Vol 4. MEBANELEADEE *And Right The 0jay Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.” **Vt> ..V, 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.** Sold by All Dealers

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