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MEBANE,N.C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 1913
No 91
No Denying /fhe Fact
Mebane Leader
I have read with interest the articles
in the “Leader” from Citizens of Cas-
weli and Orange Counties, in regard to
I fie road from Orange County line to
road leading from Cross Roads
('hurch to Mebane. There is no denying
the fa?t that this short stretch of road
a aistaneeof only 1 to IJ miles is a very
bad piece of road also that it means a
^veat deal to Mebane, especially to our
Tobacco market and to the merchants
of Mebane. When the Citizens of
Caswell aiid Orange Counties propose
to come over and help Alamance to
build this load, is it^not about time for
Alobane and Alamance County to get
busy and do something. I am told that
this road even now is in a very bad
. >indition, and if something is not done
qaickly it will be almost impossible to
get over it with a load this winter.
It is unnecessary to say more. If
the people of Mebane «ill go before
the County Commissioners and explain
U them the importance for quick actioo.
I beheve the County Commissioners will
jiive speedy relief
W. E. White.
Some Sales at the Planters
Warehouse
\V. M. Ward, Carr, N. C. 1464 lbs,
Richmond and Thompson, Carr, N. C.
4>5ibs. $133.35.
Martin and Harvey, Ba} aes, N. C.
327 lbs, $38.93.
Morton and Bice, Cedar Grove, 509
lbs, $100 32.
P. Filch, Corbett, 425 Ids. $87.59
Rogers and Burnett, Carr, 844 lbs
? 1^37.53.
J. P. Fiten Corbett, £05 lbs $147.f8.
Garrison and McAdams, Mebane, Rfd
6U2 lbs, $147.99.
Bettie Mitchell, Watson, 672 lbs,
S15S.19.
Chas. Vincent, Mebane, Rfd, ?, 892
Ss. $166.99.
Sail From Chicago To San
Francisco.
The three World’s facsimiles of the
caravels in which Columbus crossed the
Atlantic to America are to be sailed
from Chicago to the San Francisco
Panama Exposition by some Harvard
ctudent. It is stated that they will
take the vessel—the Santa Maria, the
Nina and the Pinta—down the Chicago
diainage canal to the Illinois river,
thence via the Mississippi, the Golf,
through the Panama Canal and up the
Pacific coast to San Francisco,
These three replicas of the historic
vessels were built for the Chicago
W irld's Columbian exposition in 1893
and have ever since remained in the
Jackaon Park lagoon. The Santa Maria
is the largest of the three, and her
length is only 75 feet. ^Patton’s
Monthly.
Death of Mr. J. C. Qualls.
On Friday morning Oct. 3, about
eight o’clock Mr John C. Qualls, aged
sixty-nine, died at the Home of his son
Mr. Dave Qualls in North Mebane.
Mr. Qualls spent the greater part of
his life in Orange County,*’ and for a
long time lived near E/fland^^ managing
the farm belonging to Mrs. 'Josephine
Freeland of Hillsboro. Within a very
recent date, Leing troubled with a
heart-disease similar to dropsy, he was
obliged to give up his farm wovk,
whereupon with his wife he came to
Mebane to his. son’s home. His last
illness, lasting nearly two weeks, was
attended with much suffering, and death
was a Heaven-con few^ rest.
Mr. Qualls iii survived by a wife, and
two sons, Mr. Dave Qualls of Mebane,
and Mr. Jim Qualls of Burlington.
The burial was at Ef^nd Saturday
a large number of friends and relatives
from Mebane attended it.
Odd Fellow Meeting
Next I'uesday night Qct. 14th J.
C. Walker Assistant Grapd Secretary
of the Grand Lodge of Noi-th Carolina
will address the Odd Fe}lowB of Mebane
in the Odd Fellow Hall at 7:30 o’clock.
All Odd Fellows, and those who have
been Odd Felfown are invited. The
me3ting will be informal.!
By order of the Grand Sec.
The Diyining Rod
(Rambler, in The Chatham Record.)
The twig business is as old as the
hills. The writer has been hearing of
it ever since he was a boy. Here in
Chatham, near Pit^sboro, some years
ago, a farmer wanted a well dug and
wanted It in a certain place. Another
farmer who, it is said, could loca*^e
water, was called In. He came with
his twig and began to move about the
yard, finally locating water The own
er of the farm dlT not want the well
dug where the water had been located
but in a certain place near the bam.
