North Carolina Newspapers

mmm >. We have [>n together sist of all erys, hoad las and all veek from )read, none Ie carry a shell, and nd sold. ir llflcatfon. >ect to rec-;iv(. range town take ;o identify tk^m- clerk. “One way nmends itsolt Is lall on the paying jrder department arrives and pro- ispondence show- he Is. He then tpectlng a money person; canthi lehen he presents sive Introduction 1 remember, and sented he cashes iirkey. y Grit.) ‘y so far shipped 1 season was last Orton hotel at le of the dealers Isome bird tipped mty-eighs pounds, say that turkeys r at present than year. Wakes Up. ealizes that It Is a wasteful method h the dralnbcard on lishes piled on her the drainboard :t and stack her t Bide where they y get-at-able. And It r dishwashing Job eliminating every bor, she will also importance of ad- an to the right The Grave. yonder sky, no God above? mother’s knee, r no longer be? Savior’s love? yonder sky? rnity? Can this I e true? for Him to bear? liich I can share? can man undo? rnity? &yond this world? “riddle” be? jorant one. ust for fun Calvary? eyond this world? jyond the tomb aul the saintly gone? e grand old man; 1. was Jesus plan ime up yon? pnd the tomb? md the grave, ;he Christians’ sake, nother’s knee, 3e it known to me. r will forsake md the grave. B. H. Wendell, iville, Tenn. inge. Wells.) uder which men liye an evsr-increasing as our knowledge reatures have ever ing conditions with- profoundest chang- the past century ange in the condit- than there had been 000 years. ♦ * * ee changes that will nineteenth century leteenth dwarf those One can see no it this rush of change ntly, that the posi- social reconstruction culture phase will II 1 1 «»ociety nev- .1 (. .1 it will to to Le THE MEBANE LEADER “And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Wttld te Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.’ Vol. 4 MEBANE, N.C., THURSl^Y. NOVEMBER 27 1913 No 98 what he carries in Chapel Hill News That the'relation of [the banking interests to the agricultural .[interests is such as to indicate that the North Carolina farmer is a thrifty class of people is the observation made by Dr. C. L. Raper, head of the department of economics of the University, and official representative of j the ..United States Rural Organization Service for the States of North f'arolina. South Carolina, Virginia and Marylaed.^ The government representative of this new bureau of the national department of agriculture arrived at this conclusion after making a field investigation into farmers’ credit in twenty representa tive North Carolina counties, visiting the rural banking centers of each of the counties. Two divisions of the State were visited—Dr. Raper making a personal tour of the counties in the central section, and Prof. W. R. Camp, professor of rural economics in A. M. College, and in charge of the markets for the North Carolina experiment station, making investigations into conditions in the counties of the north eastern section of the State. The counties visited by the two economics professors interested in conditions of rural life included the following: Pitt, Beabfort, Washing ton, Chowan, Perquimaus, Pasquotank, Gntes, Hertford, Bertie, Edgecombe, Orange, Guilford, Mecklenbnrg, Union, Anson, Richmond, Moore, and Lee. The facts relative to the size of loans made to farmers; the rate of intcrfst; the commission charged; the cost of abstracting the title to land, etc., are furnished the department of agricul ture. From the figures gathered Dr. Raper has formed some very definite impressions as to rural conditions, particularly the relation of the bank to the farmer: (1) That the farmer in a number of rural banking centers has become a very important depositor in banks, especially the banks that pay four per cent interest; (2) That the farmer in a number of banks are fairly important share holders; (3) That the farmers are in a number of places large borrowers from the bank; (4) That the farmers in many places receive the same banking facilities as the business man; as to rate of interest and nature of security; (5) That they can in a number of places borrow from the banks more than they do or care to borrow; (6) That the tenant farmers are the ones that borrow little from the bank and usually only whe« their notes are signed by the landlord; (7) That the farmers, expecially the one horse farmers, are not desirous of borrowing from the bank as much as they really need for the most eifctive cultivation of their soil or the most economical handling of their crops. The greatest obstacle to the farmer in borrowing on farm mortgages is the cost of abstracting the title to their lands, is the observation made by Dr. Uaper. The average cost for such a service (usually performed by a lawyer) is from J5 to $10 and in a few cases as much as from |50 to $80 when the title is complicated. As a remedy for this excoriation from the farmer, the government representative suggests the adoption of an official survey and registration of every piece of land. The adoption of such a system would work to the advantage of the farmer in that he would always have in his possession an official certificate of his land. Thus he could save all the cost of