s.
j i ky for
^ ago a
5 wciid that
siid.:c i.iy die
y^-..r left to
Lt c> the sat-
ilUij.S. How
T‘Vo a robin
t c 'rtain sea-
t double its
svonas every
our begins at
uv after sun-
ukiug to the
i labor, which'
hours of eat-
le. All the
sileut birds
an. and they
to be let
ils.
ilf-Made.”
ding inveighs
laii’’ in terms
0 inai.y. ‘ The
1, “is often in
,tion. and the
‘a. y in a fam-
,nd meanness
and meanest
cr made man
oi'Uia' for his
aildr-'U to
‘ir hellish de-
ir sid to the
w it when he
had acquired
Li having his
h- would be-
r-f a family.—
foice.
iub in a west-
up two fac-
z^d the stew-
t sTovide the
euls. and one
iti;= . The dis-
•c* r. Half the
le steward at
said he was
Lt w arning, the
mientous ques-
i time a mem-
i the waiter:
“He ain’t
:er. "He said
street to get
The Popular
rns.
d f iOt or hand
P'/ieves for a
0 ' ed by an in-
u-i of the cuti-
by ulceration
ie up in a dry
M'ial is porous
t drag off the
:>r cui off the
ject w'hen
L)' > 11 is at once
£ .. rpose noth-
-o.iie sort,
'aiu-., or vase-
vu. or lard and
;lv .vithout salt,
ay Accidents.
1 by Law.
or vvho is de
an evil inliu-
fiv.l many sup-
F'or tliere the
}1 briquettes),
of the Bath by
Thus an official
secretary ex-
r'lief of these
said that the
ed the man ten
tn cl-dared that
jo;.y every day
>\ hich pre-
lhat remark
■; Ruggestlou
ro.id d at Ox-
: tie inorted,
^.■e only
I iiionicle.
Obstinacy,
e has just been
irillagf on the
r:o:=st name I
\ as over a
[>.%■ r ior vvhich.
iih- -rlbHd. The
j ^ - -riition be-
v- -f the sub-
ii; o let the
iitrol of the
liii 'l that the
d because the
t!'e laborers to
li.'K k off work,
tl: se years the
i ill The village
ihortiy.
0, Hell—”
Washington
in the men’s
peddling w'ith-
. York Trlb-
Miihon said he
Fourth avenue
‘1 selling paro*
1,” said a small
; out of Feld-
that?” demand-
• Hell-o, hell-o”
lii‘i fully. The
id regarded the
lut the moment
If case the same
aocfn^ed, smote
lo, heil—•” “Feld*
lollars,” snapped
Bction.
Why must we
:ecp our homes
Gin—“Because
a at any mo-
THE
LEADER
AndRight The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin.
Vol 5
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 23 1914
No 23
A Killing Scrape
Quite a serious shooting scrape oc-
oured just beyond Bain« store North of
Mebane Sunday eveninjf. It seems
that a number ot neifroes had met at
a certain point, when one proposed
that they chip in and buy some
vvhiskey, Jim Day who was one of the
iipgroei said he would throw in 10 cents
fom Wilson who was present and
seemed to have a personal grudge
against Day said he did not want any
ot his money. It was then that Day
walked up to Wilson and &hot him in
The mouth, Wilson quickly pulled hia
pistol and shot Day three or four times
tn the breast killing him almost in-
itantly. It waa a quick explosion, but
it would seem that the powder was
Vfudy, and only wanted the touch of
tire. It is reported since the shooting
that Wilson has also died.
I
Mebane Rfd 5
Honor Roll
The following parties have paid their
subscription to The Leader since our
last published list We feel grateful
to them and find number of names
who should go and do likewise:
Miss Ollie Douglass
David Thompson
H. A. Bason
J. S. Shaw
Ed Daily
John Vanhook
,1. B. McMullen
W. McAdams
Harry Goodman
W. C. Clark
iMartha Roberson
Charlie Grant
Fred Terrell
J. W. Montgomery
J. P. Teer
J. F. Compton
W. A. Rudd
S. i\i. Patton
Well wheat threashing has been all
the rage around here, chickens roost
high when they see Mr. Wilkerson and
Will Cheek, Ernest said some of the
girls fries mighty good chickens and if
it Went for the other fellow he would
make a visit down on Rfd. 5. I think
he is going any way..
