“And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.”
VOL. 4
MEBANE, K. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1913
NO. 66
SONALS AND LOCAL
BRIEFo
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fPIE 1?I£0 COME
AND GO.
S OF INTEREST GAIH-
KDBYOUR REPORTER
; . W Cook spent Thursday in
■'1
.!. H. Fowler is visiting in
sb >ro
Fannie Mebane spent Thursday
, H
M H. W. Bason is si>ending this
l^hicago.
.1. W. Nicholson is visiting her
H. C. Nirholson.
,i. W. Simmons of Haw River
Mebane Friday.
tl. W. Bason is spending this
ith relatives in Mebane.
Siuiie l\^Cauley of Gibsonviile
■ t Mr. H. C. McCauley Sun-
I Closing Exercises of 1 he
I Graded Schools
j The programme o! the closir^ e crr-
; cises of the Mebane Grade l School
i will appear in next v e ks Leader.
I The date’s of theclosinj? exei cises will
II e on the.24 and 25th of April.
Twel ve Long Blows.
Miss Feafl Efland spent last
! nesday in Durham shopping.
vv d-
bve--
VI'
Tennis,
In a tennis match Monday evenirij^
Bingham School defeated Mebane by
the score of 24 to 3 cr four sets. Prof.
Cooper, Edgar McCauley ard Fran'.
Warren represented Mebane while
Bingham Gray and G'-orfro Wheeler
played for Bingham.
il'rs-ut Okl Oak Tree ’
That immense oak tree that had been
laying on t ie sii'e of the street in front
of Mr. J. N, Warren's residence, is a
thin;^ of the past. It was cut up and
goten out of the way largely through
the individual efforts of Rev W. E.
Swain and kev. F. B. Nobblett, both
showing they could swmg an ax and . that is for a freight engineer to pull up ; jug a while with her parents Mr. and
I maul as well as wield the truths of. his engine in front of f>ur sleeping
; religion bohind the pulpit. | app.irtments at about two o’clock A M
Ir was a very large, stately tree, land stop and then with a whistle that
a beauty, nearly five foct through at j will beat forvolumn offoaadany steaii
, the stump. Standing it was worth a i calliope. proceed|to take about twelve
hundred dollars to any home, cut down | long blows covering about four mitutes
Efiand It^ms
We like tr» ht ar a railroad engine
whistle blow, that is ufter we have
been away /roin civilization for some
time, but ordinarly we are willing for Mrs. John McDade and children of p
the other fellow to enjoy our portion of Cedar Grove spent last week with her ^
the music. There is however one parents Mr. and Mrs. Coll McCadams.
thing we confess we do not like, and i Miss Sallie Tapp of Durham is spend
A WORD OF RESPECT
CJf r 8E
Mrs. Richard Tapp
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merritt of
Mebane visited Mr. E. D. Thompsons
last week.
visiu
day.
Mr
Notice!
There will be a mass meeting of the
voters of the town of Mebane on the
18, of April, 1913 to nominate a gov
erning board for said town for the
H3xt two years. Every citizen should
come out and name his choice.; This
meeting will be held in Mayor’s office,
8 o’clock, P. M.
J. T. Shaw, Mayor.
the wood was worth ab^^ut ten dollars.
We rf'grfted to see it go. It was
r;Khty. .-r a hundred feer. high, -and it?
branches reached out from tip to tipi
over quire as much space. j
Mr. M. L. Efland and Kev W’^ilhelm
Now this is a little tryinji oh ournervi s, j went up to Graham ’ast Wednesday to
And So it Will Happen.
and it otherwise worries us betrause
we lay there and try to think who it is
that has made the engineer mad, and
he is trying to get even with them
We think of how many people tired,
and restless who are trying to get a
little sleep, that they may be able to do
the next davs work. That ia all,
except this, it was our experience last
Tuesday night, and that of a large
attend Presbytery.
Miss Bessie Hooks of Mebane spent
Sunday with her friem’, Mis;^ Bessie
Baity.
