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answered:
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ly worship-
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bave dared
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t life. On
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gman who
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led himself
ve with a
iferred to—
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xer: “Well,
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of Rosa
teries.
ance is prac-
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in the trade,
on the walL
take only a
d go kind of
is only half
iy eaten up
i^ance. Tell
sliver the re-
n.
on earth to
running into
“The system
>rhood. I do
nest. Every
ndthrift hus-
it disposition
lOugh money
ler to see the
k. They in-
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les where ex-
d we stick to
''—New York
lara.
t once made
>w prohibited
nt. Prisoners
[Stance, to be
reets by gal-
they thrown
I tower called
was the usu-
,t to evildoers
hed by thou-
poor wretches
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L
mbers of hor-
estern eyes to
m of which
t for publica-
it horrible of
>ner3 were tor-
I were so nu-
lat in the ab
bey were fed
—Wide World
in Smith.
y by suspicion
unpleasant se-
oved to follow
and try, as he
and me as “a
knowledge of
not great, for
im in society,
lord professor*'
United State®
f be had used
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leas known, I
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antry, where,
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therefore gave
leither he nor
ventured to re-
dwin Smith in
le.
I London gold-
made and pre-
Is heart on her
thimble of
lamented and
r a note which
intraption as ft
esteem which
icate, fair and
om prick and
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shess.
it morals drawn
aist of the Ve-
monition of the
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hesse de Maza-
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ed in 1775 from
she had posed
Looks.
te Keeper—I al-
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ng House Keep-
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father for my
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THE MEBAN
“And Right The Day Must Win, To Donbt Would Ive Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.
Vol. 4
BilEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11 1913
No 100
Sale of Holmes-Warren
Stock of Goods.
The Holmes-Warren stock of goods
and Store fixtures were sold at public
auction last Friday. Messrs. Smith and
Qualls of Burlington bid off the stock
of dry goods and groceries at $780.
Mr, Joe Vincent bought the horse for
$15. Mr. W. M. Bowling bought the
type writer for $30. Mr. P. Long
bought two of the show cases for $60.
A number of minor articles were sold
to different parties. The total stock
approximating $1,084.00,
A Cruel Joke.
A high-spirited girl played a crael
joke on her mother, and this is how it
happened. She found a love letter that
her father had actually written to her
mother m the halycon days of their
courtship. She read the letter to her
mother substituting her own name and
tha*^ of her lover. The mother raved
with linger and stamped her foot in
disgust, forbidding her daughter to
have anything to do with a man who
would write such nonsensical stuff to a
girl. The girl then gave the letter to
her mother to read, and the house
became so suddenly quiet that they
could hear the cat winking in the back
’,ard.—The Louisville Courier-Journal.
Get on The Honor Roll
We have a large number of subscri
bers on our books wVo are badly behind,
and who we know are amply able to
pay their subscription especially this
year We trust that no further remin
der will be needed. Be sure you get
•n the honor roll.
1 he Honer Roll.
J. B. McMullen
E. T. uarr
June Andrews
D. A. Murdock
G. W. Williams
James White
W. A. Shanklin
John Vanhook
T. D. Jones
John T. Sykes
II. A. Wilson
J. E. Hanner
G S. Ray
C. W. Yates
F. M. Snipes
Tom Crutchfield
T S. McAdsftns
J. Nick Walker
Chas. Dillard
Victory for Bingham
School in Tennis.
Binghan» Pchool, Mebane, N, C.—The
Bingham boys are much pkftsed over
the recent victory won in tennis, ftt
Hillsboro. The team there, composed
of Messrs Lawrence, Stevens and
others ii bolieved to be one of the best
in the state, if not the soath. This
team visited Bingham and defeated
the boys on the home grounds. The
Bingham team then visited Hilisboro
and the game resulted m a decltive
victory for Bingham, the score being
six sets in favor of Bingham to none
for their opponents. Bingham claims
to have the best tennis team of any
hi£^h school in the state. and will lay
claim to the state championship until
defeated by some institution m her
class. The team is composed of Cadets
George Wheeler of Oaklahoma and
Wm Birgham Gray of Bingham School.
