sional confidence to serve some greati, i r i • H u 7J I rfssasMnation last week of President rhfnfir ’ - band of conspirator., is the pieas. m pnvate discussion and; believed to threaten trouble, although nfwWnsTl'" /Th ^ 'the President sent assurances to his llawkins, to leave to the discretion of i. i.u , • • i. , . i "l‘riister that the country was quiet. a physician to reveal secrets about his! *^1 patience would be to imperil the found- i ^ come rumors of rebellious movements in Honduras and uni'est in Guatemala, while in New Orleans there are gathering physical experience to the /attending j fortune and adherents of physician. ' the deposed dictator, credited i Besides the vast importance every- designs on the Governs , where of the Judge’s charge, practically 1 Pres dent Diaz of Nicaragua. to.that effect, and of the jury's momen- i i tous verdict, the case has a particular interest for Americans in that the de- Four Warships Ordered to Protect American Interests Storm clouds oyer Central America with the single exception of Costa I Rica, caused the United States to ^ order four warships there. Gov many quarters in most cases they Hte vague and speculative, th'^y are stongly of the general tercr—that thought wise to interests in Centr; 1 remain exposed to any dangers. • 'ado prevailed, the attempted of»^^n depends upon the absolute state ment of every detail of his or her .oor.'onal use s are not i e per- to i; elude fendant’s brother. Lord Playfair, the, ard 1 ro-! d stinguished scientist and a Parlia-1 Few Trained Teachers. !aw. Silence is the element in which great j things fashion themselves together, j that at length tliey may emerge, full-1 formed and majestic, into the davlight | of Life, which they are thenceforth to mentary leader, married Russell, of Boston. Miss rule. —Thomas Carlyle. It Is All Explained. Good ftJoaUs. Many of the countie? i;i Virginia are j ti xing their credit to s cure the where- ■ withal to provide ii,e: selves v.ith im- pioved highways, and ther.- is good reason to believe that the time is not far distant when all the others will be following ?uit. T/iis work of construct- road:i can not be prosecuted too vigorously, but it - ughG to go with out fayinc tiiat thew^.rK will not end with the con=tri!. lion, ilighways, no matier how well and durably built, are subject to coiistant wear and tear and so can be kept Good liumor (From Milwaukee Journal.) Thackeray says, “Good humor may be s£id to be the very |best article of Not more than one in every five pub lic school tcachers in the United States Edith ^ are professionally trained to the extent ' of beinff a graduate of a teachers’ training course, according to a bulletin ' on rural school teachers just issued by i the United Statss bureau of education. ; In fact, A. C. Monahan and R. H. Whight, the authors of the bulletin, point out that this ratio represents At this late day it should not be necessary to come to the aid of his lordship the ground hog every few i ing days. Since Monday the weather has been clear and cold. This emboldens some to declare the little rascal ‘•slipped up”~missed it Once more we nse to remark that the under ground gentleman never ha» said we were to have rains and snows, sleets' set St.; tf (t prose cyclones and hurricanes. When he constant vigilance a'-d pr. :r.i«i?ie?s in dives back in his winter home after repairing defects as fast a? they his shadow on the second of ,\\ ashiii.u,t;>n iost ,joints dress ono can wear in society.” Good : only the highest possible estimate; that humor is a garment of home manufact- ^be ; actual conditions are ^;ven less ure which everyone may weave after : favorable his own design in his own coloring and ■ It is in the rural schools that the style. Whatever Dame Fashion’s die- _ problem of .securing competent teachers tates may be, good humor is always in j has been nr.ost acute. The attention of order. There is no one but meets with i educational leaders has in the past many little irritating things daily. If ! been occupied by the rapid growing of he gives way in vexation to each of the urban systems and the rural sehools been neglected. The trained seeing February, he says to all the world that winter is not over. That’s all. Keep quiet and watch him for forty days—no more, no less. — Greensboro Record. Tcieeraph reports say there was two h ar~ nard work in the Legisluture •M n iay. Two hours, oh well they are P'' ! time killers, that all. F rn ers wishing tobacco seed may i s M plied as long as they last ♦^y i ' ^ Lf at the Piedmont Warehouse. -> . L. G. Wilkerson of near Mebane V 1 eti into the saw mill business near with Mr. Joe Murry about the j to become pastor -' f this month. I K re