North Carolina Newspapers

T LEADER *And Right The Day Must Win, Tq Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.* VolS MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19 1914 No 1 Wanted to buy good beef cattle, to W. M. Smith. See the Mebane Supply Co. ad in this issue. They have a quantity of jrooila in o»r ^hey sell right. Queen quality is good quality it is the quality Mr. J. 3 Clark has in ladieslsboes. You make no mistake when you see Mr. Clark. An amiable gentleman and a very reasonable man. A Birthday Pally Tht re was a birthday party at Mr. William Satterfield's Friday night last in honor of Miss Lottie Satterfield who had reached her 17tb year. Miss Satter field was the recepient of a number of valuable presents. There was quite a nu’rberof friends present to rejoice with her on reaching her 17 birthday, an'.org them were; Misses Sudie Cook, Clara Warren, Virginia Clark and Mrs. Ch-irlie Lasley, Dr. J. H Hurdle, J 5 flark, Earl Shaw, Bob Dillard, John and Fletcher Smith. They played Rook, and had refresh ments of a salad course' and terved cream and cake. THE TOBACCO CROP Efland Items. Miss Sallie Efland teacher near Chapel Hill spent Saturday and Sunday at h(.n.e with her parents Mr. and Mrs. .M. L. Efland. .Mr. Terry Jones U. S, Navy boy who has been visiting his mother and sisters a few days left Efland last Fri day for his post of duty. Mr. Ernest Forrest merchant at Cheeks Crossing passed through Efland Sunday en route to Raleigh. Mr. John Clayton clerk for Forrest and Fvrrsst at Efland spent last Sun day at his home near Cedar Grove. .\Ir. Rowe Rav and wife of Burling- tor. aiso Mr, ard Mrs. Otis Williams of Graham came down last Friday to attend Mr. W. R. ^Thompsons funeral a:.d burial at the M. P. Church at Efland. .Misses Maggie Pickard and Myrtle Per.v also Messrs, Fred and Charlie B: went down to Hillsboro Saturday rghr. L.rtle S. C. Forrest Jr. has been qusick for a while, hope the little felh -V will soon be well. .M;.'s Ltttie Thompson spent Sunday after; n with Miss Annie Jordan. .Mr. -Tohn B. Baity went up to Bur- lingioi. .M nd?y to see his brother-in- law .V!. Jack Price who is seriously ill of a FINE OISPUY III HEwjjK cny North Carolina Canning, Clubs AttractingAttention j Everywhere. The New York papers are having much to say about the exhibition of canned goods from North Carolina, which is now being held in ♦^he Grand Central Palace under the auspices of the Housewives’ League. Mrs. James McKimmon of this State is in charge and the display, not only of the goods 1 rushing tobacco to market may be on exhibition but the young girls who | right but not always. During the did the work as well, is attracting j "months of October, November and a much attention. The following is i December, the farmer who Double, Triple and Quad ruple Sales in Some of ^ the Warehouses The Southern Tobacco Journal says: Notwithstanding arguments to the contrary, and whether or not it is best for the grower, there is a disposition on the part of tobacco farmers to sell their crop early in the seaspn, and just as rapidly as possible, sometimes from The New York Tribune under a fine threo colunnn picturn of the ex hibit: “Right smart of canned stuff they’ve got up at Grand Central Palace. Juicy tomatoes, luscious blackberries, plums, pears, beans, all kinds of berries, fruit and vegetables, all put up in shinning glass by the farmerettes of the Girls’ Canning clubs of North Carolina and sent here to show those who go to the Housewives' League exhibit what good little Southern girls are made of. “Yes, there’s a Housewives’ League exhibit at Grand Central Palace. Some people haven’t realized it yet, because the Women’s Jndustrfal Exhibit also is there. They are running stimultane- ously, and everything in the food line is under the auspices, of the league. And for youth and excellence the North Carolina girls take the prize “These canning clubs, as some per sons know, and some don’t belong to the United State Department of Agri culture, and the Governtnent has put Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon in charge j in North Carolina. She sits in the booth at the Housewives’ League show and tells callers how the farmerettes down there are learning, through this new work, to love the country and not yearn to migrate to a city as soon as they grow up. “There was one girl of 15 in James