“And Right The Bay Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.’
VolS
MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY. MARCH 19 1914
No 5
is spendinjf
friend Miss
Efland Items.
Misses Maggie and Pearl Tapp
visited relatives at Blackwood
Sta. last Sunday and returned
home Monda3\
Misses Maud Brown, Myrtle
Ferry and Maggie Pickard went
up to Burlington Saturday n%ht
to spend Sunday wiih friends.
Miss Bettie Kiley spent last
week with her brother Mr.
Thomas Riley who is very ill in
West HillsborD
Mr. J. L. Efland has returned
from New Yoik and other north-
t’rii cities where he went on busi
ness.
Miss Medie Ray
some time with her
Letiie Thompson
Mr. F. Horner of Hillsboro
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with his brother Mr. Gattis
Horner.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith and
daughter also grand son Master
Clyde Smith spent last Sunday
with Mr. Smiths daughter Mrs.
Dora Roach in West Hillsboro
Mr. Henry Tapp of Blackwood
Sta. came up last Saturday and
spent the night with his cousin
Mr. Lee Tapp.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Murray has
returned from Durham where
they went to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Murrays sister Mrs.
Barry.
Mrs. Mary Thompson widow of
the late W. R. Thompson has
moved back to her old home near-
Hobbs X Koads. Mrs. Thompson
made many friends during her
stay in Efland who all regrets to
looi:e her from their midst.
The Good Roads new Iron
Bridge just completed across Eno
River tnree miles east of Efland
seems to be quite an attractive,
scores of people visited it last
Saturday and Sunday from Hills
boro Efland and other places. It
seems to be a splendidly con
structed bridge and it with the
Good Roads is a great improve
ment to our section of the
Coanty.
Great Wave Kills 1,000*
Over one thousand persons perished
last week in the inundation of the towns
of St&nitza and Achtyrskaja by a wave
from the Sea of Azov Russia It struck
the towns during: a violent hurricane,
which swept the province of Kuban.
Also 150 persons alo were drowned m
floods in Yasenkaja.
Barn Burns.
Mr. J. W. Covinjftcn had the mis
fortune to lose his barn and farm
innplements by fire Saturday evening.
He does not kiiow how it caught, but
as there is a .much traveled pathway
in the reer of the barn, he thinks it
possible that some one may have droped
a lighted match, or cigarett. He lost
a thousand dollars or more, with o*iy a
small insurance. Mr. (Jovington lives
about two miles South ot Mebane
Country Life CluD.
Meeting at the Country Life Club at
Woodlawn School fnext Saturday Mar.
21st at 7:30 P M Prof. J. B. Robert-
! son will deliver an address and a
spelling contest between the School
and the community will turnish all the
desired amusement. The public is
invited.
“Cancer of Tongue isn’t
Dangerous.”
Cancer ot the tonpue is not danger
ous if operated upon promptly, accord
ing to the announcement made by two
French surgeons, who base their con-
clufcion on the fact that out of 225 op-
crationr 108 cures have been effected.
The public is warned that any white
exerestences on the tongue should be
examined immediately by a surgeon,
as they n.ay be the beginning of can
cer.—Ex.
Chicago is dissatisfied wiih its po
licewomen because they are unable to
handle the disorderlv of their own sex
Still, they couldn’t well niade a worsa
job of it than the London policemen
have done in lianoling the militant suf
fragettes.
Mexican Land Question
(Chicago Journal.)
One of the most important factors in
the Mexican situation is overlooked by
nearly all commentators.
Mexico is a land of landlords and
peons. The peasant proprietor or small
farmer hardly exists south of the Rio
Grande. A few rich families own enor
mous haciendas-it is no uncommon
thill}? for a single ranch to be larger
than the average American country
The great mass of the people are little
better than serfs.
Before the Diaz regime, landlordism
in .Mexico was mitigated by a sort
of village communism, in which each
settlenrient owned a considera jle tract
of land, which was either worked in
{“ommon or parceled out to the differ
ent families of the community. Lin
ger the Diaz “registration law,” these
time-honored holdings were “denoun-
by administration pets, and went
to swe ll already overgrown haciendas.
