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And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be SinJ
Vol. 5
MEBANE, N.C., TJiURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10 1914
No 26
A fart of The Highway
The county commissioners of Ala
mance have ordered the construction
1,1 the road from Mebane west to
lUuv RiY«*i’- ^
v.,'h\ and a part of the highway west.
^;omething long: needed.
A Fine Yield
Mr. rharlea Cates, the pickle man,
ivports to u«» a splendid yield of cu-
ramber?. They were raised by Mr.
E. () Ray on one acre on his farm.
mm DEAD
Well Known Educator and
Author Passes Awav
The Raleigh Times says:
Dr. Henry Jerome Stocknrd, pro
fessor of En^^lish in Peace Institute,
I pnet, author and lovable man, died
I at his home at 11:30 Saturday on Boun-
I d.iry street, after an iUness of ex-
Ihe hind was first in tobacco | t,wo weeks. The end came
hnt f;iilinK to get a good stand Mr. ! loved ones about him.
- , 1 4- 1 -4- ■ ! i^tockard was born in Alamance
Ray plowed it up and planted it m
Mr. Ray sold otf this one
and was
(ucumbers.
a.'ie $130.00 for cucumbers to Mr.
(.'ates. and an other rain in August
would have enabled him to near doub
led hifl yield.
A chans2:e Coming
To us ir Iwas really gratifying news
j'uejidav morning to learn that Germans
aimy had been checked before Paris.
We hope that this seeming small ad
vantage will be pushed until the in
vaders are driven out of Franco. The
intorn.ation we have gotten leads us
to believe that this is a war of invas-
h.!i which has been conducted in a
way decidedly brutal and barbarious
The author or philosopher who seeks
to find an excuse for Germans part
will realize fhat thinking people have
no confidence in his opinion
Health iNotes
Now is the time to clean up.
There is fever and death in the Jand.
their
Let no one be slack or neglect
duty of cleaning up.
There has been sickness and deaths
that might have been avoided, had
each and c ery one done their full
duty. Did you do yours?
One fair young girl lies struggling
all this hot weather with fever, had
the ditches and wells been looked
after, she might have been saved all
this suffering, and her parents the
expense. Which is the cheapest
health or fever.
I'an’f we all clean up. Friend lend
a hand, see that your own back
are clean, not some other men lots but
year own. House wives look at your
hack yards and clean them up every
week. Use plenty of lime.
Now one more word and I say this to
every man in Mebane, and I say it
earnestly, clean up your back lots and
help the children to live.
Civic League.
Or. Stockard was born in
j county, SepU'mber 15, 185S,
j therefore 50 years okl.
I Dr. Stockard’s last public appear
ance and his last verse was on the
occasion of the dedication of the
Horne monument to the Women of
the Confederacy. The poem he read
that day, Juno 10, bi’eathed his spirit;
his other poems breathed his American
patriotism. As author and writer of
poetiy. Dr. Stockard attained national
fame' No other man has written the
sonnet, the most difficult of English
verse, so Vv’cll as he in his day.
Although author of “A Study of
Southerii Poetry,” w!iich is used as a
textbook in mary colleges, his fame
will doubtless rest on his sonnets.
BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Of Christian parentage and himself
a devoted Presbyterian, his faith in
Go.l was expressed in these words:
“The hand that guides the star
In its lar center and around it rolls
Through space its world with never
halt nor jar
No less my st*-p controls.”
Riddled by Fire of the
English.
The following atory of the fighting
near Mons was told to an Express
reporter by one of the British wounded:
“We had left the shelter of a little
forest' and opened out, supported by
the North Country regiment. Our col
onel warned us that the German in
fantry was advancing.
“We had hardly extended ourselves
along the giass when patches of blue
and gre&n were seen on the sky line,
and soon battalions of the enemy were
made out following each other at reg-
ular intervals.
“Our batteries let rip and gouged
holes through them. Then the order
was given to fix bayonets. Before the
enemy arrived the artillery fire had
increased until it was an inferno. Ger~|^^Greensboro News,
man aviators were directing their guns.
The German calvary got around behind
us and charged right up to the guns.
