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AndRight The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin.
Vol 5
MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY. JULY 16 1914
No 22
Mail Storms.
hail sturms have visited
Western North
week. Farmers
Danui^ing
yarioud sect’.ons in
Caiuiina the past
fear these awful hail storms as much
gs they do anything else. A severe
stcim can rui«i an entire crop crippling
ihf farmer financially, but there is
nothing that can be done to prevent it.
Hail storms t.nd droughts are both
ilieuJeci calamities with the farmers
A rai road corporation in New York
has agreed to furnish poor women fre«
traiispoitatiun to and from the public
piik& during the summer months.
This is something more than an act
ot cunimendable charity. It is a g^
business investment, and is indicative
ot the growing realization by public
lervice corporations that the good will
of the puuUc is the moat
itft liity ’an possess.
valuable aL-
But Little Use.
it the Mayor of Mebane would sen
tence about ten n.en to a weeks work
on the streets for maliciously blocking
Mebanes side walks it would stop.
Until this one feature of provoking
lawlenessis broken up there is but little
me for a day policini'in in Mebane.
FESSESTHEIRDER
OF
Throat Fails Him.
The news is sent from London that
Colonel Roosevelt’s physicians say he
cannot use his throat for any more
speech making. If Teddy loses his
voice he loses his hope. That mouth
ind voi'^e “was the makin’ of him.”
-Everything.
Husband’s Accusation
Caused Act.
Mrs. Joseph Johnson of Martin
County who has been under arrest un
the charge of murdering her husband,
made a complete confession of the
crime and says she did it because her
husband made her life miserable by
constantly accusing her of infidelity.
They were riding in a buggy on their
way to church when he began his un
welcome talk. She drew a pistol she
had concealed under a shawl and firtd
a bullet into his left temple. He fell
to the roadside and the horse who
became frightened at the explosion ran
away, when stopped Mrs. Johnson
said her husband had been killed by
strangers. After the case had been
investigated Mrs Johnson was arrested
and placed in jail. She is only 22 years
old and pretty. They have one child,
a tiny son.
L
ISSUES A STATE
IT
Reiterates His Intention ot
Carrying Out the Plan of
Quadaloupe.
WflL GOME TO THE END
General Cairanza. the constitution
alist chief, issued a statement at
Saltillo, Mex., Saturday reiterating his
intentions of carrying out the plan of
Guadaloupe.
He announced:
“As first chief of the constitutiona
lists, I have complied and propose to
comply until the end, to the plan of
Guadaloupe, which bears date of March
last year. In conformity with this plan
which was subscribed . by the chiefs
and officials who surrounded me before
I was acquainted with the usurper
Huerta, I then being governor of the
“SUPERHEATED AIR TOOTH GERM ROUTED! PUT iOR FAITH IN
Dr,BeJl of Battersea Hospi
tal, Claims Much for New
Treatment.
“MIRACLES AT LOURDES”
“Superheated Air as a Cure for
Cancer" ,was the subject of an address
delivered the other day by Dr. Bell in
the Cancer research department of the
Battersea hospital in London. Up to
1903 Dr. Beil relied solely and not with
out success upon dietetic, hygienic and
therapeutic treatment. He then em
ployed superheated air as a local appli
cation, the treatment being suoplement-
ary to his former methods.
Since the Cancer research department
at Battersea has been in working order
it h^s been possible, he says, to demon
strate how the important supplementary
treatment of heating up the cancerous
growth operates.
‘ The knowledge thus gained," said
Dr. Bell, ‘ ‘is bound to prove of supreme
state of Coahuila, and accepted by all i importance, as it ha& placed beyound
Painful Accident.
Miss Katie Davidson, an efficient
employee at the Leader office met with
a very painful acc'dent last Wednesday
a^’ternoon. In passing the gasoline
motoi on the back porch her foot slipped
un a v^et slick place on the porch floor
throwing her down causing her sleeve
til come in contact with the flying
wheel of the motor. She was thrown
around until her clothing was tom off
her body and this caused the engine to
stop saving her life. Miss Mossie Scott
aiiuther employee at the office heard
her screams and ran to her assistance.
