OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1907.
THE OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER.
BY JOHN T. BRITT.
ONE YEAR $1 00
SIX MONTHS - 50
Entered through Oxford, N. C, Post Office
as man matter oi me secona ciass, in atwu
ance with the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Senator Bailey was re-elected by the
Texas legislature, the vote being 108
to 45.
Now we come to think of it is there
ever a time when something does not
remain to be done on the farm; Eternal
industry is the price of profits.
The South Carolina Senate voted
unanimously for the re-election of Sen
ator Tillman, and so did the House
with the exception that one member
refused to vote.
The good roads question is above
and beyond politics. All men of every
sort of political belief should join in
an effort to secure better roads for
Granville county.
The tidal wave which devasted
some of the Dutch East India Islands.
January 11, caused by earthquakes,
resulted in the almost total disappear
ance of the island of Simalu with 1,500
lives, three hundred perished on the
Island of Tana.
The Odell Mills at Concord are run
ning full blast and will not shut down
as was first thought when the Odell
Company failed. The financial troub
les of the company will be adjusted,
and while it is thought that others will
lose nothing, it is stated that the Odell
family is left without resources.
In behalf of the 92 members of
Congress who voted against adding
S2,500 more to their salaries, we wish
to assure the 133 members who voted
1 1 "1 . 1 .1.
ior ana cincnea tne increase, mat no
hard feelings are harbored by the 92
against the 133 for running the hog
over them. Wil. Star.
Good Roads Again.
We can no longer deny a certain
truth, that is, that we are facing a
problem that must be solved. Our
roads are getting no better, and under
our present system, they cannot, or do
not get any better.
Some few people, glad it is but few,
say that this thing of voting taxes for
roads is putting a burden on our chil
dren. Please, where is the burden?
Who will reap the most benefit from
good roads? Will it not be these same
over-burdened children? Is a thing
a burden that makes our lives more
blissful and adds more pleasure to our
journey in this world, that adds dol
lars and cents to our income by help
ing us to do more in less time? We
think not, but if so, let us have more
of this burden.
What we want is good roads. We
have studied the road problem a little;
we have tried to go at this in a fair
honest way; we are convinced that the
only proper way to get good roads is
by taxation. There is nothing gained
by misrepresentation of a question
concerning a thing that we cannot
pass by. We must meet it; we must
and will decide for ourselves whether
we will have roads or continue in the
old ruts, whether we are for progress
or a stand-still and a backward move
The Man Who is Ahead.
In almost even newspaper you pick
up you are pretty sure to find a lot of;
gush about the man behind the coun
ter and the man behind the ?un. the
o -
man behind the buzz-saw and the man
behind the sun; the man behind the
times and the man behind his rents:
the man behind the plowshare and the
man behind the fence; the man behind
the whistle and the man behind the
cars; the man behind the kodak and
the man behind the bars; the man be
hind his whiskers and the man behind
his fists; and even-thing is entered on
the list.
But they've skipped another fellow
of whom nothing has been said the
fellow who is even, or a little wav
ahead; who pays for what he gets,
whose bills are always signed He's a
blamed sight more important than the
man who is behind. All the editors
and merchants, and the. whole, com
mercial clan, are indebted for existence
to this honest fellowman. He keep
us all in business; and his town is
"1.1 1 .1 v
never aeaa; ana so we taice on our
hats to the man who is ahead. Ex.
Chowan Times says: There are
bills pending, in the Legislature to in
crease the number of Superior Court
Judges. These bills should not pass.
We have too many judges already.
Some few counties may have congested
court dockets, but only a few, while
many counties are provided for more
courts than are required.
It is a good thing to remember that
a small farm highly cultivated requires
less labor than a large one even half
cultivated, and the returns are pretty
apt to be nearly twice as large. If
there is no market or a glutted market
for one commodity there may be a
mighty good one for another. Diver
sity of farming lessens the chances of
loss.
