“And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.”
Volumn 7
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 1dl5
Number 9
Improving Mebaiie.
The ladies of the Civic League i re
having the lots from which the old
I'iist OlTioe, the Lasl»e store was bun
ted, fixed up with a view of planting
tiowerd and otherwise improvinff it.
ivev. W. E. Swam is directinf? the
1 imiscape garderinfj in reference to
ii^ iniprovemenf.
t)l0sing Exercise cl The
iVlebane Graded School
Final Appeal Lo»t.
l.to M, Frank who it is alleged mur-
ileivd the Phaean girl at Atlaiita som®
1 line i>ast and who was found guilty,
tii attovnev afterwards taking his case
M the hi/her courts of appeal, has lost building Surday morning at ]0;30
Chapel hill JNews
The Country Gentleoian, the oldf^st
and most authorative agricultural
The Mebane Graded ScllO')! I journal in the United states, ill ils
will soon close. One of the most! *®sne of April lO carries a photograph
successful terms in its history, wnte-up of Dudley Hall, North
Commencement begins Sunday
when the Rev. Dr. Hawley of
the Presbyterian Church will
preach the commencement ser
mon in the Baptist Church.
The Mebane Graded school will begin
her closing programme next Sunday
morning at eleven o’clock when Dr.
Hawley of the Presbyterian Church
will preach the baccalaureate sermon
in the Baptist Church. The school chil
dren will assemble in the graded school
COL ANDIIEWS
SUDDENir
DIES
,,iir ill his final hearing before the
I (iited States Supreme Court. The
i),ilv proper tribunal that stands be
tween him and the electric chair is the
. eroise of executive clemency. The
Governor must pardon, or commute or
i.f- dies.
Stop The Stealing
A ^ood deal of petty thievy has been
on in this section for some time,
if?, meat houses and barns have
t Ml broken into a ui more or less pro-
1,. ; ry stolen. l-ast Friday night Mr.
 (Smith store was entered from
I he ivar and a nice suit of clothes, a
iiiir pair «.f mens shoe? and some
o’clock and will march to the Baptist
Church in a file of too.
On Tuesday night the students of
the high school department (the com
mencement will be given altogether
this year by high school students) a
a play entitled the “Union Station,”
with two songs. On Wednesday night
j the duclaimers and reciters will contest
i for the gold medals. There will be one
or two songs this night.
Thursday njght Misses Mary Rimmer
Pauline Nicholson and Bonnie Sykes
representatives of the White society,
and Messers Sam Long, Bernard Comp
ton and Currie Mebane of the Calhoun
society will contest for he debater?
medal. Subject Resolve that the United
States Should Prohibit Foreign Immi
gration by Law. The young men will
uphold the affirmative while the young
negative. Miss
Mary Durham
will give a duet on this night. Friday
night April 30th will bring the exer
cises to d close when Dr. S. B. Turrcn
Carolira’s champion corn "rower ot
1914. Editor Harry A. Thompson in a
letter says: “We are very much inter
ested in agricultural developments in
North Carolina and all that pertains to
the progressive ^>Iorth Carolina tarm-
ing. We are particularly interested in
the young folks progress.”
Was taken Ilf Friday
With Chill And Acute
Pneumonia Developed
The story of Dudley Hall and his
corn-growing operations occupies lead
ing positions in the “Farmers of Tom
orrow” department of The Country
Gentleman. The article was submitted
by S. R. Winters of the University.