He would not listen to the “twig to-
ter” and had che well dug where he
wanted it. Ninety teet was sunk but
not a drop ol water found and the well
had to be filled up One was dug
where water had been located, and it
is said that it was the best and cold
est water for miles around.
The Home kitchen
Paint your kitchen walls and wood
work white above the wainscoting. It
keeps soiled hands away. Its cheerful
brightness is always inviting. One
quart of Turpentine added to one-half
gallon of L. and M. Semi-Mixed Real
Paint makes 3 quarts of the highest
grade of pure paint, and it is enough
to paint a kitchen and two more rooms.
For outside painting the very highest
grade is long life paint, is nr ade by
adding three quarts of pure Linseed
Oil to each one gallon of D. and M.
Semi-Mixed Real Paint. Sold by Meb
ane Supply Company.
Attend The Burlington
Fair.
If you do not see the sights at the
Burlington Fair thi^week it wont be
the Leaders fault. They Mve promised
an interesting fair, atd* tHose who
have made the promise are good people
and will likely keep their promise. It
does not matter whnt fair you attend
you will learn sonr.ething, but it is alt
ways best to attend your home fair if
passible.
Working the Wrong Way
We heard one of our citizens in town
Monday complaining that his cotton
was in the fields unpicked while the
negro children on his place to whom
he furnished rations during the sum
mer were attending the school under
the compulsory school law. He was in
town looking to see if he could not
find some way to stop the schools so
he could get his cotton picked. He
r^aid cotton was selling at fourteen
Cents but so far as he was concerned
it might as well be fifty as he was in
the patch and the negroes who
eaten his rations were in the schoo
house. We pass this along in order
tnat those who made the law may see
that it takes foresight ♦o see all the
workings of a law which on its face
l>oks good. We take it the Board of
Education or the school committees in
the various districts will provide some
way whereby cotton can be picked and
let the children go to school also the
required time.—Moore County News.
Boy With Axe Kills Sevtn,
Then Sleeps Peacefully.
Marcel Redureauof Nantes, Prance.,
fifteen years oH, murdered last week
with an ax seven persons in the
village of Basbriage-en Landreau,
Department of Loire-Inferieure.
The boy was employed as a vine cut
ter. While he and his employer, Georges
Mabit, were pressing they quarreled.
Redureau seized a huge ax and with a
single blow cut Mabit’s head nearly ( If,
killing him*instantly.
Then Redureau went to the house,
the ax dripping with Llood, rushed up
to Madame Mabit and hacked her
throat till she was dead.
Next he killed servant in the same
way. » ,
Still with his dripping ax in his hand
the boy went to another room where
he slew his employer’s--mother, after
which he killed three at 'Mabit’s chil
dren who were lying asleep in the same
chamber. For some unknown reason
he spared a fourth child, aged four
lying by their side.
Thereupon Redureau went to bed and
slept calmv till morning, by which
time the bodies had been discovered by
the villagers. After his arrest he made
a full confession. ■
Great Work Among
Negroes.
(From The^ Raleigh Times.)
Shaw University, which has the
honor of being the largest Baptist In
stitution for the negro race in this
country, began ita Fall term today,
and it will have the usual 500 students,
representing several States and also
other countries and Islands. Work is in
progress on the theological building
where there will be rooms for 75
students of that department. About
a dozen years ago an African prince,
who as the eldest sun, would have suc>
ceeded his father as King, came to
Shaw from Oxford University, Eng
land, in order to study and prepare
himself to be a real worker ap:iong
his pec^e, but he died here. The
students from this institution are scat
tered all over the world.
Qet Busy,
More houses is a condition and not
a theory that confronts Mebane, that
^eatens Mebanes progress. The
Hooery Mills which have been in
operation for some time say they can
not continue their busine«>s successfully
unless they can increase their force,
they can not Increase their force unless
they can have houses In which to place
their tennants. Houses are not here,
what must be done?
The question is, you must build
houses or Mebane will cease to grow,
and her industries cease to expand.
We learn that the land may be
secured trom the Mebane Land and
Improvement Company which has of
fered to sell land for building at a
reasonable price, and the Hosiery Mills
will enter into a contract to rent these
houses when compleeted at a fair renta
for a term of years. It strikes us that
it is time for some one to get busy.
MR. BOWLAND LOST.