Investigations show that the govern
ment is paying the railroads three
times as much to carry the mail as the
express companies pay the railroads
for handling equal tonnage of express.
In other words the railroads get $32,
000,000 more from Uncle Sam than
the express people pay. And yet the
postoffice department wants to increase
the postage rates.
...
The department of agriculture has
Teceived application from farmers in
Northamton county who desire immi
grants as tenants. Very few immi
grants come to Xorth Carolina at the
present time but steps will probably
be taken at the present legislature to
change matters in this respect as much
as possible and endeavor to turn apart
of the immigrants this way.
Special School Tax Question.
There is no better nor moreeconom
ical way to educate than to vote in the
special tax. It gives you a supple
mentul fund which is added to the
public school fund and enables you
not only to get choice of teachers but
it gives you a longer school term
Under the present school law there is
not enough money to hire the best
teachers, and it is a wise provision
that says any district can ha ve better
teachers, longer terms and better
I schools if they are wanted. Under
! the law, you have no excuse for not
having a good school in vour district,
and you are committing a crime against
your children when you fail to provide
for them by voting the local tax.
Thirty cents on the hundred dollars'
worth of property would never be
missed, and yet when taken in the ag
gregate it means that you have a good
school -at home and will never have to
send your children off to an expensive
boarding school. It means more than
this. It means that in voting the
special tax you advertise your comma
nity as an ideal place to live, and the
advantages thus secured will surely
enhance the value of your home.
What Rowan Pays For Lynching.
Those who believe that the court's
cost was entirely too much and that a
lynching oftimes saves a great deal of
expense, will not be backed up in that
opinion by reading the county state
ment which has been running several
days in this paper. The special term
of court ordered for Rowan in August
to try the accused negroes in the Lyer-
ly case, assumed various phases before
it ended. It began in the summoning
of a venire that put a large bill on the
county. Then the mob appeared and
settled the trial for that time. It ap
peared necessary afterwards to quarter
military companies here and maintain
them for a period of several days and
Mr. George Hall had to be tried, all
incidents to the mob's action. To date,
the bill against the tax-payers of the
county amounts to about 84,000 and
this does not include the board in
Mecklenburg jail and the trial that is
to come off in Albemarle.
The Hedrick case cost the county
more than $1,500 and it is light by the
side of the mob. The latter named
lasted more than a week and witnesses
by the dozen were put up. Mob jus
tice is a great dead beat. Salisbury
Post.
HE MUST BE DEAD.
As he Failed to Prove That he is
Still Living.
Last week a man stepped up to us
and said he would pav us everv cent
he owed us if he lived till Saturday
night. W e presume the man died.
Another man said he would pay us in
a day or two as sure as we were born.
cuery: um tne man lie or were we
never born? Another said he would
settle as sure as shooting. We pre
sume that shooting is very uncertain.
Another man said he hoped to go to
the devil if he did not pay us within
J.1 "I T T . 1 a
niree aays. xiaven t seen nim since;
suppose that he has gone, but trust he
did not hope in vain. Quite a num
ber said they would see us tomorrow.
1 hey must have been stricken blind.
or tomorrow has not come. One man
told us six months ago that he would
pay as soon as he got some money.
The man would not lie, of course he
has not got a cent since.
Tell it to Us.
Every newspaper wants to publish
the news. The better the naDer the
M.
more prosperous it will be. Local
items are especially hard to run down.
How many times have you, dear read
er, been approached by the editor for
an item of news and told him that you
knew nothing of interest. Probably
at the time your family were away on
a visit or some one from out of town
was visiting at your home. Of course
you didn't mean to deceive- the scribe,
yet when you received your paper you
wondered why your familv or friends
j "w
were not mentioned. A good way to
avoid all this is to kindly inform us
of the facts or drop a no!e in the post
office to the paper. The one item may
not amount to much, but several col
ums of such news is the life of a local
paper. See?
LOOK OUT FOR IMITATION.