is a special of remnants at H F. \V;',.inson store, also bargains in j '* ■ Don’t fail to have your meaa-1 V ken for a neat fitting, nice suit on Feb. 14th and 15th. Dr. Hufhan: to Take Uharge of the baptist Church. It will be gratifying news to our Baptist friends and the public in general to leam that Dr. J. D. Hufham has of the Baptist church of Mebane. An able devine, a good man, he will be a source of much benefit to our com munity. A Months School Term, Hillsboro Items Mr. and Mrs. Jim Williams and^V’iss Maggie Williams of Durham spent Sunday with their father Mr. A. J. ' Williams. { Mr. Archie Strayhorn of Mebane! spent Sunday in Hillsboro. ! Miss Ida Lloyd of Durham spent I Saturday night and Sunday i i Hiil?^- j boro. Mr. Davie Dunn of Mebane was in break thai nceus r in :-n approxiraatelv unhappy and com-; have ‘.ati.>n onlv by ■ fnunicating his unhappiness to others, i teachers, themselves often the product But, meeting these small vexations I of the country, have been attracted to cheerful he finds a large part of them i the cities and towns by higher salaries smoothed away, while those that re- i main are borne more easily if taken with good humor. “A good laugh is worth a hundred groans in any nrar- ket.” The man who is always kicking against pin pricks makes himself dis- man is al- of society, humor and their own. out that the chief re.ir. ii v. nv France has the best system of j,>ublic mads in the world is becau.-^- of the splendid patrol e-ysten^ in lorce thvre Every mile of natloiuil 1;,.;: y i:i '■ne French I Republic is > vcrt'1 i y a patrolman, who imniefiiatei. r-_ ;oi cs :c- rut cr ■air. Pilf.t. liked. The good humored ways a welcome member People have enough ill temptation to ill humor of It is the man who can relieve this that j thpy are glad to see and he is the man j whose humor bubbles over and brings 1 lightness instead of gloom. i and better prospects. There was formerly little inclination to appraise rural teaching at its full value, either in pay or position, and the better teach ers left the country schools as soon as they gained experience.—Raleigh Times. Senator Webb Filibuster. On President VVilson ington, 1). i Wash- Democrats Who Are Democrats. * town Sunday. Mr. Robert Graham spent Saturday night and Sunday in Durban" with his son Mr. Hallie Graham. M. Lady Minstrel. There are strong appeals going up i to Raleigh asking that provisions be 1 made to continue the public school j term to six months. No more importai.t 1 measure could be directed the attention 1 of the general assembly. But what is j the use. The State has sent a crowd j to Raleigh that seem to be the pliant | tools of the lei?al profesh Its to increase the number of offices and, increase the salaries of those already j holding offices, but the farmers out of j *; whose pockets you propose to filsh the | ‘ r,, j , ^ I -/i. Mebane were in town Sunday greater per centage o^i taxes, you say | let his children grow up in ignorance, i MARCH 4, 1013. Mrs. Charlie Smith of Mebane spent Friday nifiht in town. Mr. Nelson Wright and his sister Miss Maggie Wright spent Sunday in Hillsboro. Mr. and Mrs, Charlie Merritt of Low rouv.d trip Railway. For tlie above oc 'a Railway annource.a round trip fare? CS VI :i ;ion : ('VcCe-; '''aPhingli ,1c Southern Southern i'l^iy low '!1, 1). C., Se.jator Webb has joined in the ^ democratic jfilibuster against the con- i firming of several hundred appointees ! of President Taft. In times past he Not^ had condemned in the presence of his ' “boys” a filibuster on general princi- I Dies, hence he fell it incumbent upon him to explain his present position. It is pointed out by Senator Webb that Taft is rsing.the expiring members of his official career to pay political debts and to take care of republican “leme ducks.” This was evident in Mr. Ed Scott of Cedar G. Merchant of Washington ni.g this week at the White H u Mr. Merchant is here to con Mr. W. T. Bobbitt’s sale. He is a c.tver gentleman, and has made n-a .y friends. ^pport home Institution is the aim . ,ry pxogressive town, and there ■ e mo^e important than a good 1V - Ti gr office. To give yotir job work to i:; out of town job office that is not i - ted in the success and develop- '• of your home town, is not the help your town forward. When iid not have a job office, or news- I , r you felt, you would give them a ill r >rt when you eot one. Some 1 ess men realize the importance - u|jporting their home institution. Don't forget the LADIES MIN STREL to be play 3d at the Graded School one night this month. The date ! will be announced in next week’s Lea- j der, so don't fail to look for it. We I are woilcing hard to make this show a great success, and we