*‘And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.”
VOLUMN 7
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 9 1915
NUMBER 26
Mr. Sam Scott left Monday on
•t business trip.
Mr. Ed Turner was a business
visiior in Kaleigh Monday.
Mr. Alien Mebane is visiting
at the home of Mrs. Mary Scott.
Miss Aiiie Montague of Ral
eigh is visiting Mrs., J. M.
Thompson,
Mrs. VV. T. Hunt and children
(,f Apex are visiting her parents
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Bright.
Mrs. Eugene Rollens of Hen-
(It-rson who have been visiting
her sister. Mrs. J. T, Dick left
f.ir VVhitsett Monday to visit her
iiiotlier, Mrs. Cora Dick.
Mrs. Jack Scott of Graham
?p»-iit part of this week with her
daughter, Mrs. J. M. Thomp-
Messers John Isley and Will
Fiipgs left Tuesday for Char-
Intie to attend the Jr. O. U.A.M,
State meeting.
Kev. Clemmons of Morrisville
preached at the Barracks Sun
day- afternoon.
Dr. and Mrs. Crawford and
d:iiiMliter returned Monday from
a 1 extended visit to relatives in
».;reensboro.
Miss Jennie W1 ite returned
Monday from a ten days stay at
Mt|Vernon Springs.
Misses Blanche and Rebecca
Scott of Graham are visiting
their sister Mrs. J. M. Thomp
son.
The Representative of Schloss
Bros, Co. of Baltimore will be
at H. E. Wilkinson’s store Mon
day Augusc 23. Come in and
look over his samples.
Mr. F. Dillard was a business
visitor in Burlington Tuesday.
Mrs. E. C. Land of Greensboro
visited Mrs. J. M. Thompson
Monday.
Miss Ruth Poteat is visiting
Mrs. Mary Scott.
Miss Sallie Davis ot Danville
IS visiting her sister, Miss Virgie
Davis.
Miss Lettie Smith of High
Point spent Monday in Mebane
with friends.
Miss Frances Moore of Gra
ham has been visitn»g her aunt
Mrs. A. Mebane
Just for wholesome goodness
>ake try Stones “Golden Sun
beam” cake. Beats those mother
lised to make. lOcts at your
grocers Satterfields.
Mrs. Dickson of Durham who
lias been visiting her son iVir.
Dickson returned home Monday
evening.
Mrs. Jobn Ross leaves this
week for Charlotte to visit her
husband’s relatives.
Birthciciy Party
Master Robert Wilkinson entertain
ed a number of boys at his birthdny
party last Friday Aug. 13 at his home
on main St. from 4 to 6 o’clock.
Games of base ball, tennis and manv
other kinds were played. Those pre
sent were William, Harry and Edgar
Farrell, Murray Vincent, Kalph Dil
lard, Bernice and Homer Ficch, G.
White, Paul Fowler, Haflie Jobe, Dur
ant Newman, Robert and Wilbur Wil-
kerson. He served watermelon ice
cream and cake.
Woodlawn Picnic
The Cross Roads and Woodlawn ^un- t
day schools gave their ann.ual picnic
in the beautiful grove at Ur. W. N.
Tates home last Thursday Aug 12.
This is the third time Dr. and Mrs,
Tate have given us the pleasure and
this seemed to be tho best day of all.
No special program was planned to
make the day enjoyable, but it was
carried out in the “good old fashioned
way” The morning hours were spent
in games by the people while the older
ones watched them and enjoyed their
fun. The dinner was a very important
part of the day, the long table which
had been previously prepared was
loaded from end to end with the very
best thi.igp to eat. In addition to
this watermelons, lemonade, apples,
peaches and grapes were served in
abundance. In the afternoon the
young people enjoyed a game of Base
ball while the older ones enjoyed a
short address by Mr. C. M. Cates
The day was ended by a friendly
handshake . tliat showed that
all enjoyed it to the utmost Dr.
and Mrs, Tate did every thing possible
for the enjoyment of all, Mr. Tinum
did all he could to please the ladies,
Mr. Puryear added much to the cojp-
fort of all by furnishing chair.
isixty L'nuusand Armenian
Refugees Arrive at Igdii*
Paiiamu-California Ex
position.