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Newman and^Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Miles spent Sunday
with their sister Mrs. J. B. McAdams
and attended church.
We ar© glad to learn that Mr. J. M.
Miller is improving.
Mr. George Newman cal’ed to see
Miss Mattie Shanklin Sunday p. m.
Mr. M. Miller spent Saturday and
Sunday in Burlington.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchel Vincent spent
Sunday at Mr. Carley Bains
We are sorry to note that Mr. S. T.
Smith is not improving much at this
writing
Mr. C. D. Miles returned from
Washington one day last week and re
ported a fine time.
Mr. Pleasant Cheek caMed to see
Mr. S. T. Smith Sunday.
Mr. Thomas Jeffreys of Carr, spent
Sunday night and Monday at Mr. J. M.
Miller’s.
Mrs. Henry Vincent is spending some
time at Graham.
Orange Grove Items.
Crops are doing nicely tho’ a rain J
wouldn’t hurt. |
Mrs. C. R. Teer is now at her fathers
Mr. James Ray, after having been in
the hospital at Durham for several
months. She is a great deal better
than she was when taken to the hospital
but is not well yet.
We are sorry to learn that Mr. N.
A. Cates has not been well for several
days.
Mr. DeWitt Cheek and sister Miss
Jessie of southern Alamance visited
relatives during part of last week.
Mr. Graham Crawford and sister
Are Where They Belong.
A number of Louisiana democrats
have quit the party and joined forces
with the progressive republicans on
account of the sugar tariff. People
who disagree with the democratic
party on account of its attitude on the
tariff never had any business in the
party. They have been republicans all
along, although they may not have
known it. The position of the de
mocratic party in opposition to a pro
tective tariff has been clear and con
sistent all these years. The people
who have voted with the party and
expected it to repudiate this position
certainly have queer ideas. The Louis-
^ TT ^ , - iana democrats got what they voted
Mias Ava and Miss Hettie Sykes of, evidently think they
Cha^l Hill spent Saturday night and,,^„y exception.-States-
Sunday with relatives and friends,
Judge Bond Rules Against
Anti-^^loon League In
Railroad Case
Judge W. M. Bond, in the Supreme
Court at Raleigh, ruled in favor of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
and against the State and the North
Carolina Anti Saloon League in the
noted case of State versus Seaboard
Air Line, involving the right of rail
road company’s to refuse to submit
their books on delivery of intoxicant
liquors of inspection of citizens gener
ally on demand, as provided for in the
State statutes providing machinery for
the enforcement of the prohibition
law.
Mr. T. D. Tinnin
spent Saturday and
mother Mrs. Beriy.
of 5 Alvester Va.
Sunday with his
We saw Mr. Graham Rimmer of
Mebane out driving Sunday p. m. with
two girls we guess Graham was hav
ing himself a time.
Master Sam Miller
down near Efland with
J. J. Pratt.
spent Sunday
his uncle Mr.
Among those that called at Mr. John
Millers Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. T.
P. Cheek, Frank and
Mrs. T. J. Browning
Tommie, Dof Warren,
and Dock ohanklin, Mr.
am.
Forrest, also
and Alina and
Murdock, Dan
J. L. McCad-
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Shamby spent Sat
urday and Sunday with their daughter
Mrs. Wright of Cedar Grove.