With Tags About the Same
Color and Bssign As
This
Tag
The quality of the genuine sun cured tobacco used in
REYNOLDS' Sun Cured and grown on soil where the best
sun cured tobacco grows, has caused imitation brands to be
brought out and offered as the genuine Reynolds' Sun Cured
to unsuspecting dealers and chewers who do not look closely
at the printing on the box and on the tag.
These brands only imitate the outward appearance and do
not possess the genuine i7iside quality that has been found in
Reynold's Sun Cured ever since Reynolds' Sun Cured was
introduced and which has so increased the chewing of sun
cured tobaccos and proven so popular, that the word " Sun
Cured" is now printed on tags or in the advertising of many
brands claimed to be genuine sun cured tobacco.
Did you ever see the word "Sun Cured" used in any
chewing tobacco advertisement, oi on any chewing tobacco
tag or label, or in any other way, before it was introduced and
used to identify the genuine Reynold.,' Sun Cured ? You see
it frequently now, because many imitation brands are being
made to appear as nearly like Reynolds' Sun Cured as they
dare with tag, shape of plug and s'tyle of package so similar
that experienced buyers sometimes accept these imitations as
the genuine Reynolds' Sun Cured.
Dont be deceived into taking imitation brands for the
genuine. Be sure the letters on the tag spell " R-c-y-n-o-l-cl-s'
Sun Cured," and you get the best value in sun cured chewing
tobacco that can be produced for chewers. Sold at 50c. per
pound in 5c. cuts ; strictly 10c. and 15c. plugs, with chewing
qualities like that which was sold from COc. to $1.C0 per pound
before Reynolds' Sun Cured was offered to the trade.
BS YOU GIST GSNUIK2 '
M asiufacZurcd. by
H. J. BETO0LD3 TOBACCO CO., WinstezAom, K. C.
Judge J. Crawford Biggs.
Judge J. Crawford Bipgs is hoi dine
his first court this week, and his many
personal friends are pleased that he is
showing on the bench that same de
gree of efficiency and ability that has
characterized his work in other posi
tions of public and private service. He
determines the business of the court
with commendable dispatch and with
due regard to the rights of the persons
concerned. His conduct as presiding
judge and his genial personality have
impressed favorably lawyer and lay
man alike. Franklin Progress.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin
Asks: "Have you purchased your
mother-in-law any tickets to the cat
showy" The mother-in-law joke has
been called in, but in this instance
there would be something amewsin-T
rior her at the cat show.
Jews in Congress.
Simon Guggenheim will be the sixth
Jew to set as a member of the United
States Senate. The first Jew
chosen to that honor was David Yules,
who represented Florida from March
1840, to March, 1863. He was born
in the West Indies and his name was
David Levy, by which he was known
wnen he wTas elected as a member of
the Honse of Representatives in 1841.
The second JewT in the Senate was Ju-
dah P. Benjamin, who served from
1852 to 1857. He also was born in
the West Indies. He represented
Louisana. Benjamin F. Jones was
born in Kentucky and represented
Louisiana in the senate. Joseph Simon
was a Senator from Oregon from 1898
to 1903. Isidor Rayner was chosen
as a Senator from Maryland in 1904
In the Senate Mr. Overman of
North Carolina opposed any legisla
tion affecting child labor, making an
elaborate argument that it is not a
matter of interstate commerce but a
question for the individual States; he
favored such laws as would protect
children, but contended that if Con
gress can prohibit interestate shipment
of the products of child labor in facto
ries Federal authority could be exer
cised over all labor that produces any
thing that goes into trade with other
States.
AN AGED PHYSICIAN
Purpose of Advertising.
The purpose of store advertising is
not merely to sell goods, but to sell
more goods to make friends, build
up a patronage that will not only stick
but grow. Newspapers reach the
greatest number of people in the im
mediate vicinity in the most natural
way, at the least expense, and they are
therefore the best of all mediums for
stores. In a newspaper you follow the
lines of least resistance you follow
with the stream you talk to an au
dience already assembled, to the peo
ple who want to read their mental
cosmos is right they are on your wire
and they won't ring off if you hold
their interest. Attraction is the basis
of all advertising the store is the sun,
the customers the planets that revolve
around it.