Dudley Hall tells his own story as to
methods of production in his prize-acre
yield. The article foliows;
“The year 1914 was productive of
remarkable results in boys’ corn-club
work i;i North Carolina State Demon
stration Agent T. E. Brown reports
an increase of 100 per cent in mem
bership over 1913. The 4,540 boys en
rolled produced a total of 27,221,2 bush
els at an average cost of 41.3 cents a
bushel. Valuiag the corn at a dollar a
bushel, the corn-club boys added $33’
A. B. Andreivs, first vice
president of the Southern Railway,
died Saturday night at I^aleigh after a
brief illness at the age af 74 years.
i.iiilei-wear was stolen. t-tal loss about; ladies will defend the
'r The next night an attempt was Lottie Satterfield and
ii.uile to enter the Supply Company
.Srore, bu^ the would be thieves were
1ii!?htened away. We learn a number tine pre.sident of the Greensboro Col-
(if meat houses, and barns have been
tnoken open near Efland and more or
tess food stuff taken. Cant you break
it up.
lege For Women, will deliver the ad
dress. Dr. Turrentine is one of the
most gifted orators in the State.
Miss Mary Durham, Pearl Satterfield
Pauline Nicholson, Bonnie Sykes and
Lottie Satterfield will sing on this
night. It will be born in mind that all
medals and orizes will be presented on
this night. We might say in writing
Colonel Andrews’ end came suddenly
at seventeen minutes after nine o’clock
at bis home. Yesterday he ^^was down
the street, but at night was taken with
a chill, having suffered several days
with a severe cold. The chill developed
into an acute attack ot pneumonia i»>
the right lung and early Saturday
night his condition was regarded as
most serious, his death rapidly tollow-
ing a statement prepared, telling of
the seriousness of his condition. The
funeral will be held in Raleijih, prob-
abably Monday afternoon.
Colonel Andrews wis born in Frank-
1 n county, N.C., July 23, 1841, »nd re
ceived only a common sciK>ol education
He entered the Confederate army as
second lieutenant of the First North
i I'reason Under Another Delay Endanger^ Thei The Belgian Orphans
! Name. Health of Your Family and Among the victims of the war in
i Ofth-llHmen sentenced by Judge' EatS IttO Your Municipal | ^^elgium, the poor orphans of the
Andfsson yesterday at Indinipol-s for ■ l^TldC | soldiers and of the other sub-
election frauds .it Terre Hau'e, «0, . , ^Albert, who already
A town or city is as dirty or ab at-, „ ai. j .....
pleading guilty and Uie others coiivic-^.J^^,tive and clean as its people make | .. ^ thousands, will be the
ted on trial, the Mayor of the city was it. It cannot rise above the level of its j appeal to humane people.
citizens. When traveling, , you realize I fathers died for the liberty of
that a dirty city i.-j made up of dirty | their country, their unfortunate chil-
households, inefficient citizenry. If: dren will have to be tended and train-
, you do not keep your citv clean, you | ed to re people a happier Belgium in
confess to unclean iridividual homes. j the years to come.
Ooiifd of f^ublic Works nnd the Secre*mjin livprli m h's home rp^
. p .u n f ^ ® was put forward to create
tary of the Demonstratie County Com-1 town. It you believe in your town and | , * . ,
years, various other i have testified to this beliej by i„vest-' “ ‘■M-
* ing in property or a business venture, j ^ movement was initiated
increase your property values and j Madam E. Pollet, on November 15.
vour income by demanding a clean j anniversary of the feaatday of King
flag day wan
condemned to imprisonment for six
years, the Circuit Judge-elect and the
Sheriff of Vigo County to five years,
the City Judge, the President of the
005.34 to the crop wealth of the state. Cavalary, wa« wounded twice
“Dudley Hall, of Rowan County, ; ^ ^t tW- close of the
won the state championship prize for | engaged in railroad
the year. He produced 158.5 bushels on j 1869 was superintendent
one acre, at an average cost of 9.5 ^^e Raleigh and Gaston Railway,
cents Dushels. Hall enlisted in boys’ ^vhich afterwards
club work in 1912, and made a yield of
129 bushels on an acre that yenr, the
achievement entitling him to a trip to
tDe National Corn Show, at Columbia,
South Carolina. The improvement of
this boy’s methods and yields has won
for his seed corn the name of Hall’&
Improved Mortgage Lifter. It is so
was converted into
part of the Seaboard. He occupied of
ficial position w»th a number of rail
roads in this state and Georgia, in 1892,
going to the Richmond and Danville
Ruilroal as third vice president, later
mittee to three
office-holders and politicans to two
years and the remainder to penalties
of lesser degree.