town who wanted to go to high school’ she said yesterday between taking or- deis from visitors. She put. up 400 cans of tomatoes from rarplus product on her father’s farm. She took one to the grocer in the little town, and when he saw how good the\ were he took them all, at 10 cents a can. That to* tailed $40 and is sending her to school this winter. did not sell his tobacco, if it was pos sible to do so, did rot act wisely, as we all expected and some ot us pre dicted some kind of a reaction. Next season conditions may be different, but al! the same farmers will rush their tobacco to the market. The Danville, Va., market, we un derstand, will try to run four sales at a time instead of three as they do now Durham, Oxford, Henderson and .other markets that sell ten millions and more, will try for double sales. Wiii' ston Salem may try for the three sule plan In making this kind of a move the markets, that in all the years past have borne the burdens of the pass ing years, should be encouraged and assisted in the desire and efforts to handle the heavy receipts to the Jbest advantages to all concerned and to this end a sufficient number of buyers should and doubtless will be placed on 11 markets for them to carry out the plans desired Turn Current on This Month. The Piedmont Eic'ctric and Railway company has nearly completed its big power plant and hopes able to turn on current on the 18tS. They have about completed the work of erecting poles and stringing wire to Graham, Haw River and Mebane. They will first test out the plant by operating the street cars with the current, next furnish lights to Graham, and then to Haw River and Mebane. They hope to be supplying Graham and Mebane with lights and current within a week or ten days. They ‘have a lot of wiring to do in Burlington before they can turn on current in this city, but thfey hope to be furnishing power in Burlington within a short time.—Burlington News. !.],lication of d’seases. Du; Hn=;-y days. .L return t little fe to this Cl.id spell. Mr. Wiiliam R Thompson died Thursday morning about 3 o’clock, had been sick for a long time Monuments to Murder Nashville Tennessean. The Columbia State and the Rich mond Times-Dispatch are having a friendly controversy over the practice of erecting monuments to murder when other crimes are so heartlessly neglect ed, being left unhonored and unsung The controversy came up over the remarkable monument having been a , , , ^ - provided by admiring friends and erec- sutiered much, but bore his suffering .j j J ted to the tender memory of Floyd and Claude Allen, whose most conspicuous performance was to shoot up a Virgin ia court and kill the judge. We are told that “the marble g the recent cold spell the M ; was frozen up for two ;e ‘Ground Hog” did well to his winter quarters or the w would have fallen a victem last He and A certain Henderson business man’s wife took a notion about a year ago that smoking was very much against her husband’s good health and so began urging him to desist from the injurious habit. But as the story goes he went right alorg enjoying his good cigar as regularly as ever until just a few weeks ago, when all of a sudden he quit short off and now smokes no more. His good wife has since been congratulating herself on her final vic tory inJbeiialf of bis bealih. But some of his intimate frtends are blinking their eyes and hinting that he quit be cause hie pretty new stenographer ob jected to the smell of cigar smoke. The Same Reason patiently and was perfectly resigned and ready to die. He is survived by his second wife one daughter and six sons an aged sist#^r and a host of other relatives and friends. Mr. Thompson was 69 years of age, and had been a public road official for about thirteen years. Rev. R, Stubbins conducted the funeral services at Efland Friday. We noMce in a recent issue of the Leader that Mr, Woodwoith spoke of the Editor as not being the first editor to be “browbeaten and frighten.” We can say for our part and belief that E'’.itor of the Editor of The Leader is a fearless man and dares speak the truth and uphold the right. He dosn’t allow nnoney or riches to rule bis paper but gives each and every one a “square deal.” We only wish old N. C. had more such editors as J. O. Foy. Secretary Wilson is not in favor of compulsory arbitration of disputes between capital and labor. This would doubtless