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PUOLIC LEDGER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 1014. PUBLIC LEDGER -AND OXFORD CBANNER Fntered as second-class matter at Oxford poatofflce. l'Hbllxhed Semi-Weekly by BRITT & COBLE. J no. X. Bs-itt. Dab A.. CobU, EDITORS AND OWNERS PRICE OP SUBSCRIPTION: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Three Months 50 ADVERTISING RATES One year contract 10c per inch, net, each insertion, run of paper. Six months 12 l-2c per inch, net each insertion, run of paper. Three months 15c per inch, net, each insertion, run of paper. PREFERRED POSITIONS On one year contract 12 l-2c per Inch net, eica insertion. Six months 15c per inch, net, each in sertion. Three months 18c per inch, net, each insertion. One or two months 25c per inch, net, each insertion. Reading notices 5c per type line-each insertion. Cash with order to those not having an account with us. Greensboro business men have raised $1,000 to help complete in Randolph county a section of the road that wil! join Greensboro and Pinehurst. o Lieutenant Governor E. L. Daught ridge is on duty at Raleigh as Gover nor for a few days while Governor Craig ib out of the State until August 3 0 filling engagements for addresses in Peimaylvania and Ohio. For the first time in its history. the Alabama state Republican con vention, held at Birmingham Wed nesday, was without any negro del egates. They were barred by the ex ecutive committee, and it was ex peoted there would be a fight to ad mit them, but it did not materialize. o With a billion and nearly three hundced million dollars in gold coin and bullion stored in treasury vaults and about $600,000 more of coin in circulation, treasury officials say the United States has no cause for alarm over the tremendous shipments of gold from New York to war-clouded Europe. o For the first time in the history of the government the affairs of the de partment of state will be directed from a North aCrolina city when Sec retary of State William Jennings Bry an reaches Asheville some time next week and establishes, official head quarters for the department of which he is the oflleijil head. o Taylorsville Scout says Dr. R. Z Linney writes that he has just har vested over 10,000 bushels of wheat If you see anybody 'with several in growing pains, it is a calamity howler who has just learned that the esti mate for the year's corn crop has been increased from 2,868,000,000 bushels to 3,000,000,000. o (jhathamites are hard to beat. Mr. J. R. Rives, now living' in Lee county, this year raised a cantaloupe that weighed 30 pounds. Those North Carolina farmers who produced plenty of wheat to sell will get big prices for the grain, as will also those farmers who raised plenty of corn. War invariably causes the price of foodstuffs to soar. Raleigh Times. The Philadelphia Record ridicules the calamitous and clamorous New "York Sun for claiming that New York will elect 21 Republican Congressmen this Fall. In view of the fact that the Sun hopes the Republicans will con trol Congress, the people should pray fervently against any possible resumption of the freebooting which caused the people to put the Repub licans out of business in 1912. o Maj. James Daniel Richardson, aged 71 years, sovereign grandcom mander of the Scottich Rite Masons, Southern jurisdiction, died Friday afternoon at his home in Murfrees boro, Tenn. He was a Confederate veteran and served as a representa tive in Congress for 18 years, being leader of the Democratic minority whea he refused to accept another nomination some years ago. o Complete agreements on the sundry oivil and general deficiency appropri ation bills were reached this week by the Senate and House conferees.The Indian apr ropriation bill is the only supply measure left for conference. A provision in the general deficiency bill authorizes the Treasurj' to adjust claims for $175,000 due heirs of Con federate officers in connection with prior service in the United States army. The House committee on postoffkes has decided to eliminate the clause ot the bill under which assistant post masters in offices of first and second class would be exempted from civil service protection. This action is due to a desire to pass the bill quickly and avoid Republican filibustering. At present thousands of assistant postmasters in offices of these class es are Republican-.;, having held oer from the last administration o Mr. L. A. Lipe has brought suit in Buncombe Superior court for the re covery of $3,000 from the Southern Railway company, alleging that by reason of the failure of the company to keep its bell cord in proper re pair, he lost the hearing of his left ear. He claims that while working on the engine the fireman was at tempting to repair the bell cord when the whistle was blown within proxim ity to the plaintiff's ear, the drum be ing burst. The temperance committee of the Georgia state senate has voted to re port adversely the McNeill bill to le galize the manufacture and sale within the state of beer containing not more than 4 per cent alcohol. The measure was opposed by state temperance organizations. The sale of near-beer now is legal in Georgia. New proposals submitted by the federal mediators at Chicago in an effort to avert a strike of 55,000 en gineers and firemen on 98 Western railroads have been under considera tion by both sides. Judge Knapp, of the mediation board, said he hoped the proposals would bring