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THE MEBAJVE LEADER.
*And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.*
Vol 4
MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 22 1914
No 105
Mr. Garner of Creedmor waa in Meb-
a ,e Tuostlfty
Mre I' Frank Mebane of Spray is
viiitin.^ Mrs. M. B. Scott.
Mr K. C Thomas of Greensboro was
Mebane Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Frank Holt ia very ill at her
home. She was laken sick during
Christmas.
Miss Ahce Thompson of Durham,
spent the day Tuesday with Mrs. P.
N'elson. while on her way home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bowling and Miss
Lassie Watkins went to Burlington
Tuesday afternoon in Mr. Bowlings
car.
Bridge Club
Oil Tuesday afternoon of last week
Mrs. Felix Graves was hostess to the
Bridfxe Club. Mrs. W. W. Corbett
anti Mrs. J. M. Thom{)Son made the
highe.>^t score.
.^fter the games were over an ela
borate three coutse lunch was served.
Members present, Mcsdames W. W.
i'.^rbett and J. M. Thompson, Misses
Marv White, Jennie Lasley, Sue Meb-
ai'.e. Lassie Watkins, Margie Scott and
Katherine White.
Rockingham Cotton Mill
Man Dies
W. F. L. Steele, prominent cotton
mill man and banker, died at his home
n Rockingham, N. C , Thursday morn-
iig at the age of 66 years. Of a
\vv.al hy and influental family, he was
one of the biggest factors in the in
dustrial development of his section.
Some of our exchanges who spoke of
the necessity of an advance in price to
one dollar and a half from the old price
of one dollar, are backing water on the
p.oposition. It seems that they have
heard from the back county folks, and
they don’t wart it. They ought to be
prompt in paying the old price then.
Bold Bandit Holds up And
Robs Folks
A bandit boarded Western and
Atlantic passenger train No. 1 at
Vinings, Ga , early last Friday night,
robbed dasengers in one of the coaches
of several hundred dollars, and after
engaging in a pistol duel with a deputy
sheriff who was on board jumped from
the train at Dalton, Ga.
Phone Company Sued.
A man in Wilmington, Mr. G. J. Hart
has brought a civil suit againpt the
telephone company of that city alleging
damages to the amout of $5000, for the
betrayal of his me ssage and the damage
he suffered by reason of said betrayel.
In addition to these alleged damages
there is a State penalty for the betrayal
of a telephone message.
Parcels Weighing Hun
dred Pounds May be Ship
ped Soon
Parcels weighing a hundred pounds
soon may be shipped by parcel post.
The Department recently conducted
experiments with a view to increasing
weight to that figure. Postmaster
General Burleson declared that six
hundred million parcels will be handled
during the year with revenue approx
imating ten cents each. He has been
given broad powers, he said, and pro
poses to make the service meet Ihe
full requirements of the people.
Train at High Point Runs
Down Miss Grace Royster.
While crossing 'the railroad track
rear the Tomlinson Chair Company’s
plant at High Point Thursday morning
last about 6:30 o’clock Miss Grace Roy
ster was struck by a work train, being
bruised severely about the head and
body. Unconscious she was picked up
and carried to the waiting room of the
station, where she received medical
attention.
After she was revived she was taken
to her home.
Honor Roll.
The following true, and honest men
subscribers to the Mebane Leader have
paid their subscription since the last
publication of the list, for which we
express our thanks.
B. A. Ashley
Charlie Grant
D. E Wilkerson
G. W. Gill
1-. A. Crawford
J ule Pace
I. J. Carden
J. W. Hanner
W. E. Swain
C. W, Ray
A. H. Mebane
A. R. Holmes
Marion Nicholson
Ida Thompson
Olga Long
C. L. Mitchel
R. A. Hodge
J. L. Christopher
E. E. Bell
S W. Crutchfield,
Mebane’s Manufacturing
Enterprises in Fine
Condition.
We understand that the Conintental
Chair Mfg. Co. baa bad a good year
and will pay a good dividend to their
stock-holders, aside from setting aside
a good amount to their supulus fund.
The White Furn. Co. has we under
stand paid out to their stock-holders
moie than $10,000, and passed up to
surplus fund a large amount.
The Mebane Bedding Co. we under
stand paid a handsome cash dividend
to their stock-holders, and also issued
a stock dividend four for one.
The Mebane Iron Bed Co. made a
profit of 34 per cent on their capital,
but on account of increased business
decided not to pay a dividend, and the
directors voted to increase the capital
stock of the company $4000, which will
assist them in taking care of their
increased business.