Sftvere as these punishments may
seem to partisians accustomed to poli-
lical ..trickery, too often winked at by
complacent courts, when the nature of
the offense is considered it must be
agreed that they are mild Self-govern
rnent is properly regarded as our ii*ost
valued political right Those who
sought tf> deprive us of it by certain
forms of conspiracy would 1 e aocused
town.
Remember that a
ever well organized.
1 Albert, when a Belgian
committee how-: . . r
cannot keep a j ^ some other
town clean. Neither can you depend | towns. The idea was met
upon an efficient Board of Health or | everywhere with great sympathy and
sanitary laws. Ir takes concerted ac* j in the metropolis alone, a sum of
tion. community pride of all c!as.-?es, j about 6,000 was collected. Up to today
in all sections of a town, to bring a- ■ about $25,000 has been remitted,
bout municipal cleanliness. Where: ^
fear ot the law fails to achieve results |
a sincere desire to make the whole
town clean, will do the woi’k.
While you are at it, just remember
of treason and sent to the gallos. In ! that it isn’t enough to be clean your-
A Record For You
Since January 1, 1915, fifty persons
have met violent deaths in New York
time of w^r they would not even have I home. It is the i York city at the hands of individual hs-
. ^ , 'cleanliness of your neighbors that i ^
civil trial. ^ i*. li. sailants. In sixteen
I counts in the ultimate result. The
The Terre Haute offenders sold their
out of these half
flies that breed in your neighbor’s j cases of murder no arrests
country, their State, their county, their j open garbage pail, in the dirty alley , ^^ve been made, in four cases the
city, their party, for money. Some of j oehind the grocery, in the refuse pile | slayers were discharged, while visi-
them were already in office, the oath I ^ >>very stable on the other side of j tation of the death penalty has been
' town, will carry germs of disease into'
of which they violated. Others were
one
t le rare exception even in the
cases
^ your immaculate home. Some
cheap mercenaries, tempted by a pit-; else’s damp cellar or seeping cess-pool j conviction has been secured,
tance to betray their citizenship and i or germ-infested moving picture thea j And the worst of it is that conditions
general agent of the receivers. When
the Southern Bail-
Civic Department
'I’ho Mebane Civic Asso. held its . , , , • . ^
regular meeting at the Graded School I “P Programme that this has been
A :i 'a very successful year. Heretjfore
there has only been eight grades, but
Kldg. Friday afternoon, April 2nd.
The different Committees reported and
the year’s business finished up after
vvfiich came the election of officers for
the present year as follows;
Mrs. J. R. Singleton, President. Mrs
Ak'Farland V-Prest, Miss Mattie E.
■lohnson, Sect’y, Miss Alice Fowler,
I'reas., Mrs. W. S. Harris, Correspond
mg- Secretary,
The new officers have commenced
work with detennined efforts and let
each citizen give his encouragement to
help Mebane to be a cleaner, more
.sanitary and prettier town.
On April 16th a call meeting was
held. A special committee was ap
pointed to plant in grass and flowers
the vacant lot between Clark’s Store
.'ind Terrell’s barber shop. Other com
mittees were appointed to do other
{)lanting as soon as practicable.
The regular committees will be ap
pointed by the President this week
and will appear in next week’s-issue.
the curriculum has been raised to
twelve grades or tour years of high
school work. While there was no one
to graduate this year, yet there will bo
four in the graduating class next year,
and Prof. Deeee tells us that he has
succeeded in getting the school accred
ited with some of the better Colleges,
hence the ones who graduate here next
year, will enter the University ar.d
other Colleges without examination.