peace, but that the situation was still grave. That the Rothschilds of Paris and London purchased 100,000 acres of Lower California lands from the Hu erta government in Mexico a month ago for one cent an acre and that Victoriano Huerta received $500,- O00 for allowing the sale is charged by. Gen. Carranza, in a message to his agents in the United States. o Driven desperate by inability to purchase habit-forming drugs under the new prohibition law in Roches ter, N. Y., eight victims of drugs, all young men, Thursday applied to the police and were locked up. They de clared if they were not placed in confinement they feared they would either commit murder or self de struction. In a comparative statement insert ed in the record of the House of Rep resentatives showing the individual income tax paid by 14 Southern States in proportion to the popula tion of each, North Carolina ranks twelfth. This State paid a total of $46,566.55, according to the figures submitted, its population being given as 2,206,2 87, and the amount paid per 1,000 population, $21.11. A DAILY PKAYEII Fathers, ' mothers, teachers, all who have the training and guidance of children, will you not add this pe tition to the daily prayer of those en trusted to your care: Almighty God, Father of all Mercies, help me to be kind to animals, and incline also, I pray Thee, the hearts of men and children everyhere to be kind to them and to prevent cruelty to the birds and beasts the world over. Amen. This brief prayer was born in the heart of a great lover of animals, un der circumstances that recalled vivid ly his early days. He cannot help thinking of it as a means of unmeas ured good if only it could be taught to the heart of childhood and become one of the ends for which it lives and prays. Exchange. FORMER ARM IKS OF WORMS It has been about 25 years since the army worm cut much of a figure in this part of the country. It was in this country that a farmer says that it crossed Neuse River on the Sea board Air Line track north of the city, got to his farm, destroyed every thing there and then he declares took the back-track. He adds that so many of the worms got on the track that a railway force had to be employ ed to shovel them off and extra quan tity of sand was necessary to make th locomotive wheels grip the rails. The army worm sometimes eats every thing in its path and then again is rather particular as to diet. This Wake county farmer declares that it was so greedy it ate the fascicles from the pine trees on his place and between it and the place already re ferred to. The Raleigh Times O OYERHKA RD COS VEUSATIOX Why this story has not been aired long ago is a wonder. One day about the time Mr. W. C. Hammer was pre paring to take over the office of Unit ed State district attorney, he was sitting in Mr. A. E. Holton's office in Winston, O. A. Keen, a postoffice in spector for the Wilson district came !n and not noting the presence of Mr. Hammer, proceeded to tell his friend Holton how he wras working things to keep Republicans in the post offices. They do say that Mr. Holton "winked and blinked" to beat the band, but Keen was not keen enough and he kept on talking. Mr. Hammer was in plain view; there was no reason why he should not hear and tell what he heard. Why he did not tell the story at once we do not know. He was not eavesdropping. What they will do to Mr. Keen will make him wish he had been keener. But what he told Hol ton is an old story. Republicans have been playing the game for forty years A Democrat who happened to be found in an office under a Republican administration was fired as quick as a shot can be fired from a rapid-fir. gun. But when the Democrats are in control, they seem to be unable to do the job. Mr. H. E. C. Bryant, in his letter to The Charlotte Observer airs the whole thing and says they are after Mr. Keen with sharp knives, the only thing needed being the affi davit of Mr, Hammer, which we im agine will be forthcoming very soon. . HIS PREFERENCE 'Dearest, I would die for you." "I know you would, my Mabel, but I like your hair better as it is." SEE THERMOMETER Imp "Here are two spirits; one sinned knowlingly and the other ig- norautly." Satan "Put them both in the fur nace, but let the knowing one see the thermometer." New York Sun. SEVERAL NICE GO-CARTS AT cost. J. ROBT. WOOD. tf. 1 r ,. I - . -.......fYft HONORABLE AND GREAT The four months of this year end ing on the 15th of July were not con spicuous, and yet the country did honorable and great things . during that time. American troops were actually in possession of an important city on foreign soil says the Sentinel. At the time when a string of news papers and many public men were urging this government to make real war upon Mexico, the administration exercised great self-restraint. We stopped at Vera Cruz and did not advance on the City of Mexico. Huerta is out, and Mexico is in a shape to settle her own affairs on a peaceful basis. No one can now tell how much the revolution is going to acomplish, but if the lower classes of the Mexican people get back the land which was taken -from them, there will be peace in that country. However, it is Mexico's affair, and the less we meddle with it, the better. The American corporation which have bought oil concessions have not bought the right to run Mexico. After a few weeks our troops at Vera Cruz may return home with their work finished.thanks to the wis dom and sagacity - of the men at Washington