For John Pi^rpont Morgan
The Directors of The
Southern Railway
The Board of I^irecton. of the South-
\
crn Railway Company, meeting upon |
At ril 11, 1913, unanimously adopted;
thf‘ following minute:
John Pierpont Morgar, Founder of
th(‘ Southern Railway, died at Rom^,
M .reh 31, 1913, after a long Hfe, full
Cl distinjruished honors and abounding
in benefit to mankind. His noble
I ch.i.racter and his splendid ca’*eer justly
have received recognition in every
Culture and Character
Come Down From Gener
ation to Generation.
Daily, everywhere, there bobs up a
young man, lithe and stately, with
clean cu^ face and c’e ir eyes, whom
you are inclined to put down as a
“perfect specimen of humanity’* until
he opens his» mouth—and betrays a
lack of manners, comments a Chicago
paper editorially. As soon as this
H. C. Nicholson and httle dau-
ghier TAinii, went down to Durham
S. 'i.t lard is changing hands in Meb
ane. i:0\v build some, and then build
soir.o n.-'i’o.
.Mary White spent several days
Ia?i \VL.k in Graham attending the
Pre?^ytery.
Pr J. H. Hurdle drove up to Greens
b !\ M'lriihiy afternoon to witness the
irame.
.Mr C Graham of McCall, S. C.
i? ii.r, with his wife visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Snipcs.
Mrs. U Anthony returned home
Saturday from Wilson where she visit
ed h> r inoihcr.
Mr. and Mrs. Felix Graves and baby
vi-'ito.l Mrs. J. \V. Nicholson in Greens
boro tilt' piisL week.
Mrs. J. Mell Thompson spent last
week in .\r.derson, S. C., returning
■>Minday ai'ternoon.
.Mr. J. .. . Hudson left Monday for
D ;ne. Miiton and other points to
IvoK a.iL-r .'ome business.
Now oret it right, running down any
industry, is not building up your town,
even it the fellow who does it is built
that way.
There is an enormous quantity of
valuable oak lumber shipped from Meb-
ai '. ime one ought to be making
e niiiney out of it.
Ml-srs. W. W. Corbett, June Lewis
aiii Ben Warren went up to Greens-
M-tnday to witness the game of
ba^i ball there in the afternoon.
Therr are a lot ot pec pie that drop
oi" ar M, liane to take a peep at the
towii. Later they may plant some dol-
l?r> hi TP. It is fertile soil they will
grow :.',1 rif^ht.
Dov't f'il to subscribe for your home
paper.
it (!(-*.•
The Griffith Place Sold
A real estate sale of some import {
was consumated Monday when papers j
were exchanged for the puychace and |
sale of the Griffith pl-’ce some five or |
six miles North West of Mebane, Mr. I
J. S. Warren agreed to transfer to'
Mr. C. E. Allen the place containing i
325 acres for the sum of $6,500. Mr ,
Allen is from Orange Countv.
If Maj. C. M. Stedman has been a
‘irtle quiet, and exhibited a retiring I
disposition during his stay in Congress, i
he is wBkmg himself felt now in his 1 f “‘her people of Mebane, and
lecomme. dations for Post masters
this district. There are some who [
split their shirts, and strained their | i"-' ■
fhroats in energising their enthusiasm
for the Major, who feel like a Romeo
who has had ihe slop bucket emptied
I upon his head while singing some
dulcet song to their sweet Juliett.
Mrs. W. F. Spainhour, and daughter,
Mrs Carl Carroll of Winston-Saie.Ti
visited Mrs. J. R. Riley and Mrs. T.
R. Fitzpatrick a few days last week.
M^s. J. J. Brown and little son,
Herschiel visited relatives in Hillsboro
last week.
country and from rulers and people | y mng man bngins to speak you become
alike. No citizen of this republic with- j ?.ware that he is not a gentleman, but
n “grent,” in all that the word implies
Working For The Best.
Arnold Snipes Shocked.
Rev F. M. Hawley the popular pastor
of the Presbyterian Church of Mebane
has t?ken ^the oc-asion in several of
his se*mons of late, to express regret
Arnold Snipes who is aiding in the j discord, and jaring differences
work of the electrical block system of \
the Southern Railway between Char- i ^^b^nes people. There is so much
^ lotte and Greensboro was shocked to harmony, and good feeling,
insensibility and burned while in con- Cawleys interest in this matter,
tact with a live wire last Friday at P""^ to di.scourage it. and
Charlotte. His ear and leg was scorch- 1 brin? about a more harmomous feehng
ed, his father. Mr. Fred Snipes went |Christian character,
up to see him Friday. It is thought faith, and hope for the best
that an electric voltage of near four
thousand was shot through Arnolds
body.
