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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1909. if Iff If r, TRE OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER PINNIX & PINNIX. - EDITORS AND OWNERS; mmtm iihwi iimmi im i im ii i i i i i s-a ' 1 hj 4J 1 YJ xLiJ-Jl ONE YEAR -SIX MONTHS - - $125 - - - 75 14 10. Entered through Oxford, N. C, Post Office M mail matter of the second class, in accord ance with the Act of Congress March 3 1879. m i'S THE TARIFF. '5- I f 0mm. mm 1 1 '3 : J 1 " i ft ill it V i. -3 Mi MM , f 'V i e , t" i - ?f 1 c it-1' -lit I J f J; -;! VS, Mi !.1 J ;tt Kit mm 'If.' 11 TV 1 ?; K J 1 w 4' i J 1 i ?,t!f 1 s 14 ni t i t,.l is I 1 lr i mi ; a 7 Jri r Hj i ti,. in, I h. fit' ;; i If - That the tariff is iniquitous and that it will do the country harm instead of good is the opinion of a numher of newspapers. The Washington Post, a very conservative papar, thinks that this is true. Read what it says: Close scrutiny of the A Id rich bill leares no room for doubt as to the ef fect it will have upon the revenues. It will increase rather than reduce the dencit. It is to be regretted that the dominant minds of the finance commit tee cannot get away from the theory that the chief purpose of tariff duties is the promotion of selfishness. When the president called an extra session of Congress the whole country was impressed with the belief that he had in view the rehabilitation of the Treasury and the reduction of taxa tion. This premise is rudely shaken in the Aldrich bill. The items upon which the measure restores the Dingley duties or increases them over the Payne bill and oyer ex isting law relate to the larger indus tries that no longer require high pro tection, if they ever did. Applying prohibitive rates of duty with respect to the products of these concerns : this time will have one certain result diminished customs receipts. It is this policy that haabrougbt upon us large annual deficits. The Senate bill maintains high rates upon earthenware, glassware, cotton goods, woolens, steel, hats, bonnets, gloves, certain ores, meat products,and sugar. If additional revenue is to be had positive reduction of duties upon these articles must be made. Sugar alone could be made to yield an in creased amount of revenue equal to one-fifth of the existing deficiency without disturbing domestic enterprise. In his carefully worded statement to the Senate Mr. Aldrich said that the actual number of reductions was about three times the number of in creases. Numerical increases or re ductions, it may be suggested, do not ajJect the main proposition. The vital question is, "Does the finance commit tee's revision met the necessities of con sumers and of the Treaury?" The Post has not the slightest hesitation in say ing that it does not. This fact will be completely demostrated as the myste ries of the schedules are unraveled. The reductions in the Senate bill are upon those items that produce but little revenue. This fact is illustrat ed in the lowering -of the duty on sug ar biscuits and wafers. However,this "body blow?' to the sugar trust is mod ified by the levying of a 35 per cent duty on foreign-built yachts by Amer ican citizens! Upon the tottering apex of the high rates in the Senate bill, if current re ports are to be accepted, the committee will a little late propose a, 20 per cent maximum tariff against all articles which are now or which may hereafter become the objects of discrimination. The effect of this would be to further diminish the revenuo3 in the interest of higher protection, and put it in the power of domestic monopohes,through trade conspiracies with foreign coun tries, to lay new burdens of taxation upon the people. In view of this situation, there can be but one conclusion as to the duty of senators, regardles of party. The extra session should not be allowed to come to an end until a real revenue law is framed, and every tpecial privilege whipped out of it We think it would be a good idea to empower Pete Wood, the driver of fire wagon, with the authority to order anyone, except the firemen, out of the fire house when the alarm is sounded. Last Saturday there was such a crowd in there that the horses became fright ened. This must and ought to be stop ped. The crowd should remain on the outside when an alarm is turned in. Persons not a member of the fire compauy aire in the way and should be made to stay out of of the way of the horses. BRICK FOR SALE.