Mr. Robert Jones spent Sunday in
Durham.
returning to Chapel Hill Sunday evening
We were sorry to learn of the death
of Mr. J. W. Cheek Sr.,which occurred
at the Old Soldiers Home at Raleigh
Saturday night. Mr. Cheek is survived
by four sons and two daughtervand a
number of other relatives. He had
only been an occupant of *^he Home for
a few months and tho’ it was well
known that his health was bad his
death was a surprise to his many
friends. We shall give the particulars
of the funeral later.
Mr. Ralph Andrews and Mias Carrie
Pickard ot Chapel Hill were visitors at
the Grove Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. G. W. P. Cates of Altamahaw
is visiting her sister Mrs. L. M. Cates
for a few days.
Mr. E. N. Cates has changed bla
address from Mebane to Chapel Hill
and we learn that he will probably go
to Roxboro. His services seem to be in
demand.
Children’s Day at Orange Chapel
Sunday took away a number of Orange
Grove people Sunday.
Mr. James T. Davis continues about
the same. He is not able to get around
but very little.
Mr. M. L. Cates went up to Burling*
ton Saturoay and spent the night with
relatives. He came back all dressed
out as fine as a “Jedge.”
ville Landmark.
The shame of It
FOUGHT MAO WOIF INlGREftfEST ELECTRIC
iLIGHTINMWOeLD
“No recent death in North Carolina
has caused so much newspaper com
ment as that of Major Watlington who
died just a week ago. Papers all over
the state knew him and liked him, and
he probably knew more newspaper
men and politicia.is than any other
North Carolinian. Yet he was stricken
*, ill in a county court house wnere he
sought refuge, and died a day later.
Only three white men were at his fun
eral, the good minister of the gospel
who had charge of the religious rites,
the kind hearted undertaker who did
his services gratis, and a brave Con
federate veteran.—Durham Sun.
Father and Son Attacked
as they Slept in open barn
W. H. Whitly and his son, Charles,
of Wichita county, recently arrived at
the Texas state hydrophobia institut#*
to receive treatment for wounds re
ceived from a wolf believed to have
been suffering from rabies.
The Whitlys were attacked near
Electra, where after a hard day’s
work thrashing they were sleeping in
an onen barn. The father was awak*
ened wheh the animal, jumping for
his throat, fastened its teeth in his
lip. The fight which ensued was in
the pitch dark, where his sons could
not help him.
Whitly was bitten in the face and
about the hands. His son, Charles,
who started to run for help, was pur
sued by the animal, which bit him nine
A third son, who kept still,
was not touched. The wolf escaped —
Exchange.
Sixty Inch Reflector Gives
it a Thousand Million
Canale Power,
Watterson to Jones
Mr Otis M. Crawford left
for Wautaga Countv where
spend something like two
making hoops.
Monday
he will
months
After all, I believe the nicest and
sweetest days are not those on which
anything very splendid or wonderful
or exciting happens, but just those that
bring simple little pleasures, following
one another softly, like pearls slipping
off a string—L. M. Montgomery.
Wheat IS seUing for about 20 cents a
bu&hel cheaper this year than it has
averaged in the past five years, because
of the bumper crop. Tho wheat crop
this year is estimated at 930,000,000,
the largest on record, says the Boston
Globe. Europe is short of wheat and
must buy some of its supply in America
That means more money for the farmer
of the west, and when the western
farmer is prosperous the east shares
in his prosperity.
Excellence is never granted co man,
hut it is the reward of labor. It ar
gues, indeed, no small strength of
mind to preserve in the habits of in
dustry, without the pleasure of per
ceiving those advantages which, like
the hands of a clock, whilst they make
hdurly approaches to their point, yet
proceed so slowly as to escape obser
vation.—Sir Joshua Reynolds.
“Much depends on environment,”
says the Manayunk Philosopher. “A
hen in a duck pond is a graceful object
compared with a woman in politics ’*
Banks Won’t Cash it.
The saying is that “time is money”
bat the lazy chaps can’t get the banks
to recognize it as such.— Atlanta
Constitution.
Released from the Blackwell's Is
land prison after a month’s sentence,
Sweet Marie Ganz renounces the I.