be the attitude of Mr. Post were he at the head of the Depart- I’^ent of Labor. That department should not be presided oyer by any person specially identified with either! may in capita! or labor, but by some one who could hold the balance true between the conflicting claims and interests of the two classes. Mr. Wilson is a rnis- fit in the place as much as would be Mr. Post or Mr. Schwab. When you are studying up some injurcus lie to tell on a fellow, remem- ^r, for your own sake you were once thought to be a lady or may be a gentleman, don’t make it your fault that you are not so now considered. slab bears an inscription of martyrdom and sympathy in keeping with the spirit of the donors,’* and in the monument it self is a “receptacle for the small mar ble slab presented by admiring and sympathizing Richmond friends shortly after the execution of the two famous clansmen.” The protest of The State, ^ which is made in behalf of civilization and with out apology for South Carolina’ft short comings as to unpunished crime, is a deserved rebuke to those who approve the vuglar and unwholesome practice of extolling and glorifying deeds of murder. The State says: “Down here in South Carolina it is true that scarcely a day passes that; there is not the crack of a pistol, snuff ing out some more Dr less worthy life. “Usually, however, these deaths re sult with more or less directness from an uneconomic point of view as to the settlement of personal differences. “Wejmay have murderers who go some cases envy Virginia the pleasure of sending some of them to the chair; but for all that, we pause at canonizing them. Young Botts haj^just told his mother of his engagement a charming yjung woman who was *t blessed with much of this world’s goods, and he met with immediate objection. “Now, mother dear,” .said the young man, “don’t be angry with me for fall ing in love with her. Besides, you were a poor girl when you first met father.” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Botts “so I was But so was your fathe*. And I mar ried him because I knew he would suc ceed.” “Well, mother,” he said, “and she is going to marry me because he did don’t you see?”—Philadelphia Ledger. ■ No Private Snap. (^rom The Durham Herald.) Passing a law preventing its ship ment into the State would be taking a no more rank hold then voting out the saloons. The way we look at it, no man is entitled to special privi leges in the matter. I^r. Zwemer’s estimate of the Moslem Pt>pulation of the world is, in round numbers, 200,000,000. Of these he as- J'gns to India 67,500,000; Dutch East Indieg. 35.250,000; Turkey, 12,250,000; Hussian empire, 20,000,000; Arabia, 2.500,000; Afghanistan, 4,500,000; China 5.500,000 to 8,500,000, and Africa, 40.000,000. Wouldn’t Follow It “I am glad to find you better,” said a physician to a famous comedjan upon paying him a professional visit one morning. “You followed my pre scription of course?” '^‘Indeed, I did not, doctor,” retorted the sick man, “or I should have broken my neck.” “Broken your neck!” exclaimed the doctor in amazemant. - “Yes,” said tl'e other, “for I threw your prescription out of the window.” —Pittsburgh Chromcle. The Optimist. (By Dr. Frank Crane ) Be an Optimist! Optimism is the product of healtjj. Pessimism is tne fruit of a diseased body, brain, or spirit. The whole universe is an arena for the tremendous battle eternally going on between the forces of vitality and the forces of morbidity, bptwetn down- pulling and up-building energies, be tween hope and despair, between the unafraid and the panic-stricken. The agents of death sWarm in the air, lurk at every corner of your path, dog your steps nig^t and day. Failuie threatens, accidents happen, enemies are after you, microbes are everywhere. Think of these things, and it is all over with you. The man afraid is half whipped. __ Circumstancrs have nothing to do with Optimism. Even the sick-rooinof an Optimist is a bulwark of encourage ment to the whale household. Facts do not cast down the Optimi?t If he is cheated he makes' the sw indler ashamed. If he is beaten he never knows it. V/hen Trouble visits him she soon leaves because she is not offeied a chair. If he stumbles he fights on his knees. Any human being’s will is the soul’s citadel; all hell cannot take it unless it surrenders. The W’ill clears the brain, inspires the heart, nerves the hand, and makes the foot sure. The Optimist is the one who is linked with the great health*foi^c-ccnstructive powers of the universe.