-400,000 good brick for sale cheap. Apply to Oxford Cotton Mill. apl.23.tf 111 v- i sweet, and perfectly wholesome. Royal is a safe guard against the cheap the greatest menacers to ROYAL IS THE ONLY BAKING POWDER MADE FROM ROYAL GRAPE CREAM OF TARTAR How Lincoln was Shot. Capt. Silas Owens, who has settled down as a factory inspector at Cohoes after eight years of sea adventure, told yesterday some further details of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was in Ford's Theatre on the night of the assination of Abraham Lincoln. "People talk a lot about what Booth called from the stage," said Captain Owens yesterday. "He didn't say a word as lie ran across the boards. Jtle was too busy cursing his luck in hurt- ing his leg, I reckon. What he did do was to stand for a moment on the red plush front of the box and call out something. It may have been 'Sic semper tyrannis,' but though I was so so near I was too excited to make out the words. There wasn't a soul on the stage at the time. The curtain was just rising, and Laura Keene was waiting in the right wings to go on, As Miss Keene saw him she recognized him at once and cried out: 'My God, what have you done?' He slashed at her with his dagger, and I could hear the sleeve of the lilac dress she was wearing tear. There was some blood found on it afterward, and it has been exhibited since as stained with the blood of the President. But how could that be? Booth hadn't been near enough to the President to get blood-stained. If there's any blood the dagger scratched her arm and that caused the stains. "I remember that a moment or two after Booth had escaped Miss Keene came running out and struck a theat rical attitude on the right side of the stage. There was an awful clamor go ing on as soon as the audience realized what Mrs. Lincoln nad meant by call- ing from the box. 'He's killed papa!' "Miss Keene called out in the most dramatic fashion, 'It's John Wilkes Booth. Kill him!,' The audience took up the shout, and somehow or other they got hold of the rope from the flies, and in a few minutes a dozen were suspended from the galleries with nooses at the end. "People kept shouting. 'Where is he? Hang him! Bring him out!' If Booth had not got clear off he would have been hanged there and then for certain." Captain Owens smiles as he speaks of the ordinary pictures of the death of Lincoln surrounded by a crowd of Cabinet officers and doctors. He asks how so many men could possibly have got into the little room to which he was carried. It was only a hall bed room eight feet square and could not have held them all. Captain Owens is one of the seven men pledged to silence, he says, who were admitted into the secret at the time of the disposition of Booth's body. However, the pledge of silence has been long since removed and Captain Owens said: "Booth was brought up to the navy yard and placed on the Mont auk, the very vessel which, as Flood said, was visited by Lincoln a few hours before he was shot There the body lay on deck for sixteen hours covered only with an old tarpaulin. At midnight it was removed to a cell in the old ar senal just underneath the court where Justice Bingham was sitting in the trial of the conspirators. A flagstone was raised, a hole was dug, and the body roughly cased in an old gun box Thousands of millions of cans of Royal Baking Powder have been used in making bread, biscuit and cake in this country, and every housekeeper using it has rested in perfect confi dence that her food would be light, alum powders which are health of the present day. jT'potpBliiiir 'jr fj was lowered into into it. Then the flagstone was replaced and no one knew what had been done. The body remained there from April 20, 1865, till 1872, when Booth's relatives claim ed it and it was removed. Where they finally buried it has never been divul- ged New York Times. GRAND PARADE STARTS O CLODK NOON. AT 12 Free Feast tor the People on John H. j Sparks Worid Eamous Shows Comes to Town. The fountain of youth: the circus will be in Oxford April 30th. The new epecial train is scheduled to bring the strange colony of people,horses and animals,and enormous equipment here Friday. No show that comes to Ox ford is held ia higher regards than this particular one which bears the name of John H. Sparks, for it is di rected with a keen regard for the com fort of patrons, which is both satisfac tory and singular Show day will be gin with a street parade starting from the show grounds at 12 noon. John Sparks refused to cut out this display of the circus when the idea was sug gested by other managers, and have added more exponsive feature than ever. All of the men, women, and children connected with this show, horses, elephants and camels are to participate. Everyone in Oxford re members the fine appearance of the people, animals and properties of the Sparks pageant when last seen here. The people were well groomed and contented looking.the horses high bred and high stepping, the exposed wild animals splendid specimens, the bands musical, the clowns oddly funny, the riders graceful and tastefully dressed and al1 other thin2s' some familiar, others nofc as cirs parades go were j suPerior and most pleasing. Proninent in