PUBLIC LEDGER
NOV. 8THU1913
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Study Rate Question
Now that it has' been decided to
make the North Carolina Just
Freight Rate Association a perma
nent organization says the Star.it is
timely, to make the suggestion that
it should provide for a very careful
study of the matter of the rates of
transportation in different parts of
the State. That can be done best
by employing rate experts in some
three or more zones in the State, or
by Congressional Districts it may
be. Rates should be studied from
the angle of the various distribu
ting and manufacturing centers in
the State in order to keep up with
actual conditions of transportation
and the rates as they affect differ
ent portions of the State.
The American Hen.
No poet sings the praises of the
modest little hen, nor does she crow
about her products. She produces
over 700 million dollars worth of
good nutritious food stuff every
year this unpretentious fowl.
Her product would be nearly 100
million dollars greater except for
improper housing, general neglect
and also the lack of care in packing
of her product.
We need waste no tears over the
semi -historic , goose that lay the
golden egg. The modest American
hen is her successful rival.
Give her care and kindly atten
tion; feed her properly; eliminate
the unfit and unproductive birds
that eat as much and lay half the
number of eggs. Study her needs,
her pedigree, and thus increase her
capacity to produce.
Pays to Be Accommodating.
Some wise school boy once said
it paid to advertise. It also pays
to be acccmmodating, says the Re
cord. A man in : Guilford county
was brought up before Justice J.
B. Minor in Greensboro, charged
with refusing to let a man behind
him in an automobile pass him. fie
was driving two horses to a wagon
and the evidence showed he would
not give any part of the road. He
did not know the law, but he
found out and was fined $5 and the
cost. A man traveling along the
road must give a part of it, whether
meeting or being passed-by either
a team or an automobile. The man
driving the machine was also from
the country, but he knew his rights
and enforced them.
Reading in School.
It is a pity that in schools child
ren are not taught more often to
read newspapers, that is read them
intelligently, with discrimination.
For a large part of our education
comes through the reading if the
news. . Many people read nothing
else.
And yet, if they are careful, they
may find in the newspaper a means
of education, says an exchange. In
spite of the generally recognized
faults, newspapers are marvels of
co-operation. Take away what is
careless in them and misleading
and what is actually bad, and a
vast amount of good remains. In
the variety of their reading matter
alone they are extraordinary..
They have become something
greater than mere purveyors of
news. In a sense, they represent
the popular university. The very
people that decry them are most
likefy to be careless judges in selec
tion, to read superficially, to neg
lect features of the greatest value.
All -1
a snrewa newspaper reader can
glean what is good from many
sources provided, of course, that
he brings a well developed equip
ment. Even for those who are not
interested in buying or selling, the
advertising column, approached
from certain points of view, may
contain a large. amount of informa
tion and may open up avenues of
human interest.
on the farm a man often forgets
those nice little attentions which
a wife values so highly; that his
hard work, the close attention he
must give to a thousand little de
tails, the economy he is obliged to
exercise in all things, are apt to
throw him into a routine of living
in which the spirit of romance has
a lesser part.
The condition of the woman on
the farm in some localities is not
what it should be, owing to the
lack of labor-saving devices in many
cases. However, a constant im
provement is being made in this
respect and country life is being
put on a more satisfactory basis
than ever before. This is an im
portant tendency for the greater
comforts provided in connection
with farm life, the better satisfied
people will be to live in agricultu- J
ral communities instead of going
to the towns and thus much will be
done toward the solution of a pres
ent day problem of much importance.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS
Oh, well, if the tango aids the chi
ropodists it is not a total loss.
Civilization takes its policewomen,
like its cafeterias, from Los Angeles.
Summer has been more charitable
to the poor than have many citizens.
No real boy wants to be a tenor
when he can become a baseball hero.
"Don't frown at the cook," advises
an exchange. Does anybody ever do
that?
Luckily for some, there is only one
lower end to each baseball percen
tage column.
Poetry is an important factor in di
vorce courts to those who have play
ed the game of love too ardently.
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The days are getting shorter, but a
woman thinks that is no reason why
a man should stay out longer at night.
TO IMPROVE PRETTY HAIR
AND BEAUTIFY UGLY
HAIR
Give Credit When Due.
The gifted editor of the Wil
mington Star well says: Don't Stop
your paper because the publisher
doesn't run it to suit you. No ed
itor would think of trying to stop
you because you don't run your bus
iness to suit him. Laugh at the
newspaper man, but studiously re
frain from giving him a chance to
laugh at you for thinking you are
spiting him by being one of a few
vwho try to starve him to death by
ntnarawing support, uive the
editor credit for being honest and
he will give you credit for having
common sense. A people and their
paper have more interests in com
mon than they have things to dis
agree about, but it is simply aston
ishing how many newspapers, keep
right on running after some half
dozen people decide to boycott them
and ruin their business by the with
drawal of support.
It is But For a Day.
One day at a time and that is all.
It may be a day of joy or grief, of
ease or pain, with its closing ;these
end up to the last hour of the 24 to
return to us no more. Whatever
may be in store for us in the future
the scenes of the past shall know
no tomorrow, and the scenes of to
morrow will soon be numbered with
the past. The man of wealth and
fame is hurried along on the swift
wings of time, as rapidly as the
poor mnn oppressed with his heavy
burdens, no faster, no slower. Days
com! and go, with their clouds and
their sunshine, their lights and
theit shadows, and with their go
ing, hurry us all to the approach
of that day that will come but
never.1 In that one eternal day we
shall reap the harvest from the
seeds sown in this life. "And what
shall the harvest be?"