guarantee your full money’s worth and more. We want everybody to come. Men, women and children, one and all have a cordial invitation. (One of the Girls.) Like the autocrat of Rusia this will be your method .for keeping up this infernal tirrany over the people Educate the farmers and you will get i, parents Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Laster. class in Raleigh that won’t be a a Class in discredit to the State. I he Height of Folly he Raleigh Times thinks some t ie are taking the statement that legislature would pass a bill to hi bit the manufacture, and sale of • retts entirely too serious. We have irht so all the time, and did not ‘ ve the subject worth discussing, fijurse there are a good many li b things the present Legislature, apable of doing, but this is not one them. To suppose a body of tf'tided representative men at *' ' ijrh was capable of destroying an ■ ' ' Ired million dollars worth of North ■r ilina industries at one fell strok ‘ obedience to a frantical idea, was ^ 'lish. We thought a petition to the • 'gislature asking that they do not 1 • s such a bill, was the height of f„lly. Death of Jack McCallum Jack McCallum, a well respected j colored man died at his home in Meb-1 ane on Wednesday evening of last week ; Jack had been a Mebane institution | for a long time, having spent 20 or 25 years of^his 50 existance in Mebane, j He W'as a butcher by trade. He was j quiet, and peaceable colored man, and! was thought well of. The San Francisco Exposition is getting merited criticism for asking for $2,000,000 from congress, when the solemn promise when the vote on location was tak*n was that nothing was to be asked from the government. Expositions have had their day, so far as government aid is concerned. List of Letters K, pi A Box Party box Feb. con- was Thej Miss Annie Ferguson gave a party at her home Monday night 10th. The boys brought boxes taining refreshments. A girl blindfolded and drew the boxes, following parties were in attendance. Misses Lottie Satterfield, Nannie | Boon, Smithie Ham, Lois Ham, Clara ! Warren, Sudie Cook, Sophie Long, j Pauline Nicholson and Mrs, Jack Smith. Messrs. June Lewis, Herbert Jobe,» Jesse Tingen, Charlie Dillard, Frank | Warren, Glenn Scott, Earl Shaw, j Sylus Compton, I. D. Ham and Talton j Jobe. Remaining unclaimed at this office in the week ending Feb. 18. 1913 1 Letter for Miss Minnie Strain 1 Letter for Miss Nance Murry 1 Lettor for Mi6s Chatta Mener 1 Letter foifMrs. Kitty Cates 1 Letter for Mrs. C. A. Shaw 1 Letter for Mr.fC. W. Clasp 1 Letter Mr. Gaston W. Meares. 1 letter Mr. DanielJWade Miller 1 Letter for Mr. H. E. Mebane 1 Letter for Mr. C. A. Bunker 1 Letter for Mr. Collin Ruffin 1 Letter for Lewis Vincent 1 Letter for R. J. Walker 1 Card ::or Fannie Parker 1 Card for Mr. Walker Wagnes 1 Card Mr. Lewis A. Bullock. j These letters will be sent to the! Dead Letter Office Feb. 22 1913, npt called for before. In calling for the above please say ‘Advertised" giving date of ad. list. Respectfully, S. Arthur White, P. M. Sunday night with his brother-in-law Mr. G. H. Dunn. Mr. Clyde Laster is visiting his j I We are clad to note that Mrs. Ed | Stewart who has been coiifined to her room for several weeks is getting some better, her friends will be glad to see j her out again. i I Mebane M. E. Church | South. Rev. F. B. Noblitt, Pastor. Walter Lynch, Supt. S. S. j N. H. Walker. Assist. Supt. Preaching every 3rd Sunday at ll:Oo A. M. and second Sunday night at 7:30 P. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30 and a un»on praver meeting ever Sunday after noon at 3KK) o’clock conducted by the young men of the town. Sunday school evci f Sunday begin ning at 9:45 a. m. Everybody welcome tc all these ser vices. an.d return. lor indiv'..ia.ils ni.d parties of twenty five iL’o;. 'r UiOi ' traveling together on one tick-'. Ticket.^ will be on sale February 2otii. March 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Fii.al return litnjt March lOtb, 1913, or if orijrinai purchaser of j individual ticket;: dv.'ires lo ttay longer i by paying a t\e oi'ol.lK* li:u;l iiniit can Gro\e spent I uiitil Apr Round trip fares poiTits as follows; From Indivi-lu.