San I lego, Aug. — With a heavy in
flux at tne gates and liberal patronage
on the Isthmus the San Diego Kxpoai-
iJght at Last
Tilfis Trans- Caucasir, via Petrograd
and Londo'i.— The Armenian bishop
has received information that 60,000
Armenian refugees have arrived at show that the Exposition vi^s
Igdir, the principal outlet of the vilayet
of Van. It is expected fully 100,000 - This is by far the biggest monthly at-
^ , 3 I tendance since the Elxposition opened
Will be driven from Van alone and i _ , u u
IJanuary I. With such heavy atten-
anothor exodus of Christians from j and liberal spending of money the
persia is feared. I Exposition was able at the end of July
Kurds are reported to have massacred j to have a big balance on the proiit
Armenians in the yilayot of , side of the ledger. Including July 1,-
264,561 people have visited the Exposi-
New York World. i
The situation in Mexico seems more |
hopeful than at any time since Presi- j
dent Wilson took Mr. Bryan’s foolish;
advice ard withdrew the United State |
tion has just enjoyed another- profitable ! Vera Cruz, j —
month for attendance figaies for July ■ country should either have kept ■ ^*lant Specialist
visited ; jjyj. Mexico or, having gone there,
by 300,980 persons during the month. [ should have stayed there until a
EUGENICS URGED BY MILLIONS OF GOLD.
I Nineteen Million Dollars
!In One Truck Load From
England.
10,000 Armenians in
Bitlis throwing the bobies cf the vic
tims into the Tigris and Euphrates.
'Ihe war on this front has reached a
degree of intensity hitherto unknown
tion.
July’s average daily attendance was
9,707-a tnuch higher dailjp, average than
any previous month. The total for
, ... , July exceeds that recorded in January
ex«,pt ,n the pcnod just precodinK the' he previous hijh month, by just 120,-
Russian viciory at Sary-Kamysh. j 710. This excess is almost equal to
the total attendance of February.
Birthday Party
While the month wa.*! featured by
several events which drew large crowds
Mr;^ H. E. Wilkinson entertained a | the attendarce for the days immediat-
njnilx r of little folks Wednesday Aug.' ’ ely following the celebration days was
11th in honor of her little daughter j heavy, thus indicating to Exposition |
respo'^sible government was establish
ed. Unfortunately, it did neither.
Mr. Br>an succeeded in imposing his
theories upon the Administration, and
things have been going from bad to
worse ever since.
There are best reasons for believing
that a peaceful solution of the Mex
ican problem has been made possible
through Secretary Lansing’s conference
with the Latin-American diplomatists.
It is a peaceful solution that the coun
try wants, if such a solution can be ar*
rived at. The United States has no
men and ammunition at this critical
time to waste on Mexico, entirely
aside from all the wretched complica
tions that would natuarally follow
forcible invention.
Mexico remains the weakest point in
Prefident Wilson's defensive lines. His
Mildred’s birthday. Those who enjoy-j ^hat there was an influx ^f | Mexican policy has satisfied nobody,
ed little Miss Mildred’s hospitality 1 visitors continuing. The Exposition ^ 'j«q jingoes it has provided abundant
were Robt Tyson, Alfred Grant, | Information bureau has ju.*it compiled j ammunition f?>r attacks on his Admin-
Thonias Crutchfield, Robt and Walter I statistics which show that visitors are 1 peaceful and reasonably
Mason, Caroline White, Stephen White j longer in San Diego than : disposed people it has brought the dis
Joe Vincent, Jr., Barnette, Owen : they did during the first
Fowler, Lee. 1 ^he Exposition.
months of
The Fightinsr Irish.
quieting feeling that this country was
sleeping on the edge of a volcano.
The President has not committed the
blunder of plunging the United States
into a crazy war of aggression. He
has not committed it to methods that
would have aligned the Latin America
against u.h. But in avoiding the great
blunders ho has, nevertheless, failed
j armies This number is in addition to | in the attempt either tr serve the Mexi
I the Irishmen enrolled in the regular | cans or to serve mankind,
i army which went into active at the | MUch is to be s-aid in favor of allow-
Says En=*;
vironment Is Smah Factor! r,,. ,, , a,-.,, , ,
j. 1 lie golden chimes in Trinity’s clock
Compar6d With Heredity jNew York city were striking eleven
' Wednesday when the lirst motor truck
load of .$50,000,000 in gold and securit
ies passed by the churc*h and drew up
to the entrance of the United States
sub-treasury on Nassau and Pino
streets. ,^.The gold was from England
to meet the foreign exchange situa
tion
Police drove back the crowds who
had gathered to see over nineteen mil
lion dollars of gold. Behind the steel
grating drawn and bolted across the
rear of the truck peered out three
men. Two of the men hald Winchester
repeating rifl?s and the other handled
a riot gun, loaded with buck shot.