Jury Returned a Verdict
Against the Plaintiff
The Durham Herald of last Thurs
day says:
After being out about half an hour
yesterday sfternoan, the jury in the
case of J. E. Bowland against the
Southern railroad and the Western
Union Telegraph company, returned
a verdict against the plaintiff. This
was the case in which Mr. Bowland
sued these two companies jointly for
^$10,000 On account of a broken arm
Sustained when he fell from the plat
form of the Southern station in Meb
ane.
The case was one ol the hardest
fought legal battles that has ever been
waged in the court house. The whole
of yesterday was taken up in the
j^peeches of the alcomeys in the case.
The arguments were started Wednes
day afternoon. Yesterday the lawyers
spoke nearly all day and late in the
in the afternoon the judge charged the
jury and sent them off to make up
their decision.
One War Enough.
(Detroit Free Press.)
Robert Bridges, the new British poet
laureate, is a fastidious critic, and
hence sees lltlle to admire In the com
monplace verse of Alfred Noyes.
Noyes once brought to Mr. Bridges
two very long odes that he proposed
to submit to the English Review.
“I’ll read them both aloud,*' the
young man said, “and afterwards you
will tell me which is, in your opinion,
the more likely to be accepted by the
English Review.*'
Poor Mn Bridges sighed and settled
himself in his chair, and Noyes, in his
loud, harsh voice, read the first ode.
It was very long, And at its conclusion
Mr. Bridges leaped to his feet and said
briskly:
“Now, my young friend, 1 can ad
vise you. Send the other ode to the
Review.”
Menace To The Nation
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
Though Sulzer may be stained and
striped, good government, independence
and honesty must make their stand for
him or be counted cn the side of bad
government, of humiliating subjugation
of the people to autocratic and irrespon
sible rule, of dishonesty. Let Tammny
succeed in this audacious conspiracy,
let Murphy work his will even on the
govenor of the state, and nothing but a
political ' revolution will be able to
stay him. He is out to plunder the
state not only of its money, but of its
j independence, its self-respect, its
sovereiirniy.
Money
Money has been called the root of
all,evil by some reckless person. But
if such is the case (and the facts to
b3 obtained are strong for the accu
sation) we would all greatly enjoy the
sensation of owning a Washington for
est whose inmates are supported by
the victim of evIL Verily, they would
enable us to ward off an attack of the
bill collector and sass the bankers with
impunity.
Money is a potent factor in almost
every walk of life. A coin adnomed
with the portrait of a buzzard can re
move all obstacles that beset the aver
age individual, even to the eradication
of his mother-in-law. Money is a pow
erful magnet. It can attract a gout-
infested man seven leagues away and
force him to throw away his crutch
and sprint across 't new ground field
with the rapidity of a trained book
seller, Money affects the descendants
of Adam in sundry forms and fashion?,
A college youth will contribute to the
winds in one night his entire month’s
allowance ar.d then complain that he
is a mendicant and a victim of the old
man’s parsimonious habits, whereas
“Texas Ike” or some other gentleman
of road prestige will count the ties
from Vermont to Oakland and strong
ly protest against the tactics of the
money trust.
Money is a perfect stranger to news
paper men. If a dollar should summon
the audacity to enter the haunts of a
journalist, he would be seized as a
suspicious character, and held for iden
tification by the police. For this rea
son sleeve men pick reporters and psr-
agraphers as the object of their at
tempts. knowing'that the news garaer-
ers could never detect a spurious piece
of money. This undeniable fact ia to
be greately regretted. That the mem
bers of the fourth estate should suffer
from want and privation for the sake
of a few mensly plunka is a burning
shame ana a reflection on the manhood
of humanity. It was ever thus, how
ever and will thusly cont^inue, until
Gabriel sounds his call for the close of
terrestrial activities
GREAT STATE FAIH
The smallest things become great
when God requires them of us; they
are small only in themselves; they are
always great when they are done for
God and when they Eervd to unite us
to him eternally. — Francois Fenelon.
Idlers can not even find time to be
idle, or the industrious to be at leisure.
We must always be doing or suffering.
—Zimmerman.
A North Carolina jud^e' is quoted as
saying that the telephone is answer
able for fifty per cent of neighbor
hood quarrels and one hundred per
cent, of all the popular silliness. But.
may we be pertnltted to ask, were
! neighborhood qf^rrels and silliness
things unknown before the invention
o(^“talking by wire?”
Card of Thanks.