T hex t; can be no permanent peace in
Mexico while such landlordism pre-
''3il£; ard-to give the devil his due—
constitutionalist party is the only
one v.hicn seems anxious to effect a
^holos^le redistribution of the soil,
^uertii’s aim was quite the opposite.
Was playing to the big “interests.”
Destruction by the Milit
ants in Many Ways and
Many Places.
Militant suffragetts began the active
campaign of violence in 1912, though
there had been «iporadic outbursts ever
since 1908. Some of the deeds that
earned for them the name of arsonettes
previous to the slashing of the Rokeby
Venus” of Velasquez yesterday are:
Innumerable shop windows in the
V/est End of London, costing thousarids
of pounds, smashed.
Acids poured into mail boxes, destroy
ing letters and packages. '
Bomb placed in \he office of Mr.
McKenna, the Home Minister.
Orchids and other valuable plants
destroyed in Kew Botanical Gardens.
Lloyd-George’s county house burned
and practically destroyed.
Attempt to fire the Theatre Rpyal in
Dublin; a hatchet thrown at Premier
Asquith which hit John E. Redmonds
King George's horse stopped during
the running of the Derby by a woman,
who died from her injuries.
Refreshment pavilion in the Regent’s
Park burned.
Set fire to the house of Lewis Vernon
Harcourt and attempted to dynamite it
Case in Jewel Room in the Tower
broken.
Many railway stations and other
houses burned, doing damage estimated
by the London Times at ;^3.500,000 for
1913 alone.
Bomb placed under the Bishops
Throne in St. Paul’s Cathedral and
bcmbs found in other places.
Famous pictures damaged at Man
chester.
^'ied the levers of railroad signals m
the hope of causing train wrecks.
Tried to burn the British Museum
St. Anne’s Church in Liverpool
burned.
Bomb exploded in St, Johns Church,
Westminster.
Parish Church at Penn burned.
Church at Hatcham, value J75,000
burned.
Church at Bowley Regis destroyed by
fire with a loss of ^0,000.
Lady Whites house burned.
St. Judes Hamstead Heath burned.
Kibble Crystal Palace in Glasgow
Botanical Gardens wrecked by bomb.
Scofield House, near Liverpool,bumed
wicli a loss of $400,000.
Fire started in Dulwich College,
Lo.idon.
Wrecked office of the London Stan
dard.
Sent red pepper and snuff to mem
bers of the Cabinet by the mails,
Premier Asquith attacked by women
armed with dog whips.
Lord Weardale, an aged peer, whip
ped in mistake for the Prime Minister.
• Mines placed in Holloway prison in
an attempt to blow up the jail’
Timber and adjoining property to the
value of $400,0C0 burned at’iDevonport.
Many attempts to force an entrance
to Buckingham Palace or to stop the
King while he was driving in London^
Constant rioting at street meetings
outside the Houser of Parliament and
residences of the Ministers.
Hillsboro News
Miss Annie Cheshive, daughter of
Bishop Cheshive is visiting the Misses
Webb, at Hillsboro.
Miss Gertrude Newman and Miss
Octavia Wilson of Hillsboro spent Sat-
uriay in Durham visiting Mrs. W. P.
UcDade.
Mr. J. P. Dark and Mr. Alex Ander
son spent Sunday afternoo.i in Hills
boro.
Mr. Hal Parrish spent Sunday in
Hillsboro.
Mr. John Christmas, mayor of Hills
boro left Tuesday for New York Citv
where he will visit his daughter, Mrs.
M. W. Atkinson.
Mrs. Jean Thompson, an authoress
of YonkersV New York, is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Wall at their home in
Hillsboro.
Mr? Brummitt, of Excelsior Springs
Missouria, came to Hillsboro last week
to be with her husband, Mr. H. L.
Brummitt.
Miss Josephine Parris, a teacher in
the Salem Female Academy spent Sun
day of last week with her mother, Mrs.