Their hip pockets bulged suspiciously.
Washington News Letter
That the Haitian political leaders are
rapidly becoming convinced of the wis
dom of co-operating with the United
States'government and its forces now
in partial military occupation of the
country is indicated in official advices
received in V/ashington. Gen. Bobo,
the chief revolutionist, has resigned
his command and consented to the dis
bandment and disarmament of his tor-
ces, Bourand, auchoi rebel leader, has
done the same, and both have express
ed their willingness to accept an ami- j
cable .«4ettlement of the question of
who is to be president of Haiti.
The United States will continue to
act alone in representations to Great
Britain regarding neutral trade. It
has been learned that negotations be- j
gun by the Swedish legation here to
obtain American co-operation in pro
posed concerted action of neutrals to
protest against the British orders in
council on so far as thev work hard
ship of neutral commerce, haye brought
no results. Negotiations are still in 1
progress but have failed so far to de- j
velop a common ground upon which [
Mr. B. N. Duke, in giving $35,0001
each year to ths domestic missions | ,pro„, The Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
ind to the worn out preachers of the Within the first 10 months of the
Methodist church in our Stats does I war 120,741 young Irifihmen have v'^l-
himselt honor and his State a great j'^•^teered for service with the British
service. A more worthy cause could
hardly be found. We are glad he left
thi^ princely gift in our midst to bless | beginning of the war. Esti^tei based jing the Mexicans to learn the lesson
the lives of these old soldiers of tne j on census reports indicate tliat |it least 1 of adversity, to the end that they may
Cross instead of sending it abroad as ! of every eight men of military j profit from their own folly. But if
so many do. If there is a real
anthropy i n the world it is that which
aids our own home people as is tne { fighters than the liish, and no race | nigh important so far as self-rehablli-
mote willing to fight in a csuse which : tation goes. Outside help is necessary
they consider just. This however, will nj,d the co-operation of other Latin-
not account for the large enrollment. American countries ought to disarm
Until very recently the Irish have been, that suspicion which is one of the
the victims of British mia^vemment 1 greatest obstacles in dealing with the
and oppression Only within, ihe last few 1 Spanish-speaking peoples of the south
(San Francisco Dispatch#)
Only by constant selection of the
best can any race be improved, said
i Luther Burbank, the plant specialist,
in an address tonight before the sec
ond National Conference on Race Bet
terment. His subject was “Evolution
Variation with the fundamental pur
pose of sex.”
“No education, no environment of
any nature can ever make any appreci
able progress.” said Mr. Burbank,
“even though these same favorable
surroundings may produce through
ages a definite but infinitely slow in
crement which by constant repetition
becomes slowly available in heredity,
but by no means fixed, so that repro
duction true to the better type can be
depended upon.
“It is becoming increasingly neces
sary to impress the fact that there are
two distinct lines in the improvement
of any race: one bv favoiable environ
ment which brings individuals up to
their best possibilities;^ the other 10,-
000 times more important and effective
—selection of the individuals through a !
series of generations. By this means,
and by this only, can any race of
Courts and Sentiment.
The so-called dissolution of the Stan-
, dard Oil company and of the American
Tobacco company was so hollow a farce
and aroused so much ridicule in all
plants, animals or man be permanently • sections of the country that there can
or radically improved. When these i be little doubt that the attempt to
two lines of action are combined, all \ slice up the steel trust in similar fash-
the best qualities of any type are | was materially
brought forth and fixed—and the fie'd 1
for improvement is limitless.” |
The world needs a new aristocracy , accej)t on faith the gospel that the
affected thereby.
Somehow the American public could
— “a real aristocracy made up of Apol-
los and Venuses and their fortunate
progeny”- said r»r. J. H. Kellogg of
phil-1 Ireland has volun-1 ^^ey have not learned that lesson by 1 u
tarily gone to the front. | this time they can never learn it, and ! “®ttle , Mich.
