ir
iTibie Die.
yrcl Tribune,
while patient, self,
tops to pull on it^
r,bead at least h
i I'y a delilHrate li;,
ten that he may he
t true, and oareless
nu'an to lie will ao-
ruth.
that when the gjant
went down in the
ts vast atrj^regat? of
w:.' told that Maj
•wv.ntr the lost ones
•y I'rosident Taft ro
and that he was
e.’i't from the pope
\V. Hirf>w Wilson f,„.
U down on the 1 Uh
t'hson wai^ not nom-
>ii. M-ratie candidate
I the 2nd day of the
ll? i- "* ii,s«*lf i.s suf.
10 - rrit -nvMit a lie.
51" ovid, ),;.o that a
nmi.nd of the
tif Maj. Hn;t
VI!! d. Hut the hodv
la; >r was not found
i*sij('h paper f..unfi on
mnde jmsitivf' denial
ifl ^tine on any piu h
• harmed, and that i;^
that there was no
' f;dse ^^tateine.it.
ulinir all this entire
fuce, th«* lie IS still
ted, and it has been
•s of the gospel of
1 kr;)W it to boun
ces to prove that a
a art, may never
:he truth. Rut men
ell a lie, when by a
bn tl ey might know
not o no held guilt-
the Hour in
rn Mexico.
; the border you re-
(nr i'louneed Vea) is
e lu)ur in northern
the bandit w’hom
dere.l executed, and
adi r«i, Huerta made
lag, po to speak and
: the same .medicine
lla’ father ran two
1 Chihuahua, and the
>r 16 used to go far
itry to buy goats a nr!
an expert in picking
\Q recTular channels of
lar expelt in picking
r ways, but Villa has
me. He was a goo]
atti'r he had shot a
\vh«i had seduced hi.i
' an outlaw and wa?
r»ne side of the border
d could almost claim
as far aa length of
cerne 1 Porfirio Diaz
n, hut he laughed at
pie admired the bold
)unded the Dride of
once, near the out-
hua he agreed to fight
e by one, and three
lenge -and the three
stol nf Villa, for he
der tiny. They nevei
id he was about the
when Madero en-
f«*r the constitution-
jiardoned him when
ed successful. Vil
u a banflit as tne
[the rounds of the
I that the Territory
laid in revenue alone
[rf more than double
iy the same token,
trernment has been
fjouisiana Purchase
>r-and then some.
of dry
THE MEBAJVE LEADER.
And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin.’
Vol 5
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3 1914
No 25
General
Attorney McKeynolds has been eon- i
termed as a Justice of the U. S. Supreme
court by a vote of 44 to 6.
The House
passed the war
hitt»r fight.
of Representatives has
risk measure after a
Sugar is climbing. It is claimed that
one half of the worlds sugar comes
from Germany, and that is etitirely cut
off now,
8,000,000 MEN MOBI
LIZEO
The Meiitia has been called out to
guard the Butte Copper Mines of Mont.
Carranza is said to be at
President Wilson over his
policy.
outs with
Mexican
Who ever heard of a barb bayonett,
until the Emptror of Germany intro
duced it in his army during the present
war.
Forces Divided Into Four
Armies, Take Field One
at a Time.
An Exchange telegraph dispatch
from Rome says a St. Petersburg
message states that it is officially
admitted in the Russian capital that
8,000,000 men have been mobilized.
These forces have been divided mto
four armies, which are being sent into
the field one after the other and the
center has already begun its march on
Berlin.
The forces are well provisioned and
will not hive to “live off the country,”
It is planned to surround the Ger
man forts and starve out the garrison
instead of attacking the forts.
THEIUCKY HORSESIIOL
Interesting btory of Origin
of a Popular Belief.
Everyone knows the superstition
that good luck strikes the finder if by
chance a cast-off horseshoe is picked
up by the wayside, but how few know
the orgin of this belief.
It goes back hundreds of years when
horses were not only shod with shoes
of iron, but with geld and silver as
well and this fact makes it apparent
why it was lucky to find a shoe that
had a real market value
The habit of shoeing horses was
formed in the time of the ancients
many centuries before Christ. It was
at this period that gold and silver were
so often a substitute for iron. The
Roman Emperors, for example, and
the Kings of Norway indulged repeat
edly in this luxuiy.
