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OXFORD PUBLIC LED GEE, FKIDAY, JANUARY 22, 109 8 ft WVA'A' VVVWvVWWWWW By W. F. BRYAN. Copyrijjhted, 1L".!S. by Associated .LUeiiu y 1'ress. No thunder rolled, no lightning tlash ed, when James Henry Iloldon gr.t his job, but the proceeding: were not alto pet her without excitement. James Henry entered the olrice with a de mand for the position offered in the morning paper. "We've got a boy," declared Koyce. the pray haired manager. "You're too late." . "I was to ten other places before I could pet here," explained James Henry. "Which is the kid you put on?" Iioyce nodded in the direction of a small boy who was regarding his nice ly polished boots with embarrassed in terest. James rendered hoarse thanks for the information and slipped out. He was back again in an hour or so to lay a package and some change on Koyce's desk. "Them's the pencils you sent for," he announced. "Where'll I put my hat?" "1 told you we had a boy," said Koyce crossly. "And 'had' ain't 'is,' " explained James. "He's pone home to pet his eye fixed, and I told him I'd take the job, so s he needn't worry." For a moment Royce hesitated. It was bad policy to employ a boy who Lad taken another's job, but Iioyce was very tired of boys Avho lacked spirit, so at last he nodded his head In the direction of the bench where the boys sat waiting for their turn to be called. "No more fighting or out you po," he warned, with a frown, and James grinned as he crossed over to the bench. In two days he was "Jirnsey" to ev ery one in the office with the exception of Benson, the senior partner, and even Benson thought of him as Jirnsey on those infrequent occasions when he pave the lad any thought at all. He was alert, intelligent and always ready to perform services not strictly in hi. line. More than once Jinisey was sent up town to Benson's home with some message, nnd in these commissions he delighted. Usually he carried a mes sage to Mrs. Benson, and Jirnsey grew adoringly fund of the sweet faced pirl who was the broker's second wife. Marion Cliesney had married Benson because her parents had given her no peace until she had consented to make the sacrifice that should re-establish the Chesney fortunes even at the price of her own unhappiness, and like a brave little woman she was trying hard to make the best of it, though she found it very difficult at times. Benson had sought a mistress of his home rather than of his heart. He de lighted in seeing his wife at the head of his table when he gave dinners to his business associates. Like the plate and the wines, she did credit to his taste. Beyond that he pave her little thought. He was careful to provide flowers and candy, but merely be cause he felt that this was expected, and Jirnsey took far more delight in the trip than did Benson in the send ing or Marion in the receiving. Once it had slipped out at home that the head clerk had a standing order to remind his employer to send flowers and things, and after that they were flowers or candy to Marion nothing more. Jirnsey s frank admiration and lively ways meant far more to her because his boyish adoration was sincere and his friendliness genuine. She came to watch for his appearance, and to Jirn sey the quarter or half dollar that she pave him meant far less than the friendly pressure of the slim, cool fin gers as she laid the coin in his palm. So matters stood when Jirnsey, mak ing a short cut through the park on the way to the street car line, came face to face with Marion and a man as he turned a curve in the path. There was no mistaking the man's at titude. He was making determined love to her. and she seemed at least tolerant if not receptive. For an instant .Jirnsey paused and then half turned to retrace his steps and made a detour. When he caught a better glimpse of the man's face he sauntered forward. He came to a stop before the couple, and his hat was whisked off as he jnade a sweeping bow to Marion. Then he turned to the man with a look of infinite disgust. "Get on a new lay, Skinny," he de manded. "You're off your beat and in over your head. You'd better beat' it Or I'll tell the cops where the lead pipe from Hennessy's new tenements went to. It's too bad you can't stay no long er, but you pet t'll outen here." To Marion's surprise the man rose and without a word took a hurried de parture. Jirnsey turned to her with mild reproach in his eyes. "I know how you feel." he said poothinply as he watched the tears tome unbidden to her eyes. "You want to have a steady, and the old man ain't no good for the mushy stuff. You can't get a flirtation with no one what knows your push, but you don't want to get mixed up with no lead pipe thief." "I am interested In charities," she explained, not