The Farmer's Wife.
That Mississippi college profes
sor who figured that the farmer's
wife on an averaged old-fashioned
farm, in the performance of a day's
cooking and scrubbing, lifts a ton
of water, thereby losing early her
girlish complexion and figure, un
questionably laid his finger on a
sore spot in country life.
What makes the matter more sig
nificant in that he proves,-in a bul
letin issued by Uncle Sam, that an
outlay of $250 on a scientific pump
ing plant would save all this waste
of human energy and beauty.'
Why doesn't the man of the house
get an extra hump on himself if
possible and produce this simple labor-saver,
this insurer of beauty
and bloom?
We do not believe that a man on
a farm is less chivalrous, less af
fectionate than the town or xcity
man. x
But it has sometimes seemed that
Harmony Hair Beautifier, a de
lightfull liquid hair dressing, is
just what it is named a hair beau
tifier. No matter how pretty your
hair Jnow is, it can be made to
look even better by using Harmony
Hair Beautifier. To those who
mourn because the hair is stringy,
dull, lusterless and homely. Har
mony Hair Beautifier will prove a
real blessing and pleasure. It seems
to polish and burnish the hair,
making it glossy, silky-soft and
more easy to put up in graceful,
wavy folds that "stay put." It
overcomes the oily, smell of the
hair with a dainty, true-rose frag
rance, very pleasing to the user
and those around.
Very easy to apply simply
sprinkle a little on your hair each
time before brushing it. It con
tains no oil, and will not change
the color of the hair, nor darken
gray hair.
To keep hair and scalp dandruff
free and clean, use Harmony Sham
poo. This pure liquid shampoo
gives an instantaneous rich lather
that immediately penetrates to
every part of.hair and scalp, insur
ing a quick, thorough cleansing.
Washed off just as quickly, the en
tire operation takes only a few mo
ments. Contains nothing that can
harm the hair; leaves no harshness
or stickiness just a sweet cleanli
ness. Both preparations come in odd
shaped, very ornamental bottles,
with sprinkler tops. Harmony
Hair Beautifier, $1.00. Harmony
Shamoo, 50c. Both guaranteed to
satisfy you in every way or your
money back. Sold in this communi
ty only at our" store the Rexal
Store one of the more than 7,000
leading drug stores of the United
States, Canada and Great Britain,
which own the big Harmony labor
atories in Boston, wheie the many
celebrated Harmony Perfumes and
Toilet Preparations are made J. G.
Hall's, Oxford, N. C.
THAT PACK HOUSE, BARN OR
STABLE ROOF. Cover with rubber
roofing guaranteed 5, 10 and 15 years
For Sale by C. D. Ray.
LAND FOR. SALE-I have 300
acres land four miles from Wake
Forest. Fine for tobacco, cotton
and corn. Will be sold in tracts
to suit purchasers. N. Y. Gulley,
Wake Forest, N., C'. 4
Mr. and Mrs Claud Grissom, of
Route 3, were in town Monday;
Racing automobiles is the new sport
in New York. As two persons were
killed the first day it may prove popular.
A Chicago man aroused from slum
ber with a backet of water by a prac
tical joker came up with a crowbar.
A very effective remedy. for that kind
of joker.
Bloomers undoubtedly are better for
swimming in than skirts, but about
999 women out of a thousand would
rather look pretty than be champion
swimmers.
J ewelers say their products are to
be cheaper. Maybe that will help the
matrimony market by putting engage
ment rings in reach of prospective
bridegrooms.
"Aviator Dreams in Airboat of
Angels Jealous of Wings." Headline.
The aviator should be more dis
creet; such is the pride that goes
often before a fall, a
Dr. Nina Golawozowa of Russia
says that in her country a woman
marries a man in order to help him.
This looks like a subtle Russian bid
for American male' immigrants.
Time will never come, doubtless,
when the ordinary layman will realize
that theater, circus, concert, fight and
other tickets do not grow on Christ
mas trees in newspaper offices.
After we had gotten used to the
fountain pen that refused to write,
along comes the typewriter that al
ways seems too tired to perform the
function for which it was intended.
Investigators have announced again
that the old time Peruvians had their
teeth filled with gold. Doubtless the
dentists then, as now, prided them
selves on being of the painless variety.
The New York state department of
health proves that bachelors don't
live as long as married men. Stll, there
are some married men in New York
state who are known to go a swift
gait.
Before making up your mind to go
to Europe this summer just pause
and reflect that you can find x as
much discomfort in traveling and as
insanitary conditions right here at
home.
Scientists say the tight skirt is an
excellent preventative of disease
through its nongerm sweeping propen
sities. There's . always some good
found out in everything that gets a
bad start.
Reports says dancing masters are
seeking new steps. Steps, seems to
us, has been sort of a misnomer dur
ing the last year or so, as applied to
daafcing. But if steps it must be,
we'll agree.
A London woman who has passed
the century mark advises people to
eat what they want and not to sub
mit to fads. Evidently her hundred
years has brought a wisdom worth
hearkening to.
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