PUBLIC LEDGER
DEO 24TH 1913
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Foolish Doings on the Roof of a Big Building
CLEVELAND, O. "From the window by my desk," said the man whose
office is numerous floors above the street, "I c&n look across to the roof
of a Euclid avenue building that must be about ten stories high. There is no
inducement to look; quite the contrary. For every
tinnn thpre nrp. foolish doings on that roof.
"I suppose they are office boys, junior clerks
iv and other youngsters who work in the building.
After lunching they seem to feel as playtul as kit
tens. At any rate, they go up on the roof every
noon and cavort around. They go in for any sort
of horseplay that occurs to them. Sometimes they
give imitations of a ball game; other times it's
a prize fight
"Now there's a low ledge along one side of the
reef and a taller building on the other. But at
the back there's a straight droop of several
stories with no more guardrail than an eave
trough. That's precisely where the boys find it
convenient to do their acrobatics and dramatics.
"The other day I was watching them in mingled
horror and disgust. One boy was amusing another with impersonations of
great ball players. H3 imitated a pitcher winding up and hurling 'em over.
Then he went through the motions of a time at bat. After that he did a little
base running and it struck him as an intelligent and appropriate thing to do to
show Jackson or Cobb slide to second.
"I don't know whether the roof was more slippery than he thought or
whether he merely wasn't capable of thinking. But he slid right to the corner
of the unprotected edge. I turned my head, as I wouldn't care to see even a
blamed irtiot killed. A few seconds later the youth was safely back in the
middle c. the roof. He and his companion seemed to think that was enough
exercise in the open air for one noon. '
"But the next day they, or others, were at it again. They do it every
day and their favorite diversion seems to be sparring, or a good-natured and
mild imitation of rough-and-tumble fighting. I suppose one of them will side
step off the edge some day and then his parents will sue the building com
pany for $50,000 on grounds of negligence. I only hope I don't happen to be a
witness."
He Was Just Over, but He
Learn in Time
PITTSBURGH, PA. Officials around the Pennsylvania station are laugh
ing over the story told -by one of the conductors on a through train who
had a little experience with a young Englishman on his way to Mexico the
other morning. Reginald was typically British
and evidently off his native heath for the first
time in his life. He had landed from the liner
in the forenoon, in New .York, and was taking the
first evening train for the southwest. Therefore
he was not in the least familiar with the intrica
cies of the up-to-date steel sleeping car.
"Rummy little diggings" was what he said when
shown his berth, and the net for his clothing
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"Clever idea; to catch me if I fall out of bed,
what?"
But it was in the morning that his troubles be
gan. Like most untraveled Britishers, he did not
like to ask questions and he did not want to make
a fuss so, when he awoke and found that he did
not have much time until the train would be in
Pittsburgh, he tried to figure a way to make his toilet in his "rummy little
diggins." He found it impossible. Like Columbus breaking the egg to stand
it on end, he cut the Gordian knot by stepping boldly into the aisle in his
sleeping clothes and started to dress from his sox upward and outward.
Most of the other passengers were up and sitting around and the calm in
difference of the Britisher, stripped almost to "the buff" in the midst, causeo
a little whirlpool of panic especially, among the women. One woman wanted
to know, rather aggressively, what he means. He smiled affably through the
neckband of his shirt, as it slipped over his head, and asked: "Well, by Jove!
Tell me how you put on your trousers in your berth?"
This answer resulted in a call for the conductor who tells the story, jut,
by the time he arrived, the Britisher was more than half dressed and fairly
presentable.
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He Wrapped Watch Chain Around His Big Toe
KANSAS CITY, MO. Although he lost all his money, and is a sadder, wiser
man, Jerry Killigan of Tarkawa, Okla., has taught the world a new trick
in the way of preserving valuables. The coin is gone, forever, perhaps, and
there was $54 of it, but Jerry has his watch' safe
and sound, all because he played a new variation
on the "First National Bank" wheeze.
Jerry came to the city to view and buy the
latest sartorial effects, for he wanted to get him
self "all togged out;" he's authority for that. He
had the $54 and a yearning to convert every cent
of it into beautiful wearing apparel. Dressed in
his old regimentals, he departed for home yester
day, however.