Very few of the Germans escaped,
however, for whole platoons rushed to
the rescue, emptying their magazines
as they ran.
“A moment later the Germans were
on us from the front. We let them
come until their breast rose above the
I neighboring hillock and then decimated
j them. They fell back in confusion and
! droped to the ground.
I “Another line came, which we
J treated the same way. Scores of nia-
j chine guns were turned on us, hov?ever,
1 and we were ordered to prepare to
j charge.
j “On the word of command we
j sprang from the ground as one man
j and with yell after yell charged the
I advancing Prussians. As we neared
j their ranks we fired indiscriminately
I and only a few remained to cross
! bayonets with ws. The remainder
rushed off and were shot in the back
as they went. They left more than
E
EDRDPE
One Month of War
One month ago to-day the Kaiser de
clared war against Russia and began
the movement fo^ the invasion of
Prance.
It was believed by the German War
Office that Russia would require at
The war in Europe has demonstrated ,
... A. ^®ast thirty days to mobilize and make
A Greater Prosperity
forcibly to Americans at least how de-
iSendent this free country is on Europe,
said a local business man last week.
The condition that business and industry
generally showed upon the declaration
^of war was an evidence to him that the
United States has a great deal to do to
become elf-dependent along many lines.
Others commenting at various times
have observed also on this situation, and
one person is reported to have said that
if the New York stock exchange had
remained open much longer the country
would have been indeed in a queer pre
dicament. This was in view of the
possible throwing of European securities
on the exchange, taking up a vast
amount of gold and causing a tie-up in
financinl channels more than was caused
As To The Fair
The following letter was rcceiyed by
Mr. White.
Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 4, 1914.
Mr. W. E. White,
Mebane, N. C.
My dear Sir:-
“ Wars may come and wprs may ffo .
, , ,, ' o*. half their regiment on the fieldin killed
but the great State Fair goe» on for-: , , f,,
,, ,, i. J and wounded.
ever. By earnest and active cooper
ation of the friends of the fair with its '
excutive officers, the fair this fall can j
be made a record breaker. You have j
influence in your community and we i
respectfully beg that you will interest j
yourself in behalf of the success of the i *
fair by urging such of your neigh :>ors
and friends as may have field crops,
lots I manufactured products, live stock, and
■ ' the ladies who are interested in fancy |
have ottered $250 reward for news of
The Potash Outlook.
It transpires that, after all, the
German potash mines have not been
closed. The American agent for the
German potash syndicate is located
in New York and he tells the Journal
of Commerce that the works found it
necessary to reduce the force one-fourth
by reason of the difficulty in making
export shipments, but otherwise they i would be confined to
A Man Gone Wrong.
are running as if the war had not been
in progress. In a general way, the
of this syndicate says as soon as
ti^ war is over the syndicate will be
£^le to immediately forward very large
Quantities to the United States, provi
ding sufficient steamer room can be se
cured. Newspaper statements to the
effect that none of the potash minc3
is operating have no basis in fact.
Under the present deplorable condi
tions, it is probably true that some
of the mines are partially closed, but
statements claiming that the minibg
of potash has entirely coased are a
fabrication. Meanwhile, the
users of potash in the United States
will make shift, in some sort of way.—
Charlotte Observer.
The new treaty of London can have
no other meaning than that all the-re
sources of men and money of the
greatest empire ever known have been
pnlisted for the war and are to be
thrown into the balance. It will take
time to make them available, but with
a resolute spirit behind them it is
certain that eventually they will bear
heavily upon their adversaries. The
prospect is solemn enough to impress
even those who are at peace, for it
foreshadows a strain upon civilization
such as was never before known. It
is to be a contest not so much between
peoples and empires as between sys
tems. It is British self-government,
British sea power, British commerca
and British wealth, world-wide in their
extent, in a Iffe-and-doath struggle
with consolidated German autocracy
and militarism, which for forty years
have burdened mankind with arma-
menta, and menaced it with
N. Y. World.
becoming anxious. They
work, handicraft and art, to send ex- i *^50 reward for news of
hibits to the State Fair Oct 19.24. j have spread h,s picture and
c, , 4.U • IT „,;ii ! description broadcast over the country’.