- The stars in their course fight for him. The Will is the central fire of the Optimist. And the Will is a piece of Almighty God, given gratis to him who*will use it. KMITTINO MIdS m 8,157 There Are 61 in North Carolina With Aggregate Capital $3,944,225. That there are 61 knitting mVls in the State of North Carolina, 51 of which have an aggregate of $3,944,225 capiral, is the showing made in the knitting mill chapter of the forthcom ing annual report of Commissioner of Labor and Printing M. L. Shipman. The approximate amount of raw mate rial used by 41 of these mills is 14,731,* 119 pounds, the data as to this not be ing in hand as ta all'the mills. The es timated yalae cf the output of 43 of tHe n?ills is $6,811,694. The North Carolina rails use 60,861 spindles, 8287 knitting m-4chines, 753 sewirg machines and 248 cards. There are 8,157 employes, of whom 2,721 are males and 3,064 female. There are 1,752 children employed. Wages average $2.68 for men and $1.68 for women. It is estimated that 97 per cent, of the employees can read and write. He, who, forgetting self, makes the object of his life’s service, helpfulness and kindness to others, finds his whole nature growing and expanding, himself becoming large hearted, magnanimous, kind, sympathetic, joyous and happy; his life becoming rich and beautiful.— Ralph Waldo Trine. Senator Yardman. Notice how well Senator Vardamnn has been holding up his end in the de bate on racial matters connected with the agricultural extension bill? He shows better in The Congressional Record, too, than in the brief press reports We v/ould rather he had omitted one of the assertions he made Friday, but on the whole he has spoken with moderation and sense. This conduct leads us to deprecate the impressions in many minds that Mr. Vardaman ii or ever was a political crudity. He no doubt played that part during his earlier career--not altoge ther without sincerity and justice, either, because Mississippi was one ol those Southern States where some turbulent popular upheaval against conditions resented with far sounder instinct than knowledge or taste could be excused But he never overplayed it »or over-relicd upon it as certain -others have done, and there was never a period when he did not show .distinct capacity wid preference for public life on a higher plane. He was and is a man of ability, lib eral cultivation and liking for such things as good literature. He always was what the late Senator Jeffries Dayis of Arkansas, most conspicuously never could by any possibility become. So the usual civilizing effect of the Senate upon political wild men rated charlatans with various degrees of justice or unjustice was hardly needed for him. He is a not unworthy collea gue of John Sharp Williams—whom, by the way, we are glad he fell a little short of defeating m their senatorial contest three years ago “White lies” reveal black spots in character. The reason the judgment of mankind condemns a liar is not be- and at I cause of the lie itself, or of the partic- placing in enduring stone inscriptions of martyrdom and sympathy’ for such as are caught red-handed, €Vfn if afterwards they be given a passport to society by way of a pardon. List of Letters Advertised. A newspaper critic d'ev pass for h 'mart alex, but you will usualy find hem a bunch of conceit with a limited •ement of truth in their make up. For the week ending Feb. 14 1914. 1 Letter for Miss Lilie Undsterunx “ “ Misd Sallie Haith “ “ Miss Nellie Baker “ “ Mrs. Maggie Crumpton “ “ Mr. Fread Coulie “ “ Mr. Sid Jeffreys Card “ Miss Lida Holdman These letters will be sent to the Dead Letter Office Feb.