Oh France could but call forth to
life the dead Napolean, and he could rise
from the sarcophagus of the tomb
• des-Inyalids in Paris, how he would
drive the Germans before him like a
fiaine driven by a storm through stuble
Europe is being swept with a de
structive war, prices for food stuff are
soaring sky high in the United States,
but th»n atter all Cole Blease was
beaten for the Senate, and it is to be
hoped that it turns the gentleman down
for an indefinete period.
The custom once established brought
Death of Henry Blount. in vogue another practice among the
The death of Henry Blount of Wilson ! Grandees. When their horses cast
last Thursday at the soldiers home at j their shoes the lackey was not allowed
Raleigh, was a sad occurrence. We | to stop for the purpose of securing
have known Mr. Blount for a number I them. This disdain of precious metal
of years. He was4in eloquent writer,
and lecturer. He knew how to say
pretty things. Years ago when he
edited the Wilson Mirror he made of
that paper one of the most charming
and attractive publications of its
character in the South. Mr. Blount
was an old confederate soldier having
reached his 71 year. He did much to
ad to the world pleasure and scatter
sunshine- Peace to his ashes.
satisfied the bombastic pride of their
masters. Hence, when they were seen
by the populace to mount a horse or
enter a carriage they were followed
with fervor in the hope that a shoe
would become loose, thus enriching
their store of earthly goods or, in other
words, bringing them good luck.
The Emperor of Germany claims
bis right to rule direct from God and
thinks he is going to push the whole
outfit out of the way. We hope the
Emperor will get disapointed before
he reaches Paris. The fact that he
beUeves his family has been deseverly
appointed does not prevent the French
guns mowing them down His only
ancle was killed last week.
Emeline' l:*ankhurst
Mrs. Pankhurst should take advan
tage of her opportunity and organize
a regiment and go to the front to fight
her countrys enemy Germany. It
would be better than pitching bombs
in churches and private residences as
she has been doing, but Emeline had
rather do something devilish and mean,
than something patriotic and helpful.
The Pope Dead
The Best She Deserves
It is to be hoped that vthe belliger-
ant spirit of none of our congressman
will lead them to try to embroil this
country in war with the yellow mar,
because we unfortunately hold the
Phillipines. Japan has no desire for
a fight with ^he United States, but
Germany has an itching wish to get
us in it. Let Germany alone, race or
no race, we hope that Japan will be
able to whale the stuffing out of her
in the orient. It is the best she de
serves.
Death of Mrs. Martha
Qualls
Died at the home of her son, Mr.
Dave Qualls, age 70 Mrs. Qualls
leaves two sons, Dave Qualls of Meb-
ane and J. F. Qualls of Burlington.
Mrs. Qualls husband proceeded her
last October when he was laid to rest.
Mrs. Qualls was a consistent member
of the Baptist church, having joined
when she whs sixteen years of age.
ON TO PARIS
IS m ni Mis H buze
Superhuman strength has fought
back the tide, but on and on, it sweeps
like a human avalanche driving with
relentless fury cities, forts, and men
from its pathway. The ebb, and flow
of the tide as each days tale is told, tells
that it is coming nearer and to the en
circling forts of the doomed city. There
is no other news to ad to this momen-
tious story. For a people who have
assault, it is the horror of hell. God
pity and protect the French from the
ravenous teeth of these human hienas,
these barbed bayonet soldiers.
No Say So.
England w’arns Turkey that a
declaration of war means the signature
to her own death warrent. It means
the destruction of the Turkish EmfMte.
England well understands that it will
take some time to lead to Germanys
destruction, which will be sure, and if
Turkey wants her head choped off all
she has to do is to put her head on the
block. There is going to be a revision
of the map of Europe before a great
while, and Germany will have no say
so in the matter.
Pope Pius the 10th. of Rome, the H there is anything in the make-up
ruling prelate of the Catholic Church of this weeks Leader that don t come
died last Thursday week ago. His
death was rather sudden, and said to
have been largely caused by the trouble
he experienced on account oi the
European war. A.n other Pope will be
elected soon to succeed him.
excuse
up to your ideas,
printers not being m we
trouble in getting out.
it, all the
had some
Lay Butte in Ashes
Miners openly threatened to lay the
town of Butte in ashes if either state
or federal troops attempt to enter
Butte. One of the miners’ leaders
declared they did not purpose to fight
the soldiers but that they would wreak
vengeance upon the business men for
bringing soldiers to Butte.