, There are of conversc.no better j is plain enough that Mexico is well-' “^"stead of such
as is the j fighters than the Irish, and no race
g'fft of Mr. Duke.--'Ex Change
A neutral power is not obliged to
prevent the exportation or transit, for
the account of either belligerent, of
arms, munitions and, in general, of
anything which may be useful to an
years has it become apparent that the j of us.
greater Nation is re^ fairlyWiUiJJc, Bryan oL^ the Cabinet
army or fleet. —Article VII., Hague | with the lesser. A clew appreciation oijaiid the Administration no longer at
Conventiont V. ; this new spirit of generosity and a > the mercy of his advice and informa-
This was ratified by Germany. Under! conviction that Ireland’ future progress tion a long step has already been taken
' is dependent on British success, have I Mr. Wilson cannot afford to pause
it she could not logically protest, and | i^jgh to give their best in
has not protested, against munititons | the cause of the Empire.
sales by American firms. Her own mer-1 O’ Leary is today the most popular
chants have sold to belligerents in the
past. Perhaps Because we have no sea
controversies with Austria-Hungary,
the latter power is put forward to
claim that our munititons “industry
has experienced an undexected increase
because of the war. “ Unexpected no
The German powers planned a
war lOO short for building factories.
until a full settlement ha$ been reach
ed and a responsible Mexican govern
ment again established. The Ameri-
war hero of Britain. “Tipperary” is j can people want the Mexican question
the Brittian’s favorite marching song | out of the way. It is getting on their
The “entente cordiale” of the tia- j nerves. The sooner the President for-
ditionally hostile islands is one of the j (.gg a settlement the better it will be
really noteworthy aspects of the for himself, for his Administration and
war. for the country.
A Thought for the WeeK
It is at the foct of women we lay
an aristocracy,”
Doctor Kellogg continued we are actu
ally building up an aristocracy of luna
tics,. idiots, paupers and criminals.
These unfit persons already have reach
ed the proportions of a vast midtitude
—500.000 lunatics, 80.000 criminals,
100.000 paupers, 90,000 idiotf and 9.000
epileptices—and we are supporting
these defectives in idleness like real
aristocTBtA at an. expensii.ot jUif>0.000.>
000 a year, and this mighty host of
mental and moral cripples is increasing
due to unrestricted marriage and other
degenerative influences, at
rapid rate than the sounder
the population so that they are bound
in time to constitute the majority un
less some check is put upon the incre
ase. Every one of these lunatics pos
sess the right to vote, even in States
where women are not given the right j ment can sometimes find
of franchise.”
Doctor Kellogg proposes a “scheme
i I for race betterment,” which he
I Third Grand Mountain thought should be set in operation as
1 Excursion To Asheville I
attempt to slice ud the steel trust in
similar fiishion was materially affected
thereby. Somehow the American pub-
(lic could not accept on faith the gospel
that the cutting up of the octopus in
to minor parts would deprive the head
of life. Evcjy one knows that the
giant concerns named are just as pow
erful as^J yore, and were in no way
affected by the operation of the legal
knife.
Perhaps it is just as well that the
n:>ania to dissolve and>iastroy anything
that savored ot concentrated wealth,
where it is legitimately earned, should
a more | have exhausted itself or nearly so. Our
part of courts in catching the anti-corporation
fever merely reflected the clamor of
muck-rackers and paid agitators. It
has always baen, and doubtless will be
until the end of time that public senti-
its way into
the highest courts of the land. For
tunately for this country there are
courts and judges that render fearless
N. C.
But if The Hague rule had meant to j the laurels that without her smile would j
limit factories to their peace capacity | neverhave been gained. It is her image > TuesJay, August 24, 1915. Via So.
il would have said so i that strings ihe lyre ot the poet, thnt | Railway Premier Carrier of the South
' blaz' of i Schedule and low round trip as follows
Lv. Durham 9:50 AM $5.00
An Old btory
j animates the voice in the
i eloquent fiction and guides the brain
Mrs. A. Aiebane entertains
Mrs. A. Mebane entertained
Monday evening at her home on
5th street complimentary to the
visitng followinj? young ladies
Miss Norine Faucett of Norfolk,
Miss Frances Moore of Graham,
Misses Helen and Clara Warren
of Mt Airy. The color note yel
low vas attractively carried out
m the decorations.
The hostess served tempting
refreshments to the following
young people, Misses Lucile Dil
lard. Gertrude Chandler, Lottie
and Pearl Satterfield. Clara and
Helen Warren of Mt Airy, Sudie
’'00k, Myrtle McCauley, Frances
i in the august toils of stately counsel. 1
i whatever may be the lot of man. how-1
action could be taken, Ihe most re- j tormer allv^ of Gernuiiiv Austria, i r u
.ent Swedish proposal contemplated 1 ^. ’ | ever unfortunate, however oppressed,]
identioal notes of protest by neutrals. I ] if he only love and be loved, he mutt |
It said some details of the Swedish po- ' central powers, ai. ^ balance in fayor of existence, |
sition as to trade interference by Great jCerman newspapers will have • ' ; illumine the dark roof of ,
Britain are inconsistent with the con-j produce more evidence than they hav i of the j any rwular train leaving Asheville up
to and including August 28th.