D. C, Parris.
Presiding Eldor North preached in
the Hillsboro M. P. Church Sunday
night. ,
Miss Eulalia E. Bower an experienc
ed trimmer, who has studied the busi
ness and styles in New York City and
Baltimore has arrived in Hillsboro to
be in the Misses F rrest, millinery,
during this season.
EEP THE SID ■
■•I nil
Don’t Cost Mucii And
Would Mean /Much to i he i the company
Looks of Our Town. '
Mr. Editor
I ask that you publish this article
clipped from Burlington News. Losent
these same conditions apply to Meb-
ans? I ask that oar Miyor and town
•officers take a walk over the town,
notice the streets, some of them used
Medicine Co. Organized j History of Mary’s Little
There has been organized for the I l^aillb*
manufacturer of Taraxacum in Mebane j i am sittieg tonight, December 25th.
1 a company, Mr. B. Frank Mebane of [ 1913, in tha Baptist parsonage
. Spray, Mr. W. G. Mebane of
i boro, and Mrs. M B. Scott, of Mebane
in the
Greens-i Sterling, Mass., about forty
miles from Boston. Through about a
I foot of snow I went to the barn and
will be the principal stockholders in j
Mr. W. G. Mebane of; the old school house to which Mary’s
; Greerfsboro, will have charge of ti e lamb followed her one day. Thejpoem,
manufacture of the Medicine, which '■ Alary Had a Little Lamb, is as
, X Li - J i familiar to many American children as
W.11 be purely a vegetable tonic, and , j
digestive medicine. The late Dr. B. F. , g^y there was a real Mary Sawyer
Mebane was the inventor of the medi-1 who owned a lamb and which went
cine which had a very popular run in !
this section during his life time and i
a while afterwards. i
for wood yards, and the gutters are|_ _ —
used for piling the rubbish. Lets clean j M.Cbane XuCSd&y March
up. I 31st,
For a Clean Town. j g Durham will be at
One of the matters taken up by the | Mebane at the Mebane Hotel, Tuesday
Chantiber of Coaimerce at their recent ^ March 31, for the purpose of examing
meeting was that of keeping the side- | eyes and fitting glasses. If you are in
I need of glasses for the good of your
the State has less at-■ eyes don't fail to see the DR. on that
tentioii paid to th s matter than Bur-1 day.
lington, and we propose to go after j
this matter. We walked
walks clean.
No place in
Mebane Kfd. 5
This is a spring day after all and all
are glad to see it.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L Pool are visiting
Miss Elma Shoffner of Burlington is
visiting her sister Mrs dander Cole
Mr William Thompson and Miss
Fannie Riley were married last Sat
urday
Mr Compton and Miss Vesta Vaughn
of Cedar Grove were married at the
M P Parsonage he**e last week. Rev
J M Ormand performed the ceremony
spent Wednesday with
J. M. Kimmer
up street i
last Saturday morning and our atten-1
tion was called to a pile of dry goods
boxes piled up in front of the postof
fice, absolutely obstructing the side-
walk. In a dozen places along the |
different main and principal streets of i relatives in Greensboro.
the city goods boxes ' are piled on the ] Mr. Salem Wiliams
sidewalk, and in other places fish and
other things are placed on the tide
of the pavement, presenting a bad and
dirty appearance. |
We have an ordinance that will pre-|
vent this, and we want this ordinance i
enforced. We have officers whose j
sworn duty it is to see that the streets :
are kept clear of these obstructions j
and we want them to' get busy. i
We should have enough town pride |
to see that our streets are kept free!
from these obstructions. Nothing de-}
tracts so much from the appearance i Cedar Grove spent Saturday night and
Lula.
Mr.Clarence Miles and sister
attended church at Mebane.
Mr. S. T. Smith called to see Mr. J.
S Kenion Sunday.