The prospective fashion plate arrived in the
evening and went to a rooming house. His room
was entered, his $54 taken and his confidence in
Kansas City lodging houses shattered to bits. He
reported his loss to the noli c.fl nnH nsfeori where
..jpflO ktEJ and how. he might obtain money on his watch to
- aeiray .expenses back to Oklahoma. He was di-
rected to the new-fangled municipal activity, the city pawn shop.
"How in the world did you keep your watch when everything else was
stolen?" asked Ralph Perry, officially in charge of the city's three-ball palace.
"I wrapped the chain around my toe and then pulled my sock on over the
watch and chain. I slept with it that way. But," and here the sockful Jerry
almost wept, "I .forgot to do that with my money."
The sorrowing Kerrigan was allowed $9 on his timepiece and chain by
the city's "uncle," and with that was able to make his way to Tarkawa in
first-class shape, providing he loses his appetite.
Mouse Multitude Released in "Movie" Theater
MILWAUKEE, WIS. Liberating a multitude of mice in a moving picture
theater caused much joy to a gang of 15 boys, but little hilarity on the
part of the proprietor. In a spirit of deviltry the boys caught more than 200
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ueiu iuueuia in a rsorcn siae vacant lot and went
with them to the Queen moving picture house at
Thirty-third street and North avenue." .
The mice were there released late in the after
noon. The show was to open t 7 o'clock in the
. evening.
When Mrs. Margaret Klofta, charwoman, ar
rived to do her work, she found the lobby alive
with small rodents which upon her appearance
scampered in every direction. ' ''
Contrary to feminine precedent, Mrs. Klofta,.
instead of screaming or seeking the safe altitude
of a convenient chair, took a commanding posi
tion and applied a broom with deadly effect.
Having slaughtered many and driving the rest
of the mice to the basement, Mrs. Klofta turned
on the youthful perpetrators of the alleeed ioke
A handy pail of water in Mrs. Klofta's hands sent them flying. Later Russel
Sharp, Walter Dunn and Roy Fremond, aged eighteen years, were arrested
for disorderly conduct. Sharp disclaimed any intent to flood the theater'witn
mice and cause a probable panic in the evening
- "SmeonIckea the pail and the mice came out." he said. "I had three
" ..Sn?V.7bey ln the lobby and I went after them."
. y" catch them for?" inquired the city attorney.
i lads ? ff W'-,aaeD tQ fath " ; luteered Judge Pagers he fined tlu
Plant an advertisement in the Public Ledger for 1914 and get results from it.
GEE. IV LIKE TEB. HEV j
THAT Tl
Farmers' Educational !
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters sf Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
The gasoline engine is solving the
labor problem on the farm.
The pessimist is the man who seea
only the nubbins in the cornfield
A farmer who can not learn any
from his neighbor will soon go to seed.
The straight and narrow path is not
always lined with the most attractive
scenery. -
Not enough of us have learned that
farming is a business, not hopeless
drudgery. .
The townspeople who burn up the
country roads with their motor cars
may expect to be roasted by the farm
ers. A daily bath, a rough towel and an
hour's walk in the open, will take
the kinks out of a dyspeptic quicker
than a doctor's prescription.
Contrast your home surroundings
with those of your town friends of lesa
means.. If the comparison is not favor-
able to you, you are at fault
Quail should be coaxed to breed on
the farm. When several fine coveys
pect of good shooting Is fine, then
permit nobody to fire a gun on the
place!
S The man who can make two hills ol
potatoes grow with the labor that was
once expended on one is almost as
great a benefactor as the "two-blade-o'-grass"
man.
The man who spends his time sit
ting on a nail keg at the grocery store
ranks as a producer along with the
hen that sits on a doorknob-jnly the
hen is honest in her intentions.
The automobile is no longer regard
ed as a luxury on the -farm, but one of
the most economical and useful things
in farm use. It saves the use of horses
in busy times, and all times, eats noth
ing when not in use, pulls as much as
a double team, can, in a' pinch, turn
implement from a grindstone to the
silage cutter, will carry the family to
town in one-quarter the time the team
will do it, and with less care than a
pair of horses require will last ten
years.
SUCCEED BY CO-OPERATION
New Jersey Organization Able to Pay
Its Stockholders Six Per Cent,
on Their Capital Stock.