After a thorough examination the
doctor made the statement that no
bones were broken or internal injuries
surtai.ied, although the body was badly
bruised and skinned and the nerves
ieverely shocked.
.Miss Dayidaon’a many friends were
dehghted to learn that the accident
would not prove serious.
The Southern Beat.
The tracks ot the Southern and Sea
board lines paralell each other between
Raleigh and Cary, and the evening
trains very often run the distance very
close to each other, the Seaboard has
been getting rather the best of it, in
most of the trips that distance but
Sunday evening last Capt. W. C. Gate^
wood engineer on 1093 decided he would
change the attitude of things the Sea
board ran up and past the Southern
train shot ahead like a bullet, but. Capt.
Gatewood “kinder” felt his racing blood
tingling in his veins and he pulled
down on his throttle while his fireman
shoveled in a few more blocks of coal,
and you ought to have felt that engine
getting away. It was not long before
she was kicking sand in the Seaboard
t^ain, and she went right along like a
moving cannon ball, ran into Cary
nearly one and one half minutes ahead
ot the Seaboard train. Old 1093 is a
hustler you bet, when she gets up and
knocks her heels together there is
something going to move.
the chiefs and officials of the constitu
tionalist array, I fiad myself obliged to
remove from the posts they occupy un
lawfully all the usurpers of the three
powers—executive, legislative and
judicial.
“I shall continue to struggle to estab
lish peace throughout the republic and
will immediately thereafter call elec
tions which will result in the reestablis-
ment of constitutional order in Mexico.
For this reason the plan of Guadaloupe
is not and will not be a program of
government, nor a revolutionary plan,
but rather, as it is, a political plan.”
Carranza said he considers himself
obligated to carry out the reforms
which failed to consummation in the
brief Madero regime. He added:
“In a few days the three divisions
of Gens. Pablo Gonzalas, Francisco
Villa and Alyaro Obr«gon will advance
simultaneously toward the capital of
the republic. 1 believe that Huerta,
the usurper, will not resist the advance
of the constitutionalist forces.”
Eat To Live.
“Eat less food and live longer,” ad-
vi««es Dr, Edward Beecher Hooker.
Leas than what? Certainly to gorge
for the mere delectation of the palate
after natural appetite has been satis
fied must overburden the digestive or
gans with stuff they can not assimi
late and 30 bring about disorders of the
internal system. But we believe that
the promptings of Nature to be the
safest guides up to the point where
a>Jtual hunger ceases and surfeit be
gins. The body requires a certain
amount of nutriment, as the engine
does of fuel; beyond that, the excess
is wasted and worse; but below that
the machinery is cheated of its due and |
will not do the best work of which it is i
capable. It is not necessary to starve
in order to escape gluttony.—Va. Pilot,
HER BOY DIES AT 76
Mother declares bhe knew
The Never Could Raise
Him
(San Bernardino, CaI., Dispatch.)
Antonio Esparga, aged 76, died here
recently. The mother, Mrs. A. Es
parga, aged 110 years, took the death
without feeling, apparently, for she
said to her friends:
“I always knew he would die. I
knew that I could never raise that
boy.'
The aged woman, who is believed to
be the oldest women in the state, at
tended the funeral. The family came
here from Mexico halt a century ago.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College, in its growth, development,
and social usefulness, has been almost
a revelation to our State. It is just
twenty-fiye years old this year. It is
therefore by a good many years the
youngest of our Colleges for men. It
represents a new type of education.
Yet, in the face of many difficulties, it
has made for itself a most striKing
record. Its faculty now numbers sixty
specialists in industrial education who
were educated in the best universities
of America. Its enrollment ot students
counting all courses, 738. Its buildings
number 26. Its equipment is modern
and practical. Its graduates are most
successful Its catalogue furnishes an
interesting story of activity in the
industrial life of our State.
doubt the fact that the cancer cell is
unable, to survive if retained at a
temperature of 115 deg. to 120 deg.
for a few minutes at a time, the
application of the heated air being
repeated at intervals under a pressure
of from three to four atmosphers, so
that it may be made to penetrate the
diaeasfd mass.