Mr. Deese says that the register
t)hows that attendance has held up
considerably better this year than it
, the road became
recognized-by the state department of | made first vice president
agriculture. Following is young Hall’s j has held that position since, being
®tory; president of a number of smaller roads
“The soil I produced my corn on was ’ belonging to the Southern. Hig greatest
of a sandy loam. Ihe acre was in oats j North CvoHna was
previous to planting it in corn. In Aug-1 building of the Western North
ust of 1913 the land was broken and ; Carolina about 1877, It is estimated
subsoiled to the debth of 16 inches. i that his estate will be about a half
Then 1 sowed crimson clover, plowing ' million dollars,
this cover crop jnder j
“ ‘I prepared a seed bed to pisnt the'
corn. vJn first seeding I did liotgetnj
good stand, and the plot was worked t
over and reseeded on June 13. I had
my rows four feet apart and the corn I
was planted twelve inches apart in the 1
drill. A good stand was produced.
“ ‘i worked the corn four times in
all. A windstorm on August third blew
thfi stalks to the ground.
War That Is Guilty
Capt. Herail was prou^^^ twenty-
two jears’ unblemished record in the
French army. His country was at war.
Women had been warned from the
camp. His wife canre, refused to
and another leave, hung upon his neck withentreat-
blowing was prevented. This cut down  deaf to expostulation—one can
I picture the harrowing scenes, increas-
York are only
more or less illustrative of conditions
secona vice president, being finally j themselves. What they are to suffer j ter can stnrt an epidemic which the | in this regard in New
is nothing in comparison with what j sanitation of your own home cannot
1 ovet*come ^
Americans generally would sulfer if | Work is getting popular in | As a general
such methods were to prevail. ; A.merica, because it means getting to i about come to pass that it
'I his was no case for sentimentality j gether in the interest of sanitation and I safer in these United States to take
or for mercy, and Judge Anderson,s ; good health and attractive, livably | a man’s life than it is to rob him of
I city or town. If the German cities,
I lai’ge and small, can abolish flies and
! dirt, and consequently disease, v hy
ed and fearless Magietrate.-New I .j
e.iough. 1
sternness in dealing with it is in keep-
i*'.g with his high reputation as a letrn-
York World.
his money.
Service
I do not call taste a species of judg
ment, although it is actually that part
of judgment whose objects are the
sublime, beautiful and affecting; be
cause this kind of judgment is not the
tissue of reason and comparison
One Rosy Cheek, $4,000
There is a youner women in Columbia
S. C'. who regards her rosy cheeks as
being very valuable. This rectliy would
be true, in a monetary sense, could all
(Sanford Express.)
The highest educational institutions
in this state are more alive today than
ever before to the civic and social ser-
; .. . , -, ,. , . . j vice which they owe the people. Es-
)t the, the epidermis of her tace be charged L . . . y
, like! for at the rate the Columbia Railway i Universitj%
80 mathematical inference, but is per- I Electric Company was forced | which is heading the great onward
ceived instantaneously, and obtrudedi It is well. Higher educa-
that complexion, wh.di was removed j tion has frequently been indicted
upon the mind, like sweet anJ bitter ^hen she was thrown from
upon the scene, from which analogy it street car.
my yield.
“ ‘Five ears of my yield were placed
on exnibitedat the corn Show. It was
the only yellow variety on exhibition j military dishonor, the unhappy man
that was considered of first rank, It, shot her dead. The court-martial that
scored nineteen and a half points. i acquitted him as insane may not have
. ioverstated fact. Man and wife may
has stopped out of his room and that: “Xhe scrt ot intensive farining en-!
one moved away. i gaged in by Dudley Hall and his co-1 overwrought that
Let everybody attend the exercise j-hj, boys’ ard girls’ duds! their tense mind? inflamed each other
and therebj' encourage the students ] jg gej-yjpg ^s a wholesome obiect lesson I and made tradgedy inevitable.
