Vol 4.
MEBANELEADEE
*And Right The 0jay Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.”
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MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 1913
No 90
THAW ACCEPTS
GAUNTLET.
Will Consent to Wave Ex
tradition if Jerome Can
Produce Indictment.
JoMi . Ringwood of conael for Harry
K. Thaw, upon his retuin from Con-
ooui N. H., gave out a statement
jjuthorizetl by Thaw in which he said:
“Thaw will consent to waive extr«-
diLion from New Hampshire and dis
continue all the proceedings now
pending and will voluntarily ccme to
Dutchess County and answer the
allege'! indictmen if there be one in
fxistenee, if Mr, Jerome will make
good the statement he made at the
hearing before Governor Felker that
ail indictment was found ani signed'
l,y prixluein^ said indictment or a
certified >py and foi warding the same
to Governor Felker. ”
Sales Made by Piedmont
Warehouse September 27.
Sale made for Warren and Wairen
on Sept. 27, 1498 lbs for 1381.01 aver
aging §25,43.
Sale made for Yates and Fuller on
Sept. 27, 996 lbs for $251.16 averaging
325.21.
Sale made for J. M. E. Wyett Sept.
27, 79i) lbs for $143.66 averaging $18.20.
Sale made for R. E. Rogers Sept 27,
4 )0 lbs for $73 92 average $16.42,
Sale made for Barnwell and Legans
Sept. 27, 174 lbs for $41.99 average
$24.14
Sale made for McCoy and Mebane
Sept. 27, 482 lbs for $110.91 aveiage
{2301.
This IS a few sales made Saturday
the 27 while we averaged $14.60 for
every thing on the floor. Try us with
a load.
VVarrensnd Ferguson.
Orange Grove Items
\i gets much coldei we will have
to put ’em on.
Mr. L. Roy Cates of Conway S. C.
is spending a few days with his mother
Mrs. L. M. Cates.
Rev. W. T. Boughcom seived the
church for the last time on the third
Sunday, and will enter the Seminary
it Louisville, Ky., in a few days. Mr.
Boughcom made many warm friends
pastor. The church called Rev. Mr.
Dixon, and his pastorate will beg’n the
fourth Sunday in October.
A good number of the young people
attended church at the Ridge Sunday
and spent ai enjoyable pnd profitable
day.
Mr. Vance Cates has recently been
building a new addition to his home
and it looks real cozy girls.
Mr. Seaton Lloyd from near Antioch
was a caller at Mr. C. W. Lloyds Sun
day and attended chu»*ch at the Ridge.
Mr. E. N. Cates has rented his farm
and will not till the soil next year. Mr.
Cates will b: missed from the church,
tbe Sunday School and the community
and we hate to see him leave.
Misses Rachel and Ollie Howard have
entered the Teacher Training School at
Greenville, N. C. They are former
students at Orange Grove and we wish
^or them the greatest success.
Mrs. C. R. Teer regaing her strength
slowly and she is yet in a very
seiious if not critical condition.
W. T. Rejnolds spent Sunday
his brother Mr. John Reynolds of
Hillsboro who is criticslly ill.
After the students and teachers all
and the others who are going to
®ove away there will only be left about
^corporal's guard.
Miss Aline Perry is now in Durham
caching and taking music ^and doing
othu’' work.
Not Unless
th Rupert Blue thinks
. ^ weather will put an end
ea other freak dress-
0 the women for the time being,
unless Dame Fashion alters her
^^sses in deference to the change of
ason. i* or we have seen the dear
^i a ures brave the rigors of previous
8to w slippers and gauze
ahff regardless that the streets
funded m icy slush and that the
^^^eighted with Arctic
y® know,
auty ever design to dwell where
And
^^tive use are strangers?
—Akenside.
Great Coal Field In Wy
oming,
The numerous coal beds of what is
known as the Barber coal field, in
Johnson Contv, Wyo., near Crazy
Woman and Powder V creeks, are de
scribed in a shoi t repor t just issued by
the United States Geological Surrey.
The report is the result of ’ fie»d work
by C. H. Weg^man and other geolo
gists, and an idea of the immense
quantity of coal underlying this field
may be gained from the estimate giv
en in the report that the area, which
consists ot seven townships, cont'iirs
1,021,000,000 fons. This tonnage in
cludes only the coal of beds 2 feet or
more i.i thickness, fhere being, in ad*
dition a large number of thinner coal
seams. The report is published as an
advance chap'^or (0 of Bulletin 531
and may be had free on a|>plication to
the Director of the Unite(^ States
Geological Sui /ey, Washington, D. C.