Election Notice
There will be an election held in the i
Trinity College Items.
Durham, N. C.
The Avera lectures, delivered on the
8 9-10, were largely attend^. Dr.
And so after all there comes a time for i Whalinfir is a lecturer of great power
refle'-tion. , handled the subjcct of Christ’s
, 7=^=;;. ! kingdom in an unusual and appealing
way.
Trinity wins another victory by
beatii.g V. M. I. ' a score of 7-4.
The game was hard fought and both
teams showed great spirit. The
Trinity boys seem to be impioving as
the days go by. and it looks as 'though
the boys will wind up the season in
high style. The r'ext game of the
season is to be played this afternoon
(April 14.) The visiting team is Guilford
College
Dr. F. N. Parker of the department
of Biblical literature preached the
monthly sermon at Trinity yesterday
(April 13.) A 'large crowd heard the
distinguished preacher.
Prof. li. A. Forsyth of the depart
ment of Romance language at Trinity
visited his father at Morfolk, Va., this
week.
Mr. Jesse Baity of Bingham School
spent the day Suiiday at home with
his parents Mr. and Mrs J. R. Baity.
Miss Grace Stanford
afternoon with her friends Misses
Pearl and Maggie Tapp-
Misses Glennora and Ivey .‘^mith of
Hillsboro spent Friday night with their
cousin Miss Bessie Baity.
j out f)ffici-»l position of any kHd tv. r
j has attained such eminence and none
! lieserved it more. His fame, illustrious
j in his lifetime for great achievements
j ^;reatly planned, will abide in the years
I to come, for it was founded upon
integrity and maintained by devotion
I to high principle. To this general
j lecogn’tion of hi-^ personal cliaracter
j I he Directors of the Southern Railway
I Company must adtl a special and partic-
I ular iiibut^, for to Mr. Mor;;an more
sfent un j. any o'her is due the creation
t;:;d the d^‘velopm>^nt of the Southern
in the vocabulary of the street corner.
Manners, politeness, are a kst art
with a great many of our voun^ gt*n-
eration. Culture and refinement aie
not often to be had fcr the asking in
our large cities. You have to look for
them with a magnifying glass all too
froquentlv. Yot our schools and other
institutions, where manners are sup
posed to be considered, can hardly be
held responsible for this national de-
fidiency. Our schools are good and our
librari
The blame
in his
fellow man. There are but few things
that are more abhorent to well bred
i people, more detestable to a refine
sense of feeling than to hear the mean
insinuating remarks, usualy made
1 without the shadow of a foundation,
town of Mebane, on May 6th 1913, to 1 -ome
elect a Mayor and board of five com-1 “'ey who escape these
missioners. P. Nelson, has been I f’>''Sed vipers,
appointed registrar, and will have the I fhe mnocence of young womanhood
registration books open at the store of'‘he gray hajrs of old age must all
P. Nelson and Co. All those who have . the damning blight of these
not already registered for town election I b»-" sianderous. The
will be required to register before they j ““S'
can vote. Books will close April 19th ' knc' l'-^sses repeating this vicious filth
and will be open again on Saturday oh the horror of it. Any thing that
would help to strangle, and discourage
meet with
member of the community.
accomplished music teacher returned
to her home at Orange Grove Sunday
We regret to loose Miss Perry, but
hope to have her with us again next
year.
