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"-'3.-': "s"""" " "- -- PUBLIC LEDGER NOV. 15TH 1913 0 ?! 3' PUBLIC LEDGER . AMD- - OXFORDXr BANNER PUBLICATION OFFICE DRITT PRINTERY MITCHELL BUILDING Entered as second-class matter at postoffice Oxford Published Semi-Weekly bv BRITT & C O B L. E. Jno. X. Britt. Dan A. Coble, EDITORS AND OWNERS. price of subscription: One Year $150 Six Months .73 Three Months .50 ADVERTISING RATES. One year contract 10c per inch. net. each inser tion, run of paper. Six months 12 l-2c per inch. net. each insertion, run of paper. Three months 15c per inch. net. run of paper for each insertion. PREFERRED POSITIONS. On one year contract 12 l-2c per inch. net. each insertion Six months 15c per inch. net. each insertion, rhree months IScts per inch. net. eaSJinsertion. One or two months 25c per inch. net. each inser tion. Reading notices 5c per tvpe line each insertion. painted the prisoner in such dark colors that his own mother would j never have recognized him at five ' paces. In the very height of his eloquence Small pointed a long fin ger at the trembling man and shou ted: "Why, that man at the bar would just as soon kill me as not right be fore your face, judge." The judge leaned thoughtfully over, took off his specs and glower ed at the offending criminal. "John Smith," he thundered, 'if you dare kill Small here before me I will fine you $1.50 for contempt of co'te; durn my soul, if I don't." The Fault Finders. Did you ever hear of a happy fault finder? No. Because the habit precludes happiness. Some people find fault with the weather. As we have no power to change the weather conditions, nothing can be more absurd. Some there are who find fault with their work. That, also, is foolish. Their work will not be so well done if they show dissatisfac tion. Chroic fault-finders are a nuis ance. No one wants them around. They depress their associates and interfere with their fellows. Fault finders are usually idlers. If they were properly occupied their vicious habit would, in most cases, be abandoned. We have no place to punish those who have the vice of fault-find irig. If you find yourself getting into this habit get busy. Look after your nerves, your digestion, your food and drink. Go out into the open air, walk with a pleasant friend, breathe pure air, and then read a pleasant book. You will be but a small nuisance if you do; per haps you will even be pleasant and companionable. "That man has an axe to grind." It is as true today, as it was in ! Franklin's time. When a man is extra polite and friendly you may j know he want3 an office or make ' something- out of you. ' Some Threat on Small. There is a good story going about the Capitol in Washington City on Congressman Small, of North Caro lina. In prehistoric days when Small was young in the law he was prosecuting a town bully who bore a desperate character. This des perado was supposed to have adaed greatly to the population of the vil lage cemetery and to be ready to kill his man at the drop of a hat. So when Small stood him up at the bar before a country justice of the peace the embro Congressman An Axe to Grind. Many of us have heard and used the quotation, "An Axe to Grind." This quotation is attributed to Ben jam in Franklin. One day when Benjamin Franklin was a little boy he was on his way to school, when he chanced to meet a man with an axe on his shoulder in search of a grindstone. The man stopped and asked Benjamin if his father had a grindstone. Benjamin answered him very politely, and told him -he would find one down in the shon. The man patted the little fellow on 1 the head, and told him he was so wiiu uu pome. .oeniamm ieit flattered, and thought the man nice and agreeable. "Would you mind running uo to the house and bringing me a little warm water, and turning, o-rinri. - e stone for me a few minutes?" said the gentleman very politely. "No sir." answered . Benjamin, feeling still more flattered at the polite ness in the gentleman's tone.. Benjamin hurried off to the house and returned in a few minutes with a can full of water, and the gentle man thanked him very politely, and asked him to turn the grindstone J for him a few minutes. Benjamin ! very willingly agreed, and began j turning with all his might. He turned and turned until his hands were blistered and his arms worn out. The school bell rang and Benjamin turned the grindstone. At last the axe was sharp, Ben jamin worn out, and school had been in session for an hour. Ben jamin was expecting to be thanked more than ever, but alas! hp. wn mistaken. Instead of the bad man thanking him he called him a rascal, and told him to hurry on' to school or he would be punished for being late. This unkind treatment made Franklin, feel very bad, and he never got over it as long as he lived. , After Benjamin Franklin became a man whenever he saw a man ex tra polite he would say to himself The Good Old Preacher. Some writer in speaking of the good old embassador of Christ says: He is the last of his generations, and like a forgotten tree in deaden ing he stands alone; he is, however, "the grand old man" of his time; his head is a crown of glory, for his feet have walked in the ways of righteousness; he is closing up a long weary day of useful service; he is sun-browned and weather beaten; he bears the marks of hard fought battles and the glow of vic tory lingers on his face; he has given the strength of his master and vigorous years in the service of the King; he has led many souls to the mercy-seat, and witnessed their conversion from sin; He has been the first called to congratulate the parents upon the birth of their babe, -and the last to " leave in the hour of bereavement; he has been the pastor of influential churches; he has addressed hundreds of audi ences flpon many topics, and admir ing hearts; he has labored with faith and zeal in the vineyard of the Lord, and that too in the heat of the day; he has been a comfort to bleeding hearts, and a joy to the young and hopeful ; he has rejoiced and wept with them thatwept; he has officiated at the marriage of the young and conducted the fune raPservice of the old; he has said, "Earth to earth and dust to dust" at the grave of many an idol of hu man hearts; he has been the central figure of many a large jcircle of friends and admirers; he has not failed nor faltered in the thickest fights of his ministry; he has loved and been loved through-all his years; he has kept a faithful watch over the flock of God. as the Holy Ghost made him overseer ; he has ex horted and ' rebuked with all long suffering and gentleness; he has an example in righteousness before all the people, under all the circum stances of his life; he has borne burdens, and carried grief wholly unknown to the people ;' he has been sorely smitted and grievously re viled, yet he reviled not again; he has always spoken very kind ly and given good advice; he has been considerate of the poor and dealt justly with rich; he has traveled alone and at times borne the bnrdens of hopelessness, and felt himself forgotten; but he has j come to old age; his eyes are dim med and his ears "dull, his step is unsteady and his form bent. The years of toil are past, but he is every inch a king, and worthy to be crowned and enthroned, which honors he will receive by the hand of H im whose youth at the time of death is a guarantee of life's per petual bloom. AVOID CATARRH Subscribe to the twlce-a-week Public Ledger now Breathe Hyomei It Medi cates the Air You Breathe and Instantly Relieves Why continue to suffer, from catarrh, stopped up head, husky voice and other troubles of the breathing organs when Hall's Drucr Store will sell you Hyomei with a guarantee to refund the purchase price if it is not satisfactory. Hyomei is a pleasant harmless and antiseptic medication which you breathe a few times daily through a small inhaler. It effec tively and promptly relieves all ca tarrhal discharges, sniffles, foul breath, watery eyes and the forma tion of crusts in the nose, or money back.. 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