-’.l i Goldsboro, $10 Oo ! Raleigh 9--i5 i Durham 9 4u I Chapel Hill 9.40 j Burli.igton 9.40 i Rates will be in same ■ from all other Stations, j For detailed information ; special party movenieiUs, rle accomodations, special Train When it comes to tariff plunder, the | Democratic members of the Florida | Citrus Exchange are of one mind with the Republican members of the' California Citrus Exchange They! threaten that if under the new Admini- stration they are deprived of a cornered | the sweeping order placing some 40,000 market in this country they will bolt j fourth-class republican postmasters the Democratic party. ' under civil service, or, in other words. Soon we shall have other menaces of j giving them a life tenure of office the same kind, and if th- Democrats ! unless they resigned or were dismissed prove true to their pledges we need j incompetencv. The basis of ciyil not doubt that there will be so.ne actual j service is a competitive examination, defections. Besides orange-and-lemon : and the fact that no such examination Democrats, there are sugar Democrats, I was ordered proved the move to be ' iron-and steel Democrats, zinc Dem- j purely an effort to save his partisans ; ocrats and Standard Oil Democrats, i ^^®*^^tive order. ; Every one of them will be sngry when such effort to “hog the game his own cherished graft is taken out ■ '^^t with the approval of Senator of the tariff. { Webb, w’no quickly came to the con- i’o! capita fare 1 If these were all the Democrats the : that a lebuke was due the $6.40 i case world be pretty serious, but they | In addition to the fourth- 6.00-are not. There are millions of Dem-1 ^^ass postmaster lifeboat, Taft is now 5.95 ocrats who have no license from! seeking to, at the very close of his 5.95 government to gouge the’r neighbors, | term, appoint officials by the hundreds 5.95 ^ and there are millions of Republicans | who will practica ly hold over during proportions | who in a pinch will help them choke off | the en^^ire i the gluttons of both parties who have | Wilson, rclitive lo fattened so long at public expense.—i vfere [)ii g Car I New York World, arrange- i I If'th, t’l oni important L’ rties five or more first term of President Many of these commissions 1-1 A brother offer ded is ! won than a strong city.—Proverbs ments, etc. ask your Arent or municate with tne undersigned. S. D. Kiser j — r" _ .-r City Agent. Raleigh, N. C. | The hand of God is as really and as J. O. Jones, Trav’eling Passenger Agent. Raleigh, N. C fully present in the ordinary course of nature as in the most amazing mira cle.—Dr. S. R. Driver. not renewed in some instances to ! extend the term of the original harder to he ! appointee far beyond eight years. From present indications the filibuster will be a success. Taft can then lay the blume on the democrats . for blocking his appointments, and the hungry laithful will have no kick on ! the chief executive.—Nashville Tennes sean. MEBANE METHODIST PRO TESTANT CHURCH. Preaching eich 2nd and 4th Sunday | at 11 a. m. and every Sunday night. Sunday school 9:45. Prayer meeting if i Thursday night at 7:30. ' W. E. Swain, Pastor. J. L. Amick, Supt. of Sunday School The public cordially invited to all these services. Bring a friend wnth • ou. i Direct Election is Proper I W ay. With justifiable pride Senator Sim- mons has presented to the national body ! of which he is a member Xorth Caro- ■ lina’s ratification of the proposed con- : stitutional amendment to have the peo ple elect United States ^^nators, be- I cause North ('arolina is the first state i that has ratified the amendment. Hav ing early opportunity afte” j assage of j the bill, thv^ North Carolina legislature acted without hesitancy-and put its It is usually not so much the great- j xhe courage to be just, the courage ness of our trouble as the littleness of j to be honest, the courage to resist tem- our spirit which makes us complain. — ! ptation, the courage to do one’s duty — Jeremy Taylor. Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that pers^on what- j ever he says has an enhanced value.— I Emerson this is the moral courage that charac terizes the highest order of manhood and womanhood; it is the courage with out whif.h no great, permanent suc cess in life is achieved.—'Smiles. Appeal of the Afflicted. It was Walter’s first visit to church, and he tried hard to remember all the varied instructions he had received, , 1 .4. r’ Buch as not whispering, keeping his stamp of approval on the matter. Good! , And yet, on top of this action, some, during the main petition of the folks in Wiimin^ton want the legisla-j service nature won a complete battle tors of New Harover to make the very ■ over memory and decorum. “Mother," paradoxical move of taking the election I 8hrlll«d the weary youngster, “when Anger seeks its prey— Something to tear with shari:?-edgcd tooth and claw; J Likes not to go off hungry; leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will. -George Eliot. of mayor of this city out of the hands of the people.--Wilmington Dispatch. will It be time for me to straighten my neck? It’s like to break If I don’t do it soon!” Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. — Philip James Bailey.