The Nelson-Cooper Lumber Co. w’e
understand payed a nice dividend and
also passed a good sum up to surplus
fund.
Mebane should feel proud of her
manufacturing enterprises, which have
established “Mebane” as meaning
“quaUty” all over the Southern Stales
and indeed all over the United States
with some of her factories.
Mebane, Rfd. Mo. 5.
How are all of the writers this New
Year, as [ have not written this year
wish you all a happy New Year.
Mr. Tom Browning spent Motiday in
Mebane, also Mi. Murdock and Fletcher
Shankhn
Mr. Lee Sykes spent Saturday night
at Mr. W. M. McCauley.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ij. Pool attended
church at Hebron Sunday.
Miss Winnie Phillips spent Sunday
with Miss Myitle Warren
Mr. Oley Aulbert and Miss Sudie
Miller called at Mr. J. L. Pools Satur
day night
Misses Fannie and Viola Browning
spent Sunday with Mispes Lizzie and
Mamie Berry.
Ask Mr. George Newman Dow he
likes to drive Dan for the widow, thinK
he likes it ok, for he w'aa all smiles.
Mr. Ed. Lewis called at Mr. J. M.
Millers Sunday.
Miss Nannie Browning spent Sunday
with Miss Lula Miles.
Mr. John Qualls and A. Parrish spent
Saturday night at E. G. Scotts
Mr. Claud Newman spent Sunday
with his father and mother Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Newman
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Shanklin spent
Saturday and Sunday with their daugh-
tor Mrs Nelson Wright.
Mrs. W. H. Richmond Las been on
the sick list for the past week, wish
her a speedy recover.
There was a good crowd out at
prayer meeting Suniay P. M. we are
glad to see a large crowd out and hope
they will continue to come.
Well 1 will give some one else the
page for 1 am afraid Mr. Editor will
not print them.
Bon.
^en uf Six Races Discuss
Evils of Race Prejudice.
The question ‘ How can raceprejudice
be dispelled and the spirit of brother
hood be made to prevail in America?”
was asked at the Saturday discussion of
the Republican Club of New York and
answered by a Jew, a Japanese, a
Chinaman, a negro, an Englishman and
an American. Their views were as
divergent as th^ir races.
Dr. Samuel Schulman, rabbi of Temple
Beth El, who opened the discussion,
said the subject was not secular but
sacred and that nothing is more im
portant to the American people than
the maintenance of their traditions of
democracy, and that race should be no
more a prejudice than creed.
“I doubt,” he continued, “if the
Americans to-day cherish the lofty
ideals of the founders of this Republic.
Th3 mere fact that this club feels im
pelled to announce discussions on race
prejudice is sufficient to show such
prejudice exists.”
Notice.
Good farm for rent or sale 2 miles
North of Mebane, near Pike road. For
further information apply to,
W. N. Tate, Mebane, N. C.
The Thaw Case
(Chattanooga Nev/s.)
PubUc sentiment in the Thaw case
has taken some strange turns. Many
people Ere of the opinion that he has
been unjustly prosecuted, that Jerome
has discriminated against him merely
for the purpose of setting an example
of the wealthy young Pittsburgher.
However, it must be remembered that
several alienists, including Dr. Flint,
are fixed in their opinion that Thaw
is not only insane but is dangerously
insane Perliaps Mr. Jerome’s persist
ency is partly due to the fact that it
is Thaw, and not a penniless nobody,
he is chasing. But that doesn’t alter
the fact that there ai*e expert opinions
to the effect that Thaw is a menace to
public safety.
Five Month’s old Baby
Presumably Smothered to
Death.
Mr. and Mrs. William Clayton liv
ing in North Mebane, had the misfor
tune to lose their five month’s old baby
boy, Joiseph W’ednesday morning. The
child appeared perfectly well when it
retired Tuesday night, and even in* the
early morning hou»s seemed to be
sleeping well, but at five in the morn
ing the child was frund dead.
Interment took place in the Presby
terian Cemotery Thursday afternoor.
A Matter of Choice
As a choice between two evils, we
prefer having the government ow'n the
railroads than to have the raiiioads
own the goven.ment, not an altogeth
er unheard-of thing.^Charlotte Chron
icle.
An Impressive Object
Lesson
Two deaths from typhoid fever
among eighty thousand men, or one
death in forty thousai;d, is the record
of the United States Army for 1913.
Where in all the land is there to be
found a community, urban or rural,
which can show a moitality rate from
this cause even approximately as low?