The closing exercises of the E. H.
school at Efland Friday and Saturday
« i-i .« i.u J * i nights were attended by quite a large
Dr. W. H. Glasson of the depart-' ® i j
. . „ . , f I number of people despite the steady
meat of Economics leaves tbe 20th for , r • t i a.-
, , I s TT • u 1. Ml down pour of rain. In the Declamation
Johns Hopkins University where he will j. ^ j i
Mr. Frank Boggs spent last Tuesday
in Hillsboro on Business.
ies are efficient, and our art gal-
Railway, one of the first of the many | leries are up to date. Our lit-rature is
recrgat;izations justly identified with ! the literature of the world,
his nnme. From the beginni.ig it j lies elsewhere
engaged and it never has faded to It lies in the home. Too manv
receive his wise guidance and his | American homes are devoid of man-
I constant and libend j.ssistanee. Through | nei s and refinement Democracy and
I his fosterine: care it has grown to its | opportunitv are back of this state of
Mr. W. E. Thompson is spending present proportions, attesting the; affairs Thousands of our well to-do
this week m Chatham Co. on business | soundness ot his forecast, and the public | families of today have come into their
Mr. and Mr George Thompson rendered in his rescue and p;ssessions over night. They have
support of Lh’s important insti umen-1 come up from the bottom. And they
tahtj of commerce which has contil-j brought with them the manners or the
buted not only to the beneficial develop-1 lack cf manners of the bottom. These
ment of the southern countiy but also j manners or lack of manners, they drag
more broadly to human welfare in j with them in their
I making permanent provision for the
latives in Greensboro and Burlinton on j honorable livelih„„d of a vust body of
return home.
Mebane atter
Efland Satur
J the school
nipcht.
closing at
Mrs. J. R. Laity returned last Fri
day from an extended visit ti her son
in Winston Salem, she also visited re
employees and their families.
Miss Aline Perry our charming and j The mtmhers of this Board share
with the worldwide public in a sense of
personal loss, and in extending to the
family of Mr. Morgan the assurance of
respectful sympathy.
Freak
Leo-islative
Bills
deliver a series of lectures on the
subject of Pensions. Dr. Glasson is
well fitted for this task, being well
trained in the field of economics.
tl,
will.
rrmr
it is the smallest kind of
to think of cutting off ex-
fr'ini that source Don’t do it,
It pay, and you will leam it
'-tUT.
;t tie Ham of Charlotte will
i Mebane Thursday, and Friday
: accompany Miss Smithie Ham
^-i{ih, Pikeville and Goldsboro,
Mis.s Smithie Ham will spend a
" i.-^iting relatives.
April 26 untill 9 o'clock P. M. By order , ^ ,
board of Commissioners. i such a vile tendency should
J. T. Shaw, Mayor, J. E. White, Secty. i "-“st earnest encouragment by the best
I people. The influence of a good man
~ ~ “ j strugglincr haid and earnest to right
Held on Murder Charge, jsuch a wrong is Christ like.
John E. Fogleman, a young white !
man, of good connections, was arrested Yes The “Navy is Theirs.'*
in a woods near Greensboro Thursday
and is held without bail to answer for
the murder of W. H. Tucker, a painter.
Tucker was shot from behird as he
passed under a street are light shortly
after midnight. Fogleman, who is
known as the “Blind Tiger King,” was
Orange Grove Items
Secretary, Daniels of the Navy, in
the greatness of his good heart says
“if we can only convince the people
that the Navy is theirs.” Why man
alive, they know it, and regard it with
the same pet ven-^ration that a horse
under a two year sentence upon con-1 does a cart he has been accustomed to
viction last week of retailing whiskey pulling with a heavy load. These little
and pending appeal of the case was out catch phrases are so tender,
on $2,500 bond. The killing of Tucker, , touching, they
the police say, was because of a belief
of Fogleman that he was a police in
former. Four negroes are also held as.
material witnesses for the State.
Ar.nie Ferguson who spent some
Mtly here with her upcle Mr.
.M
tim>
\V. Hudson, has returned to her
in Danville. It is a source of
pleasure to her i'riends to leam that
her
Mi.-
Ht f
fla- ■
s aith has much improved.
^ ' )livia Sm.ith, Miss Ray and
> Burlington were visitors^
hunne of Mr. Fred Snipes Sun-‘Pridgen
h(‘y were here especially to see
-tie Graham who is here on a
McCall. S. C.
With Our Advertisers.
“We want your trade” is the
beginning of a change of ad for H. W.
and J. C. Webb of Hillsboro, who
carry a large genera! stock. They
direct your attention to a nice line of
dress goods just received.
and
all most rattle like a
bunch of fodder before a hungry horse,
they are so full of meaning. The
people appreciate it. its their Navy
and it does them so much good to think
ho A? hard it is for them to live while
they can afford to have a battleship
shot to pieces when its about six or
seven years old, for target practice.