In the affliction that has recently
befallen my family in the death of my
‘2ther, my neighbors and friends have
f-xhibited the kindness and most patient
'd .tention, and shown us every consider
ation that a thoughtful sympathetic
people could show. We feel the most
profound gratitude and beg to express
t) all our most heartfelt thanks.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Qualls.
Good words will do more than hard
speeches; as the sunbeams, without
any noise, made the traveller cast off
his ck>ak, which all the blustering of
the wind could not do, but made him
Dind it tighter.—Anonymous.
But fate ordains that dearest friends
muat part.—Young.
Libt of Letters Advertised
For the week ending Oct, 4 1913.
These letters will be sent to the
1 Letter for Mrs. Mary J. Wiltow
I “ “ P. S. PiJ)er
1 “ “ Miss Sosan McAdoo
1 “ ** Emina Hart
1 “ “ L. F, Herring
1 “ “ W. S. Clailr.
Dead Letter Office OcL 17 1913. If not
called for. In calling please give date
of list
Respt.
J, T, Dick, P. M.
Mebane, N. C.
Boys And The Farm.
(Chicago Reoord-Herakl.)
The question of keeping “the child
ren” on the farms is largely a question
of educational reform and to some ex
tent a question of recreation and
amusement Not only are good schools,
primary and secondary, essential, but
these schools should serve as social
centers and should have reading rooms,
rooms for games and exercise, rooms
fcr social meetings and dances. Youth
is youth; sound moral advice alone will
not keep bcqfs and prb in the country.
Make it more attractive and interesting
for them.
' Be not diverted from your duty by
any idle reflections the silly*world may
make upon you, for their censures are
not in your power, and, consequently,
should not 1^ any part of your con
cern.-Epicetus.
There is no harm in being stupid, so
long as a man does not think himself
clever; no good in being clever if a
man thinks himself so, for that is a
short way to the woist stupidity,—
MacDonald.
Plants in Sleep
To make some nook of God’s crea
tion a little fruitfuller, better, more
worthy of God; to make some human
hearts a little wiser, manfuller, hap
pier. more blessed, less accursed! It
Is the work of a God.
A (jerman inventor claims to have
perfected a medianical contrivance
which will tell bow drunk a man is,
but our reprehensible acquaintance
says that wh^ a man has reached a
c.ertain sti^e of drunkenness he doesn’t
want to know and doesn't care how
drunk he is.
I see the day coming when man,
with his infinite aptitudes and capa
bilities, joyously creating for himself
good thhigs out of the infinite re
sources of the universe, will live in a
world in which youthfulness, wealth;
abundance, peace, progress and happi
ness i7ill supreme.—Neweombe.
Took it Good Naturedly
Four-year-old Tom was expressing
his sorrow and angei'* at the act of a
neighbor who had drowned four “beau
tiful little kittens. % “she might have
given them to me,” said the boy.
“Never mind, Tom,” said grandfather,
“we have lovely kittens of our own.
We have a nice little boy kitten—”
“That’s me,” said Tom proudly.
“And a lovely little girl kitten—”
“That’s sister Ella,” said Tom, point
ing his spoon at his sister.
“And the dearest old cat in Cali
fornia—*'
“That’s grandma,” said the youth
exultantly.
Grandma glowered for a second of
time and then she burst out laughing.
—»Los Angeles Times.
(> rom the |Scotsman.)
Clover shuts its leaves before rain
and at night, brintj^ing two of its three
leaves face to face and folding the
third over the top. The young blos
soms are also carefully sheltered by
inclosing leaves which move forward
in the evening and "vrap them around.
There are two plants in the garden
whose flowers sleep by day—the night
blooming stock and Lychnis vesper-
tina. The former is withered and shriv
eled in daylight, but expands and ex
hales a vanilla like odor at night The
Lychnis is white, and in bright sun
shine every flower closes and hangs
limply down. j
As the sun sets this Endymion plant
awakes expectant of the moon. The
drooping calyxes raise tiiemselyes and
slowly expand their flowe.s; it visibly
ceases to droop and fade, and the
plant, wliich almost died by day, is
adorned anew. Ita eister, the red
Lychnis, shines by day, and ia called
diuma, but this white one has k)ng
left the beaten ancestral path and has
become vespei^na.
As it opens, small flies appear and
visit it; the calyx is of that reddish
hue which they approve. The sundew
which attracts flies shows the same
dull red fn its leaves. It is not a rarity,
but few have seen its blosoms opened.