In fart, it would be difficult to discover
one in which the rate was less than six
or seven times as high.
The practical elimination of typhoid
fever from the posts and camps of the
United States Army has been brought
about by iheuse of anti-tyohoid yaccine
"-a aerum devised by Sir Almroth
Wright. What the application of this
preventive has accomplished in the
Army there is every reason to believe
could and would be effected in any
community in which the fc.pplication
should be made as general. And why
should it not be so mad;? Typhoid
epidemics are no less to be dreaded
than epidemics of small-pcx. We do
not hesitate to make vaccination agains-t
srna 11-pox compulsory whenever and
wherever protection of the public
h:?alth so demands. What or where is
the objection to the pursuit or a similar
policy in regard to vaccination against
typhoid? The risk in the latter case is
even smaller than inthe former, and
the administering of the vaccine is jus
as simple.—Va. Pilot.
Are Always on Hand
It is the old story of the unemploy
ment problem as that has almost' in
variably been in the United States
Husky unemployers are very particu
lar about what they will do at $L50 or
more a day. For light exertion at
this price Portland, Ore., out of a
supposed aimy, could enlist but five.
Let somebody start the cry of unem
ployment, though perhaps purely from
political or other special motives, and
people who ask nothing better than to
be kept up without work will always
appear.- Charlotte Observer
Running Was Gocd.
Those Mexican generals who boast
fully declared that they would die if
the trenches at Olinaga, finally decided
that biting bread with the Yankees
across the border was better than
biting the dust on the Mexican side.
Man won’t run when nobody is after
him, but when it comes to deciding
between dying and running the average
man, as brave as he may be isn’t
going to do the dieing so long as running
is good. "He who lives to run nway,
will live to fight another day.” When
a fight is going a man’s wav he is right
there. When it is the other fellow’s
fight, the discreet individual will
undergo r great deal of fatigue in
going the other way.—Wilmington
Star.
The seal of the City of London, usd
since 1380, has been broken up and
destroyed and a new one prepared.
That seems to be peculiarly an un-
British act. The seal should ,have been
preservt. d in the British Museum, or,
as Flinders Petrie, the Egyptologist,
suggested, it might have been coun
ter-marked so as to prevent fraudulent
use of it and then sold in America for
at least enough to buy c.nd preserve
Newton’s I'ouse, which has been des
troyed because the London County
Council did not think it worth the ex
pense of maintenance. Is England
losing its conservatism and beginning
to become a radical of radicals?
In order to show their appreciation of
Mr. Ford’s generosity and sense of
justice, 15,000 men tried to wreck his
factory because he was unable to give
them jobs immediately it twice the
wages they could earn anywhere else.
By Saturday thev will probably be ready
to hang him in effigy and denounce him
as an oppressor of .the poor.
The Penn.sylvi nia Railroad takes al
together justifiable pride in announcing
that it handled approximately one
hundred and eleven million passengers
last year without killing a single one
in a train accident. It is a record of
which ony great transportation system
might well be oround.—Va. Pilot.
Hasten The Day.
The express companies of the coun
try announce that they will greatly
reduce rates in a few months, even
below the figure ordered by the Linter-
state commerce commission, effective
in Febuary. These companies say the
parcel post is wading into them and
that their only salvation is to become a
competitor of the government. The
people will profit ny the reduction and
the express companies will likewise
profit. Hasten the day.—Greensboro
Record.
An American Career
(New York Evening Post.)
Future historians may record the
rise in life of American citizens who
began as office boys in a Detroit auto
mobile factory at $30 a week and end
ed as university professors of philoso
phy at $1,200 a year.
Radium Mrs. Wilcox’s
Gift.
(From a Buffalo Dispatch.)
The trustees of the Gratwick State
Research Laboratory announced today
that Mrs. Ansley Wilcox had given to
the institution 50 milligrams of radium.
The order has been placed in Pittsburg
at a cost of $6,000. The mineral will
be delivered in April.
Thisistha first eift of radium to
the laboratory, which is specializing
in the treatment of cancer. It is a
State institution and the Legislature
willbe asked to help with an appro
priation.
Overworking Locomotive
Engineers.
(W^ashington Star.)
