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PAGE TWO PUBLIC IiEDGER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3. inir And Now the Barbers (Fairbr other's Everything) There will be a law passed by the legislature, if the Durham idea pre vails to make barber shops more san itary. The law will prohibit people afflicted with certain diseases from visiting the barber shops. For instan ce men with Doodle Bugs and pel lagra and hooking worms and other vermiform abpendices and other things of like nature will shave them selves or grow roosting places for the germs. Just who is to determine whether a man has Doodle Bugs is the ques tion but.it is a bill that will create a few new offices, no doubt. We would suggest that a part of Pershing's ar my be stationed at each barber shop, and if they couldn't catch Villa may be they could catch the germ instead of the disease. Every man who pro posed to enter the tonsorial parlor will be halted, made to salute and give, the counter-sign. Each day there will be a new pass word. The Grand High Germ Catcher will hold public meetings to disclose this mys tic word. A few hundred men could very easily handle this. For instan ce if the pass word today was "Bed Bug" tomorrow have it "Cockroach"" or somethig equally as euphonious. The idea is to impress upon all the people that they have disease, and by keping everlastingly at it they might be forced, by the- power of mind to contract it, if they don't happen to have it right now. And - the barber will call out "next" and when some emanciated devil with a two weeks' growth of alfalfa on his chin starts towards the chair, the Grand High Bouncer will run a themometor in his mouth feel his pulse, look at his ton gue and take his blood presure and tell him to wait a week until it can be determined whether or not he has the hooking worm or the cabbage snake. All such bill and laws make the commonwealth. They give the idle men a chance to get their hand into the general treasury and do no good. The average man who goes to a bar ber shop may have any old disease and if the barber runs a clean place there will be no danger. The while the nation allows lung-spitting passengers to ride across the conti nent in velvet lined cars and the germs take' refuge in the lungs of the fellow who never knew what tuber culosis meant. But the barber shop is the place to head it off. The Dur ham statesman who envolved the i dea should be given the iron cross and the doublecross. Just a lot of foolishness. masm m HOW STEAMER AVAS TAKEN SOME FACTS FROM AFAR. , Aotes Bearing on Industrial Develop ment in Various Parts of the Busy World. North Carolina has three negro nor mal schools. Factories yearly pay $140,943, 000 in wages in California. England's pepaer-box trade em ploys 30,000 workers. The Hell Gate bridge, now nearing completion cost $30,000,000. A Sate-owned paper mill is being advocated in Missesta. Los Angles county has the largest olive grove in the world. More than 30,000 government civ il employees are paid less than $820 a year each. Pension funds for "municipal em ployees have been established in 159 cities in this country. A Hungarian inventor has succeed ed in perfecting a wooden, sole shoe that is flexible. More than 36,000,000 barrels of oil were used as fuel for locomotives in the United States last year. , A rough estimate of the power that can be devefoped from the rivers of Alabama places the total at 1,378,7 000 horse power. Women are employed by the En glish railroads to handle freight in the sheds, and in many instances are paid as much as the men. Los Angeles city has 439.56 miles of paved streets. The county which leads all the counties of the United States in that respect has 1,144 miles. With the completion of the Hell Gate Bridge, an all rail journey from Novo Scqtio via New York to the south and the west .will be possible. German Raider Had no Trouble AVith Hostile Crew. Some of the details of the voyage of the British steamer Yarrowdale, captured by the , German commerce raider in the South Atlantic and brought into Swinemunde, were dis closed today by Naval Lieutenenant Badewitz, commander of the German prize crew, which brought her into port, in an interview with a represen tative of the Oeverseas News Agency. Reporting the interview, the agency says: "Lietenenant Badewitz, when ask ed how he succed in brining the Yarrowdale through the North At lantic and the blockade into the North Sea with a crew of only 16 men and several hundred hostile per sons on board, replied: " 'For such an action you need only to exercise coolness and deter mined, blunt carelessness, especially if you have to deal with Englishmen. In addition, yd u. 