* 28 1914. If not called for. In calling please give date of list Respt. J. T. Dick, P. M. Mebane, N. C - ular consequencc s, but because it denotes fundamentl unsoundness. To be insincere is to be wrong dear through to the center of things. A hypocrite is worse than an open and shameless drunkard or gambler; for his offense is not one of appetite or peculiar weakness; it is structural, affccting the stability of the whole life. Infamous Lie. Denouncing the allegation as an “infamous lie,” United States Senator T. P. Gore from the witness stand in district court in Oklahoma City Mon day declared that charges of improper conduct, the basis of $50,000 damage suit on trial, were the invention of a coterie of disappointed office seekers, intended to bring him into disrepute and wreck his chances for renomination at the primaries in Oklahoma next August. The Factory in the Home. The Wilmington Star takes due no tice of the proposition of Mr. Julian S. Carr, Jr,, to establish the factorv in the home in Durham, his plan being to supply women and children with mach inery and material for work in their homes in the manufacture of cotton goods. The idea is thus to give em ployment to a la.ge class of labor that cannot get to the regular factory work. The Star thinks this is an innovation in North Carolina, a) d so it is, but it is one The Observer has advocated for years past as particularly applicable to conditions in Charlotte, where electric power is abundant and cheap and workers plentiful. It has been adopt ed in Charlotte on no organized basis, such as has been employed by Mr. Carr but in single in^ances it prevails all over the city. The number of women and chiWren who make a living as manufacturers of cotton goor’is outside the factory, laboring in their own homes sjrprisingly large. All the same tfie^broadening of the plan after the method adopted by Mr. Carr is greatly to be desired. There are great possibi lities in it both for the manufacturer giving such employment and for the women and children who are thus giv ing work and wage.—Charlotte Obser ver. An Unexpected Reason (PI iladelphia Telegraph ) Congressman Edward L. Hamilton of Michi^fan told this one r>t a recent din ner, when reference w^as made to the (bad breaks that are occasionally made by the liLtie kids. Some time ago a friend of the fanpi- ily remained for dinner at a certain happy litle home. Th^ friend had an appetite that would have made a boarding-house hustle to raise the rates and as he stowed away the fodder in great quantities, he was interestedly watched by Edith, the little 6-year-old daughter. “Say* Mr. Smith,” she finally re marked, do wish you were here at dinner every day.” “That is certainly very sweet of you little one,” beamed the guest * I am afraid that you would get tired of tne.’ “Oh, no. I wouldn’t was the young ster’s startling rejoinder. “If you were here every day we wouldn’t have nay scraps to eat tomorrow.” An Indemnity Already Spent. Savannah Morning News. There is an old story to the effect that a recipe for servirg quail should b^in in this way, “First catch vour bird.” That story might be read with profit just now by Colombians who are talking of how they mean to spenH $25,000,000 indemnity they expect to get from the United'States because Co). Roosevelt, when he was president, “took” the Panama canal zone. Wouldn’t it he well for Colombia actually to get tha*; money before deciding how each dollar of it is tc be spent? If she does pet it, however, she could not spend it in abetter way, or in a. way that would better please the United Slates, than in public works as is planned. If any large part of it were swallowed up by 'grafters the people of this countrj’ would feel chargin because their money had been uaed to feather the nests of such men. They would approve its exenditure, however, upon such public works, for example, as the establishment of i modern systems of sanitation in Colombian ports, the building of rail roads for the development of the country and similar improvements. To Encourage Berry Culture. (From The Sanford Express.) The Atlantic and Western Railway is doing some progressive work to de velop and build up the section through which it extends. The company offers to contributie $5 an acre for every acre of dewberries farmers will set out along its line. Most Rubber Reclaimed (World’s Work.) With the echoes of the rubber fam ines still in Dur ears when Para rubber sold for $3 a pound, with the clamor of the industrial world for substitutes still sounding nature and man came to the rescue with extraordinary promptness. Actually there had been a shortage of crude rubber f Jr twenty years be fore the so-called rubber tamine. It was not acute, and it is doubtful if even the rubber manufacturers real ized its presence. To offset it they employed a great variety of plastics, resins, waves, besides scores or exceed ingly low grade' rubbers. The most important “assistant,” however, was reclaimed rubber, this is