“We have quantities of'dynamite and
oil," said one leader, ‘‘ard the troops
will find ashes.” . •
Dick is Back Again
A month ago “Lick,” J. F. Terrell
niet with the misfortune to have his
barber shop burned out, and much of
his fixtures destroyed. He expects to
open at his same old stand on Saturday
with almost a new building, at least
newly cealed. Dick will try to have
everything in great shape for those
who favor him with their work. Don’t
forget him.
Let Us Do Your Job Work
At the Leader Office you can
have your job work done as well
as any one can do, and is it not
better to have your job work
done by your horn® office. Let
us do it won’t you?
Notice to Tax Payers
All deliquent tax payers of town of
Mebane must pay their 1913 taxes
before September 15th. We need the
morey and you may expect to be
levied upon if said taxes are not paid
by that date.
W. S. Crawford, Mayor
W. C. Clark, Collector
Please Pay Up
We would be glad for all
delinguf^nt subscribers to the
Mebane Leader to remit us our
due, or send us one dollar any
way. We have just returned
from a very expensive trip in
the interest of our health and
we need the money. Pleas?
give it attention at once, what
you owe will help. Let us see
The Tragedy of Belgium
Smaller than Maryland, but with a
population nearing 8,000,000, Belgium
was the most densely peopled country
in the world. Centuries of thrift had
made its soil an incomparable garden;
its huge industries exacted great im
ports of food. Antewerp stood, per
haps, second to New York in the bulk
of its commerce.
Generations of skilled architects j growth
had enrichod the doomed land with
cities whose beauty was the despair of
emulation. To call the roll of towns
like Bruges, Ypres, Louvain, Ghent
Courtral is to bring up visions of
pictured beauty familiar to the world.
To call another j*oll beginning with
Waterloo and Oudenarde is to name
Belgium as the cockpit of past wars;
but to give Europe a buffer state for
peace, its neutrality for the future
was guaranteed by treaty. Having
little faith in the false oaths of Em
perors, the Belgians taxed industry to
j sustain an army of a quarter of a
million soldiers and reserves.
That was Belgium. To-day it is a
ruin. German arms have crushed a
resistance which German dipbmancy
admits was “legitimate,” and military
governors “pay” for food and supplies
with contributions wrung from de
fenseless cities. Belgian capitalists
are held for ransoms of millions. Many
priests are hostages; other clergymen
are lying with the dead. Peasants
from about Liege are driven hke
slaves to Germany to help hsiryest the
enemy’s crops. Civic life has ceased.
The conquerors are wasting the
I garnered wealth of ages. The Malires
I cathedral is m ruins, and only 200 of
the 60,000 inhabitants are reported to
be left in the battered city. Louvain,
with its beautiful old City Hall, its
priceless library, its splendid churches,
its Clothworkers’ Hall, hallowed by
600 years of admiration, has been ut
terly destroyed and many of its citi
zens murdered becauser-though this
they deny—some of them tried to de
fend their homes against the invader.
Defending their homes is the capital
offense which poor men can commit.
There is no trial; the word of a com-
how many names we can put on ; ^^Pfjer is sufficient; a rattle of rifles
the honor roll. 1 and a gray-haired peasant falls bleed-
, I ing upon the ashes of his roof tree. In
Truth one village of 500 houses a score only
To Get at tne iruin. ^ave been left standing. In others.
If the German war office had given ^he invaders rifle the cash-box, shoot
out a statement “fully setting forth” a peasant or two and pass on. Crowd-
the facts regarding the results of Sun- j ing the roads to France, to Holland—
day’s and Monday's clash with the al-1 now one vast hospital—to Antwerp,
lies, it would no doubt have baen quite 1 there crawls a pitiful procession
different from that given out by
the
French war office. Then if the two
statements had been added together
and the result divide by two, the
truth of the matter might have been
approached at least.—Wilmington Star
of
wounded non-combatants, famished
women, grandmothers, wheeling babies
in handcarts. Beside the roads these
stragglers lie where they have fallen,
dying from hunger and exhaustion.—
New York World.
OPENS SEPT. 71H.
!Supt. Deese Discusses The
Ideals ot Life and the Duty
We Owe to Our Children.