The recently installed electric light
ing plant is a great benefit to the
school. Col. Gray has ordered a new
dynamo which is ^especially manufac*
ured to be run by a gasoline engine
and insures an abundance of the best
quality of light.
Major Adrian Nalle who for the past
two years has been commandant of
cadets at Bingham and who, before
coming to Bingham, was first captain
at the Virginia Militar\ Institute and
stood first in the military department
during the four yeais of his life there,
has again connected himself with
Bingham as a teacher, on the twelfth
of November, he was married to Hiss
Margaret Massey of Nelson County
Virginia. Major and Mrs. Nalle will
make their home at Bingham School.
VVe hope for the old ladieo sake that
Mrs Emiiine Pankhurst does not
entirely resemble the picture used in
the newspaper to represent her. She
has a mean looking face, more the leer she is
of old satan than the face of a human
being. EmUine is evidently solid with
the old fvillow.
To Our Stenographer*
Who else knows us half so well? She
has heard all that we have said, and
then made notes of it. She has read
pleads with us for help, and what we
do about it. Do we write frankly or
evasively, she follows the straighthew
ed hne or the curve of our devious
ness. Are we tcurteoua only to the
powerful, or is our treatment even to
all who come seeking? The woman at
our elbow, hammering out our para
graphs, is a clear-eyed witness. Over
the telephone voices drift in from the
world, and judged before our presence
is aknowledged. She knows whether
our friends are worthy. Is the home
haopy? She knows it. She notes all
our tricks of person. Our good temper
our clean speech, fly further than we
guess. She is familiar with the stale
phrases we scatter over the thousand
routine letters, and is gladdened when
we light up the languid page with an
unspoiled turn. She could keep our
tardy correspond**nce up to the minute
but she has to time her efficiency to
our limitations. Never outpacing us,
as loyal in the background as
our shadow.—Collier’s.
Can Put A Stop To It.
The most casual observer can satisfy j
himself any Saturday evening that
there is whiskey drunk in Mebane, and
it is not all ways necessary to wait
until Saturday evening. Those who
drmk it become boisterous and us3
profanity, and some times fight. This
thing should be stopped because it is
bad enough at best, but the fact is it
if growing worse all the time. Those
who undertake to violate the prohibition
law should be made to pay the. penalty,
race or previous condition should cut
no figure.
We are told by reputable people that
they often have to submit to a crowd
of drunken people passing their homes
at night, using the vilest profanity, no
protection from these insoler. There
is a way for Mebine to . put a stop to
this thing, and ^er people should adopt
that way or conft^s them selves in-
capeable of self government as they
will if they continue to submit with
out protest to these insults, indignition
and a violation of her laws.
For whiskey element to come in the
heart of a Christian commuiaity, and
d^baoch her citizens, and insult her
ladies is what a brave honest people
will not submit too, the whiskey
business in Mebane should go.
Salome Danced When 11.
Theodore Reinach has made some
interesting discoveries as a result of
10 years constant study of the coins
ot Nikopolis, the capital of Little Ar
menia, whose last king, Aristobulos,
was the husband of the famous Sa_
lome, whose dancirg cost John the
Baptist his head. Reinach, though a
new interpretation of the coins, has
found it possible to clear up unknown
particulars of the life of Aristobulos
and of Salome, and at the same time
the savant gives a complete descrip
tion of the persoHitl appearance of the
dancing girl, supported by conclusive
facts pieced together by great labor
and patience. She must have been of
really bewitching beauty. Her nose
was straight, her forehead high, and
her bust, compared with the circum
ference of her hips, was unusually full
and large. Her husband was, on the
contrary, quite homely. His face re
veals signs of dullness of mind and
brutality, says Reinach. An accurate
study of the dates of the coins proves
that when Salome made her famous
dance before her father, Herod, she
must have been a child of only about
11 years, but girls of that age were
often wives during the time of Herod
and Aristobulos.