Send me their names and I will mail i ” _ ^ .....
to them premium lists immediately
which gives all necessary information
in regard to exhibits. i , mi. i. •
u , ory shape. There are certain accounts
members of the HiXecutive. / ^ ^ „ rn-
of the stae which nobody but Mr. Klingman
Their anxiety is the sharper on ac
count of the fact that the books of the
Greensboro office are not in satisfact-
We have
Committee in every part
aiid we are writing to each one (about
ninety in numbv^r) urging their cooper
ation and if they will devote a little
time towards stirring up interest in
the State Fair, in their respective
communities it will help the manage
ment a great deal. We know this
Committee is composed of men of
affairs and influence and they can help
us a great deal and we think they are
patriotic enough to do so.
We are happy to report that
work in the office is active a large j
number of entries have alreadj*^ been
made in the various departments.
is thoroughly acquainted and the Case
people would like to have them ex
plained. As the books stand now it
is said that there is an apparent short
age of $30,000 However, the officers
of the law say that no attempt has
been made to set their machinery in
motion.—Greensboro News.
INo Children Under Six
Years ot Age Can Attend
School.
The Board of trustees requested me
not to allow any child to attend school
who has not attained the age
years.
Parents will please take notice
this action.
Fred Deese, Supt. School.
the outlook seems to be excellent for
another record breaker.
“DeLloyd Thompson” one of the
two American avaitors who loops the
loop 2000 feet in the air and flyes up
side down has been secured as a free
attraction. The great fireworks spec
tacle “Panama in peace an war,” has
been secured for four nights of the
fair, and various other attractions have
been booked giving us the strongest
program we have ever had on the
! amusement side, and we hope to make
the economic end of the fair still greater
and we want your assistance which we
war.—I shall expect.
With best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Jos. E. Pogue Secy. N. C. State Fair.
of six
of
It is always safe to learn, even from
our enemies; seldom safe to venture
to instruct, even our friends.—Colton.
Our Greatest Danger
„ „ , .Largest Animal on Earth.
O. C. Klingman, general manager
for North Carolina of the J. 1 Case; Sparks’ World Famous Shows are
Threshirg Machine company, is miss- ! billed to exhibit at Greensboro Thurs-
ing. His whereabouts have not been \ day Sept. 17 and from the newspaper
known for some weeks now, and the reports preceding them their exhibition
will be worth going many miles to
witness.
Among the many features the show
carries is what is claimed to be the
largest land animal on earth- It is
an elephant said to be three inches
taller than Jumbo and a half ton
heavier.
Some idea of her immense size can
be obtained when you consider that
she is 11 feet, 7 inches tali and weighs
over 5 tons. In other words she weighs
as much as 10 ordinary horses.
Another extraordinary feature with
the show is Capt. Wesley’s troupe of
educated Seals and Sea Lions. These
interesting sea animals perform the
most seemingly impossible feats; bal
ancing cnairs, umbrellas and whirling
brands of fire while climbing ladders,
walking tight ropes and riding the
backs of galloping horses. This feat
ure baffles description and must be
seen to be appreciated.
Many other wonderful things are to
be seen with this mammoth show, and
the main performance beneath the big
tents will present a number of the
most marvelous foreign acts of the
century.
The menagerie of wild animals car
ried with the show is complete in every
detail, and contains rare and curious
specimens of the earth’s most int-erest-
ing and curious animals.
A mile long street parade of dazz
ling splendor, beautiful women, and
handsome horses, inte?5pspersed with
three brass bands and a steam caliope
will traverse the streets shortly be
fore noon, and thi.9 feature alone will
be worth going many miles to see.
Don’t forget the date and the place
of exhibition Greensboro Thursday
September 17.
St. Petersburg Now Called
the! Petrograd.
St. Petersburg is no more. An
i imperial decree signed last week makes
it known that in the future thetRussian
capital is to be called Petrograd.
This change has been in the air for
! some time The German-sounding
name of the city had long been a
strange anomaly and with the outbreak
of the war there was a widespread
demand that it should be entered.
