rsSEPTElBKR 1, 1915 PTJ BIiIO li E D G E R PAGE THREE Will You Keep Cool A Hinute? X hh KEEP YOU COOIi ALL vXX FOR THE PRICE OF v DRINK AT YOUR SODA FOUNTAIN WHEVYUGET THT UN C03ffORTABLE FEELING GET NEXT TO ONE OF THESE .ijich Straight fan only $ 8.00 10-inch Straight fan only. .12.00 o inch Oscillating fan only 16.00 16 inch Straight fan only. .15.00 I6.inch Oscillating fan only 19.00 52-inch Ceiling fan only. . .25.00 Carolina Power & Light Company. r Having purchased the entire bus iness of W. D. Stimson the Oxford Jewelry Company OXFORD, N. C. Offers its services to the public, and invites you to caU and inspect its complete stock of DIAMONDS, WATCHES RINGS SILVERWARE ORNAMENTS An expert watch repairer is at your service, and absolutely guar anteed. Anything desired not in stock will be ordered for you. Prices reasonable, and all goods guaranteed to be as represented r win eM mmm my The For years the old reliable Johnson Warehouse has been noted tfor its high average of prices. This year I have the house by myself and I intend to keep up the high record that has been made in the past. I will use every effort to get you the top-notch price for every pound of tobacco. Mig Lie If you can't way and see the your headquarters. Plenty of stables. k Ilfflds of Good Ligkts, fel Ftow Sipifflce, : ; ' Yours For Highest Prices Johnson- Warehpiiseo SAM WATKINS, Prop. ' ' Mocks om Attornoys-at-Law. OXFORD, - - - N. CAROLINA. Practice in State We grow them. Roses, violets, Vallies, and carnations a spec ialty. Wedding and funeral flowers arranged in the latest artistic styles. BLOOMING POT PLANTS: Ferns, palms and many other nice plants for the house. Write for our Spring Price list of rose bushes, , shrubberies, hedge plants, evergreens and shade trees. - Our Business Is Late Cabbage and Collard Plants reay now. J. L. O'Quinn & Co. FLORIST, Raleigh, N. C. Phones i Store 42, Greenhouse 149, B. S. ROYSTER, ATTORN E Y-AT-LAW practice: in state and federal courts offices odd pellows'bldo HUlsboro St., OXFORD, N. C. Public Ledger Want Ads are read by the people. If you have a want let them know it. Small cost. nts mnuiu get a load ready, others sell Make (Q)p fill MISS OREVi'S SECRETARY Dy JEANNE KILBY. Carlotta Drew pushed away the ac count books that littered her desk and sighed wearily. . "Oh, dear, I never can make these books balance," she panted. "I wish Miss Smith had not been so stupid or MXOa "ollBU "veuiy. i simpiy can t ewt mong wunout a secretary." . - . "You might try one of the secre tarial schools," suggested Mrs. Marsh, bending over her embroidery. ; "I will I must have someone at once.", -O: ' O -, 'y'f-ys;--. , . , , Carlotta picked up the receiver and telephoned her wishes: 7 ; "Send: along anyone who is fairly intelligent," she wailed at last. "There," she said, looking defiantlv at ner aunt, "tney are sending up a young man. a young man!" echoed Mrs. k Marsn. "Are you crazv. Carlotta?" 'Only desperate, Aunt Anna." 1 shall send him away again.' Not until he has straightened out my accounts. I make them say that I, have spent just four dollars instead of five hundred in the last month, and yet my .cheekbook shows I have over drawn my account." - .. "What a muddle!" sighed Mrs. Marsh. "You really ought to marry a good business man, my dear, some one who can look after you and your property." : : "I met - a . man last summer," she began. Then, biting her lips to keep back a secret she had not dared con fess to anyone but herself, she added gayly, "I'm going out, Aunt Anna. If the young man comes tell him to straighten out my books. I'll be home before he leaves." . ( It was an hour after Carlotta's de parture when Biggs brought in a card. "Mr. Anthony Lester:" ! "Humph!" sniffed Mrs. Marsh, looking coldly at the tall, self-possessed yfflinman whoregarded ; her 9 " come along any- our warehouse g sal um III so affably. "My niece is out" at pres ent. She wants you to wait until she returns. No use wasting your time, though. Miss Drew said you might straighten out her books there on the desk find out what the 'trouble is." Lester smiled and sat down at the desk. Presently Mrs. Marsh noted that ' he was working busily over the offending accounts. He worked ; so steadily that Aunt Anna's heart warmed toward him. She would reward him with a little amiable conversation . "Are you married?". she asked abruptly. Good heavens no ! " he , laughed. I was married for twenty years and I never ' had one single regret. My husband has been dead for