Purpose ot Education.
(From The Ohio State Journal)
To put the divine energy of the soul
into life is the supreme purpoM of
education, and likewise of religion.
This divine energy is in every human
breast. To ignore it is the source of
all our educational, social and reli-
gicus woes The very meanmg of
education is to lead out that divine
energy and bow to its dictates. Plato
somewhere speaks of it as the God
in us. Speaking upon this very point,
a noted scientist says:
“This involves no quarrel between
faith and science. There is no such
quarrel Here, as everywhere, faith is
the only road to knowledge, for
whether in astronomy or in theology,
the facts are explained by the ventures
of theory first, which are verified as
best they can be afterward.
The intuitive-power, which is this
divine t.pirit, if* the basis of all knowl
edge. It violates no faith and ignores
no science. “Science ia grounded in
faith just as is religion,'' says the
president ot the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology. Say the Proverbs;
“The fear of the Lord is the begin
ning of wisdom.'' The pedagogies of
the schools practically hoot at that
doctrine, and yet it is the religion of
every faith and the foundation of the
true education.
it does not cost a man anything to
be a gentleman, but then if he is built
the other way he just cant be one even
if he had the price.
appears In the
hotel in Oerma-
I good, plain and
waitress."
Farm fur Rent
A three horse farm for rent near
Kinston, adapted to corn, cotton, and
tobacco. Produces well, especially the
better grade of bright fobacco. A
chanc2 to make money. Will rent to
two tenants. Write to C. H. Foy,
Kinston, N. C.
Evasion
Mother—(upstairs)—Bobby, did you
bring up a spoon for your medi*ine, as
I asked you?
Bobby*—I couldn't fine a spoon, ma,
so I brought up a fork.—Boston Tran
script.
The latest chunk of the Roosevelt
autobiography should be entitled:
“Says I of myself, says I." Nothing
since Ben Butler's life of himself has
been so egregiously egotistic*
A Family Reunion
A family reunion at the home of Mr.
L. G. Wilkerson on Thanksgiving Day
when all of his 8 children and 8 grand-
chikiren all joined in a happy reunion,
quite a surprise to Mr and Mrs. Wil-
kerson but they all came and brought
their baskets well filled with good
things to eat, at 12:30 dinner was ser
ved to the satisfaction of all. After
dinner everything was arranged and
pictures of the home and a group of all
the family were made. Oh! how thank
ful a father and mother should be to
have all their children come together
and have such a happy day
A friend.
Good and Evil
Tennessean and American.
The evil that men do lives after
them, while the good is often interred
with their power, is what my old
friend Billy Shakespeare is reported
to have said.
Hark Hanna lifted his brother-in-
law, William McKinley, into the pres^
identl chair by erecting a ladder of
purchased votts. Blocks of five and
blocks of ten in Ohio and Indiana made
the clinching easy. Mark was called a
“slick duck," and this was the opinion
Walter Browning had of him. “You
are after a big steal, Mark," was
what Brownlaw said to him, referring
to the ship subsidy matter. Mark
Hanna had a personal reason for rob
bing William Jennings Bryan of the
presidency. He was an endorser for
a very large amount for McKinley and
Foster, who went down financially in
an effort to build a large town to be
known as Fostoria. Hanna, being a
stronger man than McKinley, knew
that he could easily dominate the pres
idential appointments, and by this
means protect himself from financial
loss. The trusts and combines put up
all the money needed for the purchase
of votes.
The greatest crime in the history of
the United States was the counting
out of Samuel J. Tilden, but the next
greatest was the seating of McKinley.
This man was a goody, goody indivi
dual, who wept at the grave of John
Brown, whose body was hung up to
dry by one Henry A. Wise. Why did
McKinley weep? Was it because Brown
bad failed in his attempt to murder
men, women and diildren in Virginia
or because he had killed too few in
Kansas?