“The result apparently is that the
vitality of the morbid cells is gradually
destroyed, these cells sjbsequently be
coming absorbed. It must, however,
be clearly understood that this result
can be assured only if the disease is
dealt with in the early stages of its
development.
Cure for Dread Pyorrhea
Demonstrated at Dental
Clinic.
(Philadelphia North American.)
After years of effort on the part of
bacteriologists the world over, a cure
has been discovered for pyorrhea, the
most dreaded disease of the teeth, which
is commonly known as Riggs disease,
and which in many instances causes a
loosening of the gums and a falling out
of the teeth- The discovery, which is
•aid to be the gratest advance of the
age in dentistry, was demonstrated
yesterday at the final meeting of the
forty-sixth annual convention of the
Pennsylvania State Dental Society, at
the Bellevue-Stratford.
Dr. Michael T. Barrett, a dentist of
this city, and a eraduate of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania m 1913, is the dis
coverer of the cure. Before a large
audience he demonstrated the success
he has achieved with a set of lantera
slides and patients whom he has cured.
Youth is the time for beginniRg. The
storehouse of life stands wide op^,
for the treasures to be garneu therein.
—Edward Garrett.
A Canadian preacher predicts that
the time will come when there will be
no liars. Yes, just about the time
when the earth shall be dissolved in
fervent heat and the human race shall
be no more.
Belief Among Physicians
That it is Highly Efficient
in Tuberculosis.
Peysicians on this side of the Atlantic
are experimenting with garlic as »
possible cure for the dreaded tuber
culosis.
A Dublin doctor has been working*
on the theory for some years past
with considerable success and has
published a book upon it, and although
it is too soon yet to tell of results in
this country, it is being tried at the
Metropolitan hospital in New York.
It is said that thert is little tuber-
culosis in Italy, where garlic chewing
is a national habit and that in this
country it is the Italian children who
have given up chewing garlic who suc
cumb to the great white plague.
Garlic contains a chemical substance
called ally] sulphide in the percentage
of two drops to a teaspoonful of juice,
which is much stronger than the amount
of the same chemical found in onions
or shallots. It is this drug which, it is
claimed, destroys the tubercular bacilli.
Garlic juice is said to act quickly
upon tuberculosis of the throat, which
heretofore has been almost impossible
to treat, and application of the juice
to lupus (tuberculosis of the skin) has
excellent results unless the disease is
of long standing.
Now that the rebel generals have
decided not to confer with Huerta
delegates, preferring to go to Mexico
City to get the swag, the protocol
^reed on at Niagara Falls is nulli-
it is incumbent on President
Wilson, therefore, to make Huerta
•alute the flag—or did the United
States agree that the demand for a
ralute was a fittle joke?—Raleigh
Times.
One of the most striking examples of
ealamity lying is found in the state
ment of that renowned pulpit orator,
Senator Penrose, when he declared
that the Democratic tariff law had
lost to the United States 178,000,000,-
000 in foreign trade since the Mexican
war began. The Mexican war has been
in progress about eighteen months,
two months ot which was during the
Taft administration. Now, the fact is
that the export business of this country
has averaged during the past few years;
including last year about; $2,000,000,-
The Devil Dancers
(New York Sun.)
The new performances of the Pank-
hurst deyil dancers seem to be grating
on the nerves of our much-enduring,
docile, downtrodden and henpecked En
glish brethren. There is big talk of
resuming forcible feeding and confining
the operation of the cat and mouse act
to minor offenders.
The mushy, sentimental weakness and
mistaken chivalry with which these sis
ters of satan have been treated by the
Enghsh authorities, to the full as jelly-
backed and futile as even we Americans
could have been in like case, have
brought on a constantly more danger
ous, more brutal and more mephitic
manifestation on the part ot the nox
ious creatures. The “lower classes” of
people would make short work of them
were it not for the police. It is light
that the police should protect these
enemies of society from harm; is no-
from
Let The Law Say “Thou
. Art The Man”
(Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
The conscience of the whole nation
is behind President Wilson’s demand
that guilt be made personal. Every
one knows, as he said in his address
to Congress, that ev^ry act of busi
ness is done at the command of some
person or group of persons, just as
every act of government is the act of
an individual or grop of individuals.