It is Your Home Paper
Does not matter what other publi
cation you may bd a subscriber too,
besure you trke your home paper. It
may do to brag about the fact that
you take a paper in Atlanta oi* one in
New York, but neither of them would
mention yours or the name of any
menr?ber of your family i/ you died.
They would never tell a fact that
related to your home, or your section
It is the home paper that helps to
build you” community up.
List of Letters Advertised
For the week ending Sept.27 1913.
2 Letters for Miss Maude Terrell
1 “ ’‘Miss Clara Johnson
1 “ “ Miss Emma Hart
1 “ “ Mrs. Lenora Roundtree
1 “ “ Mr. W. A. Isley
1 Card “ Mr. W. F. Murray
1 “ “Mr. Edward L. Knapp
These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office Oct. 11 1913. If not
called for. In calling please give date
of list.
Respt.
J, T. Dick, P. M.
Mebane, N. C.
The following named persons have
been appointed by the Chairman of
the Board of County Commissioners
as Registratrars for the Vital Statis
tics in their respective Townships, in
Alamance County.
Albright Township, G.F. Thompson.
Burlington Township, G. D. Amick.
Boon Station Township, Mrs. J, U.
Newman. ! ;
Coble Townphip, Green A, Nicholson.
Faucett Township, C A. Wilson.
Graham Township, W. A. Rich.
Haw River Township, J. A. Black
mon. '
Melville Township, Miss Jennie Las-
ley.
Morton Township, D. M. Ireland.
Newlin Township, John M* Foust.
Patterson Township, June Hornaday.
Pleasant Grove Township, J. W.
Stainback.
Thompson Township, C. W. Bradshaw
Chas. D. Johnston,
Clerk to the Board.
Financial Report of J. T.
Shaw, ex Mayor, In Acct.
With the Town of Mebane.
By one half cjst of sidewalks, col
lected, $3649.57.
Loan of $500.00. From Town,
$500.00.
“ Part of sewer pipe sold, collected
for, $7«.03.
“ Funds advanced to prevent over-
r.' draft, $51.07.
To Sidewalk collections, Deposited,
$3649.57. '
“ Part of Sewer Pipe sold Collected
for, $78.03.
Loan of $5C0.00, From Town,
$500.00.
$4227.60.
To balance due, $51.07.
$4278.67.
$4278.67. J4278.67.
(Balance due J. T. Shaw, $51.07.)
Audited by C. A. DILLARD.
“Eat garlic with all ycrr me^ls and
live a hundred years,” ^ says > i a wise
man of Croatia. And at ■ the same
moment a culinary counsellor, tells that
the faipt, elusive touch of garlic im
parts the very peotry of flavor. Why
should man cling to his few days and
full of trouble when poetry and pre
servation are I’nked thus together by
a wise and artistic nature?
k REI6II OF TERBDB
Hamston, Miss., the Scenc
of Much Bloodshed.
Two drug-crazed mulatto boys, bro
thers, Sunday morning last at Harris*
ton. Miss., began a reign of terror
which ended after three white men,
tour negro men and a negro women
had been killed, several wounded and
the two boys lynch: !. A serious clash
between rsces was prevented by the
arrival of a company of national guards
men from Natchez.
After it was assumed the death list
was nine the body of Teller Warren, a
negro, was found in a hut in the negro
quarter where Walter Jones first be
gan firing. Evidently Warren wat»
one of the first victims, but just when
he was shot is not known.
Twenty persons were injured, 16 of
them negroes. None of the negroes
were dangerously hurt.
The trouble stprted at about 2 o'clock
Sunday moin’ng and continued inter
mittently until 1 o’clock Sunday when
Walter Jones, the elder of the two
boys, who starts the firing, was
lynched just after the soldier arrived.
His brother Will had been shot by
citizens earlier in the day. Soon after
people who had bariicaded themselves
in their homes cautiously began to
emerge from their hiding places and
by noon the town was quiet. No more
trouble is feared.
At The Kirk
It was the Scottish minister’s second
Sunday in his own newly appointed
parish, says the Pittsburg Chronicle-
Telegraph, and he had reason to com
plain at the maegre collection.
“Mon,” replied one of the elders,
“they are stingy, yera stingy. But—’*
and he came closer and became mors
confidential—“the auld meenister, he
put three or four saxpences into the
plate hisself, just to gie them a start.
Of course, he took the saxpences awa’
with him afterwards.”