They have raised monuments to the
monster John Brown, but the only
good thing that can be said of him is
that his body lies moulding in the
ground.
The people of these Unit&d States
and the people of the south in parti
cular have cause to rejoice that the
reign of the republican party has en
ded. It is speaking the truth only to
say that it was the reign of the robber
class. The few were holding the whip
over the many, but under Woodrow
Wilson there will be equal rights for
all and special privileges to none.
A Billion Dollars a Year
The 108 million dollarn, odd, when
Added to the billion asked for in the
U. S. budget for 1914 15, seems like a
mere bagatelle, yet it ^ould be more
than sufficient to pay the running ex
penses of many a government that
looms large in the world’s history. No
single exhibit marks the growth of
the United States more signally than
the request of the combined depart*
ments of Congress for $1,108,681,777
for the conduct of those departments
for a single year. The items are start
ling to men of modest financial minds.
The army demands $300,000 tor military
aeronautics to keep pace with other
first class powers. The estimates for
militia are many times hig-her than us
ual and the postoffice wants $306,953,-
117, the largest request from any de
partment.
The estimates submitted when ana
lyzed give a good idea of the relative
importance to the nation of the dif
ferent departments of the government
They are $22,864,067 in excess of the
appropriations for the last fiscal year,
but their totals fill $39,255,066 below
the estimates for that year. It is well
to keep in mind the difference between
estimates and appropriations
The estimates are as follows:
Legislative . . . $ 7,533,331
Executive . . . 30,809,268
Judicial .... 1,242,110
Agriculture . . . 19,061,332
Foreign intercourse . 4,447,042
P O Dept inc. parcel yost 306,953,117
Military . . . 105,937,544
Naval .... 139,831,953
Indian .... 10,208,865
Pensions .... 169,150,000
Public Works . . , 97,917,502
Miscellaneous . . 84,393,213
Permanent annual . 131,196,407
The fact that the estimates are not
largely in excess of th >se for the last
fiscal year is an indicatioi- of a gen
uine desire for democratic econon y,
because the country is rapidly grow
ing and progressing and a substantial
increase in running expenses is in ac
cordance with economic law. In that
view of the case the departments are
to be congratulated on their modera
tion. But the figures must be sub
jected to the acid test before the ap*
propriations are made. The New York
World takes the view that the need of
a co-ordinated budget system is again j
shown by this pitchforking together of j
department estimstes j
Mr. Finley Left an Es
tate of 5185,000.00
The late William Wilson Fin’ey, presi
dent of the So. ^hern railway, left an
estate valued at v"85,000 according to
Mr. A. J. McCauley Di^s
Mr. A. J. McCauley, died at his
home, a couple ot miles South of Meb
ane, Saturday afternoon Decembar
6th Hq was taken s ok with acute
his will made last _*larch and filed. A ii^t^igestion shortly after thanksgiving
life interest is devised to his wife,
Lilie Davis Finley, and at her death it
goes in trust to the five children
Should Mrs. Finley, re-marry the
t "ust created becomes imniediately ef
fective.
An English scientist with a pass'on
for statistics has been computing the
amount of food that the average man
eats in a lifetime. He asserts that in
the process of attaining his threescore
years and ten he eats auout fifty-four
tons of solid food and fifty-three tons
of liquid.
(Henry Progress.)
We begun our fight against the law
less liquor element fully aware of the
warning of King Solomon that “wine
is a mocker and strong drink is rag
ing," and that we were assailing a
crew as reckless as any that ever trod
a pirate ship in the diys of Capt Kidd,
and were neither surprised nor fright
ened when we received second-band
threats from the low classed friends of
the bootlegger. Their threats only
make us the more determined to fight
to the last ditch, giving no quarter
and asking none.
Every Town is Doin’ it.
Goldsboro is to extend its whiie
way,” thereby making a better light
ed city. This appears to be the ten
dency throughout North Carolina and
it is well. A splendidly lighted city
ij not only a comfort and pleasure to
the people of that city, but it is a big
asset in the way of advertising. ALo
the better lighted a city, the less
accidents and the smaller the chance
for the commission of crime. A
“white way” is the thing now in
North Carolina.—Wilmington Dispatch
and gradually grew worse until he died.