Commissioner McChord’s statement,
relative to the findings of the Inter
state Commerce Commission as to
violations of the 16 hour law on Amer
ican railways lays emphasis npon the
fact that it is impossible to expect per
fect service if the operatives upon
whom the safety of passangeis depend
are overworked. In some lines of em
ployment overtime is harmful onlv to
the worker, and in practically all tra
des* it is recompensed on this basis But
in railroading overworking the opera
tive is a menace to the public. No
man can run a locomotive reliably af
ter a certain number of hours of con
tinuous strain. The engineer must
have adequate rest or his physical sys
tem deteriorates, his judgment if af
fected, his vision is less trustworthy,
his hands is less steady. In no other
line of work is it so essential to insure
firstclass physical condition, and this
cannot be had unless there is a regular
and sufficient period of absolute rest.
The commission’s statistic show that
during the year ended June 30 last
there were nearly 300,000 violations,
of the 16-hour law by 269 railroads. In
practically all cases excuses weregiven
for these violations, and doubtless
from the railroad point of view they
were all good excuses. But from the
public point of view they were all bad,
for no excuse is good to condone a
fault that affects the public safety and
every one of these violations was an j
invitation to disaster. I
Unfaithiul Officials
In a great number of our counties
the officers of the law are unfaithful
to the trust committed to them, and
are letting blind tigers off with nom
inal fines or with no punishment at
all. It ia poor encouragemert for a
policeman to apprehend a violator of
the prohibition law, when the mag
istrate or recorder turns him loose on
the community without infl.'cting a
penalty.—Charity and Children.
Cause of Commotion
Did you ever have b forceful female
presiding in your kitchen who kept you
constantly in a turmoil for lear she
might bring the house down about
your ears?
Rose Stahl tells a story of such a
treasure belonging to a family who
lived in California.
One afternoon the town experienced
a slight shock of earthquake.
“Pictures were thrown down, crock
ery ahd furniture rattled about. In tha
midst of the tumult the mistress went
to the head of the stairs and called out
in a resigned tone:
“L’zzie, what are you doing now.”—
Young’s Magazine.
Filipino Incapacity.
The {Filipino assembly cut salaries
as soon as the natives got in control,
and yet they are said to be unfit for
taking charge of their own govern
ment. They considered the official
salaries in a poor country as extrava
gant, and there is little doubt that
they know that much about the af
fairs of their courtry. They have
Bhown a desire to protect it from
American carpetbaggers. — Wilmington
Star.
Fire at Oak Ridge
Fire at an early hour Saturd‘«v morn
ing destroyed the two main buildings
of Oak Ridge institute, in which were
all the recitation rooms, offices and
society halls of the institution, togeth
er with the Methodist Protestant
church on an adjoining lot, entailing a
loss of approximately $35,000, only
partially covered by insurance. It
was announced that class work would
be resumed and that the fire would
not cause any suspension of the school
work f>.r this term.
The fire was discovered about 4
o’clock in the building in which the
society halls are located. It is believed
that the fire originated in the Philo-
matean society hall. The societ\ held
its regular weekly meeting Friday
night and a fire was kept in the stove
during the meeting. Just how it was i
communicated to the building will pro
bably never be known, but the pro
babilities are that there was a defect
in the flue.
The Legal Looby.
Senator 0\crman’s bill to prevent
improper and corrupt lobbying is
drawing comment from the papers,
and this is in general of a favorable
character It could not be otherwise.
I’he bill in effect legalizes the lobby.
That is, it protects the letritim«ite busi
ness interests that want to get their
case before Congress in a legitimate j
way—-open and above board. Under
the Overman hill, for instance, the j
cotton mill men of the South would
have the privilege of employing a
representative or representatives to
visit the Capital and present their
claims before committees *\nd before
0)ngress. The only class of lobbying
it would destroy is that pursued by
men of whom Mulhall is a sample.
The Mulhall methods would be wiped
out and interests that employ a lob
byist would know what the lobbyist is
doing.
They would not be “worked” by the
lobbyist under representations that he
was accomplishing results which ex
isted mainly in his own fertile brain-
Ehe secret lobby is likely to be a cor
rupt one. That Rort of business will be
killed by the Overman bill, and it
should be killed. The bill places the
lobby where it should be-in the light
of day and nnder licensed recognition
by the Government.—Charlotte Ob
server.
Lidt of Letters Advertised
For the week ending Jan. 17 1914.
1 Letter for Mnj. SuRan Smith
1 “ “ lire, Mollie Martin
1 “ “ Mr. Irwin Everette
1 “ “ Mr. Bennie Baos
1 “ “ Mr. J. C. Burch
These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office Jan. 31 1914. If not
called for. In calling please give date
of list.
Reapt.
Mebane, N. 0.