and teachers. ..i i North Carolina farmers. The dem-1 \Ye read of the calmness with which j j • Tevaa a
The admission of 15 and 25 cents w.ll „„,tration work will branch out in ur.- . ... » confirmed eg
be Charged for the play, there will be | elforf, this year eh-! ' | arette smoked 117 years old. Possibly
moving ^ counts—in-effectiveness, for-
i ing in hysteria until, maddened by fear j has borrowed the name of taste. (lood The Supreme Court agreed that this ' traditionalism, irreverence,
taste is the inward light or intelligence ' cuticle was pot wortn all of $10,000,1 even agnosticism. College and univer-
of universal beauty. True taste dis- I suit was entered by | sity men have been the most merciless
covers with delight the image of | tL h^gLourt'^'dW hold, however,
nature, and pursues it with a faithful j that she was due $4,000 lor this loss- world is recognizing that
passion. * the rosiest part of one cheek.
£iesoIutions Over Death
of Mrs. Janies.
, no admission charges for any other ^^d poultry clubs ICapt. Herail’s case shows
I nights. 1 is along with rorn-club work gives I other aspect of the case, that must in
I Marshalls, Miss Lottie Satterfield . i all the warring lands be much the
[chief, Miss Mary Rimmer and ■ ^ same. Many utterly lose self-control;
I Mary Durham. Managers, Currie Meb-j •; , ^ L ^ .
! ane chief, Bernard Compton and Billie j Ed’lCatlOn in the Carter | are not sometimes shaken at hor-
Patton. i Case.
In testimony of our love and appre- j
l iaiion of Mrs. R. V. James, whose |
• teath occured at the home of her ixhe Fellow Who Felt It
• laughter, Mrs. L. S. Straughan March I
1 >, 19L5, we the members of the | “There seems to be a lot of fu n^ in
Women’s Missionery Society, offer the i the situation cf a man wanting a drink
following resolutions: 1 real badly. Don t you believe it. not
llesolved 1st. That our Society has j speaking of the desert ^tory, when the
one of its most honored and faith* j pitiless sun blazes down and the suf-
iiil members. ! ferer goes off his head through anguish
Kesolved 2nd. That her loyalty and and sees a mirage of soda water foun-
So far as we can see from where we
interest in the work of the society,
> ^ en in her last years of suffering,
were beautiful and will be an example
lo us through the years.
tains coming down
skates.
the line on roller
rors never witnes.^ed unto now. Men
are crazed in smashed fortresses, in
i savage assaults, in long vigil and phy-
education in the "carttr-AbernVthy' «hy not by menial
controversy, as we see the case a man i strain and sorrow?
with plenty of money and a friend in ! War strews Europe with corpses,
the prosecuting attorney,s office com-I ^vith men mained almost past the wish
educational world
I not the aristocracy of intellect so much
j as the democracy of culture must pre-
A news item chronicles the death the' I he Good Work Of This uni\er-
I sity is its civic and social service render
I ed. and society at large is demanding
No other people have done so much | that the college take its active part lit
i for humanity since this war began
the American people have done. It
not extravag'ant to say that in all Ms- most far-reaching and uplifting soci-
tory there is no other such record of alogical movements in the state hava
, T o*. ! generaus and disinterested service. ! been headed, and largely directed by
now known as the Lone Star C^jmmon- j o j j
1 We have fed the starving, we have) men educated at the University of
he might have lived to reach a ripe j
old age had he never contracted the
smoking habit and had he had the
gumption, upon arriving at the age of
discretion, to move out of the territory
as! human affairs. Hence it has coma
is I about in recent years that some of th«
wealth.
j clothed the naked, we have bound up I North Carolina. This is a very hopeful
' the wounds of the injur d and carried | sign and is fraught with great possi-
! them literally from the jaws of death. | bilities.
mitted a careless murder by running I
over some one with his machine. All
went well as long as the prosecuting
attorney was allowed to make continu
ances ot the case, and no doubt visions
of a final “nolle prossa” loomed up
before the offender and his prosecuting
to livf, with outrage and starvation.
It is no light count in the indictment
that its inversion of every instinct of
decent humanity proves often too
much for the reason to endure. War
itself is the guilty one.—New York.