Mr. W. D. Miller of Burlington and
Miss Jula Walker spent Sunday with
Mr. Miller’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Wright of
with her to school in the house which
originally stood about cwo miles from
here, but was later sold, removed and
built into the barn above mentioned
Mary E. Sawyer was born Marcli 22,
18(>6 and seven years later twin lambs
weir bom to a ewe of her father’s
flock, but the sheep mother would only
own one of the lambs, so Mary took
the other and mothered it. Some
months later the lamb followed her to
school one day; and before the teacher
came, some-of the boys suggested that
Mary put the lamb in her desk, which
she did and the lamb went to sleep.
But later it waked up and kicked and
scrambled out of the desk. This made
all the children laugh, and of course
the teacher had to put the lamb out,
but she did not scold Mary, only
laughing with her and the other child
ren. The lamb stayed all day and
went home that night never to come
of Hillsboro ! back to school again. But fame awaited
his cousin Mr. j this little sheep. Some days later a
i young Harvard student John Rouistone
' who was a friend of the teacher was
visiting in the neighborhood and
hearing of the incident, wrote:
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day.
Which was against the rule;
It made the children laugh and play
To see the lamb in school.
^ News From Oaks.
Oaks, N. C. March 14 1914.
Mr. Editor;-
I was very glad to see in the Loader,
that there was one who was taking an
interest in the Oaks. Mebane road.
This is a very itr.prita-'t rrnd to the
Oaks section, v:: hr V'.” rf- ” Fertil
izers from Mc^ v- it is our
nearest R. R. St. Jhis is a very
bad road during wirier and spring, and
has never been worked as it should be
worked. It is 10 miles from Oaks to
Mebane, 6 miles in Orange and 4 miles
in Alamance. Those of the High Way
Commissioi.ers of Orange County have
told me that they favored grading this
road but that the Commissioners of
Alamance would do nothing, tnat one
of the County Commissioners of Ala
mance had told Mr Mclver chat Ala
mance would do nothing. There is 2
miles of this road in Alamance that is
good leaving only 2 miles for Alamance
to grade, and this 2 miles would require
only a light grade. Now if the people
of Thompson and Melville Townships,
in Alamance, including the tov/n of
Mebane will go to work and get Ala
mance to agree to grade this 2 miles I
feel sure that Orange Couiity will
grade that part that lies i/i Orange.
The Oaks section and the Western
part of Bingham Township needs and
deserves this road, we are entitled to
it. Let us know what Alamance will
do then we can go to work in Orange,
now is the time to act. I hope you
will agitate this question.
I think it a good suggestion that the
Carriers on Routes No. 2 and 4 from
Mebane interest their patrons and urge
them to act quick.
Orange.
bchool News
There are now nine Tomato Clubs in
Alamance County These clubs have
enrollment of 105 members It is hoped
that 126 girls will be er rolled befure
’planting time
The Ossipee School had a box party
Saturday night and maed $43,00 The
school had a measuring party a week
ago and made $6,00 This school is
working for first prize in the improve
ment contest. The grounds are being
leveled and grass will h~i sowr. Nice
trees have been planted and other im
provement made*
Union Ridge, Mahan and Glencoe
Schools closed last Friday, each school
had prepared an entertainment for the
close of school.
The Hawfields people are preparing
to paint the interior of their school
building, and to build a wood house.
This school has lately had an addition
toils enrollment. Mrs. Jane S. Mc
Kinnon of Raleigh is sending her son
to this school.
The people of the Spring School t.re
building a porch to their houee and
they expect to paint the exterior of
their entire building within the next
few weeks.
The Progressive Farmer is offering
some prizes to the Progressive Farmer
boy in the Corn Club. To every Pro
gressive Farmer boy who makes over
50 pushels of corn on an acre in 1914
they will give a little button. “A Pro
gressive Farmer Boy who got there—
Over 50 Bushels Corn Per Acre.” A
special certificate and a copy of editor
Poe’s illustrated book af travels around
the world will be given as a prize to
the boy in each county who noakes the
best vield in that county.
of a town as dirty streets, blockaded
sidewalks, fish stands along the pave
ments, and we are going after these
things until they are cleaned.