J. T. Dick, P. M.
REPORT OF THE GONDITIGN OF
THE
Commeroial & Farmers Bank, Mebane, N.G
At the close of business Jan. 13th
1914.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts $88,693.92
Banking House $3,855.21)
Furniture, Fixtures $1,674.12 ) 5,529.33
Demand Loans 1,900.00
Due from Banks
and Bankers 42,910.22
Cash items 4,309.68
Gold coin 2,250.00
Silver coin, including all minor
coin currency 1,648.59
National Bank notes and
other U. S. Notes $19,426.00
Total $166,667.74
LIABILITIES
Capital stock 8,000.00
Surplus fund 2,500.00
Undivided profits, less current
expenses and taxes paid 4,026.95
Dividends unpaid 7.00
Time certificates of Deposit 44,747.57
Deposits subject to check 80,048.97
Savings deposits 26,411.91
Cashier’s checks outstanding 398.31
Certified Checks 27.03
Accrued interest due depositors 500.00
Total $166,667.74
State of North Carolina, County of
Alamance, ss:
I, W. A Murray Pres, of the
above-named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
W. A. Murray, Pres.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this the 20th, day of Jan. 1914.
S. G. Morgan, Notary Public
Correct Attest:
P. Nelson
Jas. H. Lasley
W. S. Harris
Directors.
For Sale.
One Magnetor Switch Board cquiped
with 100 drops and in good condition.
For further information apply to
Home Telephone Co. Mebane, N. C.
Spri'ig Preparation On
Southern Farms.
In no section of the country does a
well prepared seed-bed give better
returns than in the Southern States.
The best spring preparation of the soil
is practically impossible unless it has
properly turned and deeply broken
during the previous summer or fall.
The necessity for deep plowing in the
South is probably not realized by those
who are not familiar w'lth the heavy
rainfalls in this section which frequently
packs and runs the particles of soil
together so as to exclude air and
sunshine. The absence of freezing
prevents any loosening up of the
particles, besides hi many places there
is an almost impervious hard-pan oi
subsoil, either natural or brought about
from a continuous custom of shallow
plowing. In other sections this deepening
and loosen ng of the soil is done partly
at least by the forces of nature but
can only be accomplished by the plow
in the South. Such are the findings of
the Department of Agriculture.
The best implement for deep breaking
of the soil is the disc plow which turns,
pulverizes and mixes at the same time.
When properly adjusted the disc breaks
the land deeply and thoroughly loosens
it, mixing this soil and th3 subsoil to
some extent but does not turn to the
surface enough of the inert subsoil to
iniure the succeeding ci’op. The next
best method for deep breaking is mold-
board plowing, set to turn furrows on
edge and this is followed by a subsoil
plow in the same furrow as deeply as
desired.
If the cover crop is to follow the
fall breaking a thorough preparation of
the seed-bed should be made before
planting the seod. If no cover crop is
sown the disc borrow or spring tooth
harrow should be run over occasionally
to crush clods and keep surface crusts
broken for the admission of air and
sunlight. The usual method is to flat
break and where this is done it is best
to throw up into beds before planting.
Planting may be done with small plows
or just as effectively and much faster
with a disc cultivator set at the proper
ang'h. Should there be clods a roller
may be used and this is followed with
a section harrow.
Too much care cannot be given to
the preparation of the seed bed. It
not only saves cultivation but makes
plant' food jivailable and furnishes
proper conditioiis for seed germination
and rapid growth. The best farmers
will tell you that thorough preparation
is more than half the expense of makmg
a good crop.
The spring preparation is never as
deep as the land was when broken )n 1
the fall or winter: With nearly all
field crops a firm seed bed is preferable.
Orly the first few inches need to Le
freshened and pulverized at planting
time. When the cover crop is drawn
under, the plowing should be just deep
enough to turn the crop under well and
the usual harrowing and pulverizing to
get a fine soil before seeding.
Where there has been no fall and
winter breaking done, as is the rule
in some sections, it is not advisable to
break as deeply in the spring as in the
fall; usually not more than two inches
deeper than before, and then the clay
subsoil should not be turned to the
surface The plow can set to edge the
furrow. It is found more necessary to
get spring broken land finely pulverized
and thoroughly prepared before planting
It is better to delay planting several
days rather than put the seed in a
poorly prepared bed.
Wrong Idea of Regional
Bank.