Among the Slav alternatives proposed
were “Petrogored, ” “Petrovsk,”
“Petroff" and “Sviato Petrovak.”
Petrograd is by no means novel in
its use. There was a time when old-
fashioned people pretty generally spoke
of “Petrograd” and not of “Peters
burg. ’ ’ The name now officialy adopted
for the capital also is applied to it in
the works of Pushkin Lermontoff,
Alexi Tolstoy and Nekrasoff.
Our greatest danger lies in our
Phillipine possessions. They wilj^
never be of any service to our govern
mcnt but will be a source of constant
peril and trouble. Mr Wilson would
do us a fine service if he would give
Body Held Six Months*
But Never Identified
A negro who dropped dead oarly last
March in Lynchburg, Va., and who
was never identified, though thousands
called to identify, has just been buried
them away to somebody. Charity and ^ local undertaker, to demon-
Children,
The rose and thorn, th* treasure and
dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle in
to one. — Saadi.
'•trate that embalming is not a lost art,
prepared the body and stood the man
up in one of his rooms. There the
negro stood nearly six months similar
in appearance to what he was when he
propped dead.
List of Letters
Advertised for week ending Sept. 5
1914.
1 Letter for Miss Belwel Hicks
1 Letter for Miss Mattie Cockman
1 Letter for Mr. John T. Morton
1 Letter for Mr, Whitt (The barber)
1 Letter for Mr, W. L. Jeffries
1 Letter for Mrs. Roxie Vaughn
These letters if not called for will be
sent to Dead Letter Office Sept, 191914.
Respectfully,
J. T. Dick, P. Mr? Mebane, N. C.
ready for war. The plan of the Ger
man General Staff was to crush Franco
at once bv force of numbers and sup
erior preparedness. Austria in the
mean time would be able to hold back
Russia, and with France prostrated the
Kaiser’s victorious legions would swing
swiftly eastward to deal with the slow-
going Russians as they had dealt with !
the French.
To this end only five army corps
left to defend Germany’s easteijn pro
vinces. The main army was concen
trated in the west, ready to leap a-
cross the French frontier.
It was an admirable plan on paper,
but Germany has not been able to
carry it out in spite of the wonderful
work of the Ger.nan. troops. The mar
vellous precision of the German fight-1
ting machine has been largely neutra- j
lized by the amazing bungling of the )
J
German diplomatic machine.
When the Kaiser went lightly into
war, Berlin expected that hostilities
France, Russia
and Servia on the one side and Ger
many, Austria and Italy on the other
The German Foreign Office seems to
have been so certain of Italy that
neitl>er Berlin nor Vienna took the
trouble to consult Rome or even to
notify Rome of the prospective de
claration of war. Italy’s response was
a formal notification that the Triple
Alliance was for defensive purposes;
that this an offensive war, and that
she would remain neutral.
This was a hard blow in more ways
than one, for Italv had been counted
OM to keep at least five. French hrrny
corps in check along France’s south
eastern frontier.
Berlin likewise assumed that Bel
gium would make only a formal protest
against the inyaFion of her neutrality
and ttiat Belgian territory would furn
ish an uninterrupted route into North
eastern France. More astonishing
still, the German Foreign Office, de
spite Sir Edward Grey’s warning, be
lieved that Great Britian would re
main neutral if Belgium waa invaded.
Possibly the Kaiser deceived himself
into thinking that conditions in Ireland
would restrain the British Government
and that Germany’s cynical proposals
in regard to French territory offered
sufficient inducement to Great Britian
to permit Belgium to be overrun.
Whatever Berlin thought the German
diplomancy of this war has been a
series of almost unbelievable blunders.
Instead of dealing with France and
Russia, Germany is now at war with
Great Britain, France, Russia, Bel
gium, Japan, Servia and Montenegro,
with strong possibilities that Italy will
cast her lot with the British and
French. France is not crushed. On
the contrary, no decisive battle has
yet been fought, notwithstanding the
plunging German advance and the
terrible loss in life on both sides,
troops swarm over East Prussia, they
have reached Vistula, and the Kaiser
has been -.compelled to weaken his
armies in the west to defend his own
capital. In fact, the two spectacular
features of the war have been the
rapidity of the Russian advance and
splendid heroism of the the Belgians in
defense of their soil. Austria has
been faced to abandon the war against
Servii which sei'ved as the original
pretext for this crime against civili
zation. Great Britian has again prov
ed her command of the sea, and all
the resources of the British Empire,
together with all the resources of the
French Republic and the Russian Em
pire, have been thrown into the bal-
anoe against Germany and Austria.