realizing that she was making a defense to a fifteen-year-old boy. "He spoke so Interestingly of the conditions he had studied. This was the first time that he presumed to be come personal." "lie thought h had you cinched," remarked Jlmeey, forbearing to add that ho thought she was "easy." "You 1 1 11 n:;;ii vvie, Lu In Id yiu cai:se Skinny may tr blackmail, you know." "I con'dn't. I couldn't crrvd li pirl with a sob. "But you must," insisted Jimscy firmly. "If you don't tell, he'll laaky ip ail kinds of stories, an-; I you'll have to put up or stand for 'em." "But you can't i;::de: -stand," she b pan, and Jirnsey sapely nodded uii head. lie was wise far beyond his years. "I know," he conceded. "You two ain't never had a pood fight so's you could know each other. C'n I put him wise':" The pirl shook her ln-ad, but Jimse. shook his. too, and, though he said no more to her. he was waiting for Ben son when the latter left the cilice, it was Benson's habit .to walk uptown each evening until he felt tired, an;i tonight Jirnsey emerged from the shad ows of the corner and fell into step. . "I want to chew the rap, boss," un explained. "See the cashier if you want more salary," was the short response. "i cannot be bothered with office details. ' "This ain't office," denied Jirnsey. "It's about the lad3". I didn't promise not to tell, and she's afraid to." "What do you know about my wife that she is afraid to tell me?" demand ed Benson sharply. "It's this way," explained Jirnsey hurriedly. "She ain't pot nothin' to d but to be pood to folks, and she pets in with the charity people. There's a chap that trails with the bunch for what he can pet outen it, and and he was makhi' love to her today. There ain't nothiu' wrong, and you can": blame her. I seen him sellin' soap for twenty-fi' cents a cake, and there a in'; another faker I know c'n get more'i; ten. He's a swell talker, and she fol for to listen just to listen, you under stand; But he thinks that he c'n threaten to tell you and and pet som, money from her, and 1 want to pUu the pame." "And pet the money yourself for tel! inp?" demanded Benson. "It won't work. I have implicit confidence my wife." To his shocked surprise Jimse. slapped him jubilantly on the back. "That's the way to talk," he cried, with enthusiasm, "only tell it to her boss. Don't tell it to me. Just sort of get together. Good night." He sped away into darkness, and in his perturbation Benson walked all the way home. He could see the poor little pirl fearful of what might happen and trying to greet him with a smile. lit could recall many little things to which business had blinded him, and when at last he came into his home he took the trembling little woman in his arms and told her that he understood. Even Jirnsey could not realize to what pood effect he had "plugged the pame' He had made many crooked ways straight, and some vague thought of this made him happy as he stood i: line for a pallery ticket to the melo drama, where the stage villain would be knocked out and virtue would tri umph as he had seen it that day in real life. Turquoises and the Mongols. Turquoises are the favorite stones o.v all the Mongol races and are generally worn in their original state except by the Chinese women, who have them roughly cut and wear them mixed with pearls and coral. Both the Tibeta: men and women ornament themselves with lump turquoises, the men wear ing them attached to their single gold earrings, which are worn in the right ear only. The women of Ladakh carry their fortunes on their heads in the shape of a broad . strip of red cloth studded with huge turquoises, which, starting from the forehead, is carried over the head and hangs nearly to the waist. By the Ladakhis those turquoises are preferred that have little black specks on them, which show their genuine ness, for even in the wflds of central Asia the spotless blue composition emanating from Europe is offered for sale, the bazaar at Darjeeling being flooded with it. The Bhutia women in the Darjeeling district wear quaint brass ornaments covered with chip turquoises, which are cheap, but the Mongolians have the embossed silver plates which form such a becoming headgear studded with really fine turquoises, for which the owners have to give valuable furs in exchange. Cornhill Magazine. Men, Women and Bundles. "Wrap them up separately," said the woman at the counter, "and not in one big package." And then, still speaking to the clerk, though obviously for the benefit of others within hearing, she went on: "It looks better to carry a lot of little bundles than one big one, and it's easier too. You can pack them in handily between one arm and the body and leave the other arm free. Now. if all these things were in one big package I would have to use