abstracting the title and could borrow money at much smaller cost at the regular rate of interest. Confession at Last. That the Republican party seriously contemplates holding a convention next year to reform representation in its conventions from the Southern States is final and official confession of the folly and shame of the Republi can policy towards the Southern States through all the years. Manifestly, if the Republican party after a half century of experimentation is prepared to say that it can not inspire or compel common honesty in the administration of minority parties in the Southern States, the conclusion follows that it would not now entertain hope of honest administration of the affairs of those States were it in control of them. If a party in a State, without local patronage and too poor and too small to raise a campaign fund, can not save itself from debauchery, what could be hoped from it were it entrenched in power and entrusted with the tax col lecting and revenue disbursing office in a corr monwealth?—Columbia State. It is stated, in the case of Mrs Ester McAdams against John Dollar, there will have been about forty witnesses summoned including those heard before the magistrate court here and those in the Superior Court at Graham. Orange Grove Items We are certainly having ideal weather for finishing up fall work. Mr. L. Roy Cates left a few days ago for Sumpter, S. C. where he has accepted a position. Messrs, Carl M. and E. N. Cates of Mebane spent Saturday night with relatives and attended church Sunday. Mr. Ralph Andrews and Miss Pickard of Chapel Hill heard Rev. Mr. Dixon preach Sunday. Miss Pickard came up to see her sister Miss Carrie who is a teacher at Orange Grove this year. The new teachers,. Miss Thornton and Miss I^ckard, are getting along nicely with their school work, and we wish for them a pleasant and profitable year. Misses Estelle and Nannie Lloyd who are teaching at Sunnyside and Damas> cus respectively spent the week end with their parents. Mr. A. G. Crawford goes to Greens* boro next week to serve on the jury at the Federal Court, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Albrigh*" and children of Mebane spent Saturday night and Sunday with their uncle and aunt Mr. ar.d Mrs. J. O. Wood. Mr and Mrs. Charlie Lloyd and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Teer. Mr. C. W. Stanford spent a few days at home last week. Messrs. S. E. Teer and J. O. Wood bagged a wild turkey each last week. The general health of Mrs. C. R Teer seems to be very good, yet she has not regained the use of her limbs Rev. Mr. Dixon has already made himself one of us. The people like his preaching as well as the personality of the man. You miss something good when you fail to bear him. Why Use L. & M. Semi- Mixed Real Paint Because it’s economical. Because it is pure White Lead, Zinc and Linseed Oil. Because it’s the highest grade quality paint that can be made. Because when t’le user adds 3 quarts of Oil to each 1 gallon of the L. & M. Semi- Mixed Real Paint, it makes If gallons of pure paint at a cost of about SI.40 per gallon. This saves the user about 60 certs a gallon on all the paint used. 'I'he L. & M. is and has always been the highest errade and most perfect paint produced. Sold by Mebane Supply Co. Is The Whale Disap pearing? 'i'he fact that the whale is disap pearing is pointed out by M. Ed. Perrier, head of the Paris Natural History Museum. Several species will probably soon be lost on account of the very active hunting being carried on at present. No less than thirty Norwegian companies are engaged in this work off the western coast of Africa, and on the eastern coasc in the Mozambique region. The danger is as great from English enterprises. This account of the future extinction of the whale led the Academy to pass resolutions recom mending the interest of the government in the matter and calling for an international commission.—Scientific American. Facts Vs. Fiction (Chicago Inter Ocean.) Five months ago John A. Sullivan, a blind man of Foi t Worth Texas, was saved by a woman from being run over by a street car. She left, him before he recovered his wits sufficiently to ask her name. But he remembered her voice with the tenacity of the blind, and has been searching for her ever since. Not long ago he heard her voice on the street and called to her. She was Mrs. Vernis Bagwell and unhappily^ married. Sullivan procured a divorce for her and has now married her. If you read a novel along these lines, what would you think of it? Twenty-one vessels were lost in the storms of the great lakes last week and the death toll was over 300. It ia well to have the advantages of navi gation but life is safer and more tran quil in the interior. Not Uncivilized Russia It would surprise a good many peo pie who are so free with their talk^ an “uncivilized** Russia to know tha| the total of culture, of education ii> the higher sense of the term, of real menial ability is perhaps greater in that benight^ land than in anv other government on the face of the Russia, less than any other countty, knyws, for instance, the spectacle of the untutored millionaire. There, more generally than elsewhere in the world, Is wealth w.edded to