The new minisier tried the same
plan, but the following Sunday was a
repetition of the others—a dismal fail*
ure. The entire collection was not on
ly small, but to his great consterna
tion his own co’ns were missing.
“Ye may be a better preacher than
the auld moenister,” exclaimed the el
der. “but if ye, had the knowledg*>
of the world an* o’ yer ain flock in
pai ticulpr’ ye*d lia’ done what tie did
an* giuad the saxpence to the plate.”
Obligations of The Rich
iHouston Post.)
While the large accumulations of
wealth which the sons of rich fathers
now inherit have been honestly ac
quired, it was acquired under a sys
tem which permits the exploitation of
the labor which creates wealth, and
however such exploitation may be leg
itimatized by existing law, the ob
ligation nevertheless rebts upon those
who possess it, whether by inheritance
or through their own efforts, to use it
to the best advantage for the welfare
of the whole people.
The Question of Convict
Correction.
The question of the correction of
convicts is much in ,the public eye at
present. The recent decision in the
Superior court here that this is unlaw
ful will break up a practice which has
prevailed in this county and no doubt
in many if not most of the others which
have convict camps and use the pris
oners on the roads. Here In Wake
both the felons, who wear stiipes, and
the misdemeanants, who do not vear
them, have been whipped* It is re
marked that some other form of cor
rection will have to be prescribed, and
that of all the punishments whipped is
most dreaded, the declaration being
made that the mere fact of its im
pending in case of recalcitrance or
misconduct being a powerful deterrent,
[t is said further that ever since the
penitentiary was established this form
of punishment has been in vogue theie
The white county convicts and the
black ones both present problems.
There is a negro conyict m one of the
Wake camps who is now serving his
32d sentence. He says he just natur
ally loves t o be with the gang, and so
directly upon release at the end of a
sentedce he steals something and
csmes back with a smile. The camp
supervisor says this is due to what
he calls the gregarious instinct. It is
really a constant desire to be in a
crowd. The whole matter presents
odd phases and is a study in itself. —
Raleigh T.mes.
Miss Annie Kern
Mis§ Anpie Kerr died at the home of
Mrs. Hetcie Scott, Friday morning 6:10
o’clock ^ September twenty sixth.
Although she had been in declining
health for years, her last sickness was
unexpected and only lasted a few days.
The interment took place Saturday
afternoon in Hawfields cemetary, Rev.
J. W. Goodman, pastor of the Haw
fields church, assisted by Rev. F. M.
Hawley of the Mebane Presbyterian
church cotiducted the funeral services.
Miss Kerr was nearly 78 years old,
having been bom in 1837, She was a
daughter of the late Samuel Kerr, for
many ^ears clerk of the
session of the Hawfields church of
which church, she herself was a member
for 62 years.
In 1877 Miss Kerr came to Mebane to
live with her nephew, the late S. K.
Scott, pnd has lived with his widow
since his death. She is survived by one
brother, William Kerr of Texas.
Railroad Mortality
(Boston Globe.)
Railroad travel in the United States
can be and should be made safer, but
it is^so much less dangerous than
many nervous persons have been led
to believe by reading current discus
sions of signal systems, cross-overs,
automatic stops and speed limitation
by law, that it may not be amiss to
calm the minds of the timid with a
few figures.
In 1905, according to federal govern
ment statistics, one passenger was
killed out of 1,375,856 transported; in
1906, one out of 2,222,691; in 1907, one
out of 1.432,631; in 1908, one out of 2,-
335,983; in 1909, one out of 3,523,606;
in 1910, one out of 2,759,970.
Put differently in the language of a
New York mathematician and student
of history, these are the facts:
‘,‘A typical journey for all roads in
the country is now 34 miles, and there
are taken on the average 2,275,122 such
journey s in safety to each journey
which results fatally. If a man were
to rideou.. these 2,275,122 safe journeys
at two per day for each business day
in the year, it would take him 3,792
years. To have begun in time to meet
his death in 1914, he would haye had
to start commuting in the year 177g
B. C., when Egypt was under the shep*
herd kings, and 458 years before Moses
led the children of Israel through the
Red Sea.”
Kind Words.
We shall never regret the kind things
that we may do for others if they really
spring from kindly feelings and are
not prompted by self-interest. Many
a man has won influence and power
simply by his kindness of heart, when
he had few other qualities to recom
mend him, and without such kindness
great talents have gone to waste.