W. W. She says they’re a dirty-deal-
ing, worthlese loi. She will have
‘jothing further to do with any of the
“crazy” groups. Evidently her period
of enforced meditation was not spent
in vain.
Maj. T. J. Brown Dead
Major T. J. Brown, poineer citizen
of Winston-Salem, a Confederate vet
eran, formerly a leader in the tobacco
market and senior member of the firm
of Brown-Roger« Company, wholesale
and retail hardware, died at his home
last Friday afternoon after a brief
illness. His ^ath, while not unex
pected to those close to the family,
was a shock to the community, for
Major Brown was one of th2 best
known men of the city, being of a
wealthy and prominent family. Until
a few weeks ago he took a healthy and
vigorous part in civic welfare, was
generous vo a marked degree and was
unselfish in his devotion to family.
Church, friends and the city in which
he made his home for so many years.
Since early manhood Major Brown was
a faithful member of the First Pres
byterian Church and iook a prominent
part in all Church affairs. He also
took a leading part in the organization
of Camp Norfleet. U, C. V., and sel
dom missed a meeting of a State or
Ntftional reunion.
Death of Mrs. Pearl Tate.
Mrs. Pearl Tate of Prospect Hill died
at Rex Hospital Raleigh Friday from
typhoid fever. The body was brought
home Saturday morning and carried
out to Prospect Hill for interment Sun
day. The deceased leaves a husband
and seven small children
Seek But Find Not.
(Salisbury Post.)
Charity and Children declares that
the mountains will fairly teem with
visitors “seeking rest and finding
none” and unfortunately this is true,
for many visitors go to the mountains
and fail to get any benefit whatever
and return to their homes with small
appreciation of the grandeur of it all
How to enjoy the mountains is not
the nature of all people who go to the
mountains, and if one desires to get
an appreciative evidence of the rest
lessness of restless people let him
go to the mountains, or to Florida,
and watch the surging throng—it is
sometimes pitiful.
Captured as a Confederate soldier at
Fort Donelson, escaping and re-enlisting
and again captured in Morgon’s Ohio
raid, and finally dying Associate Justice
the Supreme Court ot the United
•■States, the late Justice Lurton’s career
was a remarkable one in many ways,
and possible only, perhaps, in the
United States.
“Turkey'’ and “Buzzard”
The question of taxation should be
the foremost one in the next legisla
ture. There are a great many incon
sistencies in the present law. The in
consistencies are so plain, so obser
vable, that it would seem that the
remedy would have been found long
ago. The trouble has been however,
that these inconsistencies spelled,
“Turkey” to the man with solvent]
credits and “Buzzard” to the man
without, and hence year after year
nothing has been done to bring ralief.
We trust that the members of the
legislature from this county will use
their best talents to bring relief.—
Warren ton Record.
Thomas Blair Thompson.
Thomas Blair Thompson a prominent
and life«long resident of Alamance
County and the oldest citizen of Mcb-
ane, died at his home here Tuesday
morning at 5 o’clock from Apoplexy.
Mr. Thompson was born in southern
Alamance County August 27th 1824 and
would have been 90 years old had he
lived until the 27th of next month He
was one of the three first settlers of
Mebane, and was engaged in the
mercantile business up to the time of
his retirement. He has always been
one of the leading citizens of the town
and county, enjoying the highest
respect and esteem of his fellowiten.
He served in the capacity of deacon of
Hawfields Presbyterian church since
early manhood and was the Treasurer
for many years.
Jan. 1854 he was married to Miss
Mary Kerr, sister to David Kerr of
Alamance and from this union were
born six children, five of whom survive,
they are; Mrs. W. W. Lasley of Burling
ton, Mrs. B. C, Thompson of Graham,
Miss Alice Thompson of Mebane, C.
Kerr Thompson of Caswell County an^
Mrs. J. A. Long of Haw River. Edwin
Thompson the sixth child died about
eight years ago.
After the death of his first wife Mr.