We can’t ask people to come to Bur
lington to locate when tht^.- . .irne
find these conditions. People from
other cities are .lOt used to this kind
Sunday at Mr. Sid Shambly.
Mr. Charlie Jackson and Miss Alina
Browning spent Saturday in Hillsboro.
Mrs. Joe Faucett and little son is
gnJ ^ a few days with^er mother,
‘ Mrs. T- J. Browning.
Mr. Lee Westbrooks came down Fri-
never have a
long as these
of business. We can
decent looking town so
things are allowed.
Now let’s all co-operate together
and assist in keeping tilings ^in shape
Let’s have just a little bit of town | Mr Jeff Fowler of Mebane
pride. Let’s clean up a little, and ! Sunday w^th Mr. T. H. Cheek.
look respectable. i .. .
i Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sykes
' Saturday and Sunday in Mebane.
j Mr. Nelson Miles spent Sunday in
! Mebane.
day and carried Mr. Dan Shankiin back
home with him Saturday. Its a good
thing to have a good papa, 1 know all
the boys wish they had one just like
Dan.
spent
Hillsboro News
Hillsboro, N. C. March 14,
Mr. Robert Jones attended church at
A movement for a new bank at Hills j Mebane Sunday,
boro is well underway. For same time
there has been an agitation for such
an institution. This time the move-
Mr. A. F. Warren and sister called
at Mr Joe Murray Friday night.
Papa’s girl.
ment has taken definite form. The 1
plan IS to start with a capital of $10,-!
000,00. More than that amount (f i
stock has already been applied for. \
The promoters, however, are anxious
to see it as well distributed as possible
and are working towards that end.
For this reason some who ire willing
to subscribe to large amounts of stock
are taking less i 1 order that the $10.-1 On Thursday, February 26th 1914, at
000.00 may extend over as large a ter j the home of her grand parents Mr.
r.tory and touch as much business «s|and Mrs. Milton Pickard, iTeer, N. C.,
possible. i the immortal soul of little Wille Battle
The Eno Cotton Mill at West Hills-j entered into the Paradise of
boro has suffered a great loss as the! She was a child of rare gifts.
Willie tkittle Pickard.
A > for life, it is a battle, and a so-
jouriiing in a strange land; but the
^rne that comes after is oblivion.—
Marcus, Aurelius.
sooots at the midday sun,
though he be sure he shall never hit
niark, yet as sure he is he shall
®hoot higher than he who aims at a
UFh. —Sir Philip Sidn#y.
Intervention.
An Arizona citizen declares that if
the United States does not intervene
in Mexico they will be fighting for the
next forty years. This may be true,
and it is also true that if the United
States does intervene in Mexico they
will be fighting the next forty years
the only difference being thac in event
of intervention we will be engaged in
the fighting and our own blood will
run deep and long with Mexican blood.
If tne selfish interest like Hearst rep
resents were eliminated there would
be no danger for intervention. Amer
ican dollars is the'only American in
terest demanding intervention, and
American lives should always come
before American dollars.—Salisbury
Po3t.
Parcel Post Forces Ex
press Company to Liqui
date Business.
Directors of the United S,tates Ex
press company have voted unanimously
to liquidate its affairs and dissolve it
in the shortest possible time. The re
solution under which this action was
recommended reads:
“Resolved, that pursuant to the pow
er and authority conferred on the
board of directors of the United States
Express company by its articles of
association, the board unanimously de
clared that it is for the best interest.?
of the company that the company be
dissolved as soon as ma\ be without
awaiting the expiration of its term of
existence; and that its business and
affairs be settled up and finally ad
justed as promptly as may be done.
The president is directed to inform the
shareholders of the company of said
action of the board.”
A committee on liquidation, which
embraces the representatives of the
leading interests in the company, in
cluding Charles A. Peabody, president
of the Mutual Life Insurance company
and the chief financial adviser of the
Harriman estate; William A Read, ex-
Senator W. Murray Crane, and Haley
Giske, vice president of the Metropo'
litan Life Insurance company, was ap
pointed to undertake the work of dis
solution.