Of all forms of kindness the speak
ing of kind words is that which lies
most easily within the power of all of
us. Not that words can ever take the
place of deeds. Where a deed is
required, words sound but as mockery.
But there are many, many times when
the word is all that is needed to make
the difference between happiness and
despair. Most ot us are staving for a
little appreciation. Most of us will
work harder for praise than for money.
What a pity it is that thousands who
really appreciate their friends and
think the world of them are tongue-tied
and never speak the word of praise
until they speak it over the coffin.
“Kind words are more than coro
nets,” wrote Tennyson. They are in
deed the crown for which many a' man
struggles He who withholds the word
which has been richly earned is de
frauding his friend. He who cannot,
in looking back upon his life, remem
ber one little sentence which overpaid
him for years c f toil, is a poor man.
—Great Thoughts. ^
Beyond.
For all men, small as well as great,
even for those who have succeeded,
and conquered apparently all honors,
it is true that the best is yet to be.
Heroic Paul, earth's most intrepid
and earth’s sublimest spirit, standing
forth in old age. with a thousand vic
tories behind him, knew that he had
not yet attained. No matter what
your success, I appeal from the seed
to the coming sheaf, from the acorn to
the coming oak. from this little spring
to the future river, from your ignor
ance to wisdom, from your fragmen
tary tool or law or custom to perfect
virtue, from the bn^en are to the
full circle; from the white clouds to
the stars that are above the clouds.
Because life is in a series of ascend
ing climaxes, and because it waxes
ever richer and richer, for every man,
whether young or old, it is better far
ther on, and the best Is yet to be.—
Newell D. Hiltis.
£fland Items.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Boggs of Eastern
Carolina are visiting relatives in Efland
Mr. Charley Jackson and his mother
Mrs, Jackson als) Miss I evie Browning
spent last Thursday in Durham,
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Tapp and baby
boy visited Mrs. Tapps sister Mrs.
Smith near Oaks Saturday night.
Misses Pearl and Maude Efland and
Master Johnnie Forrest spent Saturday
in Durham.
Miss Annie Jordan was a Hillsboro
visitor last Monday
Mieses Annie Murray and Mae Rich
mond spent last Thursday in Hillsboro
shopping.
We regret to note the illness of Miss
Bessie Baity. Dr. Jones was call 3d to
attend her bedside last Tuesday night.
She is convalescent now, and we hope
will soon be entirely well, for Bessie
is a sweet girl and her many friends
wish for her a speedy recover.
Mrs. H. Murphy and children Master
Eidwin and little Mary of Littleton
spent a few days with her parents Mr
and Mrs. Robert Sharpe lasc week.
After spending the summer with her
grand mother Mrs Thompson in
Chatham Miss Maggie Tapp has retur
ned home ^id entered the E. H.
School at Efland.
Mr, Charley Brown of Rocky Mount,
N. C,, spent Sunday at home with his
parents Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Brown at
“River Side Farm” and returned to hia
work Sunday night.
Mr. T, R. Fitzpatrick of Raleigh was
at home Saturday and Sunday and
retjrned to his work Monday morning.
Mrs. Jack Price who has been visiting
her parents Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith
has retnrned to her home in Burling
ton.
Miss Saliie Tapp of Durham and Miss
Mary Tapp of Robeson Sta, are visiting
relatives near Efland this week and
attending the protracted meeting at the
Ri^e church.
Mr. and Mrs, H. D. Smith and little
girl M/%bel cf Greensboro spent last
Sunday with relatives near Efland.
Mr. Vernon Forrest of Cedar Grove
visited at the home of his brother Mr.
Roy Forrest Sunday.
“Patz.”
McKesson Pays Wilson
Very High Compliment
Notwithstanding the fact that only a
few scattering Democrats are sitting
in the joint convention of the Virginia
and North Carolina Postmasters associ
ation which convened at Norfolk in
annual session the postmasters applau
ded with great enthusiasm a notable
tribute paid to President Woodrow
Wilson by C. F. McKesson, Republican
postmaster at Morganton, N, C , who
said while he was not swerving in the
least in his loyalty to the Republican
party, he wished to say there is now
occupying the presidential chair at
Washington the greatest chieftain the
nation has ever had since the days of
Thomas Jefferson.
About 150 Virginia rnd Noi rh Carolina
postmasters of the first, second and
tashirdcls are in attendance.
Carrying Snakes. ^
(From The Lenoir News.)