Thompson married Miss Julia Wright,
sister to R. H. Wright of Durham, who
only lived a few years after marriage
dying in 1885.
Interment took place Wednesday
morning at 10 o’clock
cemetery. Funeral services were
conducted by Rev J. W. Goodman of
Hawfields Pres, church and Rev.
M Hawley ot Mebane Pres, church.
A Broader Sphere
The opportunity for being more than
a bump on a log used to be confined to
politics in North Carolina, but there is
a broadened sphere tod?»y. The young
men of the state builders while a few
are trying to be statesmen, with every
cross roads politician wanting to get
on his job by getting him out with the
office seeking crow bar. With splen
did resources, such as are possessed
by North Carolina in immense veriety
young men have magnificent construct
ive opportunities in every country in
the state.—Wilmington Star.
“General” Rosalie Jones, having
challenged Ccl. Henry Watterson for
a joint debate, received from the gift
ed colonel this refreshing reply:
“Nay, nay, Rosalie, dear
Shall we not drop the unwomanly and
#imeaning ‘general’ and call you pet
r...mes? You have the wrong pig b>
the'ear Let Foxy Grandpa press an
ice upon you. Stick your pantalettes
in your boots, little girl, and instead
of facing that dreadful mob from tl^
courthouse steps, let us go and hunt
buttercups. Your brains, Rosalie, if
we may say it without offense, still
run to your legs—naughty brains-for
brains were made to think with and
legs were made to walk with, and
walking, not debating, has been, as
may it ever be, your long suit, sweet
heart.”
Though Rosahe might blush, still
it must be conceded that the colonel
took her measure correctly.—Raleigh
Times
VISIBLE 100 MILES AWAY
The largest electric lamp in the world
was lighted Sunday night in the New
York navy yard. For some weeks the
beam of this giant searchlight cutting
the skies will be visible, under faw>r'^
able conditions, more than 100 miles
away.
There is no other lamp like it in
existence. It is called the Beck search
light and is the invention of Heinrich
Beck, a German scientist, who is here
conducting the tests of his lamp for the
United States government.
Measured at two miles from the lamp
450,000,000 candle power is obtained
from a lamp with a 44-inch reflectco;.
The present 44-inch lamp, in use on
the world’s battleships, gives only 60,-
000,000 candle power. For coast de
fense a 60-inch reflector is now in use.
Suvh a reflector hitched to the Beck
Rosalie. 1 searchlight gives 1,000,000,000 candle
power as against 180,000,000 candki
power now obtainable.
A Fish Trust
It is more than hinted that there is
what is known as a “fish trust,” with
branches at Norfolk, New Bern, and
Morehead City, and a story is going
around that sometimes when there is
a large catch of fish the latter aie
thrown away, while at the same time
there is a great demand for them in
the interior and pi ices are high enough
The shipments of fish are important
this season of the year Norfolk, the
story goes, is the headquarters of this
“trust.” —Raleigh Times.
The State’s Cotton Crop.
(From The Raleigh Times.)
It is but telling the truth to say
that there are in the State this season
some of as fine crops of cotton as have
ever been produced. The poorest cot
ton is in the Piedmont section, where
the drought was severe and the crop
late, and some of the smallest plants
ever noticed so late in the season mark
a good many of the fields.
The Peach and Melon
Trains.
(From The Sanford Express.)
Long trains ol peaches and melons
are being rushed to the Northern
markets over the Seaboard Air Line
daily. Some days two fruit trains go
through. These trains are made up of
from 50 to 60 cars and are pulled by
double headers. The other day we
counted 50 cars of watermelons at
tached to one train It would be in
teresting to know just how many
thousands of melons were carried by
those 50 cars. The first fruit, melons
and vegetables of the season were
shipped from Florida, next from
Georgia and for the past two weeks
the shipments have been made from
South Carolina and the southern part
of North Carolina- The shipments of
fruit and vegetibles have been greater
this season than ever before.