who had to choose be tween war and peace. - , They made a- wise choice. The "watchful waiting" policy of the President, which was so- much derid ed by the Hearst newspapers and many politicians .appears to ha won a very decided . victory. HELD HIS JOB 81 YEARS Jake Hoebach rounded out a pleas ant celebration of his 104th birthday by eating a half section of a juicy cherry pie. Jake is employed as a farmhand on the country estate of D H. Kirknei 3d, in Roxborough, Pa He has held his present job for 81 years and has never once tired of his work. Here is the daily work programme of this spry young man of 104 years: 4 a. m. get up; 4.15, feed the horses; 4.25, start milking, 5.30, breakfast; 5.45, curry the horses; 6, hook up for the milk train, 7, back and take out a load of hay or plough; 8 to 11, chores 12, knock off for dinner; 1 p. m.; fix wagon and other odd jobs; 4, take the cows in to milk; 5, clean horses; 6, supper; 6.30, loaf around; 9, go to bed, with nothing to do till morning TAKE YOUR MEDICINE "Some rain must fall into every life, ' no skies are always clear, - No eye but some times has to feel the dampness of a tear; No heart is always Sight and glad, no cup is ever sweet, No life path always free from thorns that wound the toiling feet, But when the cares seem . heaviest then courage should be shown, No angry clouds can be dispelled and scattered with a moan, And when your sun is cloaked from sight restrain the rising curse- Just take your pill and thank the Lord it isn't any worse. The man who dodges in affright when trouble lightnings flash, Who cringes like a beaten ;cur be neath afllction's lash, Whose lips are pale with mute de spair whose head is lowly bowed, Whose timid spirit is appalled at every threatening cloud, Can never hope to breast the waves on life's tempestuous sea, Can never hope to hold his place with men more braye than he; So, timid mortal, show your nerve, fiht every reverse, And take your pill and thank the Lord it isn't any worse. The iren who plant their feet upon the summit pi success Are those who never faltered when confronted by distress Who sanded well the slip'ry track kspt rigid upper lip, And snickered in the face of care and never lost their sirip, Then courage take, ye faint of heart; the clouds wili pass away, The sunbeams of. success again upon your paths will play; ,' Don't sit around with scowling face, our every word a curse. But take your pill and thank the Lord it isn't any worse. Denver Post NO CAUSE FOR ALARM A ten-year-old girl, fresh from her first skating on the lake, dashed into a room where her sister was. sitting, "holding converse" with her most particular young man acquaintance. "Sis, you ought to have seen me," she breathlessly cried; "the first time I stood up my feet went right up in the air and I came down plump on my " "Minnie," interrupted the sifter, getting uneasy. "Wei! what?" asked Minnie. ?fMy legs just scooted from under me and I came down plump on my " 'Minnie," screamed her sister, leave the room instantly!" "But he's hurt, ' said Minnie. "Hurt?" asked the sister; "who's hurt?" "Why, brother. I came down on him, only you wouldn't let me tell you. MISS GERTRUDE LANDIS WISHES to announce .that Mr. Rudolph Shedd, of Washington, D. C. will give a series of lessons in all the modern dances, beginning the week of August 3rd in the Armory. For particulars apply to Miss Lan dis. A class for children will be held in the morning. 1 UIT v i NEW CROP OF Turnip Seeds We Want to Sell You Your Seed. All varieties of New Crop, the Prize Winning kind, the best and most reliable of all turnip seed just received. Come to see us our prices are right. Yours for the best turnip patch you ever had. Lyon Dreg Store "Is the Place." Colleee St. Oxford. IV. G. What I Want You Have It, Risk, What Yoo Want, I Have it, Protection, Why Not Exchange? The New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.; of Boston, Mass. with 70 years of experience can fit yonr case in any form of the O E S T contracts written by Insur ance Companies of today. Let Jack Howard Show You. I r LITTLETON COLLEGE 1 A well established, well equipped and very prosperous school f ir girls and young wntrifn Fa'l term b(ius Sept. 18. 1914. For catalogue, address (S. 24.3m.) J. M. Rhodes, Littleton, N.C. KEEP OIV USING But Don't Forget to Buy Your Coal AT All the Best Kinds. Oxford Bee Co, B. S. 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IT is today, with a faculty of 33, a boarding patronage of Cdillt 368, a student hody of 428, and a plant worth $1.0,UUU, The Leading: Training $150 PAYS all charges for the year, including Table Board, A 4 ma Iloom, Lig-hts, Steam Heat, Laundry, Medical Atten- k I Sll tention, Physical Culture and Tuition in all subjects V UV except music and elocution. rrr Can parents find a school wish a better record, with, more expoi ieru ed management at snch moderate cost? For catalogue and application hlank address GEO. P. ADA3IS, Secretary, Blackstone, Va. WHITSETT INSTITUTE Whitsett, Guilford County, North Carolina A leading Bearding School for Two Hundred and Fifty Students. Prepares for College, for Basinets, for Teaching, or for Life, ' Seasonable Bates. Established 1888. In the healthful Piedmont region near Greensboro, K. C. For Beautiful Catalogue, Views, 4c, address the President. W. T. WHITSETT. PH. D.. WHITSETT. NORTH CAROLINA i ''2 '" WARRENTON WARRENTON, N. 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