Persons familiar with the company'
affairs declare that the return to the
•hareholdere will be between >90 and
$100 a share.
result of ?ii explosion Thuisday. The
large boiler bursted and put the great
er part of the machinery out of com
mission. The accident will probably
keep them closed down for a week or
more. No one was around the boile»
at the time of the explosion and the
loss is consequently a property loss
only.
The Epworth League enjoyed a very
delightful banquet last. Rev. Harry
M. North was the guest of honor. The
object of the gathering wss to discuss
ways and means for the publication of
a local church paper. Rev. J. M, Or
mond, the local Methodist minister,
has been working for some time on
this idea. He has already published
two copies of the paper which is called
‘The Circuit Rider.” \ permanent
organization of this paper was per
fected last night with S. M, Gattis Jr.
with a most attr»ctive personality, and
a warm heart making friends with
every one |she came in contact with.
To know her, was to love her.
If “death loves a shinning mark” he
found one in this lovely little' girl.
~ During her brief illness all that
loving hands could do, was done, but
to no avail, God in his wisdom called
her to be with him, and to day we
think of her as one of the taousands
of chiieren around the throne singing
praises to the dear Savior, who said,
“of such is the kingdom of Heaven.”
Willie Battle, daughter of Junius,
and Ira Battle Pickard was born at
Durham, N. C March 1st 1911, when
she was three months old her mother
ditd, since that time she has been
tenderly cared for by her grand parents.
The mutual love between them was
beautiful to behold, and now, they
I long for the touch of a vanished hand,
Editor, Miss Hazel Montgomery asst, sound of a voice
editor and Mr. J. C. Rosemond Secre-
t«ry and treasurer. The paper is to
appear once a month anJ will probably
be printed at home.
that
^ Breeding The Fly
(Knoxville Journal and Tribune.)
The point is, if you really don’t want
the fly in your kitchen or sharing your
meals with you, don’^t furnish the
mother fly with facilities for breeding
her kind. The bir^^hplace of the fly is
a collection of filth about the home
will be taken as an invitation to the
fly and her rapidly accumulating family
And she will accept it. And kill her
children in any manner you may,others
will come, and those killed will form no
perceptible break in the endless pass
ing precession.
is still.
On Saturday, February 28th after a
brief service at the home of her farher
at Durham, N. C., she was tenierly
laid beside her mother, in Maplewood
Cemetery.
To the soiTOwing family we extend
our heartfelt sympathy, and commend
them to the tender care of the all wise
Creator, who is able to administer
comfort in the time of trouble
Farewell, dear Willie Battle; we shall
meet beyond the RiVer, in the realms
of endless glory. Many a loving heart
can say*
“Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on his gentle breast.
There, by His love oe’r shaded
Sweetly her soul shall rest.”
• S. B. E.
/ :
So the teacher turned it out.
But still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about
Till Mary did appear.
Mary’s lan^^ly Uved two ysar* and
was hooked to death by a cow in her
father’s barn. The wool of the lamb
was spun and knitted into>tockings for
Mary by her mother, but these stockmgs
were never worn, only being kept for
years in memory of the little lamb
And many years later, when the Old
South Church in Boston, was about to
be sold for debt, Mary who was then a
mature woman, with some other women
I got up a sale for the church benefit,
spent I stockings from the lamb’s wool
were unravelled and the thread cut
^ into pieces of one yard in length and
I each piecp wound on a card, on which
' Mary wrote her name, and these were
sold for twenty-five cents each. Thu
the two pairs of stockings brought two
hundred dollarr and the Old South
Church was saved fiom the sheriff’s
hammer. .The church was originally
built in 1669. In the pulpit George
Whitfield delivered some of his stirring
mes^agts, and it was also the first
laces where religious services were
held tommemorating the Declaration
of Independence. 1 pass this old
church nearly every week in Boston
and I notice that the old clock keeps
good time.