ten years. Ours was a perfect marriage," sighed Mrs. Marsh, , now on . her favorite topic, "and I dislike to hear young people laugh flippantly at matri mony." i ;:: --- . " ' : Lester colored. "I assure you," he said gently, . "I had no intention of laughing. It was the idea of your thinking I would be -here" His voice trailed into embarrassed si lence. Aunt Anna Marsh sat up stiffly and regarded him over the tops of her eye- glasses. "Young man," she said sternly, "when . you came here tthis afternoon did you know that my niece, Miss Drew, is very, very rich indeed?" Lester had the grace to blush quite perceptibly. "Yes," he said at last. "I thought so " she said. Lester got up and paced the floor. Now he', was scowling in a most un pleasant manner, but even the black look didn't mar his handsome face. "Can't a man marry a rich girl ; without being called a fortune hun ter?" he suddenly asked. "No!" exploded Aunt Anna indig nantly. ; ' V "Does your niece share your views that every man no! I won't doubt her for an instant!" He turned to ward the desk.. v w ' .j;.j The door flew open and in came a radiant Carlotta, her blue eyes agleam with, the glad light of surprise andl ner cneexs agiow. , she cried, - and she went straight into the arms of the "secretary young man," who held her closely. Aunt Anna shut her eyes upon this horrifying sight. . ; "And there is the poor secretary waiting in the hall," cried ; Carlotta, releasing herself from Lester's arms, "The secretary! Carlotta Drew, who Is this young man?" demanded Mrs. Marsh in a tragic tone. "Why it's Anthony Lester, the man I almost told you about it's a secret that we , love each other, and I sup pose now our engagement must be an nounced. Who did you think he was, auntie?" she asked curiously. Lester gallantly came to the rescue and Aunt Anna never forgot it. She took him to her heart even before she discovered that he was considerably richer than Carlotta. "Why, who did you think he was? repeated the girl curiously. "Mrs. Marsh . asked me to help straighten out your accounts," he in terposed tactfully. "I've brought or- der out of chaos, but there's still one more thing to settle" 'A small, dapper-looking youth, with owlish, spectacled eyes, entered the room meekly. "This is Mr. Mook, the secretary. Aunt Alina,' said Carlotta. fCopynght, 1915, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate. ROOMS FOR RENT ONE LARGE and one small room m the Mitchell Building. Apply to J. T. Britt nnv to Fight Tuberculosis Ti. - m n nnor read las year before the Bexar County Medical Society and published in part In the Louis ville "Medical Progress," Dr. J. W. Carhart, of San Antonio, Texas, a physician who has devoted much time to the study of tuberculosis, said: "Since lime salts constitute three-fourths of all the mineral sub stances of the human body, theiy must be supplied in the foods or supplemented in mineral prepare- . tlons, or natural starvation ensues with tuberculosis unchecked. The widespread and unchecked spread of tuberculosis and other preventable diseases Is due largely to the. decalcified-(lime lacking) conditions, of multitudes throughout the civilised W Thus from another authoritative medical source comes .justification for the use of lime in the treatment of tuberculosis. j Since this is one of the ingredi ents of Eckman's Alterative, much of the success attending the wide Snread use of this remedy doubtless i? due to the combination of this salt in such a way as to render it lasily assimilable. It causes no stomach disturbance and since it contains neither opiates, narcotics nor habit-forming; drugs, It is safe tEckman,s Alterative has effected remarkable results in - numerous Saes of pulmonary tuberculosis Consumption) and allied chronic af fections of the throat and bronchial Passages.: In many Instances such conditions, apparently, have yielded CSPlceaIey it, ask him to order or send direct tEe Laboralw delphta: For Sale By J. G. Hall. Oxford N. C. HEALTH NOTES , (By Benj. K. Hays, Health Officer Typfioid Vaccination. , About fifty people are receiving , the typhoid vaccination at my office every Saturday afternoon. The vac cine is furnished by the State and is administered without charge every Saturday afternoon from three to five Of the two hundred and fifty people who have taken the treatment so far only two or three have been made sick by it and no one has been unable to be up and at work on the follow ing Monday. In the entire history of the