both hands to it or run the risk of drop ping it." So saying she stowed her purchases deftly along 'her left side, keeping them in place w ith her arm, and de parted. A man who had heard her looked incredulous and wrhen his turn at the counter came had all his pack apes made into one big bundle and tied securely. As he slipped his fin gers under the cord and lifted the bun dle off the counter he remarked: "This is my way. If all these thing? were in separate packapes I'd lose hall of them before poing a block." New York Sun. Considerate Parent. "What are you doing these days? "I have joined the sons of rest." "How can you do It?" "By having a father who di'ln't." want ErrnST !? V C 52 O Y Y I" J"J ft I b 1 raUA 1 . Involuntary Attempts to Help Athletes at Exciting Moments. In pictures of athletic competitions, chiefly hurdle races and high jumps, an occasional spectator is seen in a queer posture. If it is a picture of an athletes leap ing, ten chances to one the spectator has involuntarily raised his right leg, twisting his body in automatic expres sion of a desire to help the jumper. With hurdle race photographs this of ten may be noticed, too, and in the case of sprinters not a few men stand with faces twisted up and holding the breath in correct imitation of the ath lete actually competing. So, too, with football views. In one of a big game there was a photograph of a man cn the side line watching a tackle who was crouching down in al most exact imitation of a waiting de fense man who was shown at the mo ment making ready for his leap at the runner. Men who follow athletics know how involuntary this is. One athletic train er has appeared in hundreds of pic tures as watching some one of his charges high jumping, with his leg swung out just as if he were making the leap himself. There is a sort of relief for the feeling of trying to help the jumper in swinging the leg up so, and almost any person is likely to find himself doing it instinctively. It may be noticed at prizefights that some men go through the entire battle punch for punch, crossing and counter ing an imaginary opponent as they watch the struggle before them. Men drive and ride horses in races from the stand, making the effort in the stretch along with the jockey of their fancy. This is one of the well known features among the race crowrd where there are many "grand stand riders." In wres tling matches almost any one will try, purely by instinct, to help the athlete who is down and who is bridging des perately to avoid the fall. And yet there is rarely enough tele pathic suggestion in the air surcharged with desire to bring about a result dif ferent from what naturally might be expected at the moment when the greatest wish for something else is born that is to say, the high jumper doesn't necessarily clear the bar, nor the sprinter squeeze out the inch or so that he needs, nor the jockey whip his mount in for the head that means victory. Washington Post. Eugene Sue's Vanity. Notwithstanding the extraordinary literary success which he enjoyed when his works were the vogue, Eu gene Sue posed much more as a man of fashion than a man of letters. After his dinner at the Cafe de Paris he would gravely stand on the steps smoking his cigar and listening to the conversation with an air of superiority without attempting to take part in it. His mind was supposed to be far away, devising schemes for the social and moral improAement of his fellow creatures. These philanthropic mus ings did not prevent him from paying a great deal of attention too much perhaps to his personal appearance, for even in those days of beaus. bucks and dandies, of Counts d'Orsay and others, men could not help thinking Eugene Sue overdressed. Umbrella Etiquette In Turkey. In China ladies are attended by serv ants who hold umbrellas over their heads. The Chinese and Japanese in troduce both the umbrella and parasol into their decorative work and athletic sports. In western Turkey it is neces sary to close an umbrella on meeting people of high rank, and a European traveler who was passing one of the palaces of the sultan was nearly run through by the guard before he com prehended that he must put down the open umbrella he carried. Every one passing the actual residence of the sultan lowers his umbrella as a salu tation to "the brother of the sun and the moon." An Old Idea. Macaulay was not the first man to frame the famous image of the man of a new civilization standing amid the ruins of that which we know to day. Long before he wrote of his traveler from New Zealand meditat ing upon London bridge Mrs. Barbauld had used the same image, with the dif ference that she applied it to Black friars bridge. An earlier reviewer had used it in an article published in 1767. we are told