The only regret of the suffragette
arrested for an unsuccessful attempt
to blow up a London church is that
m HawfiTlds “the beastly thing did not go off.” It
might be arranged for the purposes of
martyrdom to have her punished as
P severely as if it had.
He Was Up Against It.
The world in general bears Huerta
personally no particular ill will. To
be sure, his enemies insist that he ob
tained his office by treachery and bul
warked it by assassination; he oyer-
rode, it is claimed, the constitution
of his country; he knocked in the head
the few popular liberties his fellow
countrymen inherited from Diaz, But
it took genuine courage and strength
to stand out as Huerta did against
the tremendous pressure of the United
States and eventually of the whole
civilized world, until hia armies were
knocked to pieces, his ports closed,
his credit gone, and the victorious
revolutionists were knocked at the
gates of his capital.—Asheville Gazette
News.
Notice is given that none of the
$36,500,000 of the H. B. Clatlin ^m-
pany notes outstanding will be paid on
maturity. When we consider that
there are no fewer than 24 receiveij
ships a little delay seems excusable
enough.
Lightly Occupied.
When men are rightly occupied their
amusement grows out of their work as
the color petals out of a fruitful
flower.—John RusKin.
The covetous man heaps up riches,
not to enjoy them, but to have them,
and starves himself in the midst of
plenty, and most naturally cheats and
robs himself of that which is his own,
and makes a hard shift to be as poor
and miserable with a great estate ab
any man can be without it»—Tillotson,
LOST
Wicked Work
It is an old saying that while figur
es never lie, liars sometimes figures.
But when the Census Bureau reports a
larger consumption of cotton in the
country’s cotton mills during ten
months to June 30 than in the same
time a year ago is it not obvious that
figures may lie as well as that liars
may figure?
This period of alleged increrse in
cotton consumption is, less a month,
precisely the period in which the new
tariff, with its radical reductions on
cotton goods, was to work out the
ruin of the industry. New Bedford a
year ago was offering mills for sale at
20 per cent below cost. Other mills
were going on short time preparatory
to going out of business altogether.
Dividends of from 10 to 50 per cent,
faced a reduction and wages promised
to disappear entirely. English mills
were to begin the ruin with a flood of
exports, atid the German and then the
Japanese and Indian mills were to
complete the ruin.
We know that this is so because
Senator Smoot and other standpatters
said at the time that it was so, and
they can never be mistaken. The at
tempt of the Census Bureau to figure
out a larger business than before for
mills on the way to the scrap-heap is a
scandalous performance.
A Blessing in Disguise.
(Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.)
A sugar planter visiting in New
York is quoted as saying that the
prospective removal of the duties is
driving Louisiana farmers from cane
growing to diversified agriculture.
If free sugar were altogether re
sponsible for such a change, it would
indeed be a blessing in disgaise; but
the truth is that Louisiana planters,
realizing the larger profits to be ob
tained therefrom began to turn from
sugar to cotton raising and truck
farming some three or four years be
fore the democratic tariff schedules
were formulated. Free sugar is
undoubtedly accelerating the move
ment, but it didn’t start it.
Good for Governor Craig
About one hundred convicts are
leased to a private concern doing
construction work at Whitney. Re
cently three ot these shackled and
helpless men have died of sunstroke,
two were killed by accident, and two
more seriously injured. Grovernor
Craig has announced that he will go
to Whitney on Friday to investigate
the conditions. We hope that he will
adhere to his resolution and that he
will not permit himself to be fooled
or the matter to be whitewashed. The
leasing of prisoners to private parties
My double case, gold filled watch be- i ^ crime against society and direct-
tween Post office and road crossing; |y ^jje face of modern enlighten-
South of Mr. Ed Holt’s. Reward for j ment, The state that permits it
return. 1 taken a backward step. The busi-
John Bayne, Mebane, N.C. | ought to be torn up root and
Care Mr. D. A. White branch.—Monroe Journal.