Mr. John F Barnett, who lives a
mile south of town, had an exciting
adventure with snakes last Thursday
morning. He had some sweet-potato
vines cut and piled up to feed to his
cow, and tx>k a fork and carried
^hem about 20 steps when a large
copperhead fell out from the vines
on the ground. He killed this sn?ke
and took up the vines again, when an
other snake dropped out and was also
killed. Thus Mr. Barnett had carried
two large snakes about within the
vines, at the time little realizing the
danger above his head. He says it was
a bad day for snakes.
Persimmons and
Nuts.
Hickory
There is a big persimmon crop and
hickory nut crop this fall, which if old
predictions are true, means that there
will be a hard winter ahead. This large
persimmon crop means that 'possum
meat will be abundant and very fine,—
Walgut Cove News.
The love of variety, or cnriosity of
seeing new things, which is the same,
or at lea&t a sister passion to it, seems
wove into the frame of every son and
daughter of Adam.—Steine,
The Chicago girl who committed
suicide because she was tired of eating
2C-cent meals might have saved her-
B.'lf the tA)uble by sending to Houston
for one ot those boasted individual
c'licken pies that retail for twenty
cents each. Taey are only less deadly
than the Charleston waffle.
Stick to The Farm.
• (New Orleans States.)
First off, the boys and girls on the
farm will have to be taught how life
there can be made so interesting they
won’t feel the prcunpting to rush into
town. This can be done, because, in
spots, it has been done. But it can’t
be done without overturning most of
the teaching now done in the country
schools, which is foolishly aimed to
exalt city life at the expense of rural
life; and which has largely measured
success by the dollar standard instead
of in terms of health, usefulness, and
independence.
The County Poor.
Burke county lets out Its county poor
to keep at $5.00 each per month, with
no allowance for washing. While those
County Home inmates get about 16 2-3
cents a day for food, those committed
to jail for crime are allowed 35c a day
for fare. The Morganton Messenger
is protesring against such difference and
righteously. That papes says:
“Gentlemen, if you must curtail ex
penses, for Gods* sake do not do it at
the expense of those poor people; if you
must cut down expenses, n the name
of humanity do not treat the jail birds,
who have violated the laws, better than
you do these unfortunate people who
have violatea no law. Do not feed the
criminal better than the poor, and if
expenses must be cut down, t^e some
off the jail fund and add it to the coun
ty home fund.**
Possibly Burke cornty is not the only
one in the state where the poor and un-
foiiunate are disciim'nated against,
overlooked and n jlected. What is your
county doing for the care and keeping
of its poor? Have you ever taken ♦•he
time or trouble to see? Have you ever
given it a thought?—Winston Republi
can.
The Scuppernong’s Fut
ure,
(From The Raleigh Times.)
People in the eastern half of North
Carolina have been so much in the hab
it of eating scuppemong grage that
they have not thought of it as any
thing out of the ordinary. The United
States Agricultural Department takes
a very different view, however, and
sees tremendogs possibilities in this
grape, which of all othera is most free
from diseases and insect pests. Tests
of this grape are being conducted at
one of the State farms in Duplin
County, and at the A. and M. CoPege.
here, and now the United States has
sent three experts to Raleigh, who
will devote then* selves to a most com
plete study of the scuppemong. In
other words. Uncle Sam will inform
the people of this State of something
they have not up to this time realized:
This being that as the scuppemong in
its present state was developed from
the wild muscadine or bullace, just so
it can be developed veiy much further
and made a shipping grape. This done
and it will be done, there will be open*
a new source of sevenue, for people
in the West and North who have been
here and eaten this grape forever after
sing its praises.
Reduction In Cost
To paint the woodwork of a room
one coat with L. and M. Semi-Mixed
Real Paint- Use 1 quart of paint made
by mixing 1 part of Turpentine with
2 parts of the L. and M. Semi-Mixed
Real Paint. This quart of pure Paint
will cost - - - - $.36
The painters labor costs about ,75
Total cost ... - $1,11
Compare this with the cost of ready
mixed paints. But for outside painting
add 3 quarts of Linseed Oil to a gal
lon of the L. and M. Semi-Mixed Real
Paint. This will make 1 3-4 gallons of
the best pure Paint costing about $1.40
per gallon. Sold by Mebane Supply
Co., Mebane, N. C.
A Marvelous Escape.
“My little boy had a marvelous
escape,** writes P. F. Bastiams of
Prince Albert, Cape of Good Hope.
“It occured in the middle of the night.
He got a very severe attack of croup.
As luck would have it, I had a large
bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Rem
edy in the house. After following the
directions for an hour an twenty
minutes he was through all danger.**
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