Raleigh, October 20-25
The indications are that this will be
the greatest Fair and Exposition ever
held in North Carolina.
Three new stock buildings, modem in
every respect, and 65 x 150 feet each,
have been built thif" year, ensuring-
adequate accommodations for horsef..
cattle, sheep and swine. About 600
head of live-stock will be exhibited.
Theie is great opportunity for stock
raising in this State, and it is earnestly
hoped that our farmers and breedera
will look over these exhibits carefully.
Tremendous displays of hoitlculturc
and farm products, com, cotton, wheat,
rye, tobacco and such articles vj^ll be
shown, and displays of farm machinery
and labor-saving devices. Many
counties will make exhibite, and some
of our towns will make collective
displays.
Eigl'teen acres of new ground have
been added with a new entrance and
roadway, with ample parking places,
eliminating the dangerous crowding
and congestion of vehicles.'
One of the most interesting and
instructive features will be the Better
Babies Contest under the auspices of
th-* State Board of Health, with sixty-
five prizes. Practical instruction as to
the care of babies will be given free.
The racing will be unusually good.
Many fast horses have already been
entered.
The Third Regiment Band will furnibh
music.
Prof. Walter W. Raub and Mme.
Lawrence (Mis. Raub) will ascend each
day in two balloons side by side and
will drop in double parachst.e leaps
from an immense height. The Great
Damman Troupe of German Acrobats
will perform marvelous stunts on the
trapeze in front of the Grand Stand
each day.
Among tne paid attractions are the
merry-go-round, Ferris-wheel, motord
rome ami Midway Shows, and Oklahoma
Bill’s Wild West Show.
Pain’s Fireworks Company of New
York will put on for four nights,
Octobor 21-14, their tremendous spect
acle, the “Last Days of Pompeii.”
This is grand beyond description. Thv
ancient city with its towers and temples
is seen before the spectator with the
people engaged in a grand procession
and ceremony before the doors of the
pagan temple, introducing the entran-
cingly beautiful Fire Ballet, the Golden
Pony Ballet (from the London Crystal
Palace^ superb and sensational aerial
and acrobatic specialties. Flower Girls,
Dancing Girls, Roman Senators, Priests,
Guards, Gladiators, Incense and Flame
Bears—in all two hundred and fifty
performers, gorgeously costumed.
Suddenly in the midst of the revelry
the mighty Vesuvius, with a deafening
roar, hurls forth flams, burning lava
and ashes, and the once proud city is
bulled forever.
The gloom and aw e of the scene of
destruction will be lightened by a
magnificent display of fireworks, set-
pieces of exquisite design, fire-flowers,
dragons, snakes, rockets and bombs.
Music by Pain’s Pompeiian Military
Band.
Remember the dates, Octobef 20-25.
Reduced rates on all railroads. Ask
the agent.
It is a celebrated thought of Soc
rates that If the misfortunes of man
kind were cast into a public stock, in
order to be equally distributed among
the whole species, those who now
thi"l^ themselves the most unhappy
would prefer the share they are already
possessed of before that which would
fall to them by such a d ivision. —
Addison.
If you glance at history’s pages.
In all lands and eras known.
You will find the buried ages
Far more wicked than our own.
As you scan each word and letter.
You will realize it more.
That the world today is better
Than it ever was before.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Worry pulls down the organism, and
will finally tear it to pieces; nothing
is to be gained by it, but everything
is to be lost. Look out for the bright,
the brightest side of things, and keep
thy face constantly turned to it—An
onymous.
What is defeat? Nothii^ but educa
tion. Nothing but the first step to
something better.—Wendell Phillips.
E^gs promise to be very cheap in
Philadelphia for a time and then to rise
to record-breaking heights, because of
the law which forbids cold storage
longer than eight mcHiths. Bum actors
would do well to give the dty of
Brotherly Loye a wide berth until the
rise comes.
He serves all whb dare® to be true.^
Emerson. ^
Bee Marvelous We}|ht Carrier.
A bee wiU carry tw|ti> |ta
velibt IxL honey ps
Whenever luxury ceases to be inno
cent, it also ceases to be beneficial. —
Hume.
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the
gods?
Draw near them then in being merci
ful;
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
Shakespeare.
Ah, be kind! Lite hath no secret
For our happiness like this;
Kindly hearts are seldom sad ones,
Blessmg ever bringeth bliss.
—Selected,