Mr. McCauley was 58 years old. He
was born in North Alamance ^’ounty
and lived there until 1895 when he
moved to Gjbsonvilla where he lived six
years. In 1901 he moved to Mebane
and lived here twelve years, he hai
only recently moved to his farm about
two miles from Mebane. He was
Deputy Sheriff of Alamance Co. for
four years and Constable in Mebane
for a number of years. He has niany
friends in Mebane and vicinity who
learn with regret his sudden death
He leaves a wife and two children to
mourn his death; the lattei’ are Mrs,
Mary Iseley and Mr. George McCauley
of Mebane.
The funeral services were conducted
by Dr. W. E, Swain of Mebane and
Rev. T. W. Stroud of Chapel Hill. The
remains were interred at Union Ridge.
Elict Selling of W hiskey.
The following parties were arrested
charged with selling elicit whiskey,
tried beiore Mayor Crawford and bound
over each in a bond of S209, for their
appearance at the next term of Ala
mance Criminal Court, Pink |{ussel,
Jim Murray and Johus Holt. Police
man Long is making commendable zeal
in securing the arrest and conviction of
these parties.
Gondolas of Venice Doom=
ed.
Prosaic Motor Engineers Oust'ng the
Picturesque Gondoliers.
More Public Cups Barred.
.(From a Harrisburg, Pa. Dispatch.)
Absolute prohibition has been placed
in this State on the public drinking
cup, the common towel and the
1 common face brush in barber shops by
the advisory board of the State Depart
ment of Health. The regulations
adopted by the board are among the
most sweeping written into the law
since the board was created.
Restaurants a»*e forbidden to use
drinking vessels, dishes, spoons, knives,
forks, finger bowls and other table
utensils which have not been thoroughly
Those who would soe the gondolas j .|earsed afier each individual
and the gondoliers of Venice must
make haste to visit the wonderful city
on the Adriantic, for both are threat
ened by the prosaic, noisy motor boat.
Alreadv a syndicate has been formed
with the object of placing 100 motor
boats on the Venetain waters in place |
of the picturesque gondalas which have
hitherto been inseparable from pictur
es of Vcneiain liu. and surroundings
The first blow to the existence of
the gondola was struck nearly 35 years
ago when there was introduced a ser
vice of omnibus steamers which has
since been t\ken over by the munici
pality The old gondolas were about
30 feet long, by four feet or five feet
wide, and carried from four to eight
passengers, but it is stated that the
new motor boats, though not differing
greatly in size, will be constructed so
as eo carry a larger number of pass
engers
The gondolier will be missed as
greatly as his boat, for he was always
a picturesque character and a careful
guide, managing his boat with wonder
ful ease and giving a peculiar cry of
warning before turning any corner in
the narrow canals, and never, even in
the close quarters, grazing another
boat.
use.
As for barber shops, the soft brush of
alleged camels’ hair with which the
tonsorial artist is accustomed to dust
the customer’s face will either become
“one to a customer” or else will disap
pear altogether. No ban is placed on
the common shaving brush nor on the
common hair brush.
The Menace of 500,000,-
OOO Rats.
At The Mebane Houe
Wed. Dec. 17th.
Dr. S. Rapport, Specialist in fitting
glasses, will be at Mebane at the
Mebane House, Wed. Dec. 17tb, for
one day only. Let him supDly you
with spectacles or eyeglasses. The
proper GLASSES will prevent future
trouble and relieve the present strain
on your eyes.
There are a few low bred people in
Mebane who should be able to gratify
their propensites to peddle filth by
handling facts without going out and
by implication insinuate spme infamous
lies about the innocent
Oliver Pulls Out
John T. Oliver, who was recom
mended and trongly urged by Repre-
s#»ntative Stedman for the local post-
masterseip of Reidsville has written
to his friends the Congressman and
asken that his name be withdrawn as
a candidate.