'need to have a hand ful of smart boys like mine who have their hearts in the right place and revolvers in their pockets. Then you can fetch the devil from his own house. ' 'The dicipline was first rate, whenever the order to go below was issued, the whole crowd of prisoners hurried to the lower decks, running like hares.' '' 'Lieutenant Badewitz said he and rne t men or nis own crew never left the bridge of the Yarrowdale and all preperations were made to sink the ship at a moment's notice with out leaving the bridge. All on board he said, knew that he would have sunk the vessel in event of a mutiny or a revolt. "The captured captains were sen sible and did much to hold their men in check. The prisoners thought that they could count upon touching at a Norweign port. .Among them were six members of tne British na vy, of whom three belonged to an English armed merchantman on board which they had served as gun ners. "When the Yarrowdale was riding at anchor south of Island Haven, in the sound on account of the fog one British naval gunner and one civil ian jumped overboard to swim asore but they soon began to cry for help. They were rescued. "Before the war Lieutenant Bade witz was employed in the merchant service. He lives at Kiel." GIRLS! HAVE WAVY, THICK, GLOSSY HAIR FREE FROM DANDRUFF. Save your hair! . .Double its beauty in a few moments try this! If you care for heavy hair, that glistens with beauty and is radient with life; has an incomparable seft ness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. Just one application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides it im mediately disolves every particle of dandruff; you cannot , have nice, heavy, healthy hair if you have dand ruff. This destuctive scurf robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life, and if not overcome it pro duces a feverishness and jtching of the scalp; the hair roots famish, loos en and die; then the hair falls out fast. If your hair has been neglected and iz thin, faded, dry, scraggy or too oily get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine at any drug store or toilet counter; apply a, little as directed and ten minutes after you will say this was the best investment you ev er made. We sincerely believe, regadless of everything else advertised, that if you desire soft, lustrous, beautiful hair and losts of it no dandruff no itching scalp and i no more falling hair you must use Knowlton's Dan derine. If eventually why not now? a JOIN KNOW our Christmas Savings Club, there by alleviating the obligations in cident to the Xmas Holidays. We issue coupon books, the simplest system, payments being the same each week. Runs For 11 1-2 Months and Interest Allowed for 12 Closes February 15th, 1917 FIST NAT10NA I Mr1!; 2 3C c A Hint to the Aged. If people past sixty years of age could be persuaded to go to bed as soon as they take cold and remain in bed for one or two days, they would recover much more quickly, espec ially if they take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. There would also be less damger of the cold being fol lowed by any of the more serious de fl nr. :-: LEO E. BYRUM :-: COETCRACTOR - MIL1EK Estimates furnished on all class of work. Personal attention given to all details. Office on College street adjoining the Owen Warehouse. - PHONE 99-J r sid ffli RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. It Penetrates. Acts Quickly. Gives De sired Relief Without Dosing the Stomach with Medicine. At Druggists, 25c, 50c, $1.00 The following resolutions of Re spect were adopted by Berea Lodge No. 204 A. F. A. M. Whereas, It has pleased God, the architect of the Universe, to remove from our midst on December 26th, 1916, our brother, Rebert L. Clark, and Whereas he was an upright Mas son, In the full dicharge of his duty as he saw it through the injunctiotn, Therefore be it Resloved, First that in brother Clark this body has lost a worthy member, a kind-hearted friend and a brother of many noble traits of character. Second, That we bow in humble submission to the Heavenly Father, who doeth all things well. ' Third, That we extend our sympa thy to his berieved family. Fourth, That a copy of these reso lutions be spread upon our minutes and a copy be sent to the Oxford Pub lic Ledger, with the request that they be published. f E. B. MEADOWS. SAMUEL JONES - R. T. SLAUGHTER Committee. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury -as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely deraiige tLe whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, as "the damage they will do is ten Told to the good :you can pos sibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheaey & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle. Take -Ball' Family Pills for constipation. Will Arrive Wednesday, January 3.1. OHM 1 rofei This is one of the best lots of Horses and Mules we have ever bought. If you want a Horse or Mule, it will pay you to see us. Will keep big stock in our stables all season. Our buyers Messrs. Chas. W. Bry an and W. W. Crews, know your wants and can please you. InidDra (BIT Trvk era OXFORD, N. C. So, i rf
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