A co-operative store established at
Montclair, N. J., a year ago, has just
paid its stockholders six per cent, on
their capital stock, set aside five per
cent, on the stock as a reserve fund
and paid rebates to its customers
all stockholders of five per cent, on
the gross amount of the purchases.
This looks like success even in com
parisons with the records of the long
established English co-operative trad
ing societies.
The Montclair store has dealt in
groceries, fruits and vegetables and,
for six months only r in meats As
much as possible goods were bought
of original producers. At first tho
sales were only $2,500 a month; at the
end of the year they amounted to
more than $100,000 a month. The
original capital was only $6,000, dis
tributed among 200 stockholders.
Co-operative trading depends on
good management, which in competi
tive business has been costly, says
the Chicago Record-Herald. Perhaps
the Montclair co-operators have been
unusually fortunate in their manage
ment, but no one can deny that there
is too great and unnecessary expense
to the purchaser in ordinary retail
distribution of foodstuffs under the
competitive system. If co-operation
can be made as successful in the
United States as it has been in Eng
land, the cost of living can be reduced
for many people.
FEDERAL AID FOR FARMERS
Market News Service May Be Estab
lished to Assist Those Who Raise
Perishable Products.
A Washington dispatch says : "A
market news service for farmers and
truck gardeners who raise perishable
products may be established by the re
cently created office of markets of the
department of agriculture. The feasi
bility of such a service is to be studied
by a specialist of the office, who also
will take up the best way of making
statistics of demand and supply use
ful to the farmer. The prices received
by producers, the cost of transporta
tion and storage, profits and other use
ful elements will be investigated in
this connection. The service would be
invaluable to truck producers of the
Atlantic coast states.
Other specialists, it Was announced,
are to give attention to co-operative
"organizations of producers and con
sumers, and will assist in the forma
tion of new co-operative enterprises.
Ai expert in co-operative accounting
will assist such organizations to keep
their books and records effectively, to
establish cost systems and follow-up
methods of handling goods.
Specialists in. transportation will as
sist producers to obtain equitable
freight rates and will discuss ques
tions of extended facilities, deter
mination1 of rates, routing .and other
matters concerned - with the speedy
and cheap moving of produce: -The
milling and utilization of cotton sect
will be given special attention.
CO-OPERATION IS NOT NEW
Champions of Movement Are Inclined
to Go Too Far, Says Delegate to
Kansas State Convention.
At the last annual meeting of the
Kansas state board of agriculture the
question -of agricultural jco-operation
was discussed at length. One dele
gate, Mr. Edwin Snyder, called atten
tion to the tendency of those who
champion co-operative movements to
go too far and thereby injure their
own cause. Among other things Mr.
Snyder says:
"Co-operation is no new matter.
More than 75 years ago a dozen poor
weavers met in a poor inn in - Roch
dale, England, to devise some means
to better their condition. After dis
cussing, several matters, strikes and
the like, they concluded that if they
couldn't make arrangements to get
better wages they ought to try to do
something to make what they received
go further, and they organized at
once into a society. Of course, a good
many scoffed, but they went ahead.
They were to pay into the common
fund 20 pence per week, and only a
few were able to do it at that time,
and it took a year to raise a capital
stock of $140 with which to begin
business. They rentejd a room, bought
only such goods as' were absolutely
needed by their families, sold for cash
only, and at first opened the store
only at night. That society has been
going for over 75 years. It has spread
all over England. They buy their
wheat by the cargo, to be ground in
their own mills for their own mem
bers. They buy refrigerated meats,
mutton and beef from Australia and
the United States in cargoes, to be
sold at their butcher shop. It has
been extremely prosperous. I have no
doubt that each one of the members
of this society is far better off person
ally because he learned to save some
thing and to do business. That is
what we need in this country co
operation among the farmers. We
must have it, and it' is not a difficult
matter. . Of course, during the Farm
ers' Alliance agitation, 25 years ago,
we started a great many co-operative
stores. Most of them failed through
mismanagement and the credit sys
tem. Cash payment is the essence of
successful co-operation, and we can
not have it without. Of course, when
we started out in the alliance we were
going to reform the whole universe.
