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V OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1907. TEE OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER. BY JOHN T. BRITT. ONE YEAR ------- $1 00 SIX MONTHS - SO Entered through Oxford, N. C, Post Office mail matter of the second class, In accord nce with the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Already they are complaining of hot weather in Kentucky. Isn't there ice enough to cool the toddies of the colonels? After all there is to be no action taken bv the State Board of Educa- tion in the selection of the site for the Eastern Carolina Teachers' Training Bchool until July 10th. A Massaehu setts man has been molded into a brick and buried, ac cording to his own instructions. He wanted it said of him alter death what might not have been affirmed in life. "He's a brick." Texas is giving out the story of a cyclone that picked up a letter and delivered it to the party to whom it 'was addressed twenty-five miles away It begins to look as if the members of Roosevelt's Ananias Club are merely amateurs. A man inserted an "ad." for a wife in the Chattanooga Star and because he secured one the next day, the paper announces with a great flourish that "advertising pays." We shall await the postnuptial statement of the defend- -ant before rendering final judgment. t r?ays tne JJurnam ieraiu: "it is said that Mr. Butler is ace high with the big Republicans in Washington, and it seems that the Republicans in tills State have found it. out." That probably explains why Republican State Chairman Adams went to sawing wood. Amoiig the schol arsh i p a wa rd s j u st announced by the Yale faculty is one to Joseph E. Pogue, Jr., of Raleigh, a B. A. graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1906,and M. S. grad uate, 1907. Pogue will held the scholarship for the academic year 1907-8. A tobacco stemming machine, which promises to completely revolutionize the tobacco industry.has been patented and will be manufactured and several of them placed on sale within the next 60 days by the Southern Stemming & Manufacturing Company, of Washing ten, D. C. A Western contemporary remarks: The people in the wheat growing coun try have ascertained that the ladybug Is the sure destroyer of the destructive greenbug, but it is not known how the ladybug does it. Perhaps that the ladybugs get the best of the greenbugs by breaking their hearts. An old negro in Raleigh, crazed by holiness teachings, got the idea that he was so sanctified that he could fly, arid bo he essaj ed to skim the vasty blue by jumping from a window. He hit the ground according to the law of grav itation, discovered by the late Sir Isaac Newton, and Saturday he died. They are telling it on Gov, Glenn that one day recently while at the Jamestown Exposition he wanted to enter the North Carolina building, but was refused admittance by the young man in charge, because he had been instructed to admit no one, and the head men were not at the place. The governor of the state had to do some tall talking to get in. It is said the state building cost the contractor 3,--500 more than he got out of the job. Following the example of Illinois and Kansas, Colorado now is releasing the pheasant, the farmer's friend, and before many years have passed the en tire State will have been stocked with them. The pheasant is the chief en emy of the insect nests which destroy grains and fruits and the worms which destroy the roots and bodies of plants. While the pheasant cannot be demesti cated like the common chicken its e-o-s can be hatched successfully under the common hen. As soon as they are grown, the pheasants will take readily to the fields, there to busy themselves consuming the numerous pests that make the farmer's life most miserable. The greatest benefits are to be derived from the propagation of these birds. They are gorgeous in plumaga, the best game bird in the world, and its flesh is considered one of the greatest of table delicacies. It is estimated that the good roads of Mecklenburg have cost that county about $513,500. There are now 158 miles of macadam road in the connty and the estimated cost per miles is $3,250. The Missouri State University now has a "chair of noultrv." Noih- ing could better attest the growth and importance of this industry and the estimation iu which it is held. Bein elevated into a fine art, we suppose graduates will be given degrees of "I. I." ('incubator ingenuity." "P. P." (how to pick a pullet,) "E. E. H. (extraordinary eggs for hatching), and various other honors, which we must say, will be more valuable than the ordinary LL.D.'s M. M.'s, B. A.'s and D. D.'s conferred by the ordinary col leges. Let the rooster crow! Let the hen cackle! For one of the greatest of American industries is coming to its own. In Clarke county, Indiana, adver tisements were put out for the building of free gravel roads, but the bids sub mitted were so high that the farmers determined to form a corporation among themselves and have the work done under their own supervision, thus be ing assured that it would be done sat isfactorily and save to themselves the profit that ordinarily goes to the con tractor. This is an example that might well be followed to advantage by far mers everywhere. Do the work your selves, or oversee it, and it is safe to say it will be done