Entirely recognizing the dessuabilily
of the Richmond banks as members of
this reserve district and wishing, for
that malter, the inclusion of Baltimore
we might call attention to some mis
taken ideas which are afloat. If Rich
mond is in, it is in for all purposes,
whether the home of the reserve bank
is there or not. Its banking facilities
would be just as available for service
throughout the branch system. The
reserve bank is primarily a bank of all
the banks in the district, secondarily a
member for aU its member banks in
the Federal reseive system as a whole
If it were located at some fourth-class
postoffice, these things would still be
equally true. That is, in brief, neither
the resources nor the control of the re
gional reserve bank are determined
by its location in any particular city.
The choice of the site, therefore, is
essentially a matter of convenience
from the standpoint of geography and
railroads. In these respects Charlotte
has the call over all others for any dis
trict comprising the South Atlantic
States below Mason and Dixon’s Line
of the Potomac River. We submit this
as a thoroughly demonstrable, even
self-evident, fact. We want son.e
people to discard the idea that in order
to qualify for service by Richmond’s
banking resour:es the site of the re
serve bank must be at Richmond or
for the much greater banking resour
ces of Baltimore it must be at Balti
more. The boundaries of the district
determine all this completelv. We
have entire confidence in the meiit of
Charlotte’s claims on the only proper
basis, namely, as the most accessible,
communicable and generally and gen
erally convenient spot.—Charlotte Ob
server.
The Alcohol in Qrape-
Juice.
Representative Bartholdt’s discovery
of a chemist who holds there is more
alcohol in grapejuice than in beer is
not surprising. Such chemists are as
rare as whit^ blackbirds. Of chemists
it was written, “There are many men
of many minds.” Of few of them can
be said that thev “are birds of a fea
ther and flock together.”
Only a short time ago in this city we
had eminent authority declaring that
“a cup of tea is as injurious as a
Scotch highball, and a cup of coffee ia
worse.” From the learned doctors and
chemists and bacteriologists of the
Society for the Prevention of Tuber
culosis there comes in the current news
of the week a protest against the
Chautauqua salute, on the ground that
the flutter of handkerchiefs spreads
disease. Other equally eminent au
thorities have objected to the use of
punching machines in bookkeeping, on
the ground that it produces nervous
breakbown.
There is no way of living according
to pathologists or chemists or of any
body else who looks into the mysteries
of life for tiouble. Every living thing
should live and let live each after its
own nature. Secretary Bryan likes
grape juice. Representative Bartholdt
likes beer. Each is an advocate of in
ternational peace. Why not have it
between themselves.—New York world
Whatever withdraws us trom the
power of our senses; whatever makes
the past, the distant or the future, pre
dominates over the present, advances
us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Far from me, and far from my friends
be such frigid philosophy as may con
duct us indifferent and unmoved over
any ground which has been dignified
by wisdom, bravery or virtue. That
man is little to be envied whose pa
triotism would not gain force upon the
plain of Marathon, or whose piety
would not grow warmer among th«
ruins of lonis.—Johnson.
The Other Car
Some salesmen are equal to almost
any emergency, and do not spare the
“other car” when occasion requires.
“But the Blank car is guaranteed
for life,” protested the prospective
purchaser to a salesman or the sort.
‘Yes. I know it is,” retorted the
quick-witted salesman, “but our car is
guaranteed tor a whole year.”
It required several moments for the
prospective purchaser to see the point
—Reedy’s Mirror.
James’ Economy
“Papa,” asked James, “wouldn’t
you be glad if I saved a dollar for you?
“Certainly, m^ son,” said papa, so
delighted at this evidence of building
business ability that he handed the
youth a dime.
“Well, I saved it all right,” said
James, disappearing. “You said
if I brought a good report from my
teacher you would give me [a dollar;
but I didn’t.”—Ladies’ Home Journal^
To Those Who Failed.
(Philadelphia Record.)
It is not given to many men to suc
ceed in anything; to Weir Mitchell it
was given to become eminent in three
fields—medicine, poetrv and fiction,’
And among the most perfect of hia
lines were those offering sympathy—*
consolation there is not for the un
successful—to those who have strug
gled and failed:
0, yearning heart that lacked the at-*
hlete’s force.
And, stumbling, fell upon the beaten
course.
And looked, and saw with ever-glaz
ing eyes
Some lower soul that seemed to wlit
the prize.
A Good Sign
Tne fact that the A. and M. college
has more than :i00 students taking the
agricultural course augurs well for the
state. The opportunities for service
are greater in agriculture than in anj
other profession, and the best part of
it is that the trained farmer is con
stantly in demand. Mother earth opens
her lap to him and pours into his arms
the riches of intelligent endeavor.-^
Raleigh Times.
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