the lon2'list of performances are the 10 Valentinos, Petit Family, Ellitte j Sisters, wonderful Cahil family,Blanch Turner, Afton the upside down man, 20 funny clowns, performing lions, herd of elephants, acting dogs, educat- d horses and ponies, are conspicuous features in the varied program, show will be here one day only The High grade wagons and buggies at low prices. Bullock & Crenshawr J. G. Halls Unusual Offer. "It isu't often that I have faith enough in the medicine put up by oth er people to be willing to offer to re fund the money if it does not cure," said J. G. Hall to a Public Ledger man who dropped into his store, "but I am glad to sell Dr. Howard's speci fic for the cure of constipation and dys pepsia on that basis. "The Dr. Howard Company, in or der to get a quick introductory sale, authorizes me to sell their regular fifty cent bottles at half price, 25 cents, and although I have sold a lot of it, and have guaranteed every package, not one has been brought back as un satisfactory. There are sixty doses in a vial that can be carried in the vest pocket or purse, and every one has more med icinal power than a big pill or tablet or a tumbler of mineral water. I am still selling the specific at half price, although I cannot tell how long I shall be able to do so, and anyone who is subject to constipation, sick headache, dizziness, liver trouble, in digestion or a general played out con dition, ought to take advantage of this chance. The owners of Tar Valley Manufacturing Company have felt for years that the local public had tired of the crude and antiquated mills that were accessible; but while appreciating this have wondered if the puDlic would prefer to patronize a HOME MILL equipped to compete with the BEST ANYWHERE. At length the doubts were dispelled by reasoning that the distant mills were patronized and their products purchased wholly on accunt of a lack of equal facilities more ac cessible. Adhering firmly to this conclusion the Tar Valley Manufacturing Co., set about at very great ex pense to build and equip a mill of large capacity with the very best and latest machinery feeling assured that as soon as its facilities were accessible to the public the public would promptly respond to its support by a lib eral patronage. For more than a year the tedious work of construction has gone forward but the day of com pletion of the undertaking has almost arrived. It is with much pleasure therefore that the Tar Valley Man ufacturing Company announces that its new and thoroughly modern Roller Flour Mills will be in opera tion about April the 30th. This mill is located at the site of the old Minor & Beasley mill on Tar River about seven miles from Ox ford, on what is known as the Fish Dam Road. It is bran new throughout and will have a daily capacity of 80 barrels of flour and 600 bushels of meal. It is fitted throughout with the latest and most approved machin ery all operated by water power. The public will be especially interested to know that a very complete mill for grinding together corn and cob for stock has been provided, having a daily capacity of 50 tons, another great convenience is a large power corn sheller having a daily capacity of 1250 bushels. The machinery for grinding wheat is so full and complete as to assure the largest possible yield of flour. These are but a few de tails. The completion and perfection of this mill plant can be fully appreciated only after a personal visit and a trial. It has no superior in the State. The foregoing is preliminary to a very cordial invi tation to the public to have trial loads of both wheat and corn ready by April the 30th for the christning of this clean new mill. It is very attractively located in the valley of the Tar. The new mill building is com modious and the place generally a pleasant one to visit. The people who haul their grain to mill will have the satisfaction that never existed befoi e in this part of the State as the mill is of such capacity that no wait ing or coming back will be necessary. The mill will be open at all hours DAY and NIGHT. Those who try earliest will soonest experience the satisfactions of having accessible a mill of the finest equipment for the production of flour and meal of the HIGHEST quality. Those desiring to forward by rail will ship to Tar River station on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Such shipments will be handled at the mill on the same day of arrival and shipped back to station of consigners with return charges paid. In making such shipments notify Tar Valley Manu facturing Company by letter inclosing bill of lading. Address letters to Tar River, N. C. Tar Valley P. S Our meal will be made on W, D. KIMBALL, President, W. R. laiiffacflraiFiii Cify the old time rock. KIMBALL, Sec-Treasurer.
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