wornout vul canized rubber, fiberized, cleansed and returned, approximately, to its original crude state. So importaut has this^ part of the rubber industry becomn that since 1880 the United States has used two pounds of reclaimed rubber to one of crude. And the resulant prod uct was not only cheaper, but better in the majority of cases, than if the re claimed stocK had been omitted. The University Students. (From The Chapel Hill New'S.) Approximately 900 students are now in all departments of the Umversity, all but 49 of them from North Caro lina. A Scotch Morn All Scotsmen take pride in their native land, but none more than tha old gardener of Duddingston, of whom the following story is told: The gardner was showing to a tour ist the beauties of the loch and as he expatiated on the lovelv scene and on the glories of his country the moon rose over a hill. The old man stopped short in tha middle of a speech and gazed at the moon in admiration. After a moment he ti-rned to the tourist and said: “There’s a moon for ye! I tell ye, mon, we’re a grand na tion!”—Pittsburg Chronicle. I beg you take courage; the brave soul can’mend even disaster.—Cather ine of Russia. ABSOLUTELY FREE Work on New Railroad It begins to look like the Greemboro and Northern railroad, the f>roposed line from Greensboro to Pitts boro will be built. A party of surveyors were in the city last week preparing to begin work on surveying the line from Burlington to Pittsboii^ This would be a re-survey, and the work will be pushed right along. A telegram'from Mr. Troy, one of the chief protaoters to Mr. J. W. Catos Secretary of the Chamber of Com merce, has been received and in this Mr. Troy says that he believes the work will be done at an early date. This road will go through an impor tant territory and if built would be of great benefit to this section. The question was agitated last year, but on account of the condition of the bond market the matter wa^ held up for some time, but now that work has be gun again, we hope that it will be pushed to completion. r-Burlington News. Electric Wheel Chairs (The Electrical World.) A concession has been made to a Chi cago company to op rate two hundred electric motor-driven chairs at the Pan ama-Pacific Exposition, in San Francis* «o, in 1915. These chairs will seat two passengers, and will be operated in a manner similar to the familiar “man- power”Jchairs now in service in Atlantic Citp, Palm Beach and other resorts. A small motor placed under the chair seat is connected to the two rear wheels of the chair by ans of chains, and the electricity for operating the motor is drawn from a small storage battery under the wicker dash. The speed of the chair is 3 1-2 miles an hour, al though speeds ranging from one to ten miles an hour may be obtained. A small foot pedaljunder the floor of the car actuates the braking mechanism and the controllers. By various pres sures yi *he pedal the controller can be operated to give four different speeds. Content thyself to be obsurely good: When vice prevails, and^'impious men bear sway. The post of honor is a private station. —Addison To Mebane Leader Readers. We are offering in this issue a list of popular fiction, books of merit, to all Mebane Leader readers and sub scribers who may send us one dollar on a new subscription, the renewal of an old one or the back pay on subscription. Each dollar will entitle the party t:> a book free. These books rotail at sixty cents each and are well and attract- vily bound. You will derive much pleasure from reading these wolcks, aside from, the general information, which has a high educational value. They do not cost you anything, send us the money on subscription to the Leader and you will get the book free. Alice in^ Wonderland. By Carroll.—Allan Quatermain. By Haggard.—Ardath. By Marie Corelli.—Beulah, By Au^sta Jr Evans.—Black Dwarf, The. By Scott.—Black Tulip, The. By Dumas.—Blithedale Romance. The. By N. Hawthorne^--By Order of the King, By Hugo—- Chevalier de Maison Rouge. By Alexandre Dumas-Chicot the Jester. By A. Durnas.—Conspirators, The. By A* Dumas—Countess de Charney, By Alexandre Dumas.— Dr. Jekyll and Mr. .Hyde, By R. L. Stev 3nson--Education By Herbert Spencer—Emerson’s Essays, (Complete) By Ralph Waldo Emerson-Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, By E. S. 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