by an English commenta tor, and Horace Walpole says in one of his letters, "At last some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's." The Perfect Woman. There is a quaint old tavern sign in Kent, "The Perfect Woman" a wo man's head without a mouth. This signboard was once quite common, and as late as 1818 a "silent woman" stood In St. Giles', in what is now New Ox ford street, bearing beneath the picture of a headless female the following stanza: A silent woman how can It be? Patient traveler, do not scoff. Drawn from the very life is she And mute because her head is off. London Chronicle. Like a Mule. "A man wif a bad disposition." said Uncle Eben, "is a heap like a mule. Vou's always bavin' yoh doubts about whether his usefulness on some occa sions pays foh his troublesemeness on others." Washington Star. Ogilby, translator of Homer and Vir pil. was unacquainted with Greek un til he was past fifty years of age. ym y,,,,- -! 'J -E1 l&fW ' v - ,55 -' c - " ' i,N,j 1 1 n I liiirimi nr r ,- -fr-Vitfirft-ifi run i imh nn iinirirmir m-r- nirr-r-rr vil m, u n i - I H - . - r THE MODERN "PITTSBURGH PER WIRE FENCE, WELDED BY ELECTRICITY. What a Marvel it would have been to Abraham splitter of LIS, Entertain Friday Night. The young ladies and a few others of the Banks Literary Society gave a very delightful box party Friday ! night at the home of Mr.J.W.t loyd's. j Notwithstanding the rainy weather the crowd was large and a neat little sum was realized for the benefit of the school. The music, consisting of vio j lin, mandolin, guitar, and piano, was i extra 2Xod and we are indebted to j some of our friends of the Grove Hill ! neighborhood. DIXIE. KalfVeazey Marriage. At the residence of W.A.L. Veazey ion the 2ord of December, 1908, Mr. A. M. Hal , of Gorman, Durham county, and Miss Emma Veazey, of Lyons, Granville county, were united j in matrimony. The one who pro i nounced the words that made them j man and wife was our much respected pastor, Rev. C. W. Robinson. After the marriage ceremony was over the bride and groom with many or their friends went over to Mr. Jackson Hall's, the groom's father, where they found a table laden with the best edi bles which were very much enjoyed by the entire party. The bride was the daughter of W. A. L. Veazey. May joy and happi ness attend them all of their days and i their sorrows be but few. A SUBSCRIBER. "Founder's Day" Celebration. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. llith, 1909. Editors Public Ledger, Oxford, N. C. Dear Sirs: There has been this year instituted in the Baptist Univer sity for Women a "Founder's Day" which will be celebrated for the first time the twenty eighth of this month. The exercises, held in the college au ditorium, will begin at ten o'clock Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of Da vidsou College,will deliver the address and the President of the school will give a sketch of the history of the University. Appropriate music will be rendered by the choir of forty voices, trained by Prof. Wade R. Brown. Though still a young school,the un usual progress made along religious and musical, as well as literary lines, has put the University among the fore most colleges of the South. Very sincerely, MARY E. WEBB. 3 feGsa Pip Ill Tff fjP IB fiisfi' 11111111 Mr. partner: Your progresfeiveness is keeping you in close touch with improvements in farm machinery, in dairy methods, and with ail the scientific facts that bring about the greatest possible agricultural production. Ycu are also informing yourself about fence. We Know you are. First t?iere was the stone fence of medieval history. Second pioneer America converted its timber into rails. Third somebody found a way to werwe wire and slats. Fourth along came barb wire, with its marvelous sale. Fifth nu-.cH-'s were invented to twist or clamp one wire around another: the woven wire fence. BfJ$s most important Sf a!Pg elesSrscy nowweldslhe wires at the Imnl, making no longer nesessary these wraps and cEasmpSe Stay and strands wlzard-Sike, become one. The greatest step forward in fence building is thus accomplished at a single, master stroke. Of course, you are not using anything else. Surely you are familiar- .;rf eif w.'cn t.nis remarkable improvement, to oe iound cni1 "Pittsburgh perfect." Clarksville, Death of Mr. John Tippett. Mr. John Tippett. was Tar River in Granville 1840. In 1859 he was Miss Louisa Cawthorn. born near county in married to This union was broken in a few months, the wife being called to the spirit world. He became a Confederate soldier in 1861 and served bravelj7 during the four years of that trying struggle. In 1865 he was married to Miss Ella Overton who with five sons aod four daughters still survive him. He passed into an other state