better and more ec onomically. A tramp has beaten all known rec ords by swimming twenty seven mites in thirty minutes. He did not mean to do it. He merely tried to steal a ride from St. Louis to Chicago on tne rear or a locomotive tender. When the train started he fell over backward, through the open manhole in the water tank. The noise of the train drowned his cries for help and he was obliged to swim until the first stop was reached, at Alton. When taken out he w7as nearly dead, but the engineer was so unfeeling as to call attention to the fact that the water was only four feet deep,and he might have stood up. The conductor, also unfeel- 1 T 1 - 1 I 1 J 1 j 'j! ng, asKeo mm ror nis cicKet, duc tne tramp said he had not come by rail but by water. Can't Stand for Him. The Monroe Journal, as is well known, watches with fatherly concern he careers of the young fellows of this county who go out and do things in the world, and while it rejoices in the success they obtain, it is equally griev ed to receive news that one of them oc casionally goes wrong. Now, there is our j'oung friend, Mr. R. D. Marsh, of Marshville township, a bright, fine young fellow. lie is principal of the Jefferson high school and editor of the Jefferson Citizen. Before he became Mitchell County Fire Eater. Andy McGhee, wTho carries the mai from Magnetic to Bakersville, is a monstrosity. He can eat live coals of fire with impunity and with a spoon If you doubt this just bring him a live coal and a nickle and he will masticate the coal and pocket the nickle. This is not all for he told us for $1 he would pour a spoonful of molten lead in his mouth and let cool and then take it out and wipe off the spittle and give it to us a solid piece. What can the devi do with such a man ? Bakersville Observer. ' Lesser of Two Evils. The burglar's wife was on the wit ness box and the proscuting attorney was conducting a vigorous cross exam ination. "Madam, you are the wife of this man?" "Yes." "You knew he was a burglar when you married him ? "Yes." "How come you to contract matrimonial alliance with such a man?' "Well," the witness said sarcasti cally, "I wras getting old and had to choose between a lawyer and a bur glar." The cross examination ended there. a New Life of Jefferson Davis. A new life of Jefferson Davis has been undertaken by Walter L. Flem ing, Poofessor of History in the West Virginia university at Morgantown, and the author announces that he would like to receive all obtainable in formation from private sources, includ ing "the names and present addresses of relatives, neighbors,former servants, etc., of Mr. Davis, who can give any nformation about hin: ; letters, scrap- books, diaries and other documentary material relating to Mr. Davis' life; privately printed books, pamphlets and other printed matter containing infor mation about Mr. Davis; pictures of Mr. Davis and of his relatives,, his home and other places connected in some way with his career; any souve nirs, relics, etc., of which photographs may be made; reminiscences, authen tic anecdotes of Mr. Davis,and any in formation about him and his relatives in Wales, Pennsylvania, South Caro lina, Georgia, Louisiana and Missis-sippi. South's Educational Part by Negro. The Chronicle makes.it a rule to go through all the public documents it gets from Washington before stacking them handy, to the man in thefipiUr 0om aivd it seldojjh fails to haarJgtl j with the census is deplorably in the past. The report of the Commission ers of Education contains figures enough to set up all the county state ments in North Carolina and half of South Carolina, but is brought up only to 1905. We learn from it that since 1870 the Southern States have expend ed the aggregate of $818,242,553 for public schools. It is estimated that about $149,000,000 of this sum has been expended to suppott common schools for the colored race. For the year 1904-5 the sum of $46,401,832 was expended in the South for the maintenance of the common schools of both races about 20' per cent, of this Three to Two. Some little girls were boasting of their respective families. They had passed from clothes to personal ap pearance and finally came to parental dignity. The minister's little girl boasted: "Every package that comes for my papa is marked 'D. JJ. "And every package that comes for my papa is marked 4M. D., retorted the daughter of the physician. Then followed a look of contempt from the youngest of the party. "Huh! she exclaimed. "Every package that comes to our house has three letters on it, "C. O. D." Why Certain Men Marry. Ah editor sent out circular letters to a large number of married men and asked them why they married. Here 1 w are some of the answers: Because I did not have the experi ence I have now. That's what I have been trying for eleven years to find out. I married to get even with her mother, but I never have. I have yearned for company. Now we have it all the time. I thought it would be cheaper than a breach promise of suit. Because Sarah had told me 5 others had proposed to her. That's the same fool question my friends ask me. I wanted a companion of the oppo site sex. She is still opposite. The old man was going to give me his foot, so I took his daughter's hand Because I asked her to have me and she would; I think she got me. Because I thought she was one among a thousand; now I think