Next Monday, Sept. 7th is the day
set by the Board of trustees for the
Mebane Graded School to again open
its doors for the e'^ucation of the youth
of this community. We realize that
the public schools of this common
wealth are the mud sills of civilization
and that we cannot strive too hard to
make them more perfect. 1, as the
newly elected Supt. of the Mebane
Graded School, wish to say to the
people that I expect to do all in my
power to make the ensuing year one
of the most profitable in its history.
I am sensible of the fact that the
curriculum of the school is not what it
should be. It has been the custom
heretofore, I understand, to do only
eight grades of work, but we expect
to raise the standard, instead of doing
only one year of high school work, we i , ^ n •
expect to continue to raise the curricu- given no oitence, no cause tor this
Lam until we will do four years of high
school work, as is done by the leading
high schools of the State. Of course
I know that this cannot all be done in
one year. With our contemplated
$6000 addition next year, we will begin
to get in shape to do more work and
better work, when we shall have
succeeded in doing four years of high
school work we can then pul our
graduates in the Freshman class in ^he
b^st Colleges and Universities of the
outh. Howe\ er, I would have it borne
In mind that if there are any wh# come
to the Mebane school this year, seeking
its instruction, even though they have
twelfth grade work we shall do every
thing possible for their accomodation.
So much for the curriculum. We now
wish to say a few words relative to the
great ideal of life, which we hope both
pupil# and parents will read.
The first of all arts is the art of
hving right. The best proof of the
existence of a diety is a well poised,
cultured, and mature human being.
Up from the ovum we have seen life
spring, a thing of force and growth.
Under the expansion of self activity
we have heard it laugh and sing in
conscious pleasure as it rejoiced in ite
toward its destined end.
Within right enviroment we have
seen it fed, stimulated, directed through
normal appetite, tipie, and freedom,
and thus as a natural phenomenon
under natural law, its powers, intellect,
sensibilities, and will have unfolaed
equally. Wedded with all life its proc
esses of growth are as simple and
publime as the triune method by which
GoJ grows a violet ora leviathan.
LooKing upon our own growing life
as in the trustful eyes of our children,
it is a wonderful question to ask,
“what shall we train our children to
be" Oh; that question which stands
out paramount, and makes us blush and
look for some lonely nook or corner and
there hide our face in shame, when we
Jknow that we are not doing for them as
we should, whom God in his infinite love
and wisdom gave us to care for and bring
them up in the pathes of rightenous-
ness. But the question has got to be
answered. By whom? By the teachers,
by the ministers and the parents of the
children, and individual souls whether
you will or not; and whether you will
or not, your answer will be recorded.
Then how will the lives we have
helped to make respond to the demands
of duty. How will they be rated in the
market of success. Do not dodge or try
to evade; necessity is waiting up the
road, stand up while you give your
answer, what is our teaching worth?
It is not prima facia evidence that we
are doing all we can to turn out a boy
or girl who is merely educated in books,
why a sneak thief could claim aa much
for his education. “The beat-I-can”
boy is an abbreviated edition of the
man who needs a mustard plaster to
make him feel. This training develops
“the jumper who never quite clears
the bar, the poet whose verses limp,
the artist whose colors are always on
the run, and the woman whose buttons
refuse to stay on.” He is the twig
that becomes that stick of a lawyer
who gets but one client and that the
jailor takes off his hands, or the doctor
who sent in a certificate of death with
his name signed in the space reserved
for “cause.”
Yes children I say, should live in an
atmosphere satuated with positivity,
clear and scintillating as the facte of
the Kohinoor must flash the morning of
life to th‘3 young.
Lollw sepeaks of the “thread of the
all sustaining beauty which doth run
through all and doth all unite. Under
the law of continuity, the force which
makes a Luther Burbank makes also a
good community farmer. The writers
of the boys in Khaki forming San Juan
Hill are the same quality as those of
Washington. The young needs to
asssciate with optimists, optimists like
Christ, who sent through the world a
shout, “All things are possible to him
that believeth.
The old Greeks coir>ed the word
enthusiasm because they must have
wanted a term to explain the actions
•f their children. But we oan plainly
see that we owe to our children our
best effcwts and thought. Lets co
operate, parents and children and make
old Mebane a model community, not
only in Alamance Gouny, but “the dear
old Sunny South, the land of the free
and the home of the brave.”