of existence December 18th 1908. Mr. Tippett professed conversion under the ministry of Dr. E.L. Pell in 1890, and joined Banks Methodist church. Considering his age and the temptations which he knew must be encountered, none but a brave man would have engaged in such a severe struggle. Though defeated, he never completely surrendered ;and before his death came the complete triumph. Mr. Tippett was of a loving and lovable disposition. He was especially tender and affectionate in his home. I doubt if he had a single enemy, and his friends can be found among all who knew him. "He spent many years in his shop by the side of the road where he wrought and was a friend to man." A FRIEND. Seaboard Air Line Schedule. t iNo. 328 leaves Oxford at 7:45 a. m., and makes connection at Dicker son with No. 221 which is due in Dur ham at 10:05 a. m. also makes connec tion at Henderson with No. 29 (Shoo Fly) for Raleigh which is due at Ral eigh at 10;05 a. m. No. 429 from Henderson arrives at Oxford at 9:35 a. m. No. 438 leaves for Henderson at 11:30 a. m. making connection with the trains both North and South ar riving at Rtchmond at 5:i0 p. m. Washington at 8:30 p. m , Baltimore at 9:57 p. m., New York at 2:45 a. m. For the South due at Raleigh 4:05 p. m., Hamlet at 7:10 p. m., At lanta at 7:20 a. m., Savannah at 1 a. m. Train for Portsmouth arrives at Portsmouth at 5:40 p. m. No. 439 from Durham arrives at Oxford at 12:20 p. in. No. 440 leaves for Durham at 2:45 p. m. due at Durham at 4:30 p. m. and the Southern train for the west is due to leave Durham at 5:08 p. m. No. 441 due at Oxford at 3:30 p. m. which brings passengers from the north and south. No. 442 leaves for Henderson at 5:15 p. m. making connection for Nor lma. No. 443 arrives at Oxford at 7:15 p. m. which brings passengers from Raleigh. Nbte. No Sunday trains. PI 1-2 is Virginia. RECIPE FOR DIXIE ICE CREAM Can be made and frozen in 10 minutes at cost of ? One Cent a Plate. Stir contents of one 13c. package Jelf-0 ICE GRE0JII Powder into a quart of milk and freeze. No cookincr. no heatincr, nothing else to add. Everything: but the ice and milk in the package. Satisfaction guaranteed. This makes 2 quarts of the most delicious ice cream you ever ate. Five Kinds :Chccolate, Vanilla. Straw- terry. JLe?non and Unjiavored. 2 packages 2oe. at your grocers, or by mail if he does not keep it. Illustrated Recipe Koolc Free. Thft (iphpcpp P;irp Fnnrf Cn.. ip Pnv. N. . Trustees Sale of Land. I shall sell for cash by public auction to the highest bidder at the court house door in Oxford, on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, 1909, at 12 m, a tract of 50.08 acres of land, ad joining the lanes of Raiph Currinf H G Aiken, Willie Suit and the lands lately owned by R P Aiken, in Dutchvnle Town ship, Granville County Also OTie undivided one-tenth of the tract of 401 acres, which '-y the deatli of B P Ai ken, desceoded to his daughter, Mrs W F Lyon, the same situated in Dutchviile, Township, Granville connty and adjoining and bounded by the lards of Weidon Wal ler, Oscar Coley S T Coley, and Valentine Cash, sale made for default in .oavment of interest and principal of a debt secured by deed in trust executed to me on April 25U1 1917, by W F Lvon and wife, Ethna D., re-c-irded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Granville county, in Mortgage Book 68 at page 368. This the Iqth dav of Jan 1909. A A HICKS, Trustee Notice. State of North Carolina In Superior County of Granville, y Court. In matter of the Caveat , to the will of .lames - Citation Mat Thorp. To M. K. Webb and Isabella Webb: You, as persons int-res ed in the estate of the late James Mat Thorp, are hereby notified that William h! Thorp having entered a caveat to the probate of the paper writing pur porting to be the will of said dames M. Thorp, and the CHse having been transferred to the Superior Court at term, you will appear at the Feb. term of the Superior Court of Gran ville county and mnkp yourself a par ty to said proceeding, if vou choose. J. G. SHOT WELL, C. S. C. This Jan. let, 1909, jan.ir,.4t. Statb or Ohio, City op Toledo Css. - Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of P.J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo.County aad State aforesaiu and that faid firm will pay the Bum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cared by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHBNNE Sworn to before me and subscribed inmvprea ence, this 8lh day cf December A. D. 1SS6 seal. A. W, GLSASON. -"v Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces oftne system Send for testimonials, free, Addresp, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. EBr"So!d by Druggists, 75c. Tane Halls Famil Pills for constipation, -is Mi m m L 1 ft