Stop overs permitted st Ridgecrest
and any ticket agency station between |
I Lv. Chapel Hill Sta. 8:20 AM
’ Ly. Hillsboro 10:25 AM
Lv, Burlington 11:18 AM
Lv. Greensboro 12:30 PM 4.00
Low fares in same proportion from
all intermediate stations up to and
including Lexington, N. C.
Tickets will be good returning on
opinions, regardless of the mobs, When
the estaolishment of a health registry ’ j centuries ago, the people of England
1 on which should be recorded the results 1, , ■ ... r*. 11 j i ^ .
I - , u 14.U • believed in witchcraft and kindred fool-
1 of an annual health inspection of in-. .
dividuals made by a bureau maintained j ’ judges, bewigged and begowned,
by the State for the purpose, and of a j found innocent old women guilty and
“eugenics registry” to accomplish in j ordered them burned. The presiding
behalf ot race hygiene “what the j judges of the Englisn courts in those
health registry would seek to do “
5.00
5.00,
g QQ pDrsonal health.”
tentions of the United States in ex
changes with the London foreign of
fice. Reports as to strong German
sympathies in Sweden are believed to
have been considered by the State De
partment, although the formal reasona
given for refusal to join in the move
ment are largely technical.
ALLIES ARE PLACING $1,000,
000.000 HERE
Negotations are under way between
representatives of the British allied
Governments and interests here for
war munitions valued at nearly $1,000,
000,000. Cleveland is to become the
disbursting center of orders which wili
go to more than twenty plants in this
section. There i^ scheduled for dis-
A W ar Episode.
brought forward in order to shake thul i pj^r^eli
judgment. The Washington Post and a ^
few other papers are holding Great
Britain responible for everything else
save precipitating the war. and
probably they will join in the chorus
from Germany ?nd blame England for
that. Signs point that way
AINAGE
days merely reflected tho popular
malady.
Coining down to modern times, let
I us recall the Thaw case. Nine years
j ago when Thaw shot down Stanford
j White on the roof of Madison Square
j Garden the public almost unanimously
1 denounced him as a bloodthirsty mur-
! dcrer, and the fact that he escaped the
Ridgecrest and Asheville, N. C., going I Richmond Says Automo- i electric chair was painted everywhere
or returning, or both.
Great opportunity to spend five days
(By George F. Viett)
“Yesterday witnessed one of thejjj^ mountains of western
most pathetically tragic individual in- j North Carolina “The Land of the Sky”
cidents of the war. The Red Cross Use regular train No. 20, Parlor car
The objectof these parers, of course 1 contingent, including several women.
Singleton, Rachel Ham, Addie (tribution through this industrial dis-
L. Johnston, Lynette Swain,
Mary Patton, Olga and Sophia
Ijong, Lola Clapp. Mesdames
William Ralph, C. Dillard, Mes
sers Coy and Billie Patton, Dr.
Hurdle, Herbert Craig, I. D.
Ham, Bob Dillard, Sam Satter
field, Slade Vincent, Glenn Scott
Will Riggs (Easton, Earl Shaw,
l^oc High, John Swain, Sil2S
('ompton.
trict more than $80,000,000 worth of
work.
A contract for 2,000,000 rifles prac
tically has been closed, the price being
approximately $54,000,000. These will
be manufactured in a plant fifty miles
from Cleveland. Negotations are pen
ding on the following adoitional materi-
is to embarrass the Washington ad
ministration in upholdi/ig American
rights, and unfortunately there are
enough unthinking pe«^ple in this
country to swallow their arguments.
Some papers the other day were blam
ing England for going to the defense of
started out at the dawn of day to sue
cor the wounded and bring in the dead
from the scene of last night’s on
slaught on the German trenches.