refinement, and learning to both. There are millions of people practically savages in Russian cities and rural provinces, whose only glimmer of intelligence centres on a religious image. There are other mil lions who form a much higher type of intelligence than anything the average damocracy can offer. ^ No one can defend such a thing as this trial for *'ritu8l murder,*’ or would wish to do so. Nobody could defend she anti-Jewish outbreaks that occur from time to time in Russian territory. These are things which oc cur among a “comnwn people*’ to whom our so-called common people would appear aristocrats, Can we fail utterly ta excuse that higher class which we know no counterpart be cause It fails without the stimulus of worldwide outcry to trouble its hend very much one way or the other about what goes on in the sodden lump of humanity that composes the Empire? Because the mediocrity of the free nationu sees a drama of brutality in what the well-bred Russian looks on as a contest between ants does not necessarily mean that Russia is heart less or even corrupt at the core. Mere ly, it means that a section of Russia is self-contered and thoughtless. — Columbia State. Modern Fox Hunting (From T|ie Newton Enterprise.) Fox Ifunting in automobiles is the latest thing in hunting. Foxes ship* I>ed here and kept confined several weeks lose their wind, and are gen- entlly too easily caught. To pot more life into one the other night, it was dosed before turning loose. But this put too much life and wind into the fox, and it has not been caught yet. Some say a mistake was maue in not dosing the dogs, too. One is hardly likely to go to the New York Sun for Biblical information, yet occassionally men gather figs irom thistles. We venture the assertion that few readers of the illuminating metro* politan journal could say, without re ference to the library, what the Sun meant when it referred to him as “Hon. Robert Boanerges Glenn”; yet if one will turn to Mark 3:17 he will fine the statement, “He surnamed them Boanerges, which is The sons of tJiunder?—Greensboro News. A Crime of 1 he Law The outrageous injustice recently done a young woman of Dallas. Tex., under the forms of law calls loudly for some sort of reform in l^al procedure that shall make a repetition of this sort of thing impossible. Meade Barr, a habitual criminal, un der arrest in Ii^iana, states that he is tbe murderer of a * girl in Dallas. He is carried back to Texas and begins the weaving of a network of lies con cerning the crime. Because a young widow, Mrs. Ellie M. Lake, had re* poised Barr’s attention some months before, that degenerate dope fiend ac cused her of being an acces^ry to the murder to whic^he had confessed. With fall knowled|:e of.Barr’s unt^iist- worthiness, the sapient authorities pot Mrs. Lake under azrest and kept her confined in jail for a week, declining to make any charge against her or to give any information as to what evi dence they had. Then Barr repudiated his accufation—as had previously hip confession of murder-^and the in nocent young woman was set at liberty —Nashville Tennessean. Emmeline Scored. iits. Pankhurst will go back to her imtive land well weighted with Yankee oollars, if reports are correct, but she win lake with her something far more valuable than mere filthy lucre—some- ttilg that in its genuine form all the money in the worid cannot purchase (at Ifaet that's what the romanticists say and only the haxd«ied cynic dis putes.) The “gem of purest ray serene*’ is no less than the heart of Dr. Henry S. Tanner^ The Doc will be reoUl^ as the pioneer ofv what has become the jpAnkhujst plan of achieving fame— going without tood. He is the wpAl’s champion faster, having sec tile '*foark of abstention from eatii^ for forty days and of going withoot water for seventeei) days. Drt Tanner emerges from the seclu sion of his Los Angeles bungalow with a proposal of marriage to his British imitator. He is now 85» and while he admits that he h^d intended to postpone his desertion of bachelorhood until he had reached the century mark, excuses his lapse with the remark that “when a feiiow falls in love he forgets eyery> thin(^ and says and does things which lo the world may seem foolish.*’—New yotk World. The Pulse of Prosperity Temporary fluctuations in the stock markets, up or down, are not reliable as indicators of a country's general conditions of prosperity. For prices off the Exchanges are subject to a num ber of influences having no direct con nection with the productive or trade status of the oeriod. The business done by the railroads is, however, an almost perfect barometric test, and it is therefore gratifying to find from figtires furnished by Dun’s Review th«4^ returns from over one hundred an(^1i(ty thousand miles of trackage, or aj^ot^wo-thirds of the country’s totavahow an^increase of 1.4 per cent, as compared with the earnings of the same roads for the corresponding mon^t a year ago. The Eastern and Wiwtem Trank lines make quite a satisfactory exhibit, widi gains of 5.7 and 8.7 per cent, respectively, oqer last year, mainly because of the larger earnings by Pennsylvania and the New York Central and allied lines, though Baltimore and Ohio also reports consid