Wonder Children
j Millions of dollars uf An'erican money ,
I have been poured out to relieve suffer- !
! ing and distress. Ameiican sergeons! . ^ ,
. A. twelve-year-K)ld girl who speaks
receiving as to his candidacy for the! eight languages, knows a lot of Cic-
, . t . _. American generosity are everywhere | ero and Sallust in the original, compos-
“Nor do I talk of the shipwreck in | friend. Judge Carter, being an upright
the tropics, of days in an open boat, | judge, friend of law and order because } j
KesolverSrdV T^^^^^ empty water casks and the same , a disturbing element, so every effort PnrtiinP o-iv*.n
Iiiiss her. we would not call her back old sun shining down until the deliri- must be made to.down his moral chaj- IK TOnune JflVen
" u . . . . . To Charity.
iVij we feel that after a long life of
> 'inseoration she has gone to receive
lit^f reward.
Ifeaoived 4th. That we extend to
lif"i family our waimest sympathy.
ous gent plunges into the mocking
salititude of the briny and unthirst-
quenching ocean. It is not of th*se
occasions that I now converse.
I “But the thirst I am speaking of is
acter and personal integrity to save
this offender from the law and this
prosecuting attorney from the odium | The will of the late Mrs. John D.
of his acts. There is too much of this Rockefeller, filed today, leaves about
! thing. It is frequently overlooked be-j articles of jew-
Resolved 5th That these resolutions 1 the unutterable longing that comes : cause of the local popularity and po-
rtrder for publication.
Mrs. W. S. Crawford
Miss Mattie E. Johnson
Committee.
Seed Corn For Sale
recorded in our minutes and a copy | from lack of Driak. I lefer to the
to the family, also that copy be 1 that makes you see panoramas of ginks
-•■t to The local paper and to Biblical | with po'ka-dot whiskers hanging you
I market baskets filled clear over the
! handles with twenty-dollar bills and
! telling you to keep the change; the
1 brand of liquor that causes the wierd
' harmony of a jewsharp to sound like
I unto Sousa’s band playing “Peg 0’ My
Heart' with the soft pedal on. That, I
my friend, is what I term a Drink.-Ex. |
1 ;un offering for sale a few bushels j — j
'•! the he.st prolific seed corn in the j
t »ie. In my crop 150 barrels wasj^Teekly ^Veather Forecast
' ii^ed in 1914 on eleven acres of land | pOF Farmers.
Wf found only three bushels of de-1 , . . j
j A new weekly weather forecast de-
I signed especially to aid farmers in
Phone 96 j planning their farm operations and
5 iko Kasham. j shippers of perishable products to
"■■g 1 handle their goods with reference to
,. . . ! expected weather conditions, will be
' aptain Hobson s announcement that! ^ tt -i. ^
. .. . r . .J I inaugurated by the United States
will be a canidate for the Presidency 1 * *i oo
i Wpather Bureau on April 20 and con-
* IHU; w’ill no doubt be received with .
, , . . T I tinued during the crop season.
''•-liiiKs of great relief in Japan.
- 1.U a? ^ elry to friends and relatives and be-
litical pull of the offender, inciting i
others to equal carelessness. There is | iueaths the rest of her estate, which
no wonder that an unreasonable pre
judice is often shown against automo'
biles and their owners as long as some
of those owners are allowed to override
I the rights of the public. It is to be
hoped that the Carter case will have
a good result.—Lincoln Times.
is estimated in all at about $2,000,000,
to charitable institutions.
The charitable bequests are to be
distributed at the discretion of her ex
ecutors, who are her husband, her son,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and her
daughter, Mrs. E. Parmalee Prentice.
!Not a Walking Match
We have no doubt that Lieutenant
Governor Daughtridge has cause to
feel encouraged over the reports he
is
gubernatorial nomination,but he should
not lay too much importance to the re«
presentations of some friends that he
“is going to win in a walk,” That is
but an expression of speech and is not f
iheant to be taken literally. Mr.