she is a thousand among one. I was lonely and melancholy and wanted some one to make me lively. She makes it very lively. The Craze of the Day. If you've a horse that will not sell, Finance it. Qr a barn that's but a shell, Finance it. Tack a fancy name to each, . Put the shares way out of reach; That's the game the bold 'uns teach Finance it. Take your worthless, mongrel pup h manec it. Watch the shares go soaring up finance it. Use the dog when he has died; Do not throw the corpse aside; Start a tannery with the hide Finance it. , NJjir oiu watcn wia, not go, - j... v .finance it. Get a boost from So-and So . Finance it. Use the well known man's O. K., Fix par value where you may, Then rake in the easy hay Finance it. It's a game of simple rules, -Finance it. . Nerve and brass are all its tools Finance it. Pump the water through a hose, Paint the cabbage like the rose; Don't forget your saintly pose Finance it. Denver Republican. an editor we were proud of him, but I sum being for the support of the schools since, he has begun to develop a habit that his best friends up here at home can't stand for. Some time ago he printed a story about a Jefferson man who many years ago hung his vest on a post and let a calf swallow his watch and when the calf grew to be an- old cow, killed her and found the watch, which had been running all these years being wound up by some motion of the cow's innard's and had lost only three seconds in all that time. The story was a kind of stunner to us, but knowing the young editor's previous reputation for truthfuness, eyes were shut and the whole thing swallowed. And now, before having fully recovered from the effort,imagine onr feelings to see the following in his paper last week: "A farmer near Jefferson had a leg he wanted split and as it was very tough he got a stick of dynamite,in tending with it to blow the log to smithereens. He laid the dynamite down by the barn door and went in side to put his team away, A pig found the dynamite swallowed it and walked into a stall where a span of mules was tied. One of the mules kicked the pig and the' jar set the dy namite off; The explosion blinded the farmer, killed one mule, tore the har ness off the other, blew the end out of the barn and nearly killed the pig." Marsh, we hate it, but this one just won't go down. MATE OT OHIO, CITY OF TOLBDO 88 Ltjca8 County. I Frank J. Chbnby makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F.J. Chbney & Co.. doing business in the City of Toledo.Connty and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catabrh Cure. FEINK J. CHENNE Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pre e ence, this 8th day of December A. D: 18S6, seal. A. W, GLEASON. v J Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly oa the blood and mucous surfaces ofthe system. Send for testimonials, free, F, J, CHENEY Co, Toledo O tSold bv Druggists, 75c. Halls Family Tills are the best. for negroes. The enrollment in the common schools for the white was 4, 564,798, while the negro schools had an enrollment of 1,602,194. It will be seen from this that the South has been doing pretty well by the negro, in an educational way. Charlotte Chronicle. The Heart of a Friend. "Broken friendship," savs a writer in an exchange, "like china, may be repaired, but the break will always show." And it is a bit of truth and wisdom. Friendship is a precious thing too precious a treasure to. be carelessly broken or thrown away. The world handles the word "friend" light ly; its real true, deeper meaning is for gotten,and the acquaintance of an hour or the chance comer is designed by the term which in itself bears a wealth of meaning. Your friend is the one who appreciates you your faults as well as your virtue who understands and sympathizes with your defeats and vic tories, your aims and ideals, your joys and temptations, your hopes and dis appointments as no one else does or can. It is to your friend to whom you turn for counsel, for comfort,for praise; he may not be as learned as some or as wise as others, but it suffices that he understands you, and even his quiet listening gives strength and renewed courage. Blessed is the man or wo man into whose life has come the beau ty and power of such a . friendship. Prize it well. Do all in your power to keep such a friendship unbroken. Avoid the break, for when it comes.it can not be really -mended, and the jarring note mars; the harmony of. the wnoie glorious sympnony. it - is not alone a question of ' fbrgivness; that may be full and . complete. It is. the hurt in the heart that. will : not readily heal and the confidence that will not fully come back! . o : ' Subscribe to the -Public Ledger. . UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 1789-1907. t . Head of State's Educational System DEPARTMENTS. Col ege, Engeering, Graduate, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy Library contains 45,000 volumes. New water works, electric lights,central heating sysiem. New dormi-, tories, gymnasium, Y. M. C. A. building, library. 732 STUDENTS 74 IN FACULTY. The Fall term begins Sept. 9, 1907. Address Francis P. Venable, Pres., GHAPEL HILL, N. G. SOME people say that never in their lives did they save any money until they secured a home auxiliary steel bank. . Loaned free by the Oxford Savings Bank. 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