Before Bismarck went to war with
Austria in 1866 he was careful to is
olate Austria diplomatically in order
that Prussia might be sure of a free
hand. In 1370 he did the same with
France. But in 1914 Berlin diplomacy
has succeeded inisolating Germany and
Aurtria and leaving them friendless.
A month ago to-day the Kaiser con-
fidentlj' expected a short, quick, de
cisive war. To-day it is apparent that
the conflict has only begun,—^New
York W^orld.
RIOT MbTIRMAN
VESSEL WAS SERIOUS
Three of the Bluecher’s
Crew and Fifty of Her
Eight Hundred Passen
gers Were Slain.
A riot aboard the German steamer
Bluecher at anchor in the harbor of
Pernambuco Brazil, in which three of
the Blueeher’.s crew and 50 of her 800
steerage passengers were killed, waa
described by passengers aboard the
Brazilian ste? mer Sao Paulo upon her
arrival here from Brazilian points
when she sailed at the coirmencem»nt
of the Uuropean war.
The Bluecher was bou.id from Buenos
Aires for Hamburg under the German
flag, but upon learning that war had
been declared between Germany and
England, she put back to Pernambuco.
She bad aboard, the Sao Paulo’s pas
sengers asserted, several million dollars
for London and 800 Spaniards and Por
tuguese in the steerage.
When Pernambuco was reached the
steerrge passengers insisted that the
ship proceed to her destination and upon
the refusal of the Bluecher’s officers to
do so, a riot started. The bodies of the
steerage passengert who were killed
were thrown overboard, according to
the Sao Paulo’s passengers.
The Blight of Dynastic
Ambition.
(New London Day.)
Millions of words have been printed
by the newspapers of this country as
to the underlying causes of the Euro
pean war, some of the comment going
no deeper than the assassination of
the Archduke Ferdirand and graduat
ing from that lo the Slavic and Teu
tonic aspirations toward the control of
the Black Sea and the key to India.
For a thousand years the houss of
Hohenzollern has been growing in
pov/er, starting in the obscure period
of the middle ages as one of the lines
of feudal lords whiclj ruled Europe by
the law of might"^ alone. For eigkt
hundred years the house of Hapsburg
has been growing in importance as one
of the little group of hereditary rulers
of men. There are ^other European
families which have been more or lesi
successful in slighter degree in main
taining the steady growth of their
prestige and influence in the affair.s ot
the wo>rld. It is perhaps not unnatur
al that the members of these families
should gradually have come to believe
that dynastic aggrandizement was the
first and all important considerations;
to feel that the one really great and
immutable purpose of existence was
the enhancement ot the glory of th«
particular family to which each be
longs. The dynasty itself is the thing
on which hangs the thought, the en
deavor and the ambition of the hered
itary rules whose ancestral line reaches
back into antiquity. The influence *f
heredity, of education and environ
ment all tend to the promotion of this
state of mind. The reigning represen
tative of a great European royal house
who failb to continue his family’s rec
ord for increased power and enlarge
ment of territory feels that he has
been an utter failure and is UMWorthy
of his descent.
Depression Felt Keenly
(Charity and Children.)
Cotton is king. Here in Thomasville
where never a bale is put on the mar
ket, our manufacturers are realizing
keenly the depression occassioned by
the uncertainty of prices that wiH ob
tain for the fleecy staple. Our chairs
and furniture are sold in the cotton
belt and not in the cold North where
cotton is not grown. Grain a;nd to
bacco and fruit are important in their
places but cotton is l^ng!
Notice to Tax Payers
All deliquent tax payers of town •€
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 ^aid
•by that date.
W. S. Crawford, Mayor
W. C. Clark, CoWeeto^p