When a citizen suffers wrong at the
hands of a public official he seeks re
dress from the guilty man and not
from the political corporation that the
men represents. But corporation of-
ficals who have been guilty of offenses
against common morality have escaped
punishment on the plea that the cor
poration committed them. The corpo
ration has been punished by a fine
But the fine has merely fixed the pnce
to be paid for such acts. It has been
a license fee to be reckoned with in the
conduct of business.
Public sentiment has fortunately
reached the point where it will no
longer tolerate such a licensing sys
tem. Guilt is personal. The man who
adopts a criminal policy of business
oppression for the purpose of crushing
his rivals is as guilty as any evil-doer,
and he must be held individually
responsible for his acts- Unfair com
petition is a crime, whatever form it
takes. If the law that the President
suggests shall stiffen the backbone of
the Attorney General until he bogins
to demand the punishment of the
guilty under the old law the abuses will
stop.
Oreat is science! Five hundred years
*£0 bubonic plague would have swept
through this country like the “black
^eath" %i Europe, but, thanks to
sfinnce, it no sooner breaks out than
its (rourae is checked. We think of the
plague without fear, because we know
there are men in this country who
^now how to protect us.— Raleigh
limes.
Life without a cross is the heaviest
of all.-St Sebastian.
000 a year. So, it would take about
twenty-five years to lose the trade i body going to protect society
which the Senator says has been lost, j them?
If every dollar of it had baiished
during the period of which he speaks.
The absurdity of the Penrose statement
is apparent to any intelligent person
who stops to think, but to the un
thinking an absurdity is just as good a
fact, and it is to the unthinking that
the Pennsylvania Senator appeals.—
Winston Journal.
Life is made up of little things, and
he that scorns them despises his own
real interest. r-J. W. Barker,
Why are they treated better than a
navy or costermonger would be should
he dare to resort to the mildest of their
antics? And when they are locked up,
why should food be forced upon them?
There's a better way. These sweet
ladies will eat. Try to starve 'em and
they will be almost as ravenous for
victuals PS they are for publicity.
The London Chronicle says there are
very few wildcats in Europe now.
What has become of the militant suffs?
Scratching a Fig Pays
(“The Kian,” in Toronto Star.)
Old Twilight shunted a poll of swill
into the trough and reflectively scrat
ched the pig’s back. Old Twilight is
not the only one in the world who
learned that there is pork in scratch
ing.
Little do you think, when you sit
down to your breakfast bacon that
good men scratched for it. We moss-
backs scratch for a living all the time
and we are proud of it. There is pork
in it, and pork is money, and money is
gasoline, and gasoline is power, and a
chattel mortgage is like the grace of
God—it is with us always. Amen!
As soon as J get through writing
this, 1 am going out to the pen to
scratch a pig. It helps to make him
fat. You have got to please a pig,
same as a woman, or she—the pig. 1
mean—wont reflect credit on you. A
pig with a grouch is a dead loss. You
might just as well pour your swill into
a rathole. But please j?our pig, take
halt an hour of every day and go out
and scratch your pig.
COLD 1F
FREAK WELL
An Oklahoman’s House
Cooled by Unique System.
(New York Times.)
Frcrm a remarkable well on his land
J. C. McSpadden, of Tahlequah, Okla.,
obtains not only an abundance of water
almost ice cold in the summer time,
but also a supply of chilled air, which
he uses to keep the McSpadden home
cooler on the hottest day than any
summer resort.
It is a freak well all around. When
the well was sunk it was for a cistern.
When about 50 feet deep the bottom
broke through, revealing a sort of cav
ern, from which came a tremendous
flow of ice-cold water. Apparently
the supply is inxhaustible, for the well
was sunk years ago and the water has
remained at the same leyel ever since.
One may open the cover of this well
and’his hat will be lifted from his head
by a rush of air from the well that feels
like an icy blast. Where the water and
the cold air come from is a question
no one has answered.