They like that, and then they like for
the government to shovel money in j
the Army and Navy bin at the
contest for boys the medal was won
• by Mr. Sam Walker, and in same for
I girls the medal was won by Miss
I Meadie Kay. and presented by Mr. J.
B. Baity. Each and every student dis-
1 played their training and |all were
highly complimented. We think that
the teachers, Mrs. Tom Cheek and
Miss Bertha Pratt deserves much cre
dit for the in which they trained their
p^ipils.
“Patz,”
Nearly every legislature in the coun
ty is at times burdened with freak bills
of some character, which are offered by
men of various degrees of tempera-
fnent and for purpose that are hard to
understand.
Mr. and Mrs. 0. M. Crawford spent
Friday in Hillsboro shopping.
Miss Aline Perry is at home after
spending several months teaching at
Efland. We need all our girls and
boys at home.
Miss Ava Crawford who has been
teaching in Guilford county near Greens ,
boro for the past school year is now ;
at home. Miss Crawford came through
Chapel Hill and spent a few days. , Xhree ShutS Were Fired
Mr. Wood and Miss Allie Patterson King in the Streets
of Burlington came down to hear
“Tompkin's Hired Man” Saturday
night and aloo to visit relatives anj
friends.
ANARCHIST TRIES TO
SUY AtPHONSO
of Madrid.
For the third time in his reign King
automobiles, into
cafes and clubs. A good tailor and a
barber can change the physical appear
ance. Culture and character come
down from generation to generation.
They can not be ^ught with money
The first generation of immigrants
is another factor in our want of man
ners. The American born or raised
children lose patience with their for
eign speaking parents. They consider
thetfi back numbers. The refinement
and gentlemanUness which the immi
grant parei ts had inherited trom
worthy ancestors for generations back
are spurned by thefe youngsters. They
pick their ethics and behaviour from
their companions in the street, in the
alley, or in the nickel theater. They
In the Connecticut legislature the | take this to be the true American be
long hatpin bil has just been killed. It j havior, when in reality it is but the
sought to prevent women from wear- j riffraff of American manners that they
ing hatpins that were beyond a certain are adopting
length.
The I'exas solons are deliberating
over a bill which forbids the women
1 from wearing tall hats, the punish-
! ment provided for being that the of-
i fender shall have no new hat for two
I years after the date of conviction. The j
i offense of wearing a tall hat is great j
I but the penalty is too closely akin to
I capital punishment to command ser- {
ious consideration at the hands of a
legislature in this enlightened age, and I
for this reason, if for no ether, the
!:all hat bill will never pass.—Tenn-!
j essean. The State department of agilcul-
I The solons of North Carolina has
a considerable quanity of bad
DAMAGED CORN COMING
IN.
Commissioner Waeson Is
sues Warning to People
of Slate.
an hundred and fifty million dollars
annualy much of it to maintain in easy
luxury a lot of gold striped ban box
“It is all for you” heads an adv2r-j
tisment of the great shoe house of 1 '
and Jones, the artistic shoe [ An ounce of prevention is worth a
Mrs. Robert Cheek after a lon^ ill-1
ness passed peacefully away on Tues
day evening April 8th and was gently
laid to rest in Cane Creek cemetary
Wednesday evening. Rev. Mr. Green
of Hillsboro preached the funeral. Mrs
Cheek was a consistent member of the
above church. The following resolution 1 own courage,
of sympathy was unanimously passed ! horsemanship,
by the Baraca and Philathia classes at
rate of' ^ meeting on Sunday morning:
' April 13th;
Whereas, Almighty God has in his
matchless wisdom seen fit to take from
among us Mrs. J. W. Cheek Sr., the
Alfonso narrowly escaped Sunday being
the victim of an anarchist’s attempt i
agaii^Bt his life. Three shots were j
' done things even more foolish.