This will make possible the apppint-
ment of a Democrat post master for
Reidsville at once.
(From Technical World Magazine.)
I learned something that morning,
visiting an Indian school, says F. C.
Cooper. I learned that throughout che
United States there are about five
rats for every human being, and as
we have a population of about 100,000,-
000 persons, we are feeding a rat
population of some 500,000,000! All
a rate of two cents a day, each rat
costs us close to $7.30 a year! You
can figure for yourself what the total
rat po|;ulation of entire country costs
us. In the State of Indiana alone, the
daily cost for rats, at this rate, is
something like $400,000! The loss to
other States is proportionate. The only
difference between Indiana and other
States is not one of rats—but rather
of enlightment. Indiana does things,
but it has had to struggle to do them!
Under the supervision of Dr. J. N.
Hurty of the State Board of Health,
the rat and its relation to the destruct
ion of property and health are to be
studied in all the public schools through
out the State. A section of the law
now makes it the duty of school and
health authorities to provide charts,
textbooks, etc. in order to carry out
the details of the plan in a most ef
ficient manner. Doctor Hurty’s rat
chart is to be placed in every school
room, and svery teacher is provided
with an interesting phamphlet which
outlines the life story of the rat, and
in such a simple and direct manner
that any child can understand. In
structions in how to make buildings
and dwellings “ratproof” will also be
giver. The people are in earnest;
Failure to teach this subject in the
Schools is punishable with a fine of
from $10 to $25.
Not a Czar: A Pedagogue
What a comment on fate is the pro
test of “Urcle Joe ‘Cannon” against
the “Czar” at Washington! Uncle
Joe was acquainted with the business
of being a “Czar.” when it was still
possible for two or three men to take
charge of the government and run it.
When it happens that some millions of
men have in Washington a President
ready to take their orders, fulfill their
promises, carry out their will, Uncle
Joe “hollers.” Wilson is a “Czar,” in
in a sense, bat he was elected to the
position.
It has been a revolution throughput
all this long sedsion of the longest of
all Congresses. Despite everythirg,
the man in the White House has kept
behind the people’s servants, urging,
insisting, driving in order to make
them do their work. There have been
halting and pulling and rearings up on
the bit, but the man in charge has
kept a strong hold on the bridle.
Wherefore, Congress has gone on its
way, where it was sent. Is this ty
ranny? Rather, it would appear that
it is a relief from oppression.^Colum
bia State. ^
South Responsible For
Prosperity of Nation.
•'The South must bear the chief re
sponsibility for the future prospepity
of the United States both North and
South,” declared Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins,
the director of agriculture of the
Southern Settlement and Development
Organization, speaki ng here at a meet
ing of the organization, which has as
its aim the colonization of the untilled
acres in the 16 Southern States.
“The mcst perfect agricultural cli
mate of the United States belongs to
the Southland, together with the most
neglected opportunities, and the great
est possibilities of agricultural deve
lopment,” said he.
“The unwelcome facts are that from
1890 to 1900 the population of the Un
ited States increased by 21 per cent
while the increase in farm land was
less than 5 per cent. Besides this all
possible future increase in the area of
farm 9 per cent and even this will re
quire large expense for drainage and
irrigation.’^
The forthcoming session of the Bap-
Staettist Convention, which convenes
in Shelby next week representing some
five hundred thousand Baptists, again
reminds us that there are quite a num
ber ot “pinheads” in North Carolina.
—Winston-Salem Journal.
“It is to be hoped that the four
British scientists who claim they made
a living frog by an artificial process
w.ll not attempt to manufacture any
m^re Mexicans.”—Pensacola News.
“Or Harry Thaws.”—Nashville Ban
ner*
Or~——well, never mind.
In deciding not to deport an Ameri
can poet caught alive in England, the
British authorities may possibly have
been influenced by a feeling of grati
tude to this country for taking Mrs.
Pankhurst off their hands for a while*