While engaged in her errand of mercy,
one of the young women, beloved by
the whole division for her beauty and
services. For further detailed infor
mation, see large flyers, ask your
agent, or write,
O. F. York,
Travelling Passenger Agent,
305 Fayetteville Street, j
Raleigh, N. C.
biles Must Shade Lights
Richmond has passed an ordinance
requiring automobilists to provide
themselves with appropriate dimming
devices to reduce the direct glare of
the electric headlights. It was claim
ed that these fierce lights, dazzling
and brilliant were a constant menace
I to life of citizens. And there is no
as a miscarriage of justice. The al
most complete reversal of public sen
timent was witnessed in Thaw's last
trial and liberation. We might cite
Still another example without express
ing any opinion as to the guilt or in
nocence of the party accused. We re
fer to the Frank case. Unless it was
a cruel libel, .Judge Roan who is now
dead, is credited with having written
reason why a man with an automobile j ^ letter stating in effect that he had
should think he had inherited the earth j always entertained serious doubts of
Duty performed gives clearness and
' firmness to faith, and faith thus
Belgium after her neutrality had been j compassionate tenderness, came sud- \ strengthened through duty becomes
violated in defiance of treaties and con- | denly upon the dead body of her young j the more assured and satisfying to the | citizens. The ' automobile owner u Judge Roan really entertained such
often thinks he is the only biscuit of sentiments, then Frank was sacraficed
and the fulness thereof. It is P*"®* | Frank’s guilt, even when he passed
I per the law should protect the majority j death sentence on the accused man.
ventions. Had England been guilty of'( brother lying near a ruined mill where > soul.—Tyson Edwards.
this perfidy, she would have merited
the scorn of every nation, and we are
inclined to believe that those papers
desperate fighting had taken place.
She had not learned of his presence at
the front and believed him to be at one
which are criticising England for living j of the camps at home While in the
up to her solemn pledges—instead of | act of embracing her loved one and
' tearing them up like scraps of paper | calling piteously to some of the nurses
would be the most bitter in their
the sad sort in ♦he pan. Rut there j the sentiment of the mob. Then
flis Busy Day. are other people who have rights un-1 t^ere was Becker for whose blood the
Mr. E. T. Burrowcf), a wealthy ‘ press and people of New York clamor-
manufacturer of Portland, Maine, •' “ i ed loudly. He, too, may have been
gave it out fromPassadena, California, j 1‘he ideal woman of the eugenic age guilty, but few guilty men go into
in the distance she was shot dead by a ^ that he had refused a telegraphic | will be plump and well rounded, but | eternity, after receiving the last rites
German sharpshooter from the nearest I order to supply $27,000,000 worth of * not tat, deposes Dr. A. J. Read, who'of their church, with a lie on their lips
rifles to the allies. 'I’his was a small f prof esses to know. We gather from j and invoking their God as a witness.—
order, perhaps, and Mr. Burrowes , what the doc. saya that she will fol-j Asheville Citizen.
the I
denunciation of such conduct. England
did not begin the war. On the contrary
Lrreat Britain has e.'^deavored to
AN exchange says: “A fellow who
Would tell a he for the price of a year’s
subscription is a pretiy sorry institu-
>11, and is hardly fit for the devil or
thing else,” fortunately'
als: 1,000,000 rifies; 300,000 six-inch; promote friendsnip among the power
shells to be loaded, but not primed; | jp 1370 it was not France that was
3,000,000 shells, half high explosive j responsible for the war, althorgh
and half sharpnel, and 5,000,000.0001 Louis Nanp^leon desired it. Bismark
cartridges for Mauser rifles. Delivery ' precipitated it by deliberately changing
on all orders will extend throngh 1916, | the tone of a teleet am, and then Ger-
a substantial proportion of the con | n»any after France was crushed,
tracts to be without cancellation privi- proceeded to seize Alsace-Lorraine.
lege. Raleigh Times.
of the enemy’s trench.—News Items.
of
Mebane that is the victim of so many
robberies? Is there any other town
I8 there any other town the size of'ilidn’t want to.be disturbed while | low closely the perfect type
enjoying his vacation. Strange, How- j Delicious Damsels and the Magnificent J
ever. Looks like there should be a | Matrons of Greensboro, who are fam-j yourself lies the causc of
that would permit itself so imposed up-of at least a few millions in | ous throughout the civUized world.-1 ^o
on by these thieves without making j order. But there are some j Greensboro News. | realization of your
an effort in some direction to put a 1 religiously opposed to.
.. i own awakened interior powers is to be
stop to it? It can be done then why, j furnishing guns to kill men, and per-
not? Men whose property is at stake haps the main was one of them. —
are the men to discuss this matter. I ii^ve*‘y^hing
able to condition your life in exact ac-
Forgive many things in others; noth- j cord with what you would have it.—
ing in yourself.—Ausonius.
Ralph Waldo Trine.