I wish to take advantage of this
opportunity of expressing my gratitude
for the kindness that the people have
shown me since I came to Mebane.
The laymen and Board of trustees both
have pledged their support.
Reiterating the stat^nent that 1
shall do all in my power to- have a
successful school and adding that with
the competent and cultured assistants
whom I shall have to work with me, 1
am confident that we will have a
school this year that will bring addition
al prestige to the community,
I am, a servant of the people
Fred Deese,
Supt. Mebane Graded Schoal.
A Thought for the Week
Then shall the Judge of the dead
answer; Let this soul pass on; h«
lives upon trutj^. He has made his
delight in doing what is good to men,
and -vhat is pleasing to God. He has
given food to thejhungry, drink to the
thirsty, and clothes to the naked. Hia
lips are pure and his hands are pure.
His heart weighs right in the balance.
He fought on the earth the battle of
the gods, even as his Father, the Lord
of the invisible world, had commanded
him. O God, the protector of him
who brought his ory unto Thee, make
it well for him in the world of spirits;
He loved his father; he honored his
mother; he loved his brethren. Ht
never preferred the great man to him
ot low condition. He was a wise man;
his soul loved God. He was a brother
to the great, and a father to th«
humble; and he never was a mischief-
maker. Such as these shall find grace
in the eyes of the great God. They
shall dwell in the abodes of glory, where
the heavenly life is led. The bodies
which they have abandoned will repose
forever in their tombs, while they will
enjoy the presence of the great God.—
From the Egyptian Book of the E>ead,
written 4000 B. C.
Hardships of War Time.
as
(From The New^ York Post.)
Wall Street men who serve
directors of a great many corpora
tions have a habit,. on returni ng to
their own desk after a board meeting
of unlocking tha top drawer w’hich
contains a tin safety box and tossing
in the $20 gold piece just received, the
usual directors’ fee. This week, how
ever, there was no responding clink.
Even the largest and most influential
corporations which held directors’
meetings were una jle to obtain the
usual supply of $20 gold pieces. Each
director was giveii a $20 bill, and an
emergency currency note at that.
The Panama Exposition at San
Francisco, except for the contributions
that the American* can make to its.
success, is in danger of lacking any ot j
the elements of greatness. Nations at j
war with each other have no leisure j
to spend in celebrating the victories |
of peace. New Orleans received a|
blessing in disguise when Congress
chose another locality for the Exposi
tion.—Va. Pilot.
It Was There.
The trpveler had spent the night at
the station hotel and in the morning,
after a hurried breakfast, found himself
with only five minutes in which ^to
catch his train, he made a helter-skel
ter progress to the platform and then
suddenly remembered that he had left
his dispatch case, 6ontaining valuables,
of\ the dressing table in his bedroom.
After a moment’s hesitation he seized
his baggage from the porter.
“Quick!” he cried “Run up as fast
as ever you c-an to number 69 and
see if I have left a green moro»co
dispatch case on the right-hand cor
ner of the dressing table.”
The youth departed like Ughtning
and the traveler, hanging out «f the
carriage window, watch in hand, timed
the passing montents with augment
ing anxiety. The tvain was on the
move as the porter sprinted along the
platform, empty-handed.
“Yes, sir,” he panted, “that’s right,
sir; you left it on the corner of the
dressing table, sir!”
The cotton mills of England are re
ported to be working only about forty
per cent, of capacity, and vhat almost
entirely on war goods. The American
manufacturer has the opportunity of a
century to capture the textile trade
of the neutral markets of the w'orld
Will he make the most of his oppor
tunity?
Appier Oats for sale at the
Lake Latham Farm
Faper Must be Faid for.
At 3 trial held before Judge Cleaver
in Martinsville, 111., a j^ryhas awarded
E. S. Clayton, editoir of the Planet,
$5 damages in a suit brought to collect
a subscription which the dtfendant
said de didn’t owe- as he had ordered
the paper stopped.
The jury held that as long aS tht
paper was taken out of the office, it
was surely read and that the defend
ant must pay.
Add to your faith virtue; and to vir
tue knowledge; and to knowledge tem
perance; and to temperance patience;
and to patience godliness; and to godli
ness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity.—II Pet»r i,
5 to 7.
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