erable improvement. All the Anthracite Coal roads make smaller returns tl»n in September, last year, and there is a falling off in the total of 7.5 per ctnt. —Va. Pilot. A want of tact is worse than want of virtue. Some women, it is said, work on pretty well without the last; 1 never knew one wHo di^ not sink who ever dared to sail without the other. — Disraeli. Love is the perpetual source of fears and anxieties. —Ovid, How The TariflF Works The cotton mills of the United Statis which (as our readers will remember,) were to be ruined by the reduction ot tariff protection on their products, have, since the passage into law of the Underwood-Simmons bill, been busier than ever before in the history of the indnstry. They consumed more raw cotton by forty thousand bales during the month of October just passed than in any previous period, and the Journal of Commerce says of the iSoutbem factories that “They are enjoying a season of unexampled prosperity.’* Now is there any reason for believing that in other lines of production, steel, iron, wool and leather, a fair trial of a lower tariff will demonstrate the ability of American manufacturers co compete successfully with the rest of the world?—Va. Pilot. It is widely customary to soak rail road companies for damages on veiy little provocation, but special pre-emi- nence should be accorded Lexington County, S. C., jurymen who awarded a farmer 15,250 because the horse with which he was plowing took fright at a pt^ssing passenger train and broke his collar bone.—Charlotte Observer. _ .s The University of Wisconsin has de creed that hereafter the tango shall be danced with the partners three in ches apart, but between the making and' the enforcement of a decree there in a difference. ' Thanksgiving. Thanksgivii^, as understood by tha majority, signifies, giving thanks to God for His gracious bounty and good ness, His love and guidance and in fact for everything we have and enjoy. But this is only a small part as under stood by some. There la no thanks giving without the true spirit of giv ing, not only the appreciation and love we show to God, but the real true spirit of giving to our fellowmen. Giving, does not n^essarily consti tute gold or sliver, just a little sun shine, a kind word or deed, a cheerful thoufht ot a happy smile are what we should give. These are the things really woith while, the big “helps” that make life happier and sweeter. No one can have the right feeling of Thank^iving without the spirit of giving to our fellowmen. Aged JLady Dies. Mrs. Nannie Thompson of Greens boro, while visiting her daughter, Mrs. Turner living aoout three miles from Hawfields, contracted pneumonia and died Friday No^'ember 21 at. Her condition was cons dered serious from the beginning of her sickness owing to her age and delicate health. She is survived by three children Mrs Ed Turner, Mr ALred Thompson and ‘ Mr. Gary Thompson, one sister, Mrs. ‘ Mary Pickard and three brothers, Mr Eid Snipes, Mr. Wm Snipes and Mr. Z. ] Snipes. The interment took place at Haw fields Saturday. How Iodine Is Made Seaweed burning in Norway is one of tfce interesting out-of-the-way indust ries recently described in the United States consular reports. An enormoas amount ot seaweed is deposited on the coast by the waves in spring, and in some places ♦he weed is cut by bok.1- men. Two-wheeled wagons are loaded with the wet, slimy weed, which is taken up the beach and spread out like hay to dry. It is then raked up in heaps and burned. The ashes are ex ported to Scotland, where they are used in the manufacture of iodine, and sell for 1.3 cents a pound. For the past 43 years seaweed ashes have been ex ported regularly from Stavanger to Scotland to the extent ot 1,500 tons and upward per annum. Th^ industry, is an important source of revenue to the peasants who are fortnnate enough to posses riparian rights, and attemps to purchase euch rights from their her editary owners rarely succeed. For [ a time the burning of seaweed was pro hibited through the influence of the fisherman, who declared that tnis prac tice drove the fish ' away from the coast.—Scientific A,merican. Biland Items. Mr. Charlie Brown of Rocky Mount, N. C. is spending a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. H D. Brown at River Side Farm near Efland, Mr. Jesse Baity of Norhna, N C. spent Sunday with his parents,* Mr. and Mrs. John Baity, and returned to his work Monday. Mr. John Thompson of Chatham Co. visited his relatives, Mr and Mrs. T Tapp Saturday night and Sunday. Mr Minick Miller near Mebane spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. Fitzpat rick. Miss Bessie Baity attended a party given by Miss Gladys Jones at her home near Efland Saturday night Miss Baity reports a large crowd of young people present and a splendid good time, D. E. Forrest our clever and efficient Post master, took an enjoyable ride on his fine young colt in the country Sun- a*\y afternoon and viewed the Good Roads. Mr. Jack Baity who has been at work in University was at home Sun day. Little Dai«y Tapp who has been very ill of Pneumonia for the past several days is improvidg some we are glad to note. Mrs Gaktis Horner and little Bessie spent last week in Hillsboro