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PUBLIC LEDGER SATURDAY, MAY 6TH, 1914. ic dogs have the run of Jthe range, AND which means the freedom of the OXFORD'XrBANNER State, the farmer will shake his - ' - heaJ at the mere mention of 3heep PUBLICATION OFFICE. MITCHELL BUILDING, Entered as second-class matter at txjstoffioe Oxford raising. In North Carolina there are statemen who would boldly ad V - , VILLA. ir I -5j ' fliMMiiillsi Published Semi-Weekly by BRITT & COBLE:. J no. X. Britt. Dan A. Coble. editors and owners. price of subscription: One Year. ......... $1 50 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 vocate the initiative and referen dum, but who would quake in their shoes at the idea of putting the law on the dog. ADVERTISING One year contract 10c per incn. net. each inser tion, run of paper. Six months 12 l-2cu pt inch. net. each insertion, run of Daoer. Three months 15c per inch. net. run of paper for each insertion. ' T5D It !' L'UDm TVAO 1 ATO On one year contract 12 l-2c per inch. net. each insertion Six months 15c per inch. net. each insertion. Three months 18cts Der inch. net. each insertion One or two months 25c per inch, net. each inser tion. Reading notices 5c per type line each insertion. McWhortor's Platform. The following: good thing is from the Charlotte Observer: "Hello, Squire." "Howdy, Son." "Candidate for the Legislature this year. Squire?" "Yessir. Going to see if those people really want to let those good for-nothing dogs, automobiles and agents tearing around loose over the country, killing chickens, scar ing cows and horses and running down old folks and selling women and children something they don't need. Tax them out of existence! That's my platform." The conversation quoted may be taken to represent the "Spring Song" uf Squire Henry McWhor tor, of the Waxhaw Creek section of Union county in a campaign year. Since 1901 he has been run ning for the legfslature on a plat form similar to the one outlined. Woe betide agents when he gets there. The Love That Abides. Now and then we have the pleas ure of. publishing the story of a golden wedding. Few news items gives us more delight. It is amaz ingly sweet to think of lovers who have gone hand in hand down the shining aisles of the golden years. Interlocking Directorate. The Madison Herald in discussing politics in the Fifth District seems to have to some inside information as to the doings of the office dis tributing bureau at Greensboro. Here's what the Herald dishes up: "Under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson and W J. Bryan the Na tional Democracy is destroying the Interlocking- Directorates. Iho most dangerous intelocking direr torates is. where the railroads ard other allied interests interlock wit h the-State or National Government controlling same. From what the Herald has been able to nose around and learn in its humble and lowly way it looks as if there has been so-ne "interlocking" going on this District between the Special Inter ests and the "powers that be" in an effort to control the politics, and thus the legislation of the dis trict. It is th3 talk of the district that the American Tobacco Co. put up the money to nominate our prcs ent Congressman with four years ago the boodle was"distributed" it is said, through a Greensboro politician who is known to his friends by the name of ,MBill," and when one looks around he will see the same old gang lined up like a stonewall in an effort to silence all opposition to Major Stedman's re- nomination by brow-beating and bluffiing all other aspirants out of the race. When we see the special interests supporting a man for pub lie omce we. ail know there is a reason!" There is no arguing against that fact; so why isn't it time the people were taking a hand in the matter themselves and driv ing the, money-changers (corrupt politicians) out of the temple. The Republican party will make a desperate effort to capture the next. House, and thus cripple the Wilson Administration; they will have unlimited finances, and if the Kessler in New York Evening Sun. j 'MlS foj William AGGaBrown. apropos of his I afeT---fe , resignation as president of the New gi fTfff feJuOTT "SPw-ff Ifv -FwlA (kv7S$ vt 0vt j York Central, which be. made in order Sj . '' M&fJUffmi flhxBJ. 1 ' i to go back to farm life, said recently: I! r -gSjfi' SF 3? XWZZiEEu "With the coming of spring we all Ij . SglM W W M 8 I IC fflffiH CJffiB fcpj feel the call of the country. Fortu- jjglE JHjjL ffj Jfl I Sef 9 ? ' f WXM LZ&iwMyffi: ; nately for the poor clerk who feels this Rfi IH jl" XJi j I Capital . - VlMW Surplus J THE RULING HABIT. It is precious to see in their hand - n xi i . , nave uiiuiuueu mi ciuces, auu ii ine the flowers they have gathered n n-., t. . . . . Al . , , Democracy of the Fifth District is . i . , - - wise it will govern itself accord- "iccu ituiu Liie (jncK. oi ine unseen i il. tt ... ingiy. iiiurua. now can we ten when they are so well covered by the I Uncle Sam furnishes and main roses they bear? Oh, it is good, T tains for government employes 341 and very good, to see people who passenger automobiles, costing have become happy, steadfast play- $404,637.75 , and 2.386 horsedrawn mates, so that placing became liv- carriages. Secretary of Labor W. ing and never lost itself itself in B. Wilson is the only member o? the death which comes to men the Cabinet who has the use of a when the objects of .affection are government automobile for his per only playthings. The long sweet- sonal pleasure. The other members essof life eomes through the pu- have from twe to fuur horse drawn rer, gentler ways. If it be not vehicles. profane that a newspaper speak in prayer, God send us all the