In one |
case a member introduced a bill to !
the goats from under a certain church
fired at the King Sunday afternoon in j in his county, and an other
the street‘s of Madrid by a native of bjn passed to keep the hogs
Barcelona, Rafael Sanchez JAllegro, ^
who was immediately overpowered. i , ,
T^- ^ ^ v,;c i the cause of fleas getting on
King Alfonso owes his escape to his ^ ®
wanted a
from uh'
a certain church, alleging t was
t.
liuij.,';:
pricc
gJ ii
'T.-. a
a^koi'
Warren and wife colored who
Tth East near Mebane had a
'ii: ily affair Sunda7 which Mrs.
JTidertook to settle with her
he touched George about in
to see him jump and bleed a
said after the dust settled,
i and made up.
!iot be all high priced proper-
n it all be cheap property.
■ f the town that seem descin-
t‘\er have many expensive
f ould be sold at a moderate
>se where the class of build-
ii'-ate a superior style of dwell-
iRher price will have to be
This IS easy.
fitters of Durham. Men who know 1 pound of cure, the.n clean up your
shoes from a to z. They treat you | premises, and prevent the diseases that
like they expect ycu to all ways be | may possible follow an oxcessof filth*
with them.
Ellis-Stone and Co., exclusive dry
goods, dealers of Durham, carry a line j
of the very nicest, and latest styles of j
ladies dress goods. They catch the
first offerings, and give their patrons |
the inside in pul’chasers. Don’t fail
to see their elegant line of corsets.
it is much cheaper than a doctor’s bill,
your doctor will tell you so.
ard
dangerous corn again coming into the
mar.iets of the State. Some fOl
bushels were taken off the markets
last week. Commissioner Watson says
this is doubtless due to the floods in
the Middle West, and he wis.:es to
_ warn all purchasers—particularly
j merchants to be exceedingly careful
quickness and skilled i members cousing them to scratch so ^ in seeing that corn shipped them is
Accompanied by his ■ much they could not take in the ser-! guaranteed to stiiid State i'lspection.
mon. It is by sending such lubber-' merchants, if there be the
heads as these to the general assembly
that the business and laws of ^the state
worth while are neglected.
staff he was ridirg along the Calle
de Alcala returning from the cere
mony of swearing in recruits, when
a man sprang from the sidewalk and
seized the bridle of the King’s horse
with one hand, presenting a revolver
kind and loving mother of three mem- ( point blank with the other. The King
bers of our classes, Mr, J. W. Cheek
Jr., Mr. L. G. Cheek and Miss Louise
Cheek, we hereby extends to them our
sympathy and love and our prayerful
solicitude in this sad hour of their
breavement. In this great loss may
realizing the situation, with lapidity i
dug his spurs into his horse which j
reared violently. His quickness saved i
his life. The bullet instead of burying j
itself in the King’s , breast, struck the ]
horse in the nqck but so close was it'
Truer Beast,
You can not do better
' Hendrix and Co. of
iVi r
in :
Uj.-.
ionday the 14th was the ann-
of the sinking of the Titanic
■ Hion with an immense iceburg
r maiden voyage. Out of a
' ■ of unprecedented size and a pas-
'^t'r including many persons of un-
v/oulth and distinction 1,517 lives
lost.
than see J.
Greensboro
when in need of a nice pair of shoes,
a good pair • of shoes. J ust as nice
people as you ever met, just as honest
as they make,bound to treat you right.
It is new summer goods, and it is
I nice summer goods, Ratinas, Rippiletts,
Zephyr-Gii.ghams, Linens, Voiles, a
beautifull line. Don’t fail to call and
inspect their line of poplins at Nelson
Dry Goods Company.
re
dis
^wat the fly. If you let him alone
^ V, ill spoil your goods in the store as
wil your health.
Mayor Gaynor's campaign for
election has been opened with the
tribution of a pamplet in which it is j
Stated that “with infinite patience I e |
is trying to ameliorate conditions” in
t^e police department. Hia “infinite
patience” has been like that of a man
asleep while thieves riot.
^ The Honor Roll
I The following is a list of the good
I and true citizens who have paijl their
subscription to The Leader since our
last h'st apptared. Try and see if
your name can not be with those whose
names appears next.