with her parents Mr. and Mrs T Ri'ey. Miss Ida Durham is spending some time with her brother’s family, Mr. James Durham in Hillsboro. Mr. John Sharp came out from Hills boro on a hunting trip last Wednesday ar>d had fine luck.' He killed a number of rabbits and several birds and also killed om nice wild turkey !right op posite the writer’s home ia a tall pine tree. Miss Maud Efland went up to Meb ane last Friday and spent the day in that town visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Sn>ith and little Mabel of Greensboro spent last Sun day in Efland with relatives. Mr. Sam Walker, operator at Spencer, Va. is at home for a few day with his mother, Mrs. M. J. Walker near Efland. Mr. M. P, Efland and little daugh ter Elizabeth, also his sister. Miss Pearl Efland spent Sunday in Durham. Mr Fred Walker who is suffering with a painful burn on his arm is get ting some better. Mr. J. L. Efland left here on a busi ness trip in Eastern Carolina Patz; Bliss is the same in subject or in king In who obtain defense or who defend. In him who is or him who finds a friends; Heaven breathes through every mem ber of the whole; One common blessing as one common . soul. —Pope, “I think you had better convene,” pleasantly says Huerta to the alleged Mexican Senate. “Some' men who disagreed with me ans banished, some are in jail and there are some whose friends do not know where they are, though they may suspect; Do just as you like, of course; but—I reallj wish you would meet.** Governor Blease issued pardons to 90 convicts in the penitentiary SunSlay This^ it is alleged runs up his pardon ing record to 900, a pretty stiff num ber, but it is said this is where Blirase recruits his army from for politi^t support. Li»t of Letters Advertised For the week ending Nov. 22 1913. 1 Letter for Miss Sallie Lloyd 1 Letter for Mrs. A. F. Stock 1 Letter for Matilda Richmond 1 Letter for Mrs. L E. Gattis 1 Letter for Mrs. L. B. Shearim 1 Letter for Mr. L. B. Shearrim 1 Letter for Mr. Lester Richmond 1 Letter for Mr. John Barnhill 1 Letter for Miss Frank Cot 1 Letter for Mr. Will Carbelte 1 Card for Mr. M. Curry 1 Card for Mr. J. F. Clark These letters will be sent to the Dead Letter Office Dec. 6 1913. If not called for. In calling please give date of list* Respt. J, T. Dick, P. M., , Mebane, N. C. There is one thing worse than a drunken chauffeur, bat we’ve forgot ten whdt it £is.—'Philadelphia Inquirer. A waman will forgive a man a lot of onery tricks if he has sense enough to remember his wedding anniversary. —Cincinnati Inquirer. Hureta feels assured Uncle Sam would not hurt him for anything, that he is just playing a bluff. Mr. Oliver and Mr. Stedman thihks the same about Senator Simmona. f. »A few witnesses hid around the house is a very convenient thing, at timM. ^ A New Scheme to Produce Sugar-Cured Hams A few days ago a barrel of sugar was thrown off the dray of the Mebane Supply Co., by accident in front of the residence of Mr. S. Arthur White, who has recently gone into the hog business, thought of producing some nice sugar cured hams for home use. After gathering up as much of the sugar as he thought he would need, he proceded to feed two of his select porkers about one hundred pounds at one feeding. After having Doctors Tnompson and White with his pigs for about two days, he has decided that he doesn’t like sug^r cured hams. Later—it is reported that the swine will recover. Startling Accusations While the whole country is groaning under the incraased cost of living comes the charge that certain commission houses in Seattle have for years made it a practice to dump quantities of fresh, wholesome fruit and vegetables into the ocean because the market hap pened to be overstocked, and this me thod was pursued to avert a lowering of prices. This accusation is made in an article in the Technical World Magazine for December by Monroe Woolley, who as serts that his statements are based up on the results of a searching investi gation that continued for many months Certainly Mr. Woolley gives chapter and verse with such particularity as to convince one that he hss a firm basis for what he alleges. He also hints that there is pretty good evidence that in some cases growers of fruit and vegetables were informed that their consignments .had rotted in transit when the fact was that they had been destroyed in the manner indicated for the purpose of keeping up prices. The authorities of Seattle are on the trial of this food trust, and some of the things unearthed by the district attorney are almost beyond belief. In one instance a rancher shipped two tons of cabbage to a commission house and received for it a check for 35 cents! - Seattle is the natural market for the enormous apple crop of the state and right at the doors of the orchards, yet consumers in that city are compelled to pay $1.25 to $1.35 a box for the fruit which is bought from the orchardists at 60 to 65 cents a box delivered at the commission m’ln’s door. Tired of sub-- mitting to this extortion, a couple of apple growers rented stalls in the public market and offered their fruit at $1 a box, selling out within a few hours and meeting insistent demands that they “do it as a regular thing. Nashville Tennessean. A