The Chicago packing houses, not
withstanding all the fuss and expense
about their cleaning up, claim that
1906 was their most prosperous year.
This means that they haAe cleaned up
a lot of the consumers' cash.
After Years of Experience Gives
the Following Advice.
"If you have anything to do with
medicine at all be pretty sure you
know what you are taking."
Our local druggist, R. L. Hamilton,
says this is a strong point in favor of
their valuable cod liver preparation,
Vinol. Everything it contains is plain
ly printed on the label, therefore it is
not a patent medicine.
Vinol contains in a highly concen
trated form all of the medicinal ele
ments of cod liver oil, actually taken
from fresh cod's livers, but with the
useless nauseating oil eliminated and
tonic iron, which is a needful constitu
ent for the blood, added.
This is .the reason that Vinol ac
complishes such wonderful results in
curing chronic coughs, colds, bronchial
and lung troubles, and there is noth
ing known to medicine that will so
quickly build, up the run down, over
worked, tired and debilitated, or give
strength and renewed vitality to the
aged, as Vinol.
We can only ask every person in
Oxford who needs such a medicine to
try Vinol on our offer to return their
money if it fails. R. L. Hamilton,
Druggist.
Note While we are sole agents for
Vinol in Oxford, it is now for sale at
the leading drug store in nearly eveiy
town and city in the country. Look
for the Vinol agency in your town.
Resolutions of Respect.
Whereas, God in his infinite wisdom
has taken from us our beloved sister
and co-worker, Mrs. Susie B. Meadows
and whereas we desire to put upon rec
ord our estimate of her worth and to
express our sympathies with the be
reaved be it therefore:
Resolved; that we the lady members
of the Aid Society and of the Woman's
Missionary Society of Oxford Baptist
chinch do cherish the most pleasing
memories of the beautiful character
and faithful service of our departed
sister.
Resolved, that in her death we have
lost one of our most consecrated work
ers, who was ever ready to co-operate
with us in every movement that sought
to benefit our church or to enlarge the
Kingdom of our Lord.
Resolved, that we will seek to emu
late her worthy example in the growth
of Christian character and in devotion
to duty.
Resolved, that we extend to her sor
rowing loved ones our deepest sympa
thies in this the hour 'of their affliction.
Resolved, that a copy of theso reso
lutions be sent to the Biblical Record
er and to the Oxford Public Ledger
for publication and that they be spread
upon our records.
MRS. A. B. DUXAWAY
MRS. S. H. CANNADY
MRS. H. M. SHAW.
OF THE
The Peculiar World.
This is a peculiar world, says an ex
change. One is struggling for iustice
and another is fleeing from it. One
man is saving to buy a house and an
other is trying to sell his for Jess than
cost to get rid of it. One man is spend
ing all the money he can make in tak
ing, a girl to the theater and send her
ffowers, writh the hope of making her
his wife, while his neighbor is spend
ing what gold he has in getting a di
vorce. One man escapes all the di
seases that the flesh is heir to and gets
killed on a railroad. Another escapes
with scratch and dies with the whoop
ing cough. One man stands off his
creditors and goes traveling while an
other pays his debts and stays at home.
It's a good old world after all ;
If vou have no friends or mnnv.
In the rivei you can fall;
Marriages are quite common and,
More people there would be.
Jfrovidedyou take Rocky Mountain Tea.
we want to sav to our farmer friends that
we advise you to sell your
as soon as you can. Prices are good on
all grades of tobacco and we are anxious
to see you with a load and feel sure we
can please vou. Our buvers are anxious
for all grades of tobacco at the very
rices.
and we feel safe in saying we can get
you more money for your toDacco than
you can get on any other market.
Thanking you for past favors and hop
ing by fair and honest treatment to merit
a continuance of the same we are
Yours Very Truly
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