Sheriff R. N. Cook,
L R. Rice,
S. A. Lynch,
Sylv=»ster Conner,
M. L. Smith,
H. W. Bason,
J. S. Vincent,
A. F. fVarren
O W. Clayton
R. L. McAdams
J. W. Workman
George Newman
J. W Hudson
J. W. Simmons.
B. E. Corbett.
Fred Snipes.
they look to the God of Abraham, Isaac ! that the King s left hard glove was
j and Jacob for comfort and cheer, and ^ b ackf ned by the powder discharge,
j may they ever try to emulate her in i
her patient suffering, and her-self sac- i
rificing life for others. Be itf also re- j
solved that we extend to all members'
of the family our heartfelt sympathy, i
Little Jimmie, aged tix, seeing an
elephant for the first time, said to his
father, who was showing him throuj>h
circus grounds: “O! look, papa!
' See that strange row with his horns in
I his mouth, eating hay with hia tail.”—
i Chicago Tiibune.
i Charles M. Schwab, the great steel
i manufacturer, is having built for his
I
Only One in 16,000
(From The Greenville Reflector.)
The Raleigh Times says that nearly! private use a railroad car, to cost
and as a panacea in this great loss we ' sixteen thoasand prisoners haye been | $lc5,000 and the interior of which will
point them to Jesus Christ the Great | the North Carolina peniten-: be of solid mahogany. And yet Mr.
Physician. j dary aAd only one of them was a He-1 Schwab and his colleagues tell us that,
Mrs. Harraway and the other mem-1 brew. Even taking into consideration i without a tariff on steel, they
bers of the family wish to express to j the smaller per cent of Hebrews in , have to go out of business
their friends their thanks for the many, our population, it speaks highly of the ; sibly, into the poorhouse
ministrations of love and kindness and i kind of citizen they make that it is ^ ir.-.,
tender solicitude shown them during. rare one goes to prison.
the sickness and death of their mother!
Mrs. J. w. Cheek. Sr. • Parcel Post Growth.
I slightest doubt 'as to the condition of
a consignment of cofn, not to pay for
. it without inspection. He says upon
j telegraphic or mail request an in-
I spector will be sent promptly to draw
! samples and the examination of the
{ sample and report will be given speedily
! Where the shipper declines to submit
^ to State inspection he advises that the
' entire shipment be promptly rejected.
Those who regard this warning will
run no chance of sustaining a loss.
The commssioner says that if the
goods are for and accepted, and upon
j insoection they are found to be in
j violation of the law, he will have no
option but to enforce the law.—Colum
bia State,
And Not There Only
would ^
a d, pos-;
WANTED
tl buy a few
cows and calves.
Call on or write to BASCOM WILSON
at White Bros. Farm, near Mebane.
Owing to the very inclement weath- j A report issued by t le postoffice de- ■ ly protesting against any further ex-
er “Topkin's Hired Man” was not giv- partment for the three months of 1913^.tension of the parcel post, on the,
en on Saturday night, but will be giv- during which the parc3l post system ground that the system has already
I en on Saturday night April 20th. The has been in operalicn, indicates that taken away twenty - five-per cent, of
j play will be preceeded by a ball game ' the public is appreciatmg the advan-1 their business. Too bad, isn’t it? But'
I in the evening followed by oysters tagei the innovation offers. The • in considering this pitiful protest, it
I served in a way to make professional growth of businsss has been rapid, the ; were well t j bear in mini that the
cooks green with envy; then the play number of packages handled for March express companies have never hesi-
which promises to be the best yet; and in fifty of the kaiii g cities havingf tated or scruplej to take away the
during all this the string band will b -en 55 per cent more than in January people’s money to the full extent of
Pete ! gnd about 24 per cent more than ni there opportunities. Isn't turn about
(From The Statesville Landmark*)
Lee Foard, W’ho killed the policeman
at Lexington, refuses ♦o make any
statement except to say that he did
: exactly right and is not worrying about
The Public’s Turn Now. | the outcome. He has no special reason
, 1 to worry if he is lo be tried in David-
The expiess companies are pleading-, is a custom in that
county to turn murderers loose.
in fact in any county i.i North Car
olina,
f oraish music during the panses. '
says “Everyboddy is a cumming.’
February
fair play?—V. Pilot.
* American States which pay the
teachers of their children an average
of two hundred dollars a year only,
o ;ght to forbid contributions by their
cit-zens *o the causa of foreign mis-
s jns until the torches of enlighten-
' ment burn more brightly at home.