Daughtridge is destined to make a fine ■
I
run—no one named for the place has a 1
better chance. The Observer helie\es
Iii.uii»pf. we nave no in-' .. .. ,,
—but no candidate is going to win in a j ^ ^ . | of juvenile precocity. More
_ terestsof our own to serve except such ; wonder grows that the
engaged in desperate battles to save
the lives that war has sought to de
stroy. We have carried the heavy
burden of our own distress while ex
es French verses and Suffragist novel:
and teaches classes in Esperanto is
prodigy whose mental attainment will
excite the customary interest and awe.
And being also a p3rfectiy normal tom-
j erting unprecedented efforts to lighten; boy sort of girl, who swims, rows,
the burden of others’ distress, and i plays, boxes, plays baseball, drives an
have asked no thanks.
auto and lides a horse, besides playint;
Our friendly services are still at the the piano and the violin, she deserves
disposal of Europe. We have no ;„J t®
walk. The man who
Democratic nomination
will have to run for it.
captures the
and run fast, i •
interests as are served by the lehabili* 1 can carry a little Miss
i tation of civilization. We want noth- I ville Stoner knows.
and more
small head
Winifred Sark-
It is going to be far removed from the ;
ing from any of the belligerents except I But what then? Is it supposable that
friendship and good will, W'e want
other little girls can be made to be-
class of a walking match, and will be , " '. i 7 1 come fquallj learned and accomplish in
a test of both limbs and wind -Char- ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 infancy if only their mothers would
lotte Observer.
corn.
Write or see.
J. G. Bridshaw
Billie Sunday tells the people of! ^
Patterson that “hell will be for rent j
by July 1st.” while Colonel George j A New York report sava the nations
Marcellus Bailey insists that Houston
is growing with the rapidity of a mush | Uni«d States. May we be per-
room and flourishing a- the green bay “‘t®*
tree. Reconcile the two statements, |'•'“"‘V. should begin at home.,
if you care We pass. j
j We are inclined to look upon bad
the Bible! temper as a very harmless weakness,
but the Bible again and again condems
it as one of the most destructive ele
ments in human nature.—Henry Drum
mond.
A Great Organization.
David, as shown to us
s ory, is as ardent to celebrate his
God in his character of poet as to serve
Him as warrior, or to obey Rim as
King.—Guizot.
no spheres o^ iniluenco to conserve or t train them systematically as the Stcner
to extend. —New York World. * girl’s mother did, and the manner of
which she is ready to impart to the
public? Or does it just happen that a
prodigy of this kind is born into the
world from time to time regardless of
rule just to show what Nature can do
statement I she tries?~N. Y. World.
Says the New York Sun, “There has
not recently proceeded from any em-
Imssy or legation at Washington any
written document or oral
The B'iraca-Philathea State Conven
tion, booked for Raleigh, April 22-25,
is expected to be one of the greatest i
meetings in the history of that organi- offensive in subsUnce, more arro j
zation, and the attendance is not likely ‘ gant in tone or better calculated to' .
to be cut down by reason that for the ; alienate American friendship than the } The women of Illinois do not appear
first time the delegates will pay their : memorandum in criticism of American j to be living e\en close to the ideal set
own way. This is the first religious j policy delivered to our state department | they were given the
pay^plan.'^'Dr" GeW'^E.^''Dennis ^of , newspapers by the German | ballot. It is saiJ that in the prohibition
Charlotte is president of organization. 1 constitutes, in effect j sections ef HIi-
This movement is interdenomin»>tional I lecture to the American government ] Tuesday at least half of the wom-
and has acored a remarkable growth in' on the American government’s duty, ! liquor. The men did better
North Carolina. Including the junior | pronounced in a voice of well nigh intol I ^ because the liquor
oraers, it now has over 1,800 classes in ! j *u u ,
the state.-Charlotte ObUrver. . , «able stridency, and this by a person beaten in nearly every
j without license to chide or dictate.” .county.—Winston Journal,