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PAGE TWO PUBLIC LEDGER WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1917. BACK TO TO THE FARM. (Communicated) If the price of provisions keep on climbing as they have been doing during the past year the effect should be a great stimulus to the "back to the farm" movement of which we have heard so much the past decade. Common sense and observation should teach any mam that one of the main reasons of the high price of food stuffs is the growing scarcity of farm labor, and the consequent curtailment of acreage cultivated. Thousands of farmers all over this country, unable to secure adequate help, are gradually curtailing their operations until it is no common sight to see a farm that formerly sold five or six hundred bushels of corn now hardly producing enough to feed the stock and fatten the pork. Of course we all know that a gang of unprincipled blood suckers have seized upon the war as an excuse for boosting the price of everything that we consume, but if a scarcity of pro duction did not exist the foreign de mand for foodstuff would be met and there would still remain in this coun try a sufficient quantity to supply all home demand at reasoneble prices. Just why young men and older ones, too, should wish to leave the farm and rush off to the overcrowded cities is not easy to understand. True they work hard on the farm. And equally true, they work"1 even harder in the city and save less. In a ma jority of cases, unless they are intel lectually far above the average of mankind, they live in penury and die in want. With the present demand for farm produce it would certainly appear the height of folly to abandon the certainly of plenty on the farm for the precarious life or the average city dweller. A New York writer gives as a reas on for men leaving the farm, that they dread bei'ng known as "Country Jakes." That writer is a jackass and his statement is a joke. With the present easy means of commun ication between town and country it is difficult in these days to distinguish the town man from the countryman. If anything, the countryman' ap proaches nearer to masculine per fection than the city cousin. Looked at from whatever angle we may view it, the question of the fu ture of the farm is serious. That our young men are leaving it by thousands is a fact. That there are none to replace them is a lamentable fact. And in endeavoring to locate the cause one is almost forced to the con clusion that the men of this nation are gradually losing the love of hon est toil for which their forefathers were noted. NO NEED TO FEAR BALDNESS Here's a Good Way to Stop Loss of Hair and Start New Hair Growth If your hair is falling or thinning out, don't wait another day, but go to J. G. Hall and get a bottle of Par isian Sage, the truly efficient hair grower. Don't say: "It's the same old story; I've heard it before," but try a bot tle at their risk. They guarantee Parisian Sage to grow hair, to stop falling hair, to cure dandruff and stop scalp itch, or money back. Parisian Sage contains just the elements needed to properly invigor ate and (nourish the hair roots. It's a prime favorite with discriminating ladies because it makes the hair soft, bright, and appear twice as abundant. Parisian Sage is inexpensive and easily obtainable at all drug stores. KNAPP'S TEN COMMANDMENTS Thirty Books of Great Fiction. Now that the nights are long what can be more interesting than a good book to read by a cozy fire? In all ages the best and most complete ex pression of the Ideals and tendencies of a people is found in the literature of that people. Mr. Claxtotn, who is the head of the Federal Bureau of education, says that in the present time we are to look for this expres ion in the great works of fiction. No matter how much education one has, if he has not read some of the great works of fiction his education is not complete. Literature as nothing else can give one an outlet for his own ideals and thoughts, a better knowl edge of human nature, and a mastery of his own language. The thirty books below are stand ard books of modern fiction, prescrib ed by the United States Bureau of Education. How many have you read? Get one and read it now. Adam Bede. George Eliot. 2. Arabian Nights. 3. A Modern Instance. William Dean Howells. 4. Clarissa Harlowe. Samuel Rich ardson. 5. David Copperfield. Charles Dickens. 6. Guy Mannering. Sir Walter Scott. 7. History of Henry Esmond. Wil liam M. Thackeray. 8. Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott. 9. Joseph Vance.. William F. De Morgan. 10. Kidnapped. Robert Louis Ste venson. 11. Lorna Doone. R.. D. Blackmor 12. Luck of Roaring Camp. Bret Harte. 13. Ordeal of Ricard Feverel. Geo. M,erideth. 14. Pilgrim's Progress. John Bun yan 15. Austen. 16. foe. 17. 18. Pride and Prejudice. Jane Robinson Crusoe. Daniel De- E. J. Justice of Greensboro who is now handling a hundred million dol lar suit for the federal government on the Pacific coast, is said to be felat ed for even a bigger and better place than Ik now has. He will be offered according to well founded rumors, a. position as assistant to Attorney Gen eral Gregory, and placed in charge of all of the public land litigations now before the department of justice. On the eve of the leavetaking of her honored and most beloved son, Louisburg paid a worthy and fitting tribute to Governor-elect Thomas W. Bickett Wednesday might in a ban quet at the hotel given by the citizens of Louisburg. Ten per cent increase in salaries of all Agricultural department em ployes paid $1,200 a year or less and y 5 per cent for those who get from $1,200 to $1,800 is authorized in the annual Agricultural Appropriation bill, passed by the House. The meas ure carries $25,694,685. Romola. George Eliot. Tale of two Cities. Charles Dickens. ID. The Cloister a-nd the Hearth. Charles Reade. 20. Vanity Fair. William M. Thackeray. 21. Vicar of Wakefield. Oliver Goldsmith. 22. Last of the Mohicans. J. Feni more Cooper. 23. Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 24. The Pilot. J. Feniomre Coop er. 25. Les Miserables. Victor Hugo. 26. The Three Musketeers. Alex ander Dumas. 27. Pere Goriot. Honore de Bal zac. 28. Anna Kerenina. Count Leo Tolstoi. 29. With Fire and Sword, Hen ryk Sienkiewicz. 30. Treasure Island. Robert Louis Stevenson. The fellow who does it today in stead of tomorrow seldom has to pon der over the mistakes of yesterday. If the pnceof print paper continues upward we will soon be tempted to circulate $50.00 bills instead. Now that everybody is talking of national defence let's have something besides talk. Oh, yes, everybody wants peace, and nobody knows how to get it. 1917 is easy to write think of it. -when you MRS. CLAYTON'S LETTER To Run-Down, Nervous Women Louisville, Ky. "I was a nervoua wreck, and in a weak, run-down con dition when a friend asked me to try Vinol. I did so, and as a result I have gained in health and strength. I think tt i ii i j. 1 1 xi i j Vinoi is me uesi, iu m me worm j wm it be a dove of peace, or a for a nervous, weak, run-down system bll77ard of nrpv? and for elderly people." Mrs. W. a . bumrd ofprey. Clayton, Louisville, Ky. i w, , , Vinol, which contains beef and cod When you make up your mmd liver peptones, iron and manganese that you can't do a thing, take afresh peptonates, and glycerophosphates, start and do it. is guaranteed to overcome all run- ; down, weak, devitalized conditions. The opportunity that once passes J. G. HALL, Druggist, Oxford, X. k you never shows up again. Founder of the Farmers Co-Opera-tion Demonstration Work. Govenor Bickett said in his inau gural address that these command ments, printed in letters of gold, ought to be framed and hung in every rural school house in North Carolina: 1. Prepare a deep and thorough ly pulverized seed bed, well drained; break in the fall to the depth of eight or ten inches, according to the soil, with implements that will not bring the subsoil to the surface. (When breaking is done in the spritng the foregoing depths should be reach ed gradually.) 2. Use seed of the best variety, intelligently selected and carefully stored. 3. In cultivating crops, give the rows and the plant in the rows a space suited to the plant, the soil and the climate. 4. Use intensive tillage during the growing period of the crops. 5. Secure a high coin tent of hu mus in . the soil by the use of legu mes, barnyard manure, farm refuse and commercial fertilizers. 6. Carry out a systematic rotation of crops with a winter cover crop on Southern farms. 7. Accomplish more work in a day by using more horse power and better implements. 8. Increase the farm stock to the extent of utilizing, all the waste pro ducts and idle lands on the farm. 9. Produce all the food required for the meai and animals on the farm. 10. Keep an account of each farm product, in order to know from which the gain or the loss arises. UNCLE WALT MASON. An HI Wind. To pay the grocer for his butter I had to soak my lyre; my warelike breast was all a-flutter with forty kinds of ire I quoted passages from Dante, itn my profound despair, and said I'd wreck the grocer's shanty, and pull the grocer's hair. And then I heard that merchant nititter, "Cool down, cool down, my son! I wish that I could sell you butter at fifty cents the ton. For I get tired of hearing kickers who snort around and swear; I'm weary of the man who bickers and howls and paws the air. The grocer, friend, is m no danger of salting wealth away; it is the horny handey granger who's getting rich to day." Then I cast down my martial armor, my shotgun and my sword, and said, "If this thing helps the far mer, I'm sorry that I roared. When I was young and full of yearning for manhood to begin, I use to do the weekly churning, and bring the hen- fruit to town. And so I'll, make no further sputters, nor no more I'll rant around; for I'm aware that country butter is worth two bones a pound. If THE ROTARY CLUB OF RALEIGH WDLIj PRESENT PMffiTOKI WORLD-FAMED POLISH PIANIST AT THE RALEIGH AUDITORIUM Tuesday Evening JANUARY 23, 8:30 P. M. PRICES ARENA, $2.50 and $2.00 DRESS CIRCLES, $2.00-$1.50 Mail orders, accompanied by money orders or national bank checks, may be addressed to J. C. ALLISON, Secretary, Rotary Club, Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIBE FOR PUBLIC LEDGER Are Your Sewers Clogged? The bowels are the seweraere sys tem of the body. You can well im agine the result when they are stop ped up as is the case in constipation. As a purgative you will find Cham berlain's Tablets excellent. They are mild and gentle in their action. They also improve the digestion. adv SUBSCRIBE FOR PUBLIC LEDGER For the first time, war prices on wheat at Chicago touched a long pre dicted goal of two dollars a bushel No. 2 red winter wheat for immediate delivery sold at that price, aaid ad vance of about 5 cents since Satur day. Pressing demand for shipment to Europe and for domestic milling needs were generally accepted rea sons for the rise. Simultaneous with the ascent of wheat other grain went soaring.The corn market jump ed to above $1 a bushel and barley touched $1. The First North Carolina Brigade became the Third brigade of the Ten th Division. MWMC1EI1EOT!I 8 ;! i a Lyon-Winston Company Appreciate the Liberal Patronage Extended to us During the Past. We Solicit a Continuance and Promise You the Best Efforts in Every Way. r i WE HAVE LARGE STOCK: Plant Bed Cloth at low Prices. Plant Bed Guano. Cotton Seed Meal. Grain, Hay, Ship Stuff, Bran, etc. Large stock Chattanooga, Dixie and Girl Champion Plows, Axes and Mattocks, Disc, Spike and Acme Harrows. Plow Harness, Collars and Bridles. 1 and 2 Horse Wagom Harness. Oxford Chase Buggies and Harness to match, Blankets, Robes, Whips, etc. One of the best lot of Mules and Horses ever seen in Oxford. We can suit you. Prices reasonable on everything. Red hot stove to warm you. Yours truly, ILn 11 lUiv wren (COo
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