Unlike most underground streams,
this one changes temperature in the
winter, getting much colder. While the
water stands 45 feet below the surface
of the ground, yet in winter ice five
inches thick has been known to form
in tlie well.
Taking advantage of the well’s supply
of cold air, Mr. McSpadden sealed the
top of the well with a concrete cap and
put pipes in it. Through one of these
he draws his water supply. Through
the other he draws cold air that is
piped to every room of his six-room
cottage. The pipes reduce the temper
ature many degrees even on the hottest
days, and when the weather is moder
ately cool the house can be made so
cold as to be uncomiortable.
A True Tale True to Life
(From Columbia State.)
One of those true tales that shame
fiction comes from Alabama, where a
husband and father, missing since 1893
returned a rich man from Brazil to
hunt up his family, living in poverty,
the children uneducated, thinking him
dead
Yet the truth is something better
than fiction would have imagined.
There was no melodramatic reunion.
Though Blackman left $50,000 in cash
and endowed each member of his fam-
itly with an mcome of $5,000 a year,
he was permitted to go back to Brazil
after a greetiag on the part of th«
wife and children that was utterly cold
and unsympathetic. It was here that
real life bettered the story books.
Who shall say that the wife who
dismissed the sixty-seven-year-old hus
band was not right in her attitude?
Time was of the essence of his con
tract, and he had hopelessly defaulted.
No money that he could pay could
wipe out the years of neglect, of lost
opportunity, of struggle with which he
had afficted her by his desertion. She
took his money, but she wished noth
ing of himself.
It is easy to imagine the pdrseproud
Blackman coming home after his
twenty-one year jaunt, confident in
the healing magic of his possessions.
It may matter little to him, but it will
do good to others, that he found out-
that money is not all powerful, that
where a man is rich is in service; that
there are some things that may be
forfeited that never can ^be brought
back.
In all the world the noblest of ad
venturers are those cohorts of love
that find themselves walking the tread
mill of duty, with noses against the
grindstone of labor, who are kept alive
not so much by what they hope to get
as by what of duty they feel them
selves compelled to endure in order
to do.
It is these simple folk, to whom
“wanderlust” and adventure are but
tales i/Old out of fairy books, who win
in the dust of a daily round of obliga
tion to the fortunes most worth while
List of Letters
Advertised for week ending July 11
1914.
1 Letter for Mr, Lorme Altman
1 Letter for Mrs. Mary Williams
1 Letter for Mrs. H. L. Thomas
1 Letter for Mrs. Pearlie Plunts
1 Letter for Mrs. G. A. Powers
1 Letter for Mrs. J. G. Prichott
1 Letter for Mrs. Sammie Coatnore
1 Letter for Mrs. Malise Walker
1 Letter for Mrs. Amanda Williams
1 Letter for Miss Saline Sykes
1 Letter for Miss Ula Ray
3 Letters for Miss Mable Jones
1 Letter for Miss Virgina Jeffreys
1 Letter for Miss Annie Gibson
1 Letter for Mr. Henry Mills
1 Letter for Mr. Marvin J. Thomas
1 Letter for Mr. Philip Criss
1 Letter for Mr. Clarance Wright.
These letters if not called for will be
sent to Dead Letter Office July 521914.
Respectfully,
J. T. Dick, P, M,, Mebane, N. C.
60,000 Men To Write.
The Railway Employees’ Department
of the American Federation of Labor
has begun to gather data for the
greatest hard luck story ever written.
Sordid chapters from the lives of 35,-
000 men will be gathered. The whole,
j when compiled, will tell the story of
the hardships, the sufferings, the
poverty and sickness of the union shop
men thrown out of work thirty-three
months ago, when labor difficulties arose
betweeR them and the Illinois Central
railroad and the Harriman lines.
A Summer Drawback.
“Summer has its inconveniences.*’
“I don’t get you.”
“I was just thinking of the vestless
man who tried to carry a lead pencil,
a fountaie pen, his watch and hit
cigars in the top pocket of his coat.**—:
Detroit Free Press.