treatment, including practical ly every soldier now engaged in the European war as well as every per son in the American army and navy, no death or permanent injury.has re- suited from the vaccination. The life of asoldier makes hint-peculiarly subject to typhoid fever, and yet, as a -result of the compulsory vaccina tion now enforced in the United Sta tes army typhoid fever has practical ly disappeared from among " the troops. Health Work injthe Canal Zone When Dr. Gorgas, in the year 1900 went to the city of Havana to fight yellow fever he found that for the preceeding ten years . the average, numbr of deaths in the city from the disease was five hundred. v After eight months work spent in fighting mosquitoes, backed by federal auth ority, yellow fever was stamped out of Havana and has found no foot hold there since. Gorgas was then sent to Panama to fight malarial and yellow fever there. These . two dis eases had in some years killed as many as one half the workmen on the canal, and, in fact, had made the continuation of the work impossible. When Gorgas began his campaign a- gainst mosquitoes in the cities of Panama and Colon the Governor wrote back to this country and beg ged that this theoretical fool be re moved and a man of some practical sense be placed in his position. Gor gas converted a pest hole into a health resort, and the average death rate today in the canal zone is less than that in American cities. Five hundred deaths from one dis ease' in a city of two hundred and fif ty thousand people shows a most a- larming condition. And yet, to ev ery two hnudred and fifty thousand people in North Carolina tuberculos- is kills six hundred and sixty annual ly. If a case of small pox appears in Oxford the whole town is set agog, if a dog with rabies runs through our streets the town throws a spasm, but the well known fact that ten people within one mile of the court house in Oxford die every year of tubercu losis makes so little impression that we do not even enforce the law a- gainst spitting on the side walks. Oxford's J)eath Rate. , The death rate in the town of Ox ford is sixteen per thousand popula tion. It could easily be reduced to twelve per thousand DODulation. Counting the population in Oxford and immediate vicinity as five thous and we see that there are four deaths per thousand population or a total of twenty deaths in Oxford every year tnat are entirely unnecessary.. Now. let us suppose that the people in Ox- ford have, no desire to prolong their lives except for the purpose of sav- ing funeral expenses, and let us sup pose that the average funeral, costs fifty dollars.; Then twenty unneces sary deaths and funerals costs this town one thousand dollars every year. If we put an economic value of one thousand dollars upon the in- dividual then Oxford pays an annual tax of twenty thousand dollars for unnecessary ? deaths. The Negro Death Rate It is answered that the high death rate is largely among negroes. This is true, but the greater number of whites in Oxford makes - the total number of deaths in the two races about equal. Suppose the white peo-' pie had no interest in the death , of the negro population save as it ef- fects the whites. " There is no known disease which affects negroes to which white people are not subject. The relationship of the two races is such that disease in the negro is of more danger to whites than disease among the whites. The cook with tuberculosis is a far .greater danger to an entire family than the members of the family suffereing with the dis ease would be to one another. The rsamA thine- is triift of a. "tvntioid car rier, rne nurse tnat naroors aip theria "germs in her throat is certain ly more dangerous to an infant than the infant's father would be were he a "diDhtheria carrier." .Personally I regard the most important work-that any- southern health officer can do is to improve the health conditions a- mong the colored population. is cheap;' and Devoe is not -the only good paint; it is one of a dozen; and, very likely, the only one in your, town there are hundreds of middling and bad. You can see what chance there is of another good one there: perhaps UlitJ 111 ICU Cll. IUC 1UIFDI. ' Bad paint is dearest; middling is dear; costs 2 or 3 times as much as the best. . . , No matter about the cost a gallon; that isn't it ; the cost a square foot the cost a job ; better yet the cost a year. . . There's a whole education in paint in this advertisement. ' Av DEVOE. ; - Acme Hardware Company sells it.