tehder- sress and truth of a love that abides ! There is strong evidence to show that Kentucky is going to go dry. A vote in the legislature to declare for prohibition carried .in house by a vote of two to one. In the sen ate it was defeated by two votes ters fmm fnrmra oil u and even the men engaged in Ihe - UJA U VC1 II If-. I country going to prove that ' the busilSSS say the next legislature dog is a greater enemv to sheen carry the bil1 through. : Dis- " r- t . . . , . . - raising than the tariff. North Car- tllIers afe already curtailing and olina testimony will go to sustain 1 preparing to move out- The Dogs and Sheep. Farm and Fireside, a well known agricultural publication, prints let- this testimony, for the fear of the NEW LOT OF HORSES dog keeps the land owners in the State from embarking in that in- dustry. This is particularly the case in the mountain sections. where the natural opportunities for received this week HOR Es$ MADERO SPENT MILIAONS NJTR VVR ND MULS e us, OS. CO. The story of the weak and ruinous rule of Madero has never been ade i i ' : i . . ... . . I : " aneep nusDanary are tne nnest in quately told. It is enou.- h to sav the United States, because of the here that he was the most colossal abundance of grass and the favor- failure as a President that Mexico able Winter climate. Ask a we- bas eer kllown- In 15 months his tsji-u r i ' j. , government dissipated the $69,000, tern North Carolina farmer why heft in th ,rV uv ni' u'l -m ' I " w J J -- 111, UUU UUi" lie does not turn his valleys and rowed $200,000,000 more, pdded at niiiswes into sheep pasturage and aov,uu,uuu of revenue and he will bluntly answer- "Thpdna ' ? left XT Diaz, and bor- vne oi tne contributors to Farm this insignificant sum. was scattered and Fireside says there are "two amon tne various departments and reasons why sheep raisinir iq nnf was -not avaiiaoie ior' immediate profitable. One is dogs and the And with ail n vflt .ah,, other the cost of fencing. Many not on9 Promise for the betterment would keep sheep but for the fear ?f the ,people' had been fulfilled; no nf Hncrn nq this ; u-n - . fu".-jiihuucuhjuis, were maae; no or aogs, as this is a hilly section lnnot.-nnoi .n ' and sneep thrive better than any tensions of commerce or industry otner Kina oi stock. - Mann au were iosterea. I'eace was not restor- are being sold for the same reason ff .Me.xif was continuously inroi: just at present. The tariff mW ness was wreckpri hr nrofiu have some influence.-hut-tWo no; ed and her hope turned: to dfisnaip cause is dogs." That is the cubp1 was to wekto deal with all over the count q i a8e,the situation. The politicians were airover tne country. So long as at work. , : r - . - . He Would Travel That One Old Road, - Danger or No Danger. Cyril Maude, the English actor-man ager, who was in this country recently, In making a talk before a dramatists' society in New York told a story to Illustrate the inborn conservatism of his countrymen especially those resi flent in rural parts He said that through the fields be tween two villages in Sussex ran a footpath. Ii was not the quickest route in going from one of the bamlets to the other, for it wandered about, but It had been traced originally by the horny naked feet of Saxon serfs, and was as hard as stone, worn deep into the turf by the heels of countless gen erations. Everybody in the neighbor hood used it because everybody al ways had. A friend of Maude's, a country gen tleman, lived midway between the towns and led a reasonably quiet, not to say dull, existence. One day .he heard that a vicious bull was straying about the countryside, chasing inno cent pedestrians and frightening chil flren and generally misbehaving him- telf. Seeking for some variety from the monotony. Maude's friend went forth In the afternoon hoping to glimpse the bull. Once he heard him bellow, but he did not see him. For four afternoons he tried to discover the whereabouts of the maurauder, but with no luck On the fifth evening he lingered afield nntil nearly dusk. He had reached a Btile where a hedge crossed the foot path when be heard in the distance through the thickening gloom the pat ter of flying feet, mingled with the thud of heavy hoofs, a convulsive pant ing and the snorts of some large ani mal. Into sight came the local postman, an elderly person, legging along at top speed, his mail pouch bouncinc: on his hip, his whiskers neatly parted by the wind and blowing backward over his shoulders, and just behind him came the bull, lunging with his horns at the seat of the fugitive's trousers By half a length the fleeing man reached the hedge ahead of his pur suer. - He flune himself bearilonr ovpr the stile and in his safe protection lay breathless, while the bull, bellowing his disappointment, turned and strolled off to seek-an easier victim. The spectator aided the quivering postman to his feet. He almost had you tonight. Fletch er," said the gentleman sympathetic ally Fletcher - wiped his forehead and gasped: "'E's almost 'ad me everv niirht this week!" Saturday Evening Post. HE CARRIED A TINT CHERRY TREE. pall, there are the little suburban houses with, their vegetable and flow er gardens. And what an ardent farm er the suburbanite becomes! . "I was staying last spring with a suburban gardener f riend of mine. He had gone one evening for a stroll in his garden when suddenly his wife and I saw him run excitedly up the garden path toward us. He carried a tiny cherry tree no bigger than a small rosebush in one hand . "'Mary, Mary!', he called in heart broken tones. 'The wind has broken our cherry tree. I arrived Just in time for the poor little thing to die in my arms!'" 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