The only liv.ng schoolmate of Ma:
Sawyer is Mr. R. K. Powers, nov/ in
his happy old age of 103 years. He is a
cousin of Mary and says all the facts
about Mary’s lamb are true and that
he was in school that day and did some
of the laughing. Mr. Powers also
remembers when LaFayette was in
America, and heard him epeak to the
citizens of Sterling as they gathered
around the great patriot on the village
commons.
On yesterday, which was Christmas
day, Mrs. Young and 1 visited a Mrs,
Abbott who is now ninety-two years of
age. She is the next oldest person
ttiis community and she says that all
the reported facta about Mary and her
lamb are true, for she heard it from
the school teacher whom she knew very
w.jll in after years.
Mary Sawyer married a gentlen.an
by the name of Tyler and they lived in
Somerville, Mass. She disd in 1889
and is buried in Mt. Auburn cemetery
near Boston, tne tomb is beside that
of the poet Longfellow. She contin
ued all her liie a lover ot children and
animals and ai her death, by her will
and that ot her husband who had died
before her, their hoiQ© was turned into
a playground for the children of Somer
ville and is so used until this day.-
C. Young, in the Bap.ist Chronicle.
Hillsboro News
What came near being a calamity
here last night was very narrowly av-
lirted by the prompt a^d efTective ser •
vice of the “bucket brigade.” Tho
office of Major Jno. W. Graham was
discovered on fire at eleven o’clock.’
The alarm was at once given and the
fire was soon under way. In a few
more minutes it would have been be
yond control. A large hole had been
burnt in the floor and one of the
sleepers was blazing. The Major’s fine
library was saved intact.
The Hillsboro Building and Loan As
sociation opened its B series of stock
last Saturday. The Secretary, Mr. C.
M. Andrews, reports that they are
selhng well. The association, which is
only about six months old, is making a
fine record.
Sheriff Bain has been in Chapel Hill
this week on his last tax rounds. He
says the collections are very good.
Orange County has been exception
ally fortunate in the administration of
hj:r dog law. The Sheriff has had prac
tically no trouble in collecting it. The
proceeds from this source will amount
to practically $2000.00, one half of
which is to go to the schools and the
other to the road fund.
Conductor Passed The
Plate.
It was a street car conductor’s du
ties in the church of which he was u
member to take up the 'collectiona one
day, and, as it happened, his first ex
perience of such duties, says the Na
tional Monthly. He was a little ner
vous as he started down tiie ccnter
aisle, but that soon wore off. and he
began to feel almost at home.
There were several children in the
first pew. Each put in a penny. The
people in the next pew also contrib
uted something each.
A big, glum fellow sat alone in the
third pew. The new collector passed
him the plate, but the man shook his
head and stuck his hand deep in hi i
pockets.
Thereupon our friend the conductvr
stopped, put up his hand as if to jerk
the bell cord, and said: "Well, you’ll
have to get off.”
Every
door baared with gold and
to” golden keya. —T ennyson
Notice To Tax Jt'ayers,
The Commissioners of the town of
Mebane have ordered that 1913 tax and
any other back tax due the town must
be paid by May 1., ^f not paid by that
time they will b|U collected .by due
process of law.
Mr. W. C. Clark the town tax col
lector will be at Nelsons store from 1
o’clock till six each Saturday afternoon
to receive these taxes. Please take
notice.
W. S. Crawford, Mayor.
“Siamese Twins’" Are Par
ted by Surgery
The so called “Siamese twins,” Mad
eline aud Suandzanne Durand, were
seperated a lew days ago by the knif-j
of a surgeon, in the presence of a com
pany of scientists in Paris. Their case
has aroused great interest since they
were carried to Paris last December
and exhibited at the AcademA of Med
icine.
The operation was performed with
.special constructed instruments by Dr.
Gusave Le Filliatre, assisted by Dr.
Risacher and Dr. Victor Lelannary and
his wife, who also is a physician.
Numerous other surgeons were present
Moral changes are slow; Gjxi’s Icct-
steps are sometimes centuries apart, —
Edwin Taylor.