We cannot do that. I believe that if
the farmers will study co-operation it
will be found Immensely to their ad
vantage." Those who expect the principle of
co-operation to work out in this coun
try on the same scale that it is oper
ated in Europe will be disappointed,
says the Iowa Homestead. In the
first place we have in every agricul
tural community so many different
nationalities of people to deal with
that a new difficulty is encountered
and, while these people are all good
Americans, they look on matters of
this kind from a radically different
viewpoint. Co-operation in the end
will succeed best if in the beginning
it is applied to simple matters. A
good example of this is found in cer-
tain neighborhoods where a number of
men engage . m breeding the same
class"bf stock. In this case they have
the advantage of many economies
both in the buying and selling of their
stock, In the use of males, in addition
to the natural advantage that results
from friendly rivalry. It is a desir
able form of co-operation when men
subscribe themselves to pay the ex
penses of a county expert in order
that they may be sensibly advised
and wisely guided by one in whose
jiidgment . they have absolute confi
dence. These are the less complex
types of co-operative movements and
the success that they are meeting with
indicates that our people can take ad
vantage of this important principle
when it is sensibly applied to their
own affairs.
TEXAS FARM ORGANIZATIONS
Too Many of Them, Says Former
President Peter Radford of the
Farmers' Union of Texas.
In a recent article for the press Pe
ter Radford, former president of the
Farmers' union of Texas, reiterates
what the Co-Operator has frequently
said about the number of farmers'
organizations in Texas. He says there
are too many, and the Co-Operator
agrees with the view. During his pres
idency of the Farmers' union, Mr. Rad
ford himself was identified with two
of them.
A farmers' organization is a good
thing, .but there can be too much of
a good thing. The cause of the farm
ers as a whole would be strengthened
if the state-wide organizations were
materially reduced in number and the
local organizations greatly increased.
There cannot be too many of the lat
ter, for each is a unit' in itself. The
idea of the Farmers congress, as we
undersold it, is to have a number of
organizations with distinct interests,
united in a common cause in the con
gress as a supervisory body. But the
separate organizations themselves are
state-wide in scope. When the farm
ers of each community form an organ
ization of their own, then may we ex
pect greater benefits from organiza
tion among farmers than have hither-
to been achieved. There is room " for
several state organizations, but not,
as at present for stveral with a dupli
cation of purposes. Community organ
izations can elect delegates to the
state organizations, and the labor, nec
essary to achieve definite results can
be much simplified. Texas Co-Opera
tor. - '
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(GGmNWILILE
Will give $10.00 for the best ear of
corn raised in Granville County in the
year 1 91 3. We want this ear to place
on exhibit in our bank until corn
planting time, and then we will distri
bute the grains among a number of
boys in the county with the view of
breeding a still better ear in the'1914
crop. The corn will be judged by an
expert according to the score printed
on this card, on-the second Saturday
in January in the offices of the Na
tional Bank of Granville. Every corn
raiser in Granville County is invited
to enter this contest and be present at
the judging.
W. T. YANCEY,
Casjiier National Bank of Granville.
Iowa Corn Growers association
Score Card
I. General Appearance 25
1. Size and shape of ear
2. Filling of butts and tips
3. Straightness of rows
4. Uniformity of kernels
II. Productiveness 60
h Maturity
-Vitality -
3. Shelling percentage
III. Breed Type 15
1. Size and shape of ear
2. Size, shape, dent, of kernel
3. Color of Grain
4. Color of Cob -V
1 5. Arrangement of Rows
10
5
5
5
25'
25
10
5
5
2
2
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
The undersigned,' having been appointed by the
clerk of the supeior court Granville county as ad
ministratrix upon the estate of Robert J. Hart,
deceased, late of said county of Granville, hereby
notifies all persons having claims against the
estate of the said deceased.to present the same for
payment on or before the 1st. day of December.
1914. or this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to the estate of the
said deceased, are requested to make prompt set
tlement. This November 25. 1913.
EULAB. HART,
Administratrix of R. J. Hart, deceased.
B. S. Rovster Attorney. -
LOST A thoroughbread Scotch
Collie dog, light brown, shaggy,
white around the neck and feet.
The finder will please notify Mrs. J.
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Attornj-At-Law, Glees la Odd Fellows' Bldg.
Practices in State and Federal Courts.
Hillsboro St., Oxford, N. C.
wJ. T. CRITCHER,